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[psipsy]

All in all, Christmas went well. I didn't get a whole lot, but didn't spend much, and didn't waste much time buying gifts for other people, and by throwing the rest of my family an actual clue, I didn't waste their time either. It's like this: Christmas is NOT about spending close to $2000 so your kid can have an XBox 360, and it's NOT about risking foreclosure/bankruptcy so that all 200 friends and family have really nice gifts, or at least remain unforgotten. Most of my shopping happened in a couple determined pushes, while a lot of time that was actually spent at a mall was purely goofing off, in sheer defiance of the mind-control that is the Christmas Shopping Season, an entity in itself. I don't think it was supposed to evolve into this, but it has.

Anyway, I got some manga, a Mad reader, a set of DangerMouse DVDs, Burnout 3 for Playstation2, a couple pair of pants, money, gift cards, that sort of thing. Meanwhile, aichan95 got an add-on for her stereo and a new AC compressor, while yamikochan got a new set of tires. Oh, what I don't do for them.

Hopefully I'll be able to make better use of my week off with more much-needed cleaning, including disassembly of my waterbed, structural assessment (including figuring out why when I sit on my waterbed with the heater plugged in, there's a small but noticeable trickle of electricity that passes through when I touch my newer PowerBook), transport, and re-assembly. That's probably going to be the biggest thing, not to mention filling it back up. Eh, I'll figure something out. The rest of the place is being cleaned in my typical ADD style, which is as follows:
Step 1: Start at a known trouble spot, and sort stuff into What Stays and What Goes.
Step 2: Find something that I had been looking for.
Step 3: Implement found item.
Step 4: Wait, we're up to 4 already?
Step 5: Start working on another spot.
Repeat Steps 2-5, until a Random Event occurs. On Random Event, Continue.
Step 6: Get hungry, and prepare food.
Step 7: While digesting the meal, take a nap.
Step 8: Wake up much later than expected.
Step 9: Same as Step 4.
Step 10: Hi-mi-tsu! <3 ^_~
Step 11: Watch some anime.
Step 12: Go back to cleaning, except in an entirely different area than before.
Step 13: Wonder why after all this cleaning, the place still looks like the physical embodiment of madness.
Step 14: Give up for the night, and go to bed.
Repeat entire process the next day.

Now, one would think by that logic and method, that I would eventually get to the bottom of the whole mess, and eventually wipe it out once and for all. Nope, it's not that easy. Because, these spurts of cleaning don't really happen often enough to be effective. Maybe this week will be different.

As usual, I close this particular entry knowing that there was something else I wanted to add but slipped my mind, but closing it anyway so it doesn't get too long.

Comments

[animedude.livejournal.com]

Dangermouse? You are OLD!

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I couldn't find it on Laserdisc.

[animedude.livejournal.com]

Laserdisk sucks testicles! =D

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Dunno about that, true that it's not as cheap as DVD, but there's a few things out there that are only available on LD as of yet. And it's because of the advent of DVD that I was able to get an LD player, because suddenly the price on those things dropped like a rock.

[animedude.livejournal.com]

A laserdisk is like the size of a large pizza...

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

But not as tasty!

And if you store them someplace that's too warm, they warp and look like a giant potato chip.

Again, not as tasty.

[animedude.livejournal.com]

Lol, well what I mean is, they arent practical at all, that's why they went under and peiople used the inferior VHS until the superior DVD became available to the masses..

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the practicality was almost non-existant, and the high prices (at least before DVD) of the hardware and the discs didn't help.

But for anime LDs, some of the goodies that came with them would make it all worthwhile. That's why I have no regrets about getting End of Evangelion on LD back in 2000. The box set for that was about the size of a pair of shoeboxes, even though the discs themselves didn't take up much room. I mean... That thing came with books and models and a UFO catcher doll of an Eva-05.

[animedude.livejournal.com]

There wer still making LD back in 2000?

Bet'cher sweet bippy they were!

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Yep, because even though VHS was dirt cheap here, it was just as expensive as LD in Japan, if not moreso. Piracy was a bigger problem there, driving the price of tapes up. So, tapes were usually priced either the same as or more than LDs, because LDs were helluva lot harder to duplicate. Even today, if you go to CDJapan and look at a video title, if it has a VHS option, it's rarely ever cheaper than the DVD.

So, people over there had (or still have) comparatively HUGE collections of laserdiscs that they built up over decades, thus it took longer for them to warm up to DVD. By 2000, most US publishers had pretty much given up on LD, but they still had a good year or two left in Japan.

Also remember: $60 for an LD is exorbitant to us, but in Japan, it was the average for the longest time.

Re: Bet'cher sweet bippy they were!

[animedude.livejournal.com]

Those crazy Japanese. First the square watermelon and now this. Also, Unit 05-13 was creepy...