I recently installed TIVO and couldn’t believe it.  You can pause live TV!  I sat there watching shows then pausing them and hitting “play” again.  It was mind boggling.

The thing is, I only watch intelligent television with complex, highly sophisticated content, so it’s very helpful to be able to pause shows when I need to.  For example, the pizza man rang the doorbell, so I quickly paused Cartoon Network’s Krypto the Superdog and opened the door and waved the TIVO control and said “Isn’t this cool?”

He said, “Yeah, but you owe me--”

I accidentally hit the “pause” button while pointing it at the pizza guy.  He froze in place.

Horrified, I quickly hit “Play” again. 

“--$19.98 plus tip.”

I stared at the remote.  This technology was even more powerful than I suspected.

I went to work.  My manager called me into his office and said, “We’re interested in leveraging synergies with our new partners.  At the end of the day, one of our paramount goals will be to achieve organizational energies driven by bottom line revenue as well as top line--”

I pointed the TIVO remote at him and hit “Pause.” Then I called my friend.  We went to a few bars.  We had a good time.  Things got a little crazy.

Eventually, around 2 a.m., I stumbled back to work.  It was dark.  Everyone had gone home except for my manager. I went back into his office, sat down, pointed the TIVO, and hit “Play.”

“--productivity.  In addition.......say, did you always have underwear on your head?”