perldiver

My guest futon arrives soon--delivery window is between noon and three, and it's now 11 minutes to noon.  Only problem:  as of this morning,the apartment had a light layer of mess on it [no big deal, I can cope with delivery guys seeing my mess] and, more importantly, the "guest bedroom" (properly pronounced "walk-in closet") where the closet will go was literally buried in stuff.

As of now (about two hours later), the "guest bedroom" is spotless and the apartment is clean.  Now I'm watching The Flash (really cheesy  90s TV), and I've had yummy thick-slice French Toast with cinnamon, nutmeg, and maple syrup.  I so win!

I don't own a TV, but there are a few shows I'd like to watch, so I watch them on the Internet.  Problem:  most of the stations keep them up only for a short time, then remove them.  If you want to catch up on episodes you missed, you need to talk to Google. 

Enter http://tv-video.net/  These guys provide a lot of shows, for free.  They have a number of advantages:

• The sound / video stay in sync.
• Their video player is small by default, but can be sized up to a good size.
• They host all the episodes at one site, so you don't have to hunt around.
• They never remove episodes,
• There is no limit on how much you can watch at a time, unlike Megavideo.
• You don't have to deal with distracting subtitles or page text that in Chinese.

Here's the one disadvantage, and it's a big one:  their player loads video in real time, regardless of whether you are watching or paused.  So, if you watch for 20 minutes, then hit pause, then later hit play again, it will take 20 minutes before you can start watching again.

It turns out, however, that tv-video offers a VIP service, and the VIP player does not have these problems.  And, fortuitously, some of the VIP links have been indexed by Google and do not require login.  So, the next time you want to find episodes of $SHOW, try this search: