Tonight, Friends of the Text meeting followed by Inception: the Musical rehearsal.
Tomorrow, some dance classes.
Otherwise, I'm hoping for a dearth of weekend work so I can focus on Internet date with Patty (including watching some more Angel maybe), and my creative work (I want to make a list of every in-progress project I have, or idea that's on the shelf of "a thing to do" and make some prioritizing choices). I'd also like to get to The Social Network, although that's an urgency of see and not an urgency of do. I also need to tie up some fannish loose ends (as you can probably tell, my focus is a bit elsewhere right now, or at least manifesting differently).
Pam Cook book is still on the night-table, but probably won't be touched for a week or so now. I need to let last night percolate a bit (a lot!) without wearing my criticism hat for a while.
Have made annoying discovery that I've been using two different tags for the same thing, and will now have to go back and fix stuff.
Still don't really have a plan for Monday. I'm waiting for genius (okay, more like serendipity) to strike.
I leave for Europe in 24 days. Find I am having a bit of "but I'll miss stuff happening in New York!" But I can certainly work with people I'm working with here remotely, and the lack of a social life during the Swiss part of the adventure means I can get lots of writing/development/something done. Plus, it does all make me seem cool, ne?
What is with the weather here? Last night was all about dramatic storms waking me up over and over. It was kind of irritating. And apparently a bunch of subway lines flooded out.
What do we think about Blu-Ray? Format of the future or annoying thing on which DVD editions we really care about are being released, but will go the way of the LaserDisc? HELP ME.
I've been stubbornly holding out on the "Blu-Ray is a format destined to die in the face of digital downloads" side of things, but I think I might be wrong. :/ It's certainly getting pushed hard.
I'm still enough of a physical-media holdout that I'm going with Blu-Ray; if nothing else, the fact that I can buy (and therefore sell) used discs is a win for me.
The format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD slowed things down enough that it could well make the difference between BR being entrenched before downloads really take off or not...but with Net Neutrality under attack and Verizon ending their FiOS expansion before they get to such low-tech backwaters as Cambridge, MA I'm not convinced downloads are really all that unstoppable. (Even with instant streaming, I bet Netflix is still mailing out a whole lot of physical media....)
So far download quality isn't anywhere near Blu-Ray quality, or so I've found. I thought maybe Blu-Ray would be the last word consumer format, but it doesn't appear so, as I'm sure there will be some planned obsolescence somewhere down the line. On the other hand, most people don't care as much about quality as I do, so I don't see the uptake I might like to see before predicting the avoidance of laserdisc-dom. There's still no beating film, though.
PS, Thanks for adding me. I should have added you ages ago simply on account of having Lucie Brock-Broido in your interests list.
For me, it was A Hunger, one of the books that made me pursue poetry. I was lucky enough to study with her a few times.
I haven't read The Master Letters in years; it seems so dangerous and sacred. Maybe I should go revisit it. Do you have ML-related work online somewhere?
This. Not to mention that download & streaming is still coming with a mess of international licensing/ rights problems. I.e., as an American on an overseas military base, I can't stream or digitally rent or purchase ANYTHING.
as far as what dominika says, though, I HAVE downloaded bit torrents that are very nearly blu-ray quality, butttt that's bit torrent, not streaming or download from a store. And on the quality note, it took me forever to tell the difference in quality {I'm sort of blind anyway}, but once I did I couldn't un-see it. Also when I watch DVDs now I frequently really miss some of the blu-ray features.
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Date: 2010-10-01 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-01 02:24 pm (UTC)The format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD slowed things down enough that it could well make the difference between BR being entrenched before downloads really take off or not...but with Net Neutrality under attack and Verizon ending their FiOS expansion before they get to such low-tech backwaters as Cambridge, MA I'm not convinced downloads are really all that unstoppable. (Even with instant streaming, I bet Netflix is still mailing out a whole lot of physical media....)
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Date: 2010-10-01 04:38 pm (UTC)PS, Thanks for adding me. I should have added you ages ago simply on account of having Lucie Brock-Broido in your interests list.
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Date: 2010-10-01 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-01 05:57 pm (UTC)I haven't read The Master Letters in years; it seems so dangerous and sacred. Maybe I should go revisit it. Do you have ML-related work online somewhere?
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Date: 2010-10-01 05:18 pm (UTC)as far as what dominika says, though, I HAVE downloaded bit torrents that are very nearly blu-ray quality, butttt that's bit torrent, not streaming or download from a store.
And on the quality note, it took me forever to tell the difference in quality {I'm sort of blind anyway}, but once I did I couldn't un-see it. Also when I watch DVDs now I frequently really miss some of the blu-ray features.
In short, I'm a blu-ray fan.