snippets of the past

So far tonight I have managed to accidentally uninstall my sound drivers, and knocjk a glass off the bench into the cat-biscuits (with predictable results for both glass and biscuits).

On the plus side, reinstalling the drivers fixed the problem I was having getting the video editor to record sound. Also discovered the the video capture app which came with my Webcam works nicely with the new attachment as well.

So I have dug out my very first video tape, which I saved up for for -ages- (they were $10-15 each in those days). It seems somehow fitting that the old VCR I'm using is the same one my parents had at the time, and that some of this stuff was recorded with.

- none of that will be salvagable - the reception was quite snowy out in the mountains. Old Bugs-Bunny show, Sale of the Century. My ghod, Steve Parr's hair looks like it's devouring his head!

- it seems at some point I recorded part of a marine documentary of some sort on this tape, from a far better location. It seems to be focusing on sharks, so perhaps I or Tina were recording it for codym 10 or so years ago.

- Back to the old stuff - a speckly Lizi Minelli [sp?] performace

- OMG, Xanadu , or at least a couple of musical numbers from the movie. Might see if I can extract the audio from that.

- Some old music videos (from Pepsi RTR) and most of a combination animated/live version of Gulliver's Travels.

- some sort of prohibition era mobster flick with a character named "Noodles". Which I don't recall ever actually watching.

- Something else which might be a romantic comedy, ditto. Ahh, Long-Play, how much further you made a tape stretch.

- ahh, looks like I just left it running after recording something else.

Where did the evening go?