I need to be less geeky or else more geeky

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OK, it’s not like I don’t know how to pro­gram my VCR or what­ev­er, but I have to learn to start record­ing Star Trek and watch­ing it at a civ­i­lized time. It used to be on at 11:00, and then they moved it to mid­night, which means get­ting to bed no ear­li­er than 1am. Now it does­n’t start until 12:30 and some­times I think it would be nice to get to bed ear­li­er and wake up early.

The prob­lem is that I don’t actu­al­ly have a VCR, or a real TV for that mat­ter. I watch what­ev­er TV shows I watch on my com­put­er, which has a TV tuner card in it. At some point I real­ized that I have a com­put­er with a 20″ mon­i­tor and a DVD-ROM dri­ve and so I gave away my 12″ TV and the VCR.

So the actu­al prob­lem part: in order to record shows to my hard dri­ve, I have to use this soft­ware that does­n’t under­stand the con­cept of being a back­ground process. When it comes on to record a show, it plays the show at the same time. If my speak­ers are on, that means I have to lis­ten to what­ev­er is on. I can hit mute, but that mutes the whole “Wave/DirectSound” chan­nel which means no more leav­ing MP3s to play as I drift off to sleep. This affects oth­er shows I might want record­ed too, because almost every time I’ve set a show to record I’ve for­got­ten to mute on the day and come home to a blar­ing TV show on my computer.

Oh well. If I’d just do things the way every­one else does I would­n’t have these trou­bles. sigh

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4 Replies to “I need to be less geeky or else more geeky”

  4. I need it in the gal­leries
    I need it in the gal­leries for next week. We can take it back on Fri­day. It’s to show a video that was accept­ed into the juried show.

    (Hi Steve. Thanks for let­ting us use your LJ so we can make plans!)

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