We are Siamese, if you please; we are Siamese, if you don’t please

[rolanni]

All righty, then!

Last night, we discovered that neither of the disks we had in from Netflix actually worked in the DVD player of my computer.  Whether this is DVD player fail, or DVD fail remains to be seen.  Still, we were in the mood to watch a movie, dern it, so we went out onto the intertubes and streamed “My Man Godfrey” straight out of Netflx Central.

The streaming worked a treat; the movie, despite my deep and abiding adoration of William Powell — not so much.  I don’t see why a perfectly sensible man ought to be stuck with an empty-headed screwball just because she loves him – but that’s probably just me.  I think he’d done perfectly fine with Molly, if the plot demanded romantic closure, a point of which I am doubtful.

Today, I filled out my Worldcon panelist survey.  Truly, I am made of energy and crunchy goodness.  I also made rice to serve as the base for day-job lunches throughout the coming week and did a bit of work on “Intelligent Design.”

I tried mightily, and failed equally so, to design a t-shirt at Cafepress, which aggravates me much more than it’s probably worth, but enough to ask — if you sell t-shirts on the internet, and you don’t use Cafepress, what do you use?

For those who keep count, tomorrow’s Monday, and hereabouts the weatherbeans are calling for cold.  Also, I have no window washer left in my car and I can’t get the hood open, though it reports that it’s unlocked.  Tomorrow’s drive to the day-job will therefore be Fraught With Peril.

Note to self: Laugh at Peril.

Next on the list here is doing the dishes, which I shall undertake immediately upon saying g’night to y’all, and then a wee bite of lunch.

Progress on “Intelligent Design”
3,072 out of 10,000 words OR 30.72%

G’night.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Dvd's from Netflix won't always play on my daghter's pc. My sister said the same thing about her computer. They do play on our macs, though I rarely watch recent releases. The theory is that it's something to keep the dvd from being copied. Supposedly, there is software one can install that will then allow Netflix dvds to be played on a computer.

Hope that's what it is.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I suspect that certain brands of DVD have this problem. I think maybe twice I've had DVD's that wouldn't play on my computer but would play on a DVD player.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I've had that from Lovefilm, DVDs which will play on (some) DVD players but not on the PC. Mind you, I've also had some I could rip to hard disk on PC which wouldn't play on the DVD player or play on PC (so I played it from the hard disk and then deleted it). Sometimes it's the DVD itself (a replacement is fine), other times it seems to be an anti-copying measure.

I can't do streaming things, the net connection is too slow and intermittent.