A friend of mine wrote this comic book:
Tex! – George Bush and the Fine Art of Character Assassination
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Last class of the summer
In a few minutes I’ll be take the final exam for Finance of Real Estate Development. According to my calculations, I just need to get a 65% or better to get an A- in the class. I think I can handle that. Wish me luck.
Google’s not as smart as it thinks it is
I decided to try putting Google ads on this blog. I don’t imagine myself making any money off of this; mostly I’m just interested in seeing what ads appear in response to the content.
Well, the very first ad I saw was one from the RNC. I guess Google thought it was the most relevant ad to go along with my Protesting the Republican National Convention entry. Heh. While I wouldn’t want to make any money by getting people to sign up with the RNC, I wouldn’t mind costing the RNC a lot of money by having people click-through and then not do anything. In fact, someone could create a bot and run it on some server farm to find RNC/Bush ads all over the web and click through multiple times. Ramp it up and you could not only charge them lots of money for online advertising, but also DOS their servers. Not that I’m advocating any of this, of course.
For a minute there I was worried
There I was, blogging about Netflix, thinking it might be a weird thing to blagh about. But blawging about it once is probably not weird. Blahging about it all the time, though… check out Netflixfan for the latest news and insights on the video rental by mail Internet company with the bogus patent on rentals by mail.
P.S. The patent’s not bogus, it’s just bogus they were issued a patent for it. God save us from the USPTO.
Post Number Eight, or how I joined Netflix and decided that it was really cool
Hey kids, just trying to make up for a lackluster week of no posts.
I signed up for Netflix a couple months back and have come to the conclusion that it’s a really good service.
It’s fast. I have always received my DVDs the day after I get the email from Netflix saying it’s on its way. If I drop off the movie for return at the post office, Netflix usually gets it the next day and ships my next movie that same day. I’ve never been so impressed with the postal service in my life.
It’s flexible. My sister and I wanted to watch all the Lord of the Rings movies in one sitting, so one of the first movies I got was Return of the King. As it happened, we never got our schedules to coincide, so I had to sit on that one for a week and a half. In the meantime, I watched/returned about four other movies.
It’s cheap. Well, this one depends on how many movies you can get through in a month. I pay about $24 every month, and got through 14 movies this past month. That’s $1.71 a movie. Not bad. If you’re one of those people who gets hit by late charges at your local videostore all the time, you’re probably better off joining Netflix instead.
It’s convenient. I get movies delivered to my mailbox. I can return them at any mail drop. It doesn’t get much more convenient than that.
It’s expansive. Maybe I’m stretching it a bit here, but really, I find that I’m watching all kinds of movies now. If I think of some movie I’ve been meaning to see, or hear about some movie that sounds interesting, I just add it to the Netflix queue and figure I’ll eventually get to it. That goes for TV shows as well. Seriously, who wants to spend 13 weeks following some series on television with commercial interruptions and cliffhangers when you can just order up the entire season afterwards and watch it in one 12-hour marathon? This may change the way you watch TV.