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No TiVo. I have a TV right next to my computer, and thanks to having had a typing-teacher mother, whack out a rough transcript at about 60 WPM!

But since you mention TiVo, I have to describe my current favorite TV commercial (you know you're watching too much TV when you start talking about favorite commercials, and I've already posted this, but it *is* relevant to your comment):

It's an ad for a TiVo-like feature on Time Warner cable TV.

The ad opens with a married couple meeting with an interior decorator. The decorator is a young, very hip Asian woman, and she's slinging all sorts of hip decorator lingo: "I like colors that whet the appetite, savory colors that . . . "

Suddenly, the wife pipes up and says to her husband "oh, honey, Sex and the City is about to go on."

The husband replies: "go ahead, I can take care of this."

The wife is about to leave, but has a sudden image of what the living room will look like if the husband is allowed to make the decorating decisions. All these stuffed safari animals start popping up, the walls are covered with knotty pine, the couch with a cow hide, etc.

The wife turns back to the husband and snaps: "that's OK, I'll watch it later (since she has the TiVo feature.)"

Then she accuses him: "Dead animals? [pause] A gnu? [pronounced with two-drawn out syllables.]"

Of course the husband has absolutely no idea what she's talking about and gives her a totally befuddled look.

Priceless.