Freaks and Geeks

TiVo has their essay contest open again!  Write up a 250 word essay and you can win a TiVo.  I've heard that they gave away a LOT of these last time, so your chances are very good of winning one.  There are more tips and details at the site, but humor counts, as well as mentioning the features in a TiVo, and why you'd like one.  If you need to know some more information about the TiVo to write your essay, check out my TiVo review.

My TiVo has discovered at least one great show for me.  Freaks and Geeks airs now on the Fox Family channel, it ran for only one season on NBC before being canceled.  The show was critically acclaimed, but was never very high in the ratings, so NBC pulled the plug.  I've just discovered the show, and it's really a shame it was canceled.  The writing is tight, realistic, smart, and funny.  It's an incredible show that suffered from poor marketing and an ever-changing timeslot on NBC.  I never saw it when it was first on NBC, because I never knew when it was on, and I wasn't really sure who it was for.  The stars of the show are all teenagers, but the target audience has to be adults.  The show is set in 1980-1981, and anyone who was a kid during the Eighties will get a kick out of it.  It's really too bad it was canceled, this could have been a huge hit if more people ever saw it.  Do yourself a favor, next Tuesday night, tune in to the Fox Family channel and watch an episode of the show.  You'll have a good laugh, I guarantee it...

I thought that Gore's proposal last night was fair, he suggested hand recounts in every county in Florida, and proposed to meet with George W. Bush before the election results were final.  Bush rejected both of those proposals, and I'm not quite sure why.  Bush claimed that the hand recounts were inaccurate. What happened to "trusting people, not government"? Apparently, he trusts machines, not people.

Recounts aside, I thought that Bush could have at least agreed to meet and talk to Gore, to show the American people that the candidates can at least act in a civil manner, even if their parties are fighting it out like rabid wolverines on PCP.  I'm not sure what Bush's reason was for rejecting that part of Gore's suggestion, maybe he's still bitter about Gore retracting his concession...