My TIVO did it, not me

entering the age of excuses

[paybacksa]

Today I heard the network TV stations will start selling products in an affiliate fashion, following the success of their TV shows. If you like the dress Grace is wearing on Wednesday's episode of Will n Grace, for instance, NBC will sell it to you. Ditto for just about all the product insertions (and I suppose now their will be many , many more).

We already have TiVO eflecting our "behavior". TiVO reports back to the Wise and Wonderful GlobalCOMM all that you do. Watch alot of "Queer Eye" and they think you're a girl, or gay. No one cares if they are right, they simply follow the 80/20 rule... mostly right = profits.

So now we say things like

man, I came home and my 2 year old had changed the TV to the playboy channel! He didn't know what it was and just ran off to play, but TiVO logged my house as having watched 12 hours of "Back Side Man-dingoes" over and over... I can't imagine what my profile looks like

Sometimes I skip into the upper channels and veg to rollerderby and slam ball... there is something primitively banal about it... odly calming. Sort of the oppositeof stats checking and content writing. Otherwise my TV is off. What does TiVO think of me?

[AAnnAArchy]

My TiVo would have trouble figuring out who/what I was -- from History Detective to The Amazing Race to Animal Cops to The Daily Show to Monday Night Football to Desperate Housewives. I like my household gadgets to wonder about me.