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So what is never knows best...? It is what Mamimi, from FLCL, has written on her cigarettes. And now, I co-opted it for this stupid blog.
6/27/2008 01:00:00 AM
Just finished marathoning through the This American Life TV show.. some thoughts
On Amazon Unbox (where I downloaded it, since you can only buy the DVD from Borders??): it's still seems really slow to download (1.5 days to get 6 episodes -- 3 GB, they limit you to 1 transfer at a time too). Plus the PC client is still pretty kludgy and really slow on my PC. Going on with the negatives, I had a hard time figuring out the correct way to download the episodes where the PC client wouldn't find the episodes I just bought and the web client Download link, couldn't contact my PC. On the plus side, video quality was good, I have no qualms with that.
Stories of note:
The Mormon guy who looks for people with beards to paint in biblical scenes. I think it's interesting how TAL can somewhat document these things without being offensive to somebody (maybe I'm not of the right target audience to be offended). But, I thought it was an interesting way to share fellowship.
The 13 year old D&D player who doesn't believe in love. He has got his die rolling down... plus he does the live action roleplaying that I find is especially shameful. I'm not sure what it is with these "geeky" things like D&D or cosplay, where I feel I can understand it, but then I understand it and want absolutely nothing to do with it. Like for work sometimes I investigate JP orders and they invariably end up being purchases of random anime figurines and kinda cringe at myself for being able to recognize 2/3s of it. Back to the love part though, I can also understand how as an act of "antisocial coolness" you grow to think there is no such thing as love. Personally though I think it's foolish to take these contrarian thoughts personally (i.e. when he fights back at his mom when she says she loves him). This is the part that I think bugs Amy the most is that people take random things to such high levels of "seriousness" that they get offended.
The documentary photographer who took photos instead of trying to help. It was interesting to see his viewpoint on photographing the bad things in life, and seeing the decision he makes aobut how he couldn't handle it anymore.
Senior citizen indie film (probably my favorite). Links in to a blog post I was reading earlier today about what would you do when you retire. Sure I have some goals where I feel work gets in my way, but do I have the drive/organization to pull it off?
On Amazon Unbox (where I downloaded it, since you can only buy the DVD from Borders??): it's still seems really slow to download (1.5 days to get 6 episodes -- 3 GB, they limit you to 1 transfer at a time too). Plus the PC client is still pretty kludgy and really slow on my PC. Going on with the negatives, I had a hard time figuring out the correct way to download the episodes where the PC client wouldn't find the episodes I just bought and the web client Download link, couldn't contact my PC. On the plus side, video quality was good, I have no qualms with that.
Stories of note:
The Mormon guy who looks for people with beards to paint in biblical scenes. I think it's interesting how TAL can somewhat document these things without being offensive to somebody (maybe I'm not of the right target audience to be offended). But, I thought it was an interesting way to share fellowship.
The 13 year old D&D player who doesn't believe in love. He has got his die rolling down... plus he does the live action roleplaying that I find is especially shameful. I'm not sure what it is with these "geeky" things like D&D or cosplay, where I feel I can understand it, but then I understand it and want absolutely nothing to do with it. Like for work sometimes I investigate JP orders and they invariably end up being purchases of random anime figurines and kinda cringe at myself for being able to recognize 2/3s of it. Back to the love part though, I can also understand how as an act of "antisocial coolness" you grow to think there is no such thing as love. Personally though I think it's foolish to take these contrarian thoughts personally (i.e. when he fights back at his mom when she says she loves him). This is the part that I think bugs Amy the most is that people take random things to such high levels of "seriousness" that they get offended.
The documentary photographer who took photos instead of trying to help. It was interesting to see his viewpoint on photographing the bad things in life, and seeing the decision he makes aobut how he couldn't handle it anymore.
Senior citizen indie film (probably my favorite). Links in to a blog post I was reading earlier today about what would you do when you retire. Sure I have some goals where I feel work gets in my way, but do I have the drive/organization to pull it off?
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