I just watched the trailer for the new movie, Get Smart. I’ve actually just watched it five times, and I laughed every time. There’s something about Steve Carell’s well-timed prat comedy that just works. But I’m really not getting my hopes up for the movie. Those could be the best jokes in the whole film, leaving 88 minutes of farting, and situations that justify farting. I’m still stinging from the promise of the trailer from The Phantom Menace.
So it’s not really the movie that excites me, it’s the parade of old episodes of GS: TOS that Nick at Nite will parade on the air, for me to collect and catalog.
My girlfriend insists I add some details of my recording style: I don’t have a TiVo or other PVR, but I do have a VCR. How about that! I still do all my TV recording with video cassettes and VCR+. Each video gets one adhesive sticker attached to the back of the video. If I don’t stick the sticker on correctly, all video contents must be transferred to a new video and the sticker reapplied. No mistakes shall be tolerated. Pens for writing on the videos have changed throughout the years, and the current writing implement of choice is a Sharpie Ultra-Fine point black pen. I tried pencil once, but shhh, don’t tell anyone it’s hard to read those titles I wrote in the 80s.
But I digress. VCRs always worked for me, why change to that newfangled DVD technology? With all the newly taped GS episodes, I’ll finally have something substantial to put next to my near-complete collection of The Simpsons.
March 27, 2008 at 8:30 pm
What kind of labels do you use for the VCR? The long skinny ones for the side that you can see if the tape is put back into the case or maybe one of those square jobs that goes right on top of the cassette?
Do you ever re-record on the same tape and paste a new label on top of the old one just like I do with my license plate tags?
I’ve got extra labels in case you need them — both kinds.
March 28, 2008 at 3:33 am
I prefer the long skinny ones, but I would NEVER place one label on top of the other. No, that is sacrilege, almost as bad as using pencil to label something. Pencil does not equal posterity.
But yeah, if you’ve got extra, I’ll take some of the long skinny kind. There’s got to be a name for those. I looked for the name, but can’t figure it out. Do you know?
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