All right Tivo, I get it already

You'd think that after 200 days, the Tivo would figure it out. The telephone's not coming back.

(You'd also think that after a couple hundred times answering a question the exact same way that my ATM could file a note somewhere that I'm unlikely to suddenly become bilingual and skip that particular question in the future. But I digress.)

I could get the Tivo to shut up by installing the cache/network card that's been sitting around for over a year. Of course, that means getting the Tivo disconnected, pulling the hard drives, mounting the drives in the shitbox PC that keeps my hiking shoes off the closet floor, dig up the Linux boot disc, get the software on the non-networked PC, install the software on the Tivo drives, install the cache card in the Tivo, put the drives back in the Tivo, make sure everything still works, then get the Tivo on the home network.

I get the feeling I'll be seeing the Tivo complaining about 300 days soon enough.