[No Spoilers] Why, yes, I did enjoy "The Rapture," which also happened to be Lucy Lawless's last appearance on Battlestar Galactica. Thank you for asking. But I'm not going to say too much about it, as I've noticed some griping among timeshifting TV-watchers regarding spoilers in bloggers's posts.

I'm not crazy about BSG's new time slot. It took the Cute Little Red-Headed Girlfriend and I about 25 minutes to decide what shows (BSG, Rome, The L Word, Masterpiece Theater) we were going to watch real time and what we were going to record. But thanks to my shiny new DVD recorder, the Pioneer DVR-640H-S, it took me less than 5 minutes to set everything up once our decisions were made.

I have to rave for a minute about this DVD recorder. I got it because my VCR was not quite dead yet but acting up a lot. I thought to myself, "Am I really going to buy myself another VCR?" Obviously, the answer was no. So I went over to the AVS Forum to check out what people were saying about various machines. My main criteria was "must play nice with DirecTV." But this lovely tech also has many, many tricksy things you can with it. If you're in the market for a DVD recorder, it's worth taking a look at.