Peeves & that other certainty in life

[onib]

First off, taxes are finally on their way. I prefer to be done by now, but stuff came up (besides life stuff, I couldn't find last year's return and needed some data from it to finish this year's return...and of course Maryland requires data from your federal return rather than your W-2s like a reasonable state). Anyhow, we're not getting close

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[bethje]

I showed my cousin Wonderfalls, and she told me that I needed to watch Dead Like Me. One day I will. One day.

But I am a major netflix enthusiast.

[onib]

You should definitely add it to your queue. After seeing the first episode, I thought of you in particular as someone who would really enjoy it. The narrative voice of the show is extremely close to that of Wonderfalls without just being a straight-out copy.

[moominmuppet]

I'm totally with you on the deleted scenes issue, and I'll add in a peeve for disks that fail to include a "Play all" option for episodes and for screens full of special features (one disk I found made you individually select and play every deleted scene, even though few of them were longer than 30 seconds -- irritating!)

MASH Season 1 is lacking a "Play All" for the eps, and it's driving me nuts when I'm trying to watch in the background while accomplishing other stuff.

And I'm totally with you on Dead Like Me -- great show, gone too soon.

[onib]

I haven't run into any that bad, but I know exactly what you mean. Even if you are devoting your full attention to the scenes, you don't want to have to keep manually flipping through them every couple of seconds. I think the tech people that put together the layouts to DVDs should be forced to go through them for several hours before deciding that not including a simple "play all" is acceptable.

[gwalkmaur]

In regard to the first one - You think that's bad, everytime Amy and I go shopping and use one of them, it yells at us. Okay, at me mostly. Not that I'm doing it wrong and that I'm unfamiliar with technology, but..."BEEP BEEP BEEP PLEASE CHECK THAT YOU HAVEN'T PUT THE WRONG THING IN THE BAG"...when I'm nowhere near the bag...

[onib]

It knows you work in a different grocery store. Technology can get very jealous. If it smells another scanner on you, it gives you a hard time.

[beautyofgrey]

I'm the person in front of you in line. Not that I don't know how to use the damn thing, it's just every time that I do, something goes wacky. It runs out of paper for the receipt. I key in the PIN wrong, but instead of being given the option to re-key it, the service person must come push her magic buttons. It beeps at me mercilessly because the item in the bag was not heavy enough. Etc etc etc.

[onib]

You know, I think I'd still be pretty understanding of your situation in these cases. Technology messes with us like that a lot. When traveling to visit a friend's wedding, we stopped by the grocery store to pick up a bouquet of flowers. We needed 3 workers to get the system to allow us to buy that one item. It wasn't heavy enough to register by itself, and if you tried to push the scale, it would be too much.

The people in front of me tend to have more problems with themselves than with the scanner. :P

[mythfish]

Both Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me are great. I watched Dead Like Me without realizing any of the Wonderfalls people had anything to do with it, and I kept thinking, "Man, George sure reminds me of Jaye." And then I figured out why.

[onib]

Yeah, I heard some good things about Dead Like Me, then I found out about the Wonderfalls link, and that was more than recommendation enough.