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Page 56 Rules: * Grab the book nearest you. Right now. * Turn to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall. * Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.  

He had gone so far so to steal a staple remover from an untended desk at church and then incorporate it into an Erector-set robot hunter-killer device with which he terrorized much of the neighborhood; its pit-viper yawn separated many a cheap plastic toy from its parts and accessories before the theft was discovered and Randy made an example of before God and man.  

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

wiggitty (sp?)

It is so good to have graphic designers as friends.

mix up

So, I don't know if anyone else does this, but I have a blogger account that I do my journaling to. I also have a public blogger account, that you are now reading. Yesterday, I posted something meant for the journal account, to this public account. If it blessed you, I am glad. If it was a bit too much information for you I apologize. Those were some private sentiments not meant for a larger audience.

Here's hoping I can keep things straight from here on out.

Netflix is keeping Profiles.

So there you go. They freaked me out for a bit. However, in the end they listened. They did what the customer wanted. I am happily sticking with Netflix for some time.

Netflix threatening to discontinue profiles.

So Netflix sent me an email today explaining that they are going to shut down my profiles in September. That was a bit frustrating. We have the 3 unlimited plan. We also have 3 profiles, one for me, one for my wife, and one for the kids. It works great. The kids just queue up what they want, and they get a new one when they send the old one back. If they loose a movie, which they have, it doesn't screw up our stuff. Whenever they ask for a new movie, we just tell them to look for the old one.

At any rate, this stinks. Here is an online petition to sign if you are a Netflix user and are as disappointed as I am. If this goes through, I can't see us not switching to Blockbuster.

PDF thoughts

So today I spent some time looking for a new restaurant to take my wife to. I solicited suggestions from my friends via my gChat status. I received many wonderful suggestions. Thank you.

The trouble that I encountered was PDFs. When I am on the web, and I click a link, I expect to go to another website. What I don't expect is to have a PDF thrown at me. I don't think its that hard to put the content of your menu on a web page. And once its there, its searchable, indexable, accessible, and way less annoying. PDFs were not created for the web. They were created to transport documents for printing.

So if you have any say in any restaurants website, please encourage them to translate their menu into html. Its just better for us all.

And please, don't get me started on bus schedules.