Jul. 20th, 2011

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Everyone with any interest at all in such things already knows that the best available experience for watching TV and movies is also the cheapest, and the least legal. To the point where it's almost less annoying to take a season of TV on DVD, rip it, and play it on a TV connected to a media player than it is to swap the bloody DVDs.

However, disk space is still not unlimited, and so since I own the DVDs of Deadwood and had seen it, I deleted the computer copy.

Now I'm watching Deadwood again (because I felt like it) and *holy crap* it is UNBELIEVABLY annoying to have to swap disks, wait for menus, and be unable to simply queue up a season to play one after another.

Help me out, lazyweb: What are solutions for this, other than "download a pirated copy of Deadwood to go with my DVDs because the pirated version is better" or "swap disks and take hours ripping and encoding Deadwood"? Is there an easy way to make VLC Media player ignore the menus and go directlty to the .vob files, and enqueue those so at least I only have to swap disks every 2-3 episodes? Do people even *make* multi-disk DVD players any more, and if so is there a cheap one I can use for shit like this? And if so, it had BETTER be cheaper than a 2TB external disk to just store more AVIs on, I'm just saying.

Because right now, I'm swapping disks and dealing with the menus as an annoying-but-less-annoying-than-the-rip-process hazard of owning a legal copy of something. And that's just a pain in the ass.
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"A Cloud arose in Likeness and Form resembling a Pine-Tree; for it was elevated to a good Height, with a long Trunk, and distributed in several Branches. The Reason, I suppose, was, that it was rais'd aloft by a sudden Wind, and then relinquish'd by it, as it decay'd, or else overpower'd by its own Weight, it spread it self into a large Breadth; appearing sometimes white, sometimes Shadowy, and variously colour'd, as it was loaded with Ashes or with Earth. It struck him with Surprize, and seem'd to merit a nearer Examination."
- Pliny The Elder encounters a mushroom cloud.
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Tried to accept the G+ invite again, this time it worked without signing up for spam. Signed in, looked around, discovered that an old friend from high school has a PhD from Stanford and works for Google and Would I Like To Add Him To A Circle, became briefly depressed.

Checked out "Circles", got myself added by three more people in the ten seconds it took for me to skim my way around, and noticed that I have six people "Blocked".

This seems odd, so I check it out: Two of them are [livejournal.com profile] harald387's gmail addresses, which don't have Google+ accounts and who I talk to via email and GChat regularly. One is [livejournal.com profile] jsbowden, who, again, I haven't banned. Two are lj-less people I know but haven't banned in Google Anything, and one is a COMPLETE STRANGER who I've never heard of. Skimming his profile suggests that he knows some people I know, but I have NO idea who he is.

So, G+ users: What's up with that? Pre-blocked users where I haven't ever used Google+ before, who are NOT banned in other google apps and who in at least one case have no G+ account themself?

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