12 Saturday May 2007
Posted in home, media, retail therapy, television
Look what we just bought!
Well, we don’t have it yet – it’s going to be delivered on Tuesday.
Courtesy of our big translation job. Not bad for one job – a trip to Lisbon, a 32″ flat screen television and a hopefully debt-free summer (I usually always go into debt during the summer as there is next to no teaching work). But that’ll be the end of this recent spate of retail therapy madness.
Quite looking forward to seeing House on the BIG SCREEN. 
06 Friday Apr 2007
Posted in culture, fun stuff, media, television
Which one do you prefer? Las Vegas? Miami? New York?
I’d actually never seen any of them before today, but this morning I noticed that one of our new Telefonica tv channels was showing a three-parter this afternoon. One of each. So Nog & I thought this would be a good way to check them all out and compare them (though he’d previously seen some of the original Las Vegas ones). And anyhow, it was a nice & cosy way to spend a holiday Friday afternoon.
Curled up on the sofa with the cats – Doritos & 
for me … Pringles & 
for Nog.
I think they are all quite fine light entertainment. I don’t think I’d go out of my way to watch them (unlike how I totally arrange my life to watch House 😉 ) but now if I see one of them is on and I’m wanting a bit of distraction they would fit the bill more than most tv programmes I know of. And I quite like the Who theme music.
So, which one is your favourite … and why?
21 Wednesday Mar 2007
Posted in media, miscellany, television
I love this programme.
And I’m also slightly in lust with Hugh Laurie – who’d have thunk that Bertie Wooster had such a gritty & sexy side to him? Add to that a great supporting cast, excellent snappy & intelligent dialogue and Bryan Singer as executive producer and you get totally compelling television … not something that happens very often.
~watercolour courtesy of lycanlauren at deviantART~
16 Friday Feb 2007
Posted in life stuff, media, television
How has this happened?
Last week I was a happily mal-adjusted internet & intensity junkie, still managing to squeeze in a few basically necessary RL activities here and there … but since I got the new Telefónica service it seems I’m suddenly also hooked on television!
How can this be? And more importantly – where will I find the time for this?
Well okay, I haven’t actually watched all that much TV since last Tuesday, but as I find out more about what is available to watch I find myself thinking about my day in a totally different way … as in, what will I be doing at 5pm today when House is on?
It’s crazy. For about the past 14 years I haven’t thought of my television set as anything other than a means to watch video/dvd films. But now there are actually programmes and films being shown in English!!! and it’s proving too tempting to ignore. 
For example, last night Nog & I watched a couple of Simpsons episodes, which was quite fun (trust me, the Simpsons dubbed into Spanish seriously does not work). But then they put on Desperate Housewives – something I’d never seen before – and even though I wasn’t particularly enjoying it, I kept watching. Eep!
Perhaps the novelty will wear off? Maybe there is still hope? 
01 Thursday Feb 2007
Posted in life stuff, media, rants, television
To hell with Orange!
As you may recall in my posts about being offline and then getting re-connected, (with temporary dial-up), the internet connection at casa az has been a bit dodgy this past week or so.
So this morning I checked out some offers with Telefónica and found out that I can get high-speed ADSL (with free wifi router), free national calls (including 120 minutes of mobile calls per month) and a groovy-cool television offer. More than 60 channels, with the option to watch non-Spanish films and TV programmes in original version!!! 
All for 45 euros a month!
And on top of that we get some sort of gift. Not sure if it’s 10 nights in a hotel or two round-trip plane tickets for somewhere in Europe.
Not sure when the change-over will happen. Apparently Telefónica will take care of cancelling the service with Orange but then I’ll probably have to wait 3-5 days for a guy to come over and hook up the TV thingy and bring the new router.
So all this nonsense with Orange has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. My friend AgustÃn has this same Telefónica package and he says it’s great, but we probably wouldn’t have changed servers if Orange hadn’t fucked up so badly. Anyhow, I’ll wait until the new service is up and running before I say ‘all’s well that ends well’, but it certainly sounds like a good deal. 
casa azahar 