Extended Snorflage.

[swestrup]

Under the original version of my Holiday plans, today would be the first day back on my diet. Instead its been pushed off to tomorrow as I never managed to get to Taco Bell during the holidays, what with all the unplanned drama and all. Besides, we hadn't finished the trifle yet either.

So, I had half of the remaining trifle for breakfast (leaving the rest for taxlady) and we shall be going to Taco Bell shortly. While that is going on, I shall be transcoding the last two episodes of Torchwood (and how did I get a full episode behind anyway???) into a format that doesn't display with the right half of the picture missing.

I have no idea what is causing that, other than a wonky codec. My video editing program (VirtualDubMod) claims the episodes are correctly formatted, and can play them without trouble. Of course VirtualDubMod plays them jerkily with the sound coming in bursts, or I'd just watch it in my editor. After all, I'm not keeping the episodes (no disk space for that).

Currently the status thingy says it will take four hours to transcode each episode, and that assumes I don't make much use of my computer. I may end up spending time reading in a coffee shop today as a result. Or maybe I'll try some writing. Wordperfect takes up very little CPU when all you're doing is typing.

In any case, with luck I shall manage to watch both episodes today. Which is good since half of the posts on my LJ f-list has **SPOILER** flags about these episodes, so I'd very much like to watch them and find out what the fuss is all about.

From what I've been unable to avoid seeing so far my guess are:


A) Captain Jack goes back in time and has hot gay sex with himself leading too...
B) The Rift exploding and Torchwood being sucked in, never to be seen again.

Comments

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

somehow missed one myself, and if you're copy doesn't turn out you can zip by hear and pick up the finale.

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

*your*
see:idiot

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

*here*


:P

[swestrup]

VLC is my standard player. It gives the missing-half problem. Media Player Classic (my backup player) does exactly the same.

I didn't even bother checking with Windows Media Player.

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

there's a Taco Bell in Montreal???

(also, I agree, try VLC - it seems to play anything!)

[swestrup]

Yes, the first one opened a few weeks ago. Its on the corner of Sources and Pierrefonds in the West Island.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

so when you have sex with yourself....is that masturbation?

[swestrup]

I've always assumed so. Because that way 'its okay' even if you're straight. :-)

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

if being gay is not okay, then masturbation probably also makes the baby jesus cry :)

[swestrup]

I didn't mean it in some sort of global moralistic sense! I meant that if you duplicated a straight person they should have no issue with having sex with themselves, if they've masturbated.

At least, that's my theoretical take on it. My mileage might vary if it were done to me!

[sps.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I guess I tend to think of it as a mesure of how desperate are you. My scale of preference is like this:

women > me > nothing > men

You seem to be proposing that

women > copies of me > me > nothing > men

and ... that's not making sense to me.

Or to look at it the other way, if I'm trying to look after a copy of myself, won't this distract me from imagining someone I actually like? Am I really so boorish that if I met myself I wouldn't understand if I said to me, look, if it's all the same to me, I think I'd both be better off I just went into the next room and had a good wank?

Autoclonesex I can't get my head around.

[swestrup]

Most of the above was tongue-in-cheek. I'm sure that some folks would agree with my reasoning, but the majority would agree with you. As I see it, its just one more instance where people can differ greatly.

The only advantage to the autoclonalsex thing is that if one of you thinks sex with themselves is a good idea, so likely does the other copy!

[sps.livejournal.com]

You mean ‘sex with themothers,’ not ‘sex with themselves,’ right?

...Or not.

[swestrup]

Don't we need special terms to distinguish:

A) Teleporter (or similar tech) duplicates,
B) Meeting yourother in a time loop,
C) One brain simultaneously controlling multiple bodies,
D) Multiple brains controlling one body,
E) Evil twins

and probably a few other cases?

[sps.livejournal.com]

(a) themothers
(b) themreselves
(c) themselveses
(d) themoths (at least in German, -er is a plural suffix)
(e) eek.

P.S.

[sps.livejournal.com]

If you're only going to put your tongue in your cheek I don't think you need a clone.

Re: P.S.

[swestrup]

Most folks aren't flexible enough to do that by themselves...