random thoughts while recovering

Reading my liveblogged insomnia post, qtrhorserider said, "This is why you should be on Twitter."

I can never remember all three of the Top Gear guys' names at once.

Any "Top [Number Greater Than Three] Most [Quality Adjective] TV Episodes of All Time" list that hasn't any M*A*S*H on it is automatically wrong.

The AKOTAS newspost under tomorrow's cartoon reads, "Some of these are so thoroughly fanfiction with the names changed that I may have to reedit the art and reprint them when The Hero of Three Faces comes off its summer hiatus."

The third Doctor/Peri story has had all its scenes drafted. It will go up on the betareader filter soon, and be generally available, and crossposted, a minimum of 72 hours after that.

Today I transferred from DVR to DVD, with the DVD recorder we got ourselves for Christmas or something, the Colbert Reports from the week he was in Iraq and the Top Gear episodes with the southern US road trip (I specify "southern US" because I remember a California episode too) and with the homebuilt stretch limos. I'm still teaching myself how to use the recorder and I did these for practice - for instance, the Colbert Report disc doesn't have a disc title; and the disc I made the other day with the CNN inauguration coverage doesn't have disc or track titles, but that's all right because there was only one track. And I started out intending to take the commercials out but gave up. But that's all right because these are really scratch recordings that qtrhorserider wanted to show to rox_law; if they were on videotape, they'd be taped over once viewed again. (Perhaps we should invest in a few DVD-RWs.) By the time I get to my taped-off-PBS Doctor Who collection, I'm going to want to be good at this. Today's useful revelations from thumbing through the manual: how to set the menu track thumbnails, and there appear to be different recording quality levels which presumably mean, as with videotape, you can get more or less time onto the same disc. (<-- This is why I'm not on Twitter.)