I am pretty proud of myself when it comes to the TV situation in our house: I own a ReplayTV instead of a TiVo, so for over two years I've been able to stream shows to any PC in the house (wirelessly), can dump shows to DVD, and generally hold more programming than I have time to watch. (This functionality was only recently duplicated by an unsanctioned TiVo hack, so TiVo owners, I fart in your general direction.) I'm even proud of myself for finding a free MPEG-2 player (VLC), with not only proper 60Hz progressive display of interlaced material, but also a mod to automatically skip commercials using the ReplayTV's built-in commercial-skip metadata. So, when it comes to watching DVR shows, I'd like to think I'm pretty bad-ass.

Last night I was settling down in bed to watch shows before I hit the sack, and I pulled up DVArchive and checked the list of shows I had downloaded and waiting for me:

• Daria
• Doctor Who
• Miami Vice
• Saturday Night Live
• The Outer Limits

All I could think was, "My god! I am such a flaming nerd!"