Figures that what is probably my one and only time comes during the middle of the writers' strike with nothing on. My favorite shows weren't even being rerun. Bah.

I can guarantee there was no reality TV in my viewing logs. ;)

I've gotten one of those maybe every decade or so. I always lie through my teeth, listing the shows I wish I had watched or felt like I should have watched, with the result that I don't trust the Nielsens at all.

I was invited to get a box put on my TV, but it turns out that they put a box on EVERY television in the house, so you can't, say, watch some crappy sitcom but have PBS on your box TV. I think I recall that they have to go through the whole house to make sure you aren't keeping one of your TVs a secret. Plus there were some other restrictions that I no longer recall. It sounded like a real pain in the butt, to be honest, so I said No Thank You.

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So-do they still use paper booklets, or have they advanced to using the intarweb for getting your feedback? My only experience with them is from the very early 90s-had to fill out paper booklets and mail them back.

Paper booklets and they ask you for a list of channels available to you. I printed the list from the Comcast web site and put all 14 pages in with the form. Probably cost them $5 to get it back not to mention the $5 they included with the form. I felt guilty enuf that I did log everything, and just everything, I watched. Wasn't much of a list.

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Yep, paper booklets. It must be an enormous pain for them to do the data entry.

My only fib was after sitting down to watch a show, something came up and I didn't watch it. But I already put it in the book and left it in.