getting used to steering aircraft on the ground with pedals is going to take a while. i’m so used to regular flight sticks with twist rudder that at first, i ended up trying to drive the plane like a car. after messing around for a bit, i got much better. well, marginally better, at least.

i’ve also been debating whether i want to buy a tivo hd or not. at present, we’ve got a buggy, slow, hot-running, unreliable dvr that we rent from comcast for like $15 (soon to be $20) a month. initial purchase of a tivo would be $200, but it would be my hardware and the total cost of renting the multistream cablecard from comcast + tivo service would be roughly $14. that’s $6 a month (and some taxes) that i wouldn’t be spending. on the other hand, however, we wouldn’t have access to on-demand (which rarely works correctly anyway) and getting cablecards from comcast is a big fucking hassle. damn it.