Bizarre fannish evening...

[fajrdrako]

I really enjoyed myself this evening but as evenings go, it was utterly strange. Nothing went as I planned expected, except maybe the meat loaf. I made meat loaf from the Harrowsmith Cook Book, but varied it to fit the recipe my mother used to make - and it turned out really good.

So commodorified and auriaephiala came over, and raynedaze came and joined us when the meat loaf was almost but not quite gone. Meanwhile we wanted to watch Due South but I still haven't found the remote for the DVD player, and the DVD recorder won't work at all. So we spent about an hour collectively combing my apartment and we still didn't find the remote. Where could it have gone? Obviously I no longer have any secrets; just as well I had none in the first place.

Finally deciding that enough was enough, we watched a Due South episode on the beginning of the other side of the DVD - I don't recall its title. About two pickpocketing kids and a prostitute's stolen address book.

Soon after it started, Pat and Sandi came over to give me my birthday present - the Iron Man movie. (Yay!) ...And they took an interest in my nonfunctional DVD player and walked off with it for examimation and possible repair. Fingers crossed.

By that time I was in a go-with-the-flow sort of surreal Zen mood. Che sera sera.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Heh. I like stories like this. And was it not a totally pleasant evening...? Probably.

I no longer can watch videotapes because my VCR is not working well, and when I picked up a new one from the store I found that it was designed to work with new-style TV sets, which mine is not. Eh!

Perhaps someone just needs to speak firmly to your DVD player: "No. I'm serious. You dust me again when I'm not actually on fire, I'm donating you to City College." There.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

"Wonderful," he said sarcastically, "this transition period between technologies. Especially when the newer technologies are designed to be antagonistic towards working well with the old ones."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think there's a level of planned obsolescence going on.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Almost a certainty, that.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Non-issue with me. Linear is pointless, to me: everything's simultaneous, thus there is no "ranking of best to worst," which is why I say -- have a nice day.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Disorienting, but yes, pleasant. Everyone was very good-natured about the chaos.

I need to research new DVD recorders, but it's a moot point at the moment, as I haven't the money to get one. I can wait.

My VCR still works fine, but I can only tape from any one of about 90 channels (in the bedroom) rather than from I-don't-know-how-many digital channels in the living room.

Wouldn't have time to watch much more than I have, anyway....

P.S. DVD players are like budgies. They don't listen.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Except to Hollywood's lawyers, or so goes the fear of many. DRM hardwired into the circuitry is apparently the Plan.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What is DRM?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

"Digital Rights Management". An euphemism for "don't copy what we don't want you to copy, no matter what your reasons are".

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Faugh. They already have enough control. More than enough.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

It was, in fact, a lovely evening. Just a bit scattered.

fajrdrako was incredibly good-natured about us searching the place.

I am absoplutely certain that the remote is just having a hissy fit and will show up.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

a lovely evening. Just a bit scattered

A bit.

I am absolutely certain that the remote is just having a hissy fit and will show up.

I can't believe it won't. I can't even believe it's gone - because I can't imagine what happened to it.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

sorry, unfamiliar mouse

I can't imagine what happened to it

My first rueful thought was the bags of stuff you cleared out not long ago... sigh. You don't think? Hope not.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No, the bags I cleared out were clothes, and I've used the remote since then.

It's a mystery.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

My mother would usually say that the Borrowers got it. Often enough, the Borrowers then bring it back, sometime later. Poltergeist, basically. Because I've seen too many cases of eventually finding something in a place out in the open that you know for sure it was not, several other times looking, and you're the only one in the house.

Can't say that I've ever heard of a poltergeist in an apartment, though! Have you?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sandi and Beulah use the word 'gremlins'. Same principle.

I think a poltergeist can be anywhere. I've never actually encountered one in either a house or an apartment - either first or second-hand.