waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Our TiVo is manic-depressive.

October 16th, 2005

Oh, my poor, stupid TiVo. Apparently some time between Friday night and Saturday morning, it forgot how to capture video from coax or RCA in. [Yes, it detected that there was connected video (i.e. no blue screen complaining of a busted cable); yes, there was real video on the wire (tested it with the TV); it was just coming out black through the TiVo.] It required a reboot to clear up.

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