TV Viewing & Miscelanea
Jan. 11th, 2011 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrI have a TV receiver attached to my computer, and using EyeTV I record shows directly onto my hard drive. I've noticed a few interesting side-effects to this over the years I've had it, and I thought I'd ask if anybody else does the same.
I seem to prefer to watch many episodes of the same show in a row, rather than episodes of different shows. I only watch probably an average of half an hour to an hour a day of TV, so when I say "many in a row" I mean probably 3-4 episodes of a show over a week or so, they might be all on the first day then none until next week or they might be spread 1-2 every night or two. It varies depending on my energy levels and interest - if I'm having more trouble doing "out of bed" stuff then I generally watch more TV, but given the choice I'd prefer to do RL stuff most of the time.
Because I can easily record 50+ shows, and with the electronic program guide I can tell it nifty things like "please record anything with 'BBC' and 'documentary' in the description that isn't a repeat" as well as recording regular shows automatically and picking specific specials out of the online guide and recording those. So I have ... well, at the moment I have 43 recordings, of which 3 are movies. Of the 40 TV shows, they're divided between 20 different programs if I count everything; 12 of the 20 are single-episode documentaries (mostly BBC ones!).
This week I've been watching all the episodes I had (five) of "Big, Bigger, Biggest". It's a bit contrived in spots because they had a very definite format for the show and some of the development paths of the things they covered seemed shoehorned quite a bit to get into the correct format. But the program was interesting and I learned nifty things like how to prevent dams from suffering from toe scour, why space stations require astronauts who can do space walks, and how gyroscopes keep cruise liner passengers from being (too) seasick.
The biggest problem caused by large-scale inhalation of documentaries is that I keep ending up lost in Wikipedia, as described by xkcd. Such a terrible life I have!!
In other news, I have borrowed an unused exercise bike from my parents and plan to start riding it. Who wants to take bets about when I'll fall off? I've been using a tinsy pair of pedals sans bike but they were very cheap and consequently difficult to put any resistance on.
I also scored a now-unused pizza maker as they've "traded up" for a newer model - yay for relatives with rooms full of unused stuff!
That's all for now. I haven't been writing here mostly for the wonderful reason that I have been well enough to do stuff away from the computer and doing trumps writing about it any day! So at this point, no news is very good news.
Hugs,
Ricky
I seem to prefer to watch many episodes of the same show in a row, rather than episodes of different shows. I only watch probably an average of half an hour to an hour a day of TV, so when I say "many in a row" I mean probably 3-4 episodes of a show over a week or so, they might be all on the first day then none until next week or they might be spread 1-2 every night or two. It varies depending on my energy levels and interest - if I'm having more trouble doing "out of bed" stuff then I generally watch more TV, but given the choice I'd prefer to do RL stuff most of the time.
Because I can easily record 50+ shows, and with the electronic program guide I can tell it nifty things like "please record anything with 'BBC' and 'documentary' in the description that isn't a repeat" as well as recording regular shows automatically and picking specific specials out of the online guide and recording those. So I have ... well, at the moment I have 43 recordings, of which 3 are movies. Of the 40 TV shows, they're divided between 20 different programs if I count everything; 12 of the 20 are single-episode documentaries (mostly BBC ones!).
This week I've been watching all the episodes I had (five) of "Big, Bigger, Biggest". It's a bit contrived in spots because they had a very definite format for the show and some of the development paths of the things they covered seemed shoehorned quite a bit to get into the correct format. But the program was interesting and I learned nifty things like how to prevent dams from suffering from toe scour, why space stations require astronauts who can do space walks, and how gyroscopes keep cruise liner passengers from being (too) seasick.
The biggest problem caused by large-scale inhalation of documentaries is that I keep ending up lost in Wikipedia, as described by xkcd. Such a terrible life I have!!
In other news, I have borrowed an unused exercise bike from my parents and plan to start riding it. Who wants to take bets about when I'll fall off? I've been using a tinsy pair of pedals sans bike but they were very cheap and consequently difficult to put any resistance on.
I also scored a now-unused pizza maker as they've "traded up" for a newer model - yay for relatives with rooms full of unused stuff!
That's all for now. I haven't been writing here mostly for the wonderful reason that I have been well enough to do stuff away from the computer and doing trumps writing about it any day! So at this point, no news is very good news.
Hugs,
Ricky
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Date: 2011-01-11 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-11 10:29 am (UTC)This one is much less fun but I made it myself, and it really *is* a picture of the right spot on the moon!
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Date: 2011-01-11 10:31 am (UTC)(And I love that Dairine's reaction was "YOU TOOK THEM TO THE MOON AND YOU DIDN'T TAKE ME", more or less. :D )
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Date: 2011-01-11 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-16 08:19 am (UTC)Have no idea about the openness of the system, I've always only wanted to use both their hardware and their software and IceTV's EPG so it fits together as designed.
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Date: 2011-01-22 01:59 am (UTC)Having said that, once it was set up properly, I have found it to be awesome.
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Date: 2011-01-11 01:07 pm (UTC)what's a "pizza maker"? every pizza i've ever made has been baked in either an ordinary oven, or a barbecue grill with a lid.
*hugs*
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Date: 2011-01-16 08:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-16 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 03:51 am (UTC)I like lots of different pizza toppings, and tend to use whatever I have on hand :)
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Date: 2011-01-18 09:39 am (UTC)here in the US, you can buy ready-made crusts that are baked until they're firm but not brown or crisp, or you can buy refrigerated or frozen dough that will continue to rise once it warms up. or, of course, you can make homemade dough yourself ;-)
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Date: 2011-01-12 06:48 pm (UTC)I like to watch several episodes from the same series at once as well. I feel discombobulated if I jump all over the place.
I feel there is a greater sense of connection - which *we* need in our lives.
I didn't say anything about decorating in your other post coz tho I love natural light, I like dark colours and clutter! Which would explain why I chose 2 mostly white cats - so they could decorate everything with their fur and it be visible.