hm. ipod video. it's cool and all that but i don't actually think i'd want to watch Lost on a screen that's 2 inches wide. it would just be a little painful and my eyesight's bad enough without having to squint at Sawyer less than two inches tall. wouldn't even be able to see his biceps properly which is just Sad.

it's not sour grapes, i promise! because I AM excited by the advent of this thing. you know why? apple's tie-up with ABC means that i can legally download Lost and Alias! have to pay of course, and will need credit card of course, but post-As i fully intend to cut a deal with my parents to pay for my legal consumption of American TV! it will merely mean that i will watch it on the computer like i always do, instead of on a tiny iPod screen. which i'm perfectly happy with. and i won't risk going to jail for it. and if fellow Lost and Alias fans want to split the cost and continue sharing the stuff, it'll still be legal in the eyes of the law (so long as they don't copy protect the stuff or something; will have to look into that) but we'll reap higher marginal utility!

i am really really excited to investigate the legal-downloads thing further. i KNEW the day would come that American TV networks would finally realise that they can actually make money off letting the poor internationals download their shows. YAY!!!
ok that's the tv junkie spiel of the day.

another after As thing: my mom intends to send me to her friend gayathri for a rigorous dance regime. apparently she's real strict. argh. like, get aparna to stop being lazy or something. my mom's got weird ideas in her brain. she's having rasam powder DHLed over from my grandma's! cos my grandma makes the best rasam powder in the world.

i'm v annoyed. the Lost d/l turned out to be last week's ep. and i thought mayyybe it might not have the jags that were in the version of last week's ep that i had, but it turns out that it didn't have the jags but the sound was totally out of sync. i am very annoyed with people who deceptively label episode 3 as episode 4. morons. and for a shitty download, i uploaded so much. i need to figure out how to get the upload speed down and the download speed up.

OMG Lost costs only $1.99 per ep. This is crazily cheap. But the parents will not endorse this until after As for sure. Heh this also means I don't have to worry about having an easily accessible TV/Tivo in university. Meaning that even if I end up in the UK i can have my TV shows! They don't have Alias, though. They only have 5 shows -- Lost, Desperate Housewives, Night Stalker, The Suite Life and That's So Raven. I've never heard of the last three, but hey this thing's only three days old so i'm sure they'll figure out that Alias ought to be more lucrative than The Suite Life. And maybe they'll hook up with the WB and Fox to give us Gilmore Girls and The OC as well!!! *dreams* But that works out to approx US$8 per week. Hm. Worth it?