Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!

Anya ,'Showtime'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Tom Scola - Apr 28, 2009 5:59:08 am PDT #17045 of 30000
hwæt

A London gym is offering a "Chav Fighting" class: [link]

Chav Fighting techniques include the "haymaker" and the good old-fashioned headbutt. He described the soon-to-be-extinct chav as "scourge of modern-day Britain" and, inevitably, cited "the rise in knife crime" as a solid reason why white collars should learn the crimebusting benefits of the Glasgow Kiss.


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2009 6:06:20 am PDT #17046 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

In perhaps the most first world of problems, I came perilously close to running out of room on my DVR's terabyte hard drive. Without quick action this morning, something might have failed to record.

Also, something I find really annoying, advertisements on a DVD I have purchased. On well, once it has been ripped and put on my DVR's second terabyte drive that's reserved for Xvid videos (all of it either ripped from purchased DVDs or recorded personally off the air and edited) then that won't be an issue. Still it bugs me.

Every once and awhile I end up telling the kids, like an old person, that they don't know how good they have it TV wise just turning on the TV and having a huge digital video library available to them.


Tom Scola - Apr 28, 2009 6:17:19 am PDT #17047 of 30000
hwæt

Every once and awhile I end up telling the kids, like an old person, that they don't know how good they have it TV wise just turning on the TV and having a huge digital video library available to them.

Conversations I'll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain


Theodosia - Apr 28, 2009 6:17:31 am PDT #17048 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Ah, brave new world with TiVo in it!


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2009 6:30:48 am PDT #17049 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Every so often now I start thinking that one of those new two terabyte drives would be nice to have in my DVR.


Cashmere - Apr 28, 2009 6:32:48 am PDT #17050 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm working on a column sort of like that blog, Gud. My dad didn't have electricity until he was 11. We have broadband, a Wii, cellphones and a van with a DVD player in it.

It's amazing how fast the tech is evolving.

And yet, still no TRANSPORTER.


msbelle - Apr 28, 2009 6:34:11 am PDT #17051 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

mac who did not have a phone in his home for his first 4 years and who I do not believe saw more than a few people with cell phones, he cannot believe a world without answering machines and multiple numbers for people.


Theodosia - Apr 28, 2009 6:34:21 am PDT #17052 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I remember when I bought my first Zip drive.


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2009 6:35:32 am PDT #17053 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

I'd like to have a Wii, but I don't think I could talk my wife into one.


Kathy A - Apr 28, 2009 6:40:51 am PDT #17054 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My Comcast dvr has 80 hours of space available. Total. Which sucked when I had all ten hours of the miniseries of Planet Earth in HD on it--that sucked up more than 40 percent of space.