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One Of The Reasons I'm Glad I Have A VCR[*]

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:53pm on 2007-05-25 under ,

Tonight's decision: watch the television program I'd planned to watch, or listen to my physicist housemate try to remember enough relativity to explain how a wormhole can be turned into a time machine and why that turns out not to be useful anyhow.

Okay, that wouldn't have been a difficult decision even if I hadn't already programmed the VCR to tape the show in question, but it still illustrates why I have the VCR record even the shows I expect to watch in real time. You just can't depend on life to be boring at predictable times.

[*] As a representative member of the class of video recording devices capable of capturing broatcast signals, not specifically in preference to other, even more convenient recording devices such as TiVo and MythTV.

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posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 02:56pm on 2007-05-26
Funny, I was just having this conversation with someone - it looks like the math means trying to violate causality will require infinite energy, which is a nice physics way of making something 'impossible'...

This is definitely one of the major benefits of TiVo-esque devices; without prior arrangement you can just pause, at any time, and actually (say) listen to what your SO is saying. Especially useful for those of us whose brains now refuse to process two voice streams at once.
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Sorry, but I Had to Laugh

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:59am on 2007-05-31
The idea of Breno being your SO. Pulled the covers over my head and shook it about wildly to banish the notion. Wuuh. Oh, so not.

Unless aliens have pulled out you nervous systems and inserted many microchips...
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Re: Sorry, but I Had to Laugh

posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 02:32am on 2007-05-31
Well, now I'm confused...
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Re: Sorry, but I Had to Laugh

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 07:48am on 2007-05-31
The short end of a long tale not mine to tell is that Breno rents a bedroom upstairs in D'G's geographically favourable house as a base of operations. A housemate and friend. As far as I know, I'm D'G's only girlfriend in the area right now. Thus the idea of Breno as D'G's SO caused me to almost snort apple-raspberry sauce. I'm still chuckling a little.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 03:36am on 2007-05-27
I always program the recorder. Tape (or disk) is cheap and reusable, and it's just safer that way.

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