My Remotes Are Breeding

[kerravonsen]

I can't remember whether or not I ever mentioned my SONIQ DVD recorder to you folks. It's a real lemon. For a DVD recorder, it's a good DVD player. So today I was very J and bought a Pioneer DVD recorder, because JB HiFi were having a stocktake sale, and it was an ex-demo machine and it was about $100 off the price...

Of course, I don't know whether it's a really good recorder, but it has to be better than the lemon. I don't expect it to spontaneously turn off, lose its settings or have the sound go wonky -- all of which happens regularly with the lemon.

And it's already region-free, which makes things easier.

Mind you, I'm not going to be recording anything with it at the moment (apart from perhaps transferring tapes to DVD) because my TV reception practically non-existant; I think my TV antenna is kaput.

There is one thing that the lemon does better than the Pioneer: it plays DVD data disks, which the Pioneer doesn't understand. So, hey, for a DVD recorder, the lemon is a good DVD player. So I think I'll use it as such, and leave the recording to the Pioneer -- when I get a replacement TV antenna. In the meantime, there's DVDs and bit-torrent.

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

OK, this is random, but do you happen to know your Myers-Briggs type?

- Helen (helenw@murphnet.org)

[kerravonsen]

Yes I do know my Myers-Briggs type. Why do you ask?

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

Bwhaha! I guess I should have asked, would you mind sharing it with me, and if you wouldn't mind sharing, what is it?

The reason I'm interested is that all three people on my flist who recently took a quicky MB test are INFPs. Two are fanfic writers, and one should be.

I've also been trying to make sense of the whole Fanlib thing; why the near-universal revulsion, and why I'm joining in on it. Could it just be a gender thing? But though I tend to end up with the "female" POV on things, it's usually with a lot of caveats. So now I'm wondering whether it's as much a personality type thing. If fanfic writers are NFs being marketed to by a (maybe?) NT who is used to marketing to SJs and SPs, maybe that's where things are falling apart.

But I'm an ENTP, so things sort of unravel there... but my precise views, which I haven't really corralled yet, don't quite match greater fanfic!fandom's views.

So, anyway, I was trying to think, who else might be an NT? Or are all fanfic writers NFs, except for me? And I figured you'd be a good bet; I'm guessing INTJ, actually.

I've no clue how this relates back to the fanlib thing, I'm just casting around a bit.

- Helen

[kerravonsen]

I'm guessing INTJ, actually.

I'm intrigued. What makes you pick that?

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

You remind me of a friend from high school (who I've recently drifted out of contact with, sigh) who tests as INTJ. She has a PhD in materials engineering and works for Boeing. When we were in grad school, the churches we attended (she was in Minnesota, I was in Massachusetts) were on the same year in the lectionary, and we'd spend Sunday afternoons in our labs debating the scripture readings of the day and our pastors' takes on them as well as our, own via email, and I can really see you doing that.

There are other ways you remind me of her, but I don't want to write more lest I'm totally misreading you, or she's reading this... (uh, hi...)

- Helen

[kerravonsen]

8-)

No, you're right, I am INTJ; I just was curious how I came across, and kind of impressed that you guessed correctly. I don't think I'd even try to guess the type of people I know, though I grasp it well enough to say "oh yes, that fits" if they tell me their type.

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

I generally don't guess MB types either.

I actually test out borderline I/E NTP; and when I read the descriptions I can see how I take a bit from both, though I think I lean more E. And I need to be reminded that not everyone is the same way. And reading the descriptions of other types, I'm generally amazed that other people are actually Like That.

Last week, I spent a bit of time debating something with someone and I just couldn't figure out where she was coming from, but being reminded about the MB stuff I now realize that we probably were working with very different ways of perceiving the world; and while we could learn something from each other, we weren't going to change decades of practice based on an exchange in someone else's LJ comments.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

There are loads of NT fic writers. I suspect there are far more N than S fic writers, however. (INTP, here.) But S types can fic as well; type indicates tendencies rather than absolutes.

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

Fic writers, or fanfic writers?

type indicates tendencies rather than absolutes.

Yup.

- Helen

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

By fic I mean fanfic; original fiction I would just call fiction. Sorry to be confusing.

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

No, that makes sense.

- Helen

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm an INTP and have been a fanfic writer for about 5 years, and have always been a fic writer; I wrote my first novel at 7 and two more before I was 13. I might add that they were in exercise books, extensively illustrated in colour, and passed around the class (my only readers) whenever I finished a chapter. :-P

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I hope it works for you. Dad did some research on DVDRs for me and what he discovered is that there are only two or three manufacturers for the recording mechanism, and none of them are terribly reliable. The one I'm using now is flaky--I can transfer from tape to DVD (and said DVDs play on some machines but not others), but can't record from the TV because the machine loses all its settings almost every time it's turned off. So at the moment I'm thinking of setting up a laptop to work as a DVR and burn from there.

[kerravonsen]

and what he discovered is that there are only two or three manufacturers for the recording mechanism, and none of them are terribly reliable

Ouch.

Oh well, I'll just have to see.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Well, you might have a good one; I do hope so. If yours works, perhaps I'll be encouraged to try again.