Can't buy my love? Yes you can.

Check this out - never thought of it, but it is actually possible to quantify love and appreciation. And for myself the equation would look even better; I would put in all the stuff that he says and then put a price on the sweet, statisfying feeling of power and controll..hum..I would have to think about that..but it should at least be worth a couple of hundred bucks!

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/tivo-economics/

Control or what?

Sometimes I wonder...do we really need all of this? What is it that makes TiVo so attractive - is it the glories of pausing live TV, fast-forwarding through the ads, and watching House reruns whenever you damn well please, without having to worry about setting a VCR timer? Is it really that simple? Or is it just another form of control that our control-freaky socitety feels it needs so desperately? I mean, look at it like this; TiVo makes us the kings of TV-Universe. Not only does it give us some sort of social status to own just another gadget, it also provides a chance to beat the system! Yes, we do have the liberty to not watch commercials imposed on us, and yes, we feel we get a teeny-tiny bit more out of TV that actually fair. I at least always feel a shudder of excitement when I watch an episode of Prison Break that I actually missed and I get this feeling of "f*** off, I watch when I got the time, and when I'm ready!". So here we are...power and control - two pure and very human emotions. Or maybe it's just me - maybe I'm more of a control freak that anybody else. But what if not? Is that the way things are gonna work in the future? Being able to pause everything, rewind, and do when we're ready? Gosh, I just imagined tivoing my life! I fast forward through the commercial breaks - dinners with my in-laws or extensive talks with my boss - I rewind the shows I really like - sex last night maybe? - and I just get everthing when I want it, how I want it. Man, wouldn't that just be amazing?