Friday, August 30, 2013

Discovered a gem

Technology arrives slowly (although not always gracefully  - as illustrated...*)


and I would like to announce that THIS WEEK marks the week where we finally triggered the step that enabled us to not only RECORD what is shown on television, but also to WATCH IT BACK!

I know - its a winning combination - a luddite geek.

It only took:
  • Watching the technology approach, arrive at station and start to leave (about 7 years)
  • Actually BUY a DVD Player WITH Recording Ability (about 5 months ago)
    • Buy two at the same time, because the old one died and we have 2 televisions and it had taken us several weeks between the death of the old one and this purchase so we thought best to strike while the card was hot
  • Actually INSTALL a new DVD Player in the Living Area to replace the dead one (about 3 months ago)
    • (but fail to install the recording one for some logic lost forever involving the television set in the bedroom that actually didn't have enough cables because the technology in that area still relies upon a relay of antenna to set top box to television set and the introduction involved an unresolveable loop, it happens)
  • Work out the above addendum after the apparent suicide of the new DVD Player that was not the recording one (about 6 weeks ago)
  • Discover that, although it is a DVD Player WITH Recording Ability, it does not record to a DVD (about a week ago)
  • Discover I had a USB with enough memory on to contemplate recording (about a week ago)
  • Work out how to record using the incredibly complicated remote control with additional handicap of remotus batterium decelerationisation ** (about a week ago)
  • Work out how to replay FROM the USB directly into the television (about a week ago)
  • Work out how to replay PROPERLY from the USB directly into the television using the incredibly complicated remote control with additional handicap** (about a week ago)
  • Work out how to FAST FORWARD through the replay (about a three two one days ago)
  • Work out how to STOP in the right spot of the replay (ha ha ha)
  • Work out how to REWIND (although it doesn't really "wind" does it?) through the replay 
  • Work out how to FAST FORWARD through the replay
  • Work out how to STOP in the right spot of the replay
  • Work out how to REWIND (although it doesn't really "wind" does it?) through the replay
  • Work out how to SCENE FORWARD through the replay (about a two one days ago)
  • Work out how to FAST FORWARD through the replay
  • Work out how to STOP in the right spot of the replay (HA HA BLARDEE HAR)
  • Work out how to REWIND (shaddup)
  • Work out how to FAST FORWARD 
  • Work out how to STOP in the right spot of the replay (Faaaaaaaa)
  • Work out how to REWIND
  • Work out how to just sit quietly and watch
And before I get sidetracked (you wouldn't believe what gets edited OUT around here - I know, more verbose that this - ahem...)

What we watched was Raw Comedy Grand Final 2013 - which was okay, not as good as some other years (mainly due to the propensity to "push the boundaries" where, quite frankly, I have discovered I am not in the mood to push when attempting to enjoy humour), there was one absolute gem of a find.

(And can you believe, not one clip on the whole entire Googledom?!  Eek - come to our place, we might have worked out how to FORWARD to her set in a reliable yet speedy manner - I said technology had arrived, not that it had settled in.)

Anyway, as I was saying, last night (okay, and the night before - and the night before that - we don't watch an awful lot in each sitting, and we are yet to learn the intricate ways of the remote complicated by the additional handicap **) we were FINALLY watching the (end of the) Raw Comedy Grand Final 2013 that we had recorded the weekend before (and which may have been a repeat of an earlier played show - geez, enough with the interrogation) we found a fantastic new talent.


(I found something)

Anyhow - Demi Lardner - winner of the Raw Comedy Grand Final 2013, so the judges were right - and recently equal winner of 2013 So You Think You're Funny at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.  (Anyone else read that and feel like calling it "Edin-burgh' with emphasis on the "burGH"?)

Anyhow - in the timeless words of Molly Meldrum, do yourself a favour.  (If you are in Adelaide - and I am looking at you, Jen - go check her out and welcome her home next week)

(and  I am eagerly anticipating the creation of a better internet presence - hint hint)

BTW - absolutely nothing was paid for this endorsement, but should the tour ever come near Paradise I wouldn't say no to my name being on the door - just saying.


* - I swear - I don't have vampire hands in real life - I blame the lighting - well, if I was a decent photographer I would blame the lighting.

** - remotus batterium decelerationisation - but apparently we don't have gettuppem and goem to carry out a batterectomy - its an ongoing saga in Paradise...

So what did you discover this week? What mountains were finally scaled in your world. And did you laugh?

3 comments:

Kelly said...

Congratulations! Fortunately we were afforded the luxury of DVR with our satellite a few years back for recording purposes, even though we use a VHS/DVD combo for other purposes.

No scaled mountains here, but I did just finish cleaning up a major overflow in my bathroom. I won't go into detail....

Debby said...

We just got a television for the bedroom. We want to get a DVD/VCR player for it. First we have to find a table for it. That's as high tech as we get here in Ludditeland.

jeanie said...

Kelly, if you just read what I just received in a Facebook message, you wouldn't be so tender of my sensitivities in regard to your bathroom - but I am mightly glad you were.

Debby - would you believe we have a TV in our bedroom that we can only see the upper 2/3 of when we recline because we haven't found the right table, and won't find one as we are waiting for the next upgrade in viewing pleasure (we figure its not too long before we can just put a large monitor on the wall and choose our viewing pleasure - only a decade or so for us) rather than invest!!