Pavlov's Dog

First off, had a lovely Saturday afternoon. Cjlaksy kindly donated his time and his car and drove me around Brooklyn - to locate a) a new, cheap TV/DVD stand and b) a DVD player. And yep we got them. I now am a proud owner of a Zenith DVD player. Moderately priced. With loads of stuff on it that I can't use (my TV does not come equipped with stereo surround sound or Digital, it's one of those older 90's models). CJL stared at the hookins, I stared at them,
and wondered - okay there's only two holes, and three plugs. What to do? Oh, look the cable box has the right number - let's try that. (Yeah right. Has to be plugged into the TV.) Finally realized okay we can plug in the video and one audio, but not both audios. Does it work? Yep. Put in Buffy S5 Disc and voila the brillance of DVD. Yes, I have now discovered something everyone on my flist probably already knows - the picture quality on DVD's is about 80% better than as originally aired or taped. So is the sound quality. Even with just one plug in. Amazing. Methinks I see lots of DVD renting and expenditures in my future. In return, I took cjlasky to dinner and we discussed the ATS S6 Virtual Project.

Oh political joke that I got from my mother last night: ( may be on the slightly offensive side, not sure...but are warned )

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Are We Pavlov's Dogs?

[I posted an entry about this some time ago. Didn't like it. Decided to rework it, make it better. So here's my second attempt.]

( somewhat lengthy musing on conditioned response, prejudice, homophobia, ATS S6 Virtual Fic, and Pavlov's dog )