And thus completes 2 solid hours of inconsolable screaming, blood curdling screaming.
All is quiet. For now.
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Snow Photo
This is a shot of the neighborhood this morning. It has been snowing like this since yesterday afternoon.
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Work
Most of you regular readers already know this, but today was my last day working at LRS. The whole experience of ending employment vividly reminded me of handing in my last Final Exam in college, and getting ready for everything to change the following day. I worked with a lot of great people during the last 8 years there and I wish them well.
Starting tomorrow I will be turning my energy and attention toward my new employer, Interapptive, Inc.! Until then… there’s LOST!
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CWLP Water Rates
It was reported in the local paper that CWLP has asked the city council to double the water rates in as short as a year and a half to pay for a new water pumping station. They say the current pump is 70 years old and in very bad shape. I’ll take their word for it, but double the rates??
I have a few questions.
1) We are currently building a new power plant, could this wait until that is completed in a few years? How much will repair costs for maintenance on this old pump to keep it going? How much to fix if it dies? In the article they mention skyrocketing steel prices as a motivation for doing the construction now, but can it wait another couple years?
2) This pump has been around for 70 years – it has been getting older every day. Why is it now an emergency, versus say 2 years ago? A 68 year old pump is almost as old as a 70 year old pump.
3) If it just HAS to be done, how about these rate increases being temporary?
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Redbox Movie Rental
Sunday evening I tried redbox for the first time. For those unaware, redbox is a movie rental service centered around large red vending machine-like devices throughout the country. You simply walk up, pick your movie, swipe your debit/credit card and you are given your selected DVD. $1/day. To return it, just go to any other redbox and deposit the dvd into the machine.
It’s simple and it worked. What else can you ask for? While the selection is limited, they did have a decent variety of new releases to choose from. And the best part was not having to have a stupid membership just to rent (why can’t ALL video stores ditch the membership requirement already??)!
To summarize, redbox is good because:
- Cheap ($1/day)
- Quick to pick a movie
- Quick to pay
- No receipt to throw away
- No membership/account signup
- Quick drop-off, at any location
- Cool cases for the DVDs (slots for their machines to hold, 2d barcodes to fascilitate tracking)
In the words of ebay customers the world over… #1 Seller, A++++++++ Transaction!!
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L O S T
This Thursday marks the beginning of the next season of LOST! It feels like it has been years since the last season ended, so it’ll be good to watch the summary show the night before. If you haven’t been watching the show, it isn’t too late to go rent the previous seasons and get them watched before Thursday….
THIS is good television, folks.
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Tidbits
With just over a day to go on the Poll to the right (The TV show ER: Should it stay or should it go?), it’s 8-3 in favor of getting rid of it! Too bad I don’t have any pull on the matter.
This weekend I’m hoping to get version 1.3 of Chef posted on the website. Ana has been running it for a week or so now, so I’ll do a bit more testing and get it released. Among other things I’ll post about later, I made a couple changes to the Recipe Slideshow feature and Ana now finds it as useful as I intended.
Related to Chef, this week I had a long conversation with David about my dread of doing marketing. He gave me a good outline on things I need to do to increase traffic and actually start doing some serious internet marketing, for which I’m very thankful. I’ve made some modifications to the main page, but there will need to be lots more I fear. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions on this topic…
