Abstraction

abstraction
noun

  1. the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
  2. freedom from representational qualities in art.
  3. a state of preoccupation.
  4. the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments.
February 26

Apparently, Heros fans in Canada get to see new episodes a day before we do here in the U.S., so those of us who know we are going to miss an episode in advance can download those nice high-definition versions using Bittorrent before it even shows on regular cable television.