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.

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[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.