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There's no stripping. (Sorry.) But there's rambling, usually in the area of science, politics, pop culture, signs that are irritatingly misspelled, and religion, or anything that happens to be on my mind at the time. I post on study breaks, so that I don't go insane. Insaaaaaaaane!

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Friday, November 18, 2005

I finally hooked up my TV tuner to my laptop! Yaaaaaay!



So, I've had a Dell Inspiron 9300 with Windows Media Center since August, but I hadn't had a chance to set up the TV tuner part of it until last week. I've been busy, y'all. It seems that either things have let up just a tad at school, or maybe I've just figured out how to manage my time and/or how to study more efficiently, because I have more time lately for very happy things like naps. And TV. And my grades are still good-ish.

Like I said a couple of weeks ago, I love the new NBC show My Name is Earl. It's just a wonderful parody of the redneck lifestyle, and I adore it. And in that same post, I promised to share some Earl with my few-but-faithful readers. The problem is, this week's episode had so much good stuff that I just had to upload the entire episode. So it's somewhere around 650MB, but it's the whole Ruined Joy's Wedding episode, sans commercials. I also uploaded the episode of The Office that followed (Performance Review, also 650MB or so) which is a great show too. I'm sorry that the files are so huge, but decreasing the file size also decreases the quality, obviously.

Here are the mpeg links - please right-click and "save target as" to save my bandwidth. If you do not right-click and "save as", I will be forced to hunt you down and give you a lecture on the fat-filled ischiorectal fossa. Consider yourself warned.

My Name Is Earl - Ruined Joy's Wedding (airdate - 11/15/2005)

The Office - Performance Review (airdate 11/15/2005)

Also, I fixed my ridiculously organized playlists in yonder sidebar - apparently, when I switched hosts I had to change my file permissions. Thanks for pointing that out, ribbiticus!

And I think that's all I have to offer today.