Puzzlement
Apr. 20th, 2008 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienI have spent much of the day doing battle with the study closet, which as I seem to remember mentioning recently is a bit of a glory hole. Among the things I found back there -- along with floppy disks and packaging for software that ran on long-gone computers and mysterious redundant cables -- was my small collection of commercial PAL VHS tapes. It's small because in the days when I had a use for such things I had much less space and less disposable income than I have now, and it's here at all -- along with the couple of hundred lovingly-labeled home-taped cassettes -- because when I moved here I thought it would be easier to find a multiformat VCR than it turned out to be. (I did once see one in a store, but I couldn't quite see my way to paying $1000 for it.)
So, most of these I recognize; the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Stargate movies, of course, Hitchcock's Spellbound, which is my all-time favorite classic movie, four random Star Trek movies, and a copy of the BBC The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that was a freebie from the Radio Times. The one that puzzles me, though, is the solitary volume 6 of Babylon 5. I liked B5, but not enough to spend a month's salary and six feet of shelving on collecting the whole series on tape, so the existence of this orphaned volume is somewhat baffling.
Incidentally, it occurred to me when I found a small stash of unused CD-RW disks that I haven't used one of those in years. I used to use them for scratch purposes, back around the of turn the century but before I started carrying a laptop to and fro; these days flash drives have pretty much usurped that function, being much more convenient though still somewhat more expensive on a dollar/megabyte basis.
So, most of these I recognize; the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Stargate movies, of course, Hitchcock's Spellbound, which is my all-time favorite classic movie, four random Star Trek movies, and a copy of the BBC The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that was a freebie from the Radio Times. The one that puzzles me, though, is the solitary volume 6 of Babylon 5. I liked B5, but not enough to spend a month's salary and six feet of shelving on collecting the whole series on tape, so the existence of this orphaned volume is somewhat baffling.
Incidentally, it occurred to me when I found a small stash of unused CD-RW disks that I haven't used one of those in years. I used to use them for scratch purposes, back around the of turn the century but before I started carrying a laptop to and fro; these days flash drives have pretty much usurped that function, being much more convenient though still somewhat more expensive on a dollar/megabyte basis.
