Just, people who are YOU basically were the grey market back in the pre-internet days. Audio and Video engineers.

Hey now, I work in Archive. My job is to find all the shit that people walked off with fifty years ago. The grey-market is my nemesis. (Specifically, the people who call up and say "I found this clip on YouTube and I want to use it in my documentary. Find it for me on HD! Also, I have no budget.")

It was common practice back in the day for broadcast organizations to repurpose old content by literally cutting the scenes they wanted out of the original film and putting it into the new one. Whenever something is marked "lost in 1967" in the news database at work, we know exactly who to blame because there was a very famous news special produced that year which was well known for just walking off with film cans and never putting them back.

I love how they keep finding "lost" episodes of Dr. Who because some techy back in the sixties or seventies walked off with the tapes

Wouldn't even have been tape at that time - those were lost kinescopes. Much harder to fit under your jacket.

Maybe they didn't need to, because this all really is just a simulation.

Ow, my brain!

Much harder to fit under your jacket.

That's why you don't hand out keys for late night access. Except...they did.

But if they didn't walk off with Kinescopes we wouldn't have them today because some asshole bean-counter decided to wipe all the early seasons for monetary reason!

some asshole bean-counter decided to wipe all the early seasons for monetary reason!

Technically speaking, they just didn't renew the lease where those seasons were stored. And the building fell into disrepair and sank into the swamp.

(Okay, there probably wasn't an actual swamp. But it's a better story that way. The truth is just kind of pathetic.)

My main point is, why are you posting instead of watching World On A Wire? WHY HAVE YOU NOT HEEDED MY ADVICE AND WATCHED THE CRAZY GERMAN 70s MATRIX?

Ok, think I straightened out the corporate card. Second one was a fuckup. I'll need to pull my credit reports in a couple months to make sure it isn't on there, damnit.

WHY HAVE YOU NOT HEEDED MY ADVICE AND WATCHED THE CRAZY GERMAN 70s MATRIX?

I'm watching the crazy German/British 70s science fiction Star Maidens!

Fair enough. You are temporarily excused.

I did SO MUCH stuff today, both house and work.

It's like I was possessed by shrift and msbelle and Sarameg, all at once.

You're invoking me??? OK, so I tend to go on a tear on Saturdays. Today was market, with coffee and cake at S's, then my shopping, then...a Lokinap....then cleaned upstairs, swam, cleaned downstairs. Fell down for a bit, but I've now sorted out all the credit card crap.

I'll probably get jackshit done tomorrow. I need to make calls and one of these days, get back to the bannister project.

Today I took my mother shopping (which is quite an exercise in logistics) and talked her into a very fun outfit, got two pairs of pants for myself, got a haircut and brow wax, hit the city-wide White Elephant Sale, went for drinks with my sister, and now I'm going to make a pie crust. And load my Kindle up with Community episodes to watch while I'm in Spain.

Wooot.

See, this is what I am saying!

I am now almost unpacked (have about 5 boxes left, and some of that is desk stuff, which has to wait until I have a desk), and I went to Costco, and the hardware store, and put together two stools, and did some work, and played with the cats, and other stuff.

Tomorrow, more shopping and cleaning and then dinner with Sparky and finally meeting her daughter.