Kryptonite : Superman :: Heat : Tivo

If you looked at the newspaper today you might have noticed a picture of a skinny guy wearing a yellow shirt. Yes, the 2005 Tour de France ended this weekend.

As fate would have it, we had a camping trip planned for the weekend. I groused a little about missing the last few stages of the race but I wasn't really serious about it. My friend Tivo would faithfully record them all for me so that I could peruse them when we got home.

We got home yesterday afternoon and it was pushing 90 degrees inside the house. I turned on the air and got the kids into the shower before turning on the television to scan through Thursday's stage.

I was greeted with a gray screen and a terse message telling me that my Tivo had gotten too hot and shut itself down. Oh. Okay.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhghhghghghhghghgh!

Stupid Box! You didn't record the last three stages of the Tour de France! I had to read about Lance's time trial victory in stage 20 on teh Intarweb. I had to record the "extended coverage" of the last stage, so instead of listening to the live broadcast, with intelligent commentary from Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin, I had to suffer through three hours of Al Trautwig and Bob "Tour Day France" Roll. Stupid Box!