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Two cool things happened today. The first is that I was offered to assist with the labs for a second class here at Purdue. The first class is the PCB Design and Fabrication Class. Next to the professor that teaches the class I know more about the process and the software than any of the other employees and professors. The job is fairly easy, I just have to grade the labs/homework and proctor the exams and I have to supervise the lab and answer questions. The Professor handles all the lecturing so I wouldn't EXACTLY call it a teaching job though I will be doing a little of that when I help the students. Then when I was asked to supervise another lab I decided to take the offer. The first class is 4 hours long and I have to get up really early. The result is I also have to spend about 14 hours here on those days, 4 hours for class, 8 hours for my regular schedule and then a 2 hour break between jobs. This other one runs from 12:30 to 2:30, which means I get to sleep in and again it's supervising and grading lab work.
The other cool thing was that I recently acquired the entire Farscape series on DVD. Now, being geeks I'm sure you all know this show. (If not go out get the DVDs (or sign up with netflix) and watch the show) I never bought the series until now due to the price. The DVDs for Farscape were originally released from 2002 to 2004. The company that was releasing these DVD's was AD Vision. The thing is, for whatever reason AD Vision released the series just like they released anime: 3 to 4 episodes per DVD at about $40 EACH.
So each season having about 22 episodes with about 7 DVDs per season and spanning 4 seasons at a cost of $40 per volume meant buying the entire series cost you well over $1000.
I had one friend who was buying them as they were released. To us, it was every day price gouging since we were already paying that much for anime at the time. The difference being that a single season of an anime series generally only ran for 26 episodes. Ask anyone who bought the entire run of the original Kenshin releases if it was cheap, that's what it was like for fans of Farscape.
Anyway, the difference 7 years makes is a big one. The versions I bought cost a total of $15 each for seasons 1, 2 and 3 and $20 for season 4. $65 now compared to the original price is crazy as hell. I can't get over how much I can get it for now compared to back then. Usually it's the other way around, they're cheap, go OOP and then sell for a ridiculous amount of money.
The other cool thing was that I recently acquired the entire Farscape series on DVD. Now, being geeks I'm sure you all know this show. (If not go out get the DVDs (or sign up with netflix) and watch the show) I never bought the series until now due to the price. The DVDs for Farscape were originally released from 2002 to 2004. The company that was releasing these DVD's was AD Vision. The thing is, for whatever reason AD Vision released the series just like they released anime: 3 to 4 episodes per DVD at about $40 EACH.
So each season having about 22 episodes with about 7 DVDs per season and spanning 4 seasons at a cost of $40 per volume meant buying the entire series cost you well over $1000.
I had one friend who was buying them as they were released. To us, it was every day price gouging since we were already paying that much for anime at the time. The difference being that a single season of an anime series generally only ran for 26 episodes. Ask anyone who bought the entire run of the original Kenshin releases if it was cheap, that's what it was like for fans of Farscape.
Anyway, the difference 7 years makes is a big one. The versions I bought cost a total of $15 each for seasons 1, 2 and 3 and $20 for season 4. $65 now compared to the original price is crazy as hell. I can't get over how much I can get it for now compared to back then. Usually it's the other way around, they're cheap, go OOP and then sell for a ridiculous amount of money.