lost and left undiscovered
Ok, so I’m a bad person. Remember I said I watched Lost Season 3 Episode 1 on Youtube yesterday? Well, not only did I do this (and gloat and rub my hands together and say “yessssssss, my precioussssssss” entirely too much) but I also inflicted Ed with the curse of the “future episode”. While watching Lost myself, I pasted each and every Youtube link into Ed’s GTalk window.
See, the problem is that Ed hasn’t watched Season 1 or Season 2 yet. He has yet to experience the gorgeous mind-fuck that is polar bears, predator (ala Michael Crichton) style dust devils, mysterious hatches that lead to bunkers with computing equipment that is decidedly non-standard, the Others, lots of attractive people on an island and all the rest of those unresolved mysteries that make Lost so intriguing. Oh, wait. Ed. Sorry, that was a SPOILER WARNING. *grin*. So, now he’s understandably aggrieved at being given the opportunity to watch the first episode of the third season before he gets himself the DVDs for the earlier seasons.
My point (made to both Ed and sage) is that Ed knows about as much as we do about Lost at this point, so it’s not going to make a difference. And hey, this is a sneak peek. Next week, Gootube could take down all those videos. Then what?
In a somewhat related vein, What currently illegal thing do you personally really want to be free to do?. Would you rather watch episodes of TV serials which haven’t screened in your neck of the woods yet? Or download copyright protected media? Actually, if you do break existing copyright law (or any other law) already and haven’t suffered the consequences; does legalization have any benefit on you at all? If someone makes jaywalking legal, would you stop doing it? Do it more often? The reason I ask is that I tried coming up with a list of things and reviewing it at the end made me feel like I was some sort of anarchist. When I had previously considered myself to be reasonably law abiding, mind you.
And on yet another related note, is someone’s attraction for current runway models really a repressed attraction for adolescent boys? If … umm… bonking adolescent boys is your thing (as it was for centuries) is there a case for making it legal? (I personally hope not, but never mind me).
Two more quick snippets, I’ve just been offered a chance to demonstrate Scheme to the undergrads and I’ve provisionally accepted. I only had a fleeting chance to get into it during my final year (UK degree, thus an unhealthy Prolog obsession was manifest in course materials at the time). And Firefox 2.0 appears to have solved some of the pressing memory leak problems - I closed a tab and had the never-before-seen picture of Firefox’s memory footprint actually decreasing by a couple of megs. Winnar!
On 15-Oct-06 at 4:51 am,
N wrote:
hmm….you know you can watch Lost on Abc.com for free right? Need to ge tthe second season DVD set for a marathon LOST session…I *cough* *cough* download plenty of copyrighted materials…and in the past have done (mild) insurance fraud in the UK…
On 15-Oct-06 at 6:46 am,
ddm wrote:
mara that snippet about the vietnamese pregnant woman. i suspect one of ze guards. either that or wind pollination, those poppies are quite potent i hear. either way its a marvellous method to get the firing squad off your back (or front).
On 15-Oct-06 at 2:24 pm,
Splee wrote:
@N: You can only do that if you’re in the U S of A. The NBC website uses tricksie IP location thingummies that know where you live.
Not that I would ever do this myself, what with it being copyright infringment and stealing, but you can download the episodes of Lost fairly easily via bittorrent. Unfortunately, I’m hooked again and I’m just gagging for episode 3!
On a slight tangent, have you watched Heroes? It’s airing in the US at the moment and it’s a Lost-meets-XMen type affair that looks like it’s going to be an awesome series.
On 16-Oct-06 at 12:22 pm,
drac wrote:
N: What splee said. Same with the other networks, actually. Turnabout is fair though, I think the Beeb blocks people outside the UK from their stuff too.
ddm: wind pollination is a creative excuse
I first thought maybe conjugal visits were to … er… blame, but it seems not to be the case.
splee: Yeah, torrents are easier (or so I hear)… I’m slightly restrained in terms of available bandwidth for that though, so the Tube is a better option. I’m mildly annoyed at myself for getting sucked in too, but yeah.. bring on ep. 3
Haven’t watched Heroes yet, unfortunately. Seems interesting though.
On 16-Oct-06 at 3:31 pm,
Darwin wrote:
Downloaded Season 3 last weekend and it totally rocked! Can’t wait for the rest.
With regards to downloading; I already have a gazillion gigs of tv shows, movies and music so the fact that I am breaking the law doesn’t bother me as such.
I would like to be able to freely grow weed and sell it to the needy consumers. I would like to be able to take a bottle of water and some lipbalm on a plane again. I would like not to have to take off my shoes everytime at the security gate in the airport. I would like to be able to work/study anywhere I want without the hassle of work permits/visas/overseas fees. This list can go on for a lot longer I think but it’s too depressing to think up more stuff.
On 17-Oct-06 at 4:41 am,
N wrote:
ahh…I suspected as such…xFM tries to block foreigners by asking for a postcode, luckily I can remember my old Earls court one. Darwin, season 3?!
Heroes rocks…bloody good, in fact I’m off to watch it right now…
On 17-Oct-06 at 8:30 pm,
Darwin wrote:
Season 3, ep 1 and 2 I mean, not the entire thing!
Right now I’m hooked on Entourage, love it!
On 19-Oct-06 at 5:56 pm,
Chickenbutt wrote:
Heroes, hmm i watched episode 2 & 3. At the moment the story line is sorta hazy i think, but it looks to be a good series