Assd. Stuff
Feb. 27th, 2007 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! *squees and runs in circles* I thought George was a one-off guest star! Claude! Bad guy being seduced to the mutant side of the force! Claude! Baby Hiro! CLLLLAAAAAAUUUUUUDE!
What I love, love, love about this show is how they answer questions - they even *tell* you which questions they're going to answer - and then they open up five more cans o' worms. What makes the mutants (for lack of better verbiage, I'm slipping into X-Men terminology) work willingly with the company? Does George know? Who was Claude protecting?
And damn, that "I think you're better than tha-" *BLAM!* scene got me right in the gut. I'm with M: how did he *survive* that?
In short, Heroes rocks more than a geology college in a quarry.
And yet more musings on my stuff, complete with a "I think I know what I'm going to do, but it helps to have validation" poll.
I'm setting up new shelves for my DVD/VHS collection, and as I move things, I'm culling out old VHS tapes that will be donated to the library where I grew up. Now, some things are easy to dump, because I have them on DVD. It's the ones I don't that I wonder whether I should keep or not. (Bear in mind that things set aside for the library won't actually be delivered until around Christmastime, so I can always fish something out if I really need it.)
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We will return to our regularly scheduled Who squee soonish. If nothing else, one of the new shelves has become a "fandom du jour" shrine with all the videos and tie-in books. V. handy to have them all at once; I'm thinking to see if the DWMs will fit somewhere there as well.
What I love, love, love about this show is how they answer questions - they even *tell* you which questions they're going to answer - and then they open up five more cans o' worms. What makes the mutants (for lack of better verbiage, I'm slipping into X-Men terminology) work willingly with the company? Does George know? Who was Claude protecting?
And damn, that "I think you're better than tha-" *BLAM!* scene got me right in the gut. I'm with M: how did he *survive* that?
In short, Heroes rocks more than a geology college in a quarry.
And yet more musings on my stuff, complete with a "I think I know what I'm going to do, but it helps to have validation" poll.
I'm setting up new shelves for my DVD/VHS collection, and as I move things, I'm culling out old VHS tapes that will be donated to the library where I grew up. Now, some things are easy to dump, because I have them on DVD. It's the ones I don't that I wonder whether I should keep or not. (Bear in mind that things set aside for the library won't actually be delivered until around Christmastime, so I can always fish something out if I really need it.)
[Poll #936225]
We will return to our regularly scheduled Who squee soonish. If nothing else, one of the new shelves has become a "fandom du jour" shrine with all the videos and tie-in books. V. handy to have them all at once; I'm thinking to see if the DWMs will fit somewhere there as well.
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Date: 2007-02-27 02:44 pm (UTC)For the homemade tapes, I had the issue of 6-8 hours per tape, not necessarily all one show, so about 4-5 years ago I rather energetically made a database by tape with what was on each tape. Show name, season, episode number etc. I also have a field for whether I have it on a commercial tape/DVD or don't need to replace it. As I buy season sets, I go through and mark what I've got and then check to see if I can discard any tapes. So far that's worked for the space I've allotted for the Video/DVD. And I just discard the ones I can. I don't use the VCR for recording anymore as I've got both a PVR and a DVD recorder, and some of the tapes are old enough that the quality would be very bad.
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Date: 2007-02-27 03:52 pm (UTC)These days, though, I just use the VCR for timeshifting if I won't be home, because I know the DVDs will come out in about 20 minutes.
I'll be making homemade DVDs that I hope will someday be replaced/retrolegitimized with professional ones. But in the meantime, what do I want to with the professional VHSes?