I’m sitting and writing this in luxury this morning. Yesterday, a package arrived via UPS, and it contained a new bathrobe. After years of trying to buy a decent robe at local stores, I finally gave up and ordered one from a big and tall men’s store online. And it’s amazing how much better it feels to have sleeves that actually reach my wrists instead of ending just below the elbows. Or a robe that goes below my knees. One size does not fit all. Just like getting a shower that’s mounted high enough, getting a new bathrobe makes my mornings a little bit more pleasant. Am I becoming a sybarite? Maybe. But I like it. And hey, it’s nice to see this intarweb thingie be useful once in a while.
- Go check out the spiffy Valentine’s Day cards at we love you, yes you. Some nice, some not so much. Many funny. One line I particularly like:
money can’t buy you love. but love can’t buy you cargo pants.
[boing boing] - Here’s a spiffy way to get Command line Futurama quotes from Slashdot if you’re running on a Unix box. It’ll work on Mac OS X if you install lynx, but it’s not there by default, so you’ll have to do a little work. [jr]
- Can we expect A New Politics sometime soon? Since the Republicans and Democrats are becoming indistinguishable on so many issues, maybe a new political alignment will emerge on the libertarian/communitarian axis. I’d be hip to that.
- TiVo in TV audience research pact with Nielsen using the data TiVo gets from the more than a million people who subscribe. Of course that makes some TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports say that exposing the silicone was
the most-watched moment to date
. Suddenly people are realizing that their TiVo knows what they watch, and when they hit the rewind button. Me, I figure if the people making TV know that I now spend about zero time watching shows on the three old networks, maybe they’ll start putting something on the air that I want to see. [fark!] - Stop the Cash Flow, Kill the Spam, and one way to stop the cash is to go after the companies whose products are being advertised via spam. I’d like to think that this would help, but I see a large number of spams that don’t seem to be for any product. Maybe the product information is hidden in the HTML version of the mail (which I never see – it’s automatically stripped at the server), but apparently they’re still making some money off those, since the spam just doesn’t stop. So I’m not too hopeful about anything stopping the flow other than better filters.