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Do all Asians look alike to you? Take the Test and find out. Here’s an interesting fact about me. I was almost perfect with the women, and almost completely screwed up the men. I guess it’s all what you pay attention to. Anyway, I split the ticket for 9 out of 18 which puts me just slightly above normal.

So, TiVo recorded Gilmore Girls for me last night. And, that’s good because I feel like Gilmore Girls is one of the few really good shows on right now (although I am sort of getting into Lost).

The thing is, I get it off of satellite, and there was a crazy amount of rain here in Southern California. Rain means rain fade. I lost signal, and I didn’t get like 15 or 20 minutes of the show recorded.

Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!

So annoying! But, fortunately I live in the time of the internet where content is never more than five or six clicks away. OK, actually, it was a little more than that away. I was pretty sure somebody would have posted a torrent for the show, but first I had to find it. I tried a few Google searches with predictably bad results. I knew there was this one site out there that catalogs all that stuff *Cough*SuprNova.org*Cough*, but I couldn’t remember the name of it. That meant even more searches to try to dredge it up.

Finally, I find a seed for the show, and I start downloading it, and it says it’s going to take 100 hours. 100 hours? For 1 hour of TV? WTF internet?! I started, and then I found another seed that was only going to take 8 hours, so I started that one, and then I went to bed. I woke up and still didn’t have the full show. I had to wait another hour+.

Really, we should be able to get these things a lot faster than this shouldn’t we? I mean don’t get me wrong. It’s great that we can get them at all. Mother nature with her silly rain can’t stop me, but I thought the whole idea of torrents was that it made downloading fast (I know the real idea was that it offloads the bandwidth for really popular files, but isn’t it also supposed to make it fast?).

Anyway, I finally got the show, and I come to find out it only ran 43 minutes anyway. I’d only lost the final 2 minutes to rain fade. What the hell is that? Ten hours for two lousy minutes of programming.

Update: I just realized the reason the run time is so low is because they cut the ads. Duh! But, that means I didn’t lose nearly as much of the show as I thought. They must load up a lot of ad breaks at the end of the show or something. I swear TiVo said I was missing a good 15 minutes.