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[certainthings]

- Has anyone ever filled up their photobucket account? Like totally and completely "no more pictures allowed full stop" filled it? And if you have how many pictures were in it?

- If ever there comes a day when VCR's are completely and totally extinct and the one I have stops working, I'm going to cry a river or two. Probably an ocean, really. No joke.

- What's your biggest phobia?
Chace Crawford: spiders and uncooked chicken.

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There's no before picture so you can't see how much better it looks.  But it used to be all full and slightly unorganized, but I moved stuff to another place and rearranged here and there and \o/. But now I need more dvds. Lots more. Or maybe books. I guess maybe books belong in a bookcase. *shrugs*



it's not out of focus in real life.
I do have another bookcase that has more books. *nods*

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Comments

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm kind of afraid of the whole video tape thing happening too. Well, not just that, but that my video tapes that I have will get damaged too. For those reasons, I've been trying (key word is trying, since it takes me two million years to do anything) to transfer them to DVD. I'd gotten a DVD recorder relatively inexpensively for the time about a year ago, and if I ever finish it'll have been a pretty good investment. So far I've transferred quite a bit, but my downfall is that I'm too fricking meticulous about it and want to make sure I get old commercials saved as well. But seriously, I would think that long before VCRs go the way of the dinosaur, DVD recorders will be really inexpensive (the cost keeps going down) and you'll be able to convert as well. I just wish the technology was a bit better and I didn't have to play things all the way through for them to record it all. That's the most time consuming part of it all.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Is it hard or just really tedious? A little of both? A little of neither? And yeah, I'd want to record commercials also. Or at least some of them.

Around how much did you pay for the dvd recorder?

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

This is totally a late response on my part. Lalala....

Anyway, it's really not hard at all. And on mine you can make it as fancy or as plain as you like. Like, for example, back when I was using it to record Arrested Development off the TV I made fancy matching orange menus and such. I think you can put music on the menu screen too, but I never did that. But yeah, if you don't do the fancy stuff it's really pretty easy to transfer the tapes, just tedious because unless you're taping entire tapes and don't care if it's just all random stuff, you have to spend the time going through said tapes to figure out what's on it and what you want to keep or not keep or put on a different disc. Then it takes a long time because it will only record exactly what's playing. So say you wanted to transfer an entire season of BtVS onto DVD from a tape...you would have to play every single episode while it was recording. And if you wanted to not have commercials playing during the show, you'd need to sit there and pause the recording and then restart it. Even if you pushed record and walked away, you can only record so much in a certain amount of time anyway. So like a 22 episode season would still take 22 hours that you couldn't record other stuff during. What part of my problem is, like I said, is the commercial thing. Because I don't want them to interrupt my shows, so I want to pause the shows during the recording to avoid them, BUT I want to go back later and record all the good commercials on all my tapes onto its own disc. At one point I had gotten a lot of my Seth Green stuff transferred and all of my Caroline in the City episodes (which wasn't a ton of them) as well as the I Will Remember You episode of Angel. But I think that's it.

I paid about $100 like a year and a half ago (It came down to my VHS tapes getting just too overwhelming though and I needed to condense them down.). I can't for the life of me remember where I got it. I had gotten one prior to it for like $88 at Target made by Trutech. That one was a piece of garbage though and would never reliably record and would freeze up and stuff. It sucked, so I returned it for a full refund. This one I have now is Magnavox and also functions as just a DVD player and I've had no problems with it. It's also pretty cool because it uses the same DVDs that you'd use in a computer's DVD burner. I'm sure that the ones that are made now cost even less and are much better. A year and a half ago the technology wasn't brand new, but still not quite as common as it is now.

I'm glad I have it though, since my VCR died about a week ago and now I'll be less tempted to use tapes instead for recording shows on TV this fall.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oooh. *seriously looks into this sometime*

Cos, I think I'd just like record anything and everything so yeah.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

It helps that I got a package of like 100 blank DVDs for $3.99 on Black Friday a few years ago. So I feel even less bad about the idea of recording crap on them. Haha. But I think if you can get economy packs of recordable DVDs ($3.99 for 100 is incredibly rare, but I'm sure at Walmart you can get quite a few for a reasonable cost) it's generally a pretty good deal and saves SO MUCH MORE SPACE. That alone is worth it. The blank tapes were taking up so much waiting to be used.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my problem with the tapes is the space they take up and also the fear that one day they won't work but yeah.


ps. did you get my other (private) message from awhile back?

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

I...don't think so?
Where was this?
I'm so oblivious.

Also? Also? Guess where I am going today? You should be veeeeery excited. Oh, yes.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Do you get comments emailed to you?

I guess it should all be the same but yeah, try going here -

http://www.livejournal.com/inbox/

and then there should be a message from me somewhere in there.

You are going to get crabs? :p

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Nope, I do not get them emailed to me. Or, I might, but to an address I don't use. Remember? I'm one of thooooose people.

And, wow, I had no idea you could send private messages. Interesting.

I will go to reply to that over there.

But, no. I am not going to get crabs. Why you would be excited about THAT, I do not want to know.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Silly girl, you should get them emailed to you. It's much easier to reply to them. Mmmhmm

I was all 'Whaaaa huh?' when I learned about the private messages awhile back.

Because when you have crabs you get to say things like, "I have crabs." and that amuses me a lot.

Erm, maybe you're going to a place that mails things?

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

No, because then it would clog up my email account. And I'm so inconsistent with checking email anyway. Yeah, I'm sticking to that. Plus, I don't know how to change it.

It's a little creepy, really. That you can send private messages. Isn't that what email's for anyway? :-P

You know, if I actually DID have crabs, that wouldn't be all that amusing. Ever think about that?

And, yes, you are correct. I am indeed going there. As soon as my mom's done getting her ebay stuff ready. Which should be very soon. Thrilling, isn't it?

I might also get a burrito while I'm over there. Since Del Taco is in the same parking lot and I have a coupon for a free burrito. It's not going on my mother's pillow, however.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

But what if someone doesn't have email? (What kind of person doesn't have email?) but yeah, maybe that's why there's private messages?

*squees quietly* !!!!

Ahahahaha. Get a burrito for me too, please.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then if they don't have email, clearly they'll never know that they're getting those private messages anyway. Right?

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Huh, I hadn't thought about that. Though maybe they compulsively check their livejournal inbox.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Like you do? :-P

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hah! Exactly like I do. Though not my lj inbox just my regular email.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think this is the longest I've sat and commented on LJ in a loooong time. It's so weird to be habitually refreshing like the old days.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

And it's really nice to see you here. *nods*

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it will likely remain a rare thing, since I'm *supposedly* starting the second half of my student teaching next month.

That's been a whole mess in itself. The people at my school who schedule such things are complete morons who really shouldn't have jobs.

I have to go in on Thursday to "interview" before I can start. Which in itself is stupid since I've already BEEN a student teacher for nine weeks. Why they didn't do an interview before I started, I'll never understand. It's just laaaaaaaaame.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

But but yay! Doing things that you want to do and getting paid for it, right? \o/

The interview seems a bit stupid though. Maybe you're secretly working at a backwards school?

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

You don't get paid for student teaching.
In fact, I have to pay my school to be able to student teach.
It sucks, yo.

And the people who are being stupid are my university.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

That blows big time.

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I think about it...the better indicator of when I got it would be shortly before the 8th episode of Arrested Development during its final season. Because that was one of the first things I tried it out on recording. :-) So I think it was more than a year and a half ago.