Sorry no.

Not sure if I've asked this before, but my DVD player makes this fucking interminable ticking noise when it plays some DVDs - does anyone know why this is happening and/or how to fix it? It's not a constant problem and some disks seem to be worse than others.

Just so we're clear, my machine is cleaned regularly, and it wouldn't appear to have anything to do with the cleanliness of the disk. At the moment I'm contemplating throwing the bastard machine out the window.

Christ it's annoying. I almost went to the ARRGHFUCK but thought this might be more constructive.

Ava Banana

20:58 / 02.01.08

Can I ask if the DVD's are ones you've burned or real ones that've been bought? Just asked the more technically-minded Mr Banana and he said if it's the former it might be the type of discs you're using, if it's the latter he's drawing a blank. Hope this is useful.

Spaniel

21:37 / 02.01.08

No burned disks at all. Some imported ones, though

Evil Scientist

13:46 / 03.01.08

I'm actively considering starting the Season 2 Torchwood thread. What is wrong with me?

Mistoffelees

17:21 / 03.01.08

No spoilers please! I still haven´t bothered to finish the first season.

Question:
What does the second part of the following sentence from David Foster Wallace´s essay Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All mean?

"Between two minor corporate tents is the serendipitous snout of the "Sertoma Mobile Hearing Test Trailer", inside which a woman with a receding hairline scores me overdecibeled but aurally hale."

It doesn´t make any sense to me.

Saturn's nod

17:46 / 03.01.08

I'm struggling to understand what 'overdecibeled' means, but my guess would be that a woman, who has been losing hair from the front part of her head, is telling the narrator they have been experiencing too much loud noise but that their ears are otherwise fine.

grant

18:06 / 03.01.08

seconded.

Decibel (dB) is a measure of sound amplitude.

Aurally has to do with ears.

Hale means "healthy," and is almost always used in the phrase "hale and hearty" describing someone vigorous, red-cheeked and smilingly fit.

Saturn's nod

18:14 / 03.01.08

Also perhaps obtuse, I interpreted 'scores me' as implying that the narrator has undergone a hearing test, and the result reported has been perhaps read from a chart correlating different levels of aural health/damage with the results from that test.

Feverfew

18:32 / 03.01.08

I'm actively considering starting the Season 2 Torchwood thread. What is wrong with me?

There's nothing wrong with you. I'm ashamed of the way I behaved in the old Torchwood thread, being sensationalist towards the prevaling 'lith opinion of the show being 'not very good', whereas in fact it did have it's redeeming moments.

Also, there's something interesting about the concept I thought I heard kicked about - although I can't find the bloody link right now - that the show will go out in two formats, with one edited for the primetime or children's audience a lá Who, and the other in the same Adult format as the first season.

Besides which, James Marsters should seal the thread deal...

Mistoffelees

19:02 / 03.01.08

Thank you, apt plutology and grant. Now it makes sense. That combination of score, aurally and hale broke the camel´s back for me!

grant

20:10 / 03.01.08

James Marsters is on Torchwood?

Spaniel

20:47 / 03.01.08

Yes. I have no more information

Lama glama

22:14 / 03.01.08

Here's the info about Torchwood being child-friendly (it's a moderately spoilerish press-release). It's such a shame that they'll have to tone down the talk of blinding orgasms in season 2.

Do start the thread Evil Scientist, I've been itching to talk about the trailers and season 2's writers.

Triplets

22:24 / 03.01.08

In response to audience demand, younger fans will now have the opportunity of watching a specially edited pre-watershed repeat.

A special version of Torchwood minus the alien wing-wong? For me?

Lama glama

22:27 / 03.01.08

It won't be the same without the orgasms.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:10 / 03.01.08

OWEN: Did he ever

OBVIOUS DUB: TICKLE

OWEN: you so hard that you forgot your name? Did he ever take your -

OBVIOUS DUB: WELLINGTONS, AND NOT GIVE THEM BACK?

OWEN: Did he ever shove a

OBVIOUS DUB: HA'PENNY

OWEN: all the way up your

OBVIOUS DUB: SHOVE HA'PENNY BOARD?

OWEN: until you screamed for

OBVIOUS DUB: ICE CREAM!

Eloi Tsabaoth

23:33 / 03.01.08

Thanks a lot. Now I've broken my resolution not to laugh at anything on the internet.

Tsuga

21:28 / 05.01.08

I think I'd like to start a thread on separating the art from the artist (and how much you can). Most of the examples I'm thinking of are musicians, but really you can find examples in fine art, film, and any other form you can think of. What forum would be appropriate for such a thread?
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole my ass.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:02 / 05.01.08

Sounds a good one, really. My love of Wagner needs examining, as does my buying every novel by Houellebecq.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:40 / 05.01.08

Maybe the Convo, to encourage cross-disciplinary thought, or the Headshop? Convo might invite more discussion.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:46 / 05.01.08

Yeah, I've got an idea for a thread about "why do people want to say nothing can actually be science fiction if they actually like it?" which would be equally applicable for FTVT (because people are ALWAYS saying BSG ain't science fiction) or Books, OR Comics (fuck's sakes, people who say "ooh, I don't read comics, but I read graphic novels" actually need boiling) for that matter... but I think I'm gonna weight it more Bookswardsly. Partly because Books needs the traffic, and partly because the best quote I have for it is by Ursula LeGuin. And because HG Wells is my best answer for everything.

Tsuga

23:08 / 05.01.08

At this stage of the game, maybe Conversation would be the thing. It's a bit head-shoppy, I guess, in that it could be considered "cultural studies", though I think I'd prefer any discussion (that may possibly occur) was loose.
Stoat, are you saying that people are denying that the things they enjoy are SF, because of some nerd-stigma or something?
You're not saying Ursula K. LeGuin is science fiction, are you? That's totally fantastical realism set on other planets.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:55 / 07.01.08

If I wanted to get the hormone levels of a small group of people tested (under conditions of anonymity), where would I start?

Evil Scientist

11:01 / 07.01.08

If I wanted to get the hormone levels of a small group of people tested (under conditions of anonymity), where would I start?

Possibly a local university. Or, if its an environmental study, maybe approach a relevant NGO about undertaking it. In theory I suppose you could make some enquiries at a local hospital and see if it could be done for a fee.

All Acting Regiment

11:39 / 07.01.08

How the fuck do you win Sudoku?

Jub

12:16 / 07.01.08

How the fuck do you win Sudoku?

Put 1-9 on all the vertical columns AND all the horizonal rows AND in each of the 9 boxes.

More here.

■

14:52 / 07.01.08

How the fuck do you win Sudoku?

Greetings, Professor Falken.

Hello, Joshua.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:01 / 07.01.08

Stoat, are you saying that people are denying that the things they enjoy are SF, because of some nerd-stigma or something?

I believe ze is - see every issue of Ansible ever for a running collection of reviews and so forth which have been spotted where the presence of robots, lasers, rocket ships, bug-eyed monsters and travel in space and time cannot possibly be science fiction because SF contains no literary merits.

Here's a good example Why the artwork of Antony 'Angel of the North' Gormley isn't to be taken seriously: 'Well, look at the words I've been using, Vaporise, star-burst, humanoid, space station, beaming down. And look at those figures waiting on rooftops -- it's like an opening shot from Doctor Who. What is the language this sculpture speaks? Isn't it obvious? Sci-fi. [...] Serious artists need not feel threatened by it, any more than serious film-makers need feel threatened by an android blockbuster.' (Tom Lubbock, Independent, 15 May)

(I'd post to such a thread, Stoatie)

Hydra vs Leviathan

13:33 / 08.01.08

How the fuck does my computer still know the time and date after having been in storage, not connected in any way whatsoever to any form of electricity, for several months?

This is actually creeping me out.

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