The TiVo comes with the abilty to record up to 140 hours of crap, be it stuff from TV or stuff I transfer from my cache of prized LaserDisc material that'll probably never be released on DVD (original Star Wars movies, both previous versions of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, etc.), and it's got a built-in DVD burner.

I may never leave the house or see daylight again.

Elswehere, it's October 1st again, which means that this year's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds writing contest has come to a close. Editor Dean Wesley Smith will shortly begin sifting through the thousands of entries he's received in search of the twenty or so stories which will comprise next summer's Strange New Worlds 9 anthology.

Maybe of those stories will be yours? Here's hoping!