TEXTLESS MATERIAL

I experimentally bought an episode of Battlestar from iTunes last night. It was a nice experience, other than the long download time - it took about as long to obtain as the length of the show itself. The video quality was fine, though, better than the miniseries rips I got offa BitTorrent. I played it on my TV and to my eye it was as good as a cable broadcast. Or at least a cable broadcast saved to TiVo and then replayed.

Curiously, after the show ends and the credits are done, there's a minute of black screen followed by the mysterious title TEXTLESS MATERIAL. The next few minutes contain a silent reprise of all the episode's video sequences that contained title overlays, except with the titles removed. So the whole opening-credits sequence is there - with no credits - and then several snippets of scenes that contained either further credits or narrative titles (the datelines & timestamps that sometimes appear with a computery noise during establishing shots), now denuded.

What was that doing there? I can't imagine that it was included for the benefit of iTunes customers. It must have served some other purpose on the source medium, and whoever created the iTunes export was too lazy to crop it. Interesting.

Update Yes, I know about Google. I knew one of you pugnosed wiseniks would call me on it. Tpppth. Last time I think out loud

Pee yew.

The heat is wedged on full-blast due to an oopsie elsewhere in the building, and so I am stuck in a hermetically sealed cube farm filled with nerds who, stimulated by the warmth, blossom into full pungency as they compete for mates. Or something.

SEND HELP

Actually it's like practice for the thon. HA HA BECAUSE SF fans smell bad

Fuck

Shit.

Update: FUCK

Update: Deep breaths, deep breaths.

Weird

A lady just called me and asked if I had any Stoner Fluxx in stock.

"No, we don't", I said, wondering if maybe she was a Looney person that would then respond with "Wanna buy some?" but instead she said "OK, thank you though!" and we hung up.