motherfrakking itunes
I drank the Kool-Aid.
For Christmas, Jason’s Dad bestowed upon his firstborn son boxed sets of the 1st and 2nd seasons of Battlestar Galactica. (Well, actually the 1st season and season 2.0… but I went out and got season 2.5 three days after Christmas. Yay me.)
I had been told it would rock. I was fully expecting it to rock. And guess what?
IT FRAKKING ROCKS!
(My Lovely Wife has also tasted of the Kool-Aid. Her standard reply when I ask if she wants to watch another episode? “I need to know what happens to my Starbuck!”)
But this post is not about how much BSG frakking rocks. Oh no.
At the moment, My Lovely Wife and I have 6 episodes left of the second season to watch and find ourselves at a critical juncture. Currently, one half of the 3rd season has aired on television and the second half of the 3rd season will start on January 21.
We need to see the first half of the season before the 21st so we can actually start to watch the show along with the rest of the world and I can stop reading the interweb without a constant ulcerating fear of BSG spoilers around every corner. EVEN ON MY OWN SITE. (Ugh.)
So, credit card in hand, I boogied over to iTunes to download season 3.
There I made an very interesting discovery.
Seeing as I reside in Canada, it seems I am not allowed to download from the U.S. iTunes Store. I can look at it all I want, nose pressed up against the plate-glass window. I’m just not allowed to give them my money and get a product from them in return. I guess they’re all scared of my Canadian cooties and run away like little crying babies. (No slight intended toward actual babies. Please don’t kill me, mommy bloggers.)
Instead, I am redirected to the Canadian iTunes Store.
WHICH! DOESN’T! HAVE! TELEVISION! SHOWS!
AUGH!
AUGH!
AUGH!
…
Boy.
I just wonder what I’m going to do now?
[Sound of dripping.]
Please excuse that viscous liquid pooling under your monitor. It’s just sarcasm. It’s biodegradable and should harmlessly evaporate.
It’s also nice on toast.
January 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Oh, do they have TV in Canada?, she asked, feigning innocence.
January 9th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Actually, little Miss Smartypants, we have four of them.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:35 am
This sounds like a job for bit torrent!!!
I feel no guilt bit torrenting tv shows.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I definitely won’t feel guilt now. I’m just going to miss watching it on our 32″ HDTV. A 19″ CRT just ain’t the same.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
This website is my savior:
http://www.dailymotionepisodes.com/index.php
All you have to do is register and they should have all the episodes!
January 9th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
OoooOOOooooo… illicitly delicious.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Sorry! But you did ask for geek bombs.
January 9th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Oh, it’s not your fault. Spoilers do have an eventual time limit. (The Crying Game? She’s a dude.)
And BSG is the sort of show that anyone who knows me would figure I’d be WAY on top of.
(Luckily, I have built up the talent of “pre-reading” where I can get the gist of something without grokking the full details.)
January 9th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Your Dad so rocks. Is cool. And hot. What an awesome gift.
I wanted to get BSG 2 and 2.5 for Husband but everywhere I went for it, I could not find it. We’d already rented them anyways but wanted our own for keepsies. sigh
And your sarcasm? It left a STAIN. I will forward you the bill.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Alison: I apologise heartily. Try rubbing alcohol.
(Actually, drinking alcohol also helps eliminate the effects of sarcasm.)