As a busy professional who works those “9-8s” you don’t get the opportunity to really watch your shows when you want. And then along comes the ability to record your shows and watch them at another time either with a DVR or TIVO. I have become the biggest fan of this magic device, as it regards all of my shows and patiently keeps them until I can watch them in all their HD glory (or sometimes SD if the channel doesn’t have an HD feed).
However, I have hit a bit of a dilemma. My DVR is 95% full, which means any day now I will run out of space. So what will go? NCIS? Law & Order? CSI? Eureka? Robin Hood? Either I have to make time to somehow watch 20 hours of recorded shows, or somehow make the tough decision to delete something. Sadly, I looked at the “upcoming” shows being recorded and there are more coming in than I can filter out.
Damn you DVR! You are a blessing and the bane of my existance!
Today I had grand plans of going out and photographing the fireworks tonight, but as the day wore on (and the rain came down) I just lost motivation. I do have some photos to upload to my Flickr account, but again even that is lagging behind. I have realized I am becoming more and more “slug-like.” I tend to enjoy laying on the couch on my downtime and just catching up on my DVRed shows.
And thank goodness for my DVR as I have been pulling late nights over the past few weeks. All of my shows are auto-magically recorded for my viewing pleasure at a later time. And one of my favorite features is I can fastforward through the commercials to truly just enjoy the show. Ironically, I find myself sometimes watching the commercials before it dawns on me…”Hey I can fast forward through them.” I guess I am truly becoming slug-like.
On that note, I am going to watch the commercials instead of fast forwarding through them…because I can.
Last night I was at my local Bank of America (I am currently located in the United States at the moment) and I used for the first time the “image recognition” technology for checks. Basically, you don’t have to put an envelope with your checks into the ATM anymore. You just deposit the checks one at a time and the ATM recognizes the amount of the check and prints you a confirmation of your deposit. You don’t have to add anything up anymore.
I must say I was pretty impressed with the accuracy of the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for each check. Did it save me time? I am not sure, but that may have been because I was standing in front of the ATM looking for the stupid envelopes before I finally read the “No Envelopes Required” sign on the ATM. I bet the video footage of me wandering around the machine, looking everywhere for an envelope and then finally trying to figure it all out must be a funny video. I wonder if I will end up on YouTube.
I never realized that the World even had Seed Vaults. Call me naive, but that is a pretty cool concept. Recently, as many of you know (and me in my complete ignorance) Norway just opened their seed vault. It makes sense, as the World starts to experience natural disasters (can you say…global warming!), wars, poor agricrop management, we need a way to stockpile our crop seeds (and our lovely flower seeds too). Not to mention you want as many Seed Vaults as financially possible in the event one is damaged or inaccessible.
What strikes me as weird when reading the article is the fact that Norway choose a remote island in the Artic Ocean. Now what I couldn’t find out is what the impact is of global warming. I mean if the ocean rises due to polar ice caps melting, isn’t there a risk that this Norwegian Seed Vault may be submersed under water?
Ok, I have become slowly more addicted to YouTube.com than ever, and occasionally browse and troll their videos. My brother’s girlfriend actually owns an iPhone which has YouTube connectivity (although good luck downloading videos on the AT&T EDGE network, talk about slow). I stumbled across this video by Johnny Chung Lee:
So I purchased Halo 3 and BioShock and I have been sucked into the world of the Xbox 360. Both games are a blast to play solo as well with others on Xbox Live. The graphics are amazing on the HDTV I am using and both games have an element of “scariness” to them.
So turn down the lights and turn up the volume, and prepare to jump out of your seat every so often. Good times!
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