DVD player weirdness

Watched some Family Guy last night and when the DVD had finished, I pressed eject and while looking for the case with one hand, I reached for the tray with the other and ... no DVD. I thought that I had been distracted and already taken it out but it was nowhere to be found. I closed the tray again ... and the the DVD started playing again. Opened the tray again, no DVD. I shone my desklamp into the drive and sure enough, I could see it hovering there.
Being too tired to think of the obvious, I tried fiddling with various implements but the disc was duly stuck. Only then I gave up and decided to open the player. Surprisingly, despite it being a £35 offer from amazon, it's not a sealed unit but actually has a proper screwed on cover.
In hindsight, I should have left the cover open and try to see how and where the DVD got stuck but I just assembled it again and tested it with a failed DVD-R and it worked. Will have to be careful in the future, though.

Mentioning Family Guy, I've been really disappointed with Season 4, it seems to have jumped the shark. It's reduced to rather poor toilet humour and dirty, racial or otherwise discriminating jokes. Even Stuey has been reduced to making adult jokes and isn't the genius mastermind bent on taking over the world anymore (only failing because he's trapped in a toddler's body). Far too many "This is worse than when I did X" flashbacks, too. Shame, really and I shan't be bother with any more.

ION, far too tired to be of any use. Need to get stuff together tonight, charge batteries for camera and flash and then get an early night so I'm fit for Dragonmeet/Sol Invictus tomorrow. I just hope the gig finishes at 11 or thereabouts because trains are again being shitty. :o(

[Photo] 'Ere be Pyrates

I just realised I completely forgot to post the final results so click on the thumbnails to open the albums (in game on the left and posed portraits on the right). I didn't have the time or space to set up a proper corner for doing this so the portraits are a bit naff but the outside ones worked quite well.
The lights in the main room were awful (mixed incandescent and fluroescent) and sometimes impossible to adjust properly without getting even more noise...

 

Fashion?

I always thought Jonathan Ross' taste in clothes wasn't particular grand (sharp suits but horrible colour combos) but Elijah Wood's is just gruesome...