sundries

[rm]

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).

I have signed up for this.

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 was really saddened by news of Tony Curtis's death yesterday.

Tyler Clementi's death seems to be tearing Rutgers apart. Also, Clementi reported the situation to a resident advisor. How the hell did it end up like this?

Our people are still dying. On Wednesday, Raymond Chase hung himself in his dorm room at Johnson & Wales.

Is everything about Gatsby lately? Sure does feel like it. The New York Times goes location scouting.

New York may get retired Space Shuttle.

A marriage equality bill has been proposed in the Australian senate.

Everything is possible.

Comments

[austengirl.livejournal.com]

Would love to hear any and all tv recs. We've been contemplating when to make the jump based on several things: PS3 vs Blu-Ray player vs media-dedicated PC, which flatscreen tv to buy and does it have HD, and how much this is all going to cost. I was surprised to see that Blu-Ray players are more affordable than I'd thought and picture quality on flatscreens is a lot better than it used to be. I haven't been impressed with flatscreen images before. We'll probably get a LED/OLED and if we're going to do it in the near future, it might as well be before the VAT increases in the UK next year.

Also, if anyone knows whether or not Blu-Ray discs follow the same region coding as dvds, I'd love to hear the answer.

/first world problems

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Blu-ray players are specific to the region in which they were sold, but it's at the studio/content provider's discretion as to whether or not they want to use region coding for the discs themselves. So a lot of Blu-ray discs are region free, and will play on any player anywhere. I know Paramount and Universal are only doing region free discs, and most other studios are doing some kind of weird combination of mostly region-free but occasionally coded, depending on the title. So you just have to check the individual movie/TV show you want to see if it's coded or not.