Month: May 2004
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Managing a Netflix queue, with two people
I’m a Netflix customer. Since October 2000, I’ve enjoyed the no-hassle back-and-forth of DVDs waiting for me to find time to watch them. The alternative — finding time AND interest AND going to a store to rent a movie — seems almost as antiquated as the pre-ATM world. (There’s a world I wouldn’t want to…
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Movie: The Lavender Hill Mob
Never got out to see The Ladykillers, despite Tom Hanks, but the Wall Street Journal’s review of that movie endorsed the original, The Lavender Hill Mob. So, Netflix away. Eighty minutes of black-and-white British fun. Not a great movie, but I haven’t seen much of Alec Guinness long before his Obi-Wan role, so that was…
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Links4Me
Because We Are Geeks [via Simon] Disrupting the News Industry – webcast of UC Berkeley Journalism panel I missed, but I’m listening now Switching from Movable Type – WordPress is listed as a competitor, and Eric Meyer has switched Rich Internet Applications – some classifications to argue about GEL conference writeups – in Fast Company……
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Yankees win
I don’t make it to many baseball games these days, but got to watch the Yankees beat the A’s 4-3 at the Coliseum tonight. A-Rod’s homer on the first pitch of the ninth to tie the game at 3 was the clincher. Being at the ballpark is fun, but TV really spoils the attention span.…
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HeyDoYouKnow?
The word HeyDoYouKnow prefaces most everything that comes out of my son’s mouth right now. Most of the time, I do… so far. He occasionally comes out with something I don’t. It’s a bit too early for me to give up my role as the Wizard (“pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!),…
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Lost weekend
Fever set in Friday night and hasn’t fully let go. Oof.