Month: April 2006

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News

Netflix

Not too long ago, I read a few articles about how Netflix slows down the shipping process for customers who view too many movies in a month (around 8 – 10 for the 3 discs at a time plan). Over the past few days, I sent in two DVDs and finally received replacements. Each one, as always, came with a return envelope addressed to the “Nearest Netflix Shipping Facility”.

The addresses?

PO Box 17699
New Brunswick, NJ 08906-7699

PO Box 49021
San Jose, CA 95161-9959

And my personal favorite…

PO Box 30720
Honolulu, HI 96820-0720

Because we all know Honolulu, HI and New Brunswick, NJ, are practically right next door to each other.

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News

No Really

Is this guy for real? All hail our heros Tom Delay and Grover Norquist.

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Personal

Time

I would like someone to explain to me why this is true.

To quote the article,

Pogue writes: Late tonight — specifically, 123 seconds after 1:00 a.m. — the time and date, for the first time in all of humanity, will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Wouldn’t this have been true in 1906, 1806, 1706, etc., as well as come again in 2106, 2206, 2306?

Am I missing something?

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Personal

On the Flip Side

I may have missed out on dirt cheap hotel stays in Japan, but UCLA beat LSU, giving me the edge over B-Dawg in our basketball pool for third place.

Categories
Travel

Golden Opportunity

Travelocity goofed, posting multiple hotels throughout Japan at just a fraction of their regular prices. Hotel rooms at some of the top end hotels around Tokyo and Osaka were available for $0 – $5 a night, much like the Expedia fiasco late last year. Unfortunately, instead of being home where I could find out about the deal and hop on, I was out having fun.

Hard to believe lighting strikes twice, though this time I get to follow along without having any skin in the game.

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Personal

The Simpsons

The only thing surprising about the idea of a Simpsons movie is that it took 17 years to come about.