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The view this morning. Power went out around 11:30pm last night – it is still off. My iPhone connects me to the web while hypothermia sets in. It’s so freaking cold in the house.
The Big DumpTruck
Throwing Little Thought Pebbles at Your Windshield Since 1996
Month: December, 2008
Everything geared towards ME!
This is odd. But I should expect no less. Background: I had two movies that scared me when I was a kid sort of stuck in the back of my mind for 800 years.
I signed up for a free trial of Netflix (after my friends just raved) and I found one of them – The Innocents – and re-scared myself again. The other one I only have fleeting memories of. Once upon a time I worked pretty hard to identify, given I could only remember a couple of scenes. At the time I narrowed it down to one movie that had the closest desciption to what I remembered.
So I was just looking at the new release list on NetFlix, and there is the OTHER movie. What will I have as a goal if I watch this movie and no longer have to search for it??
(the movie is called The Shuttered Room.)
It Is "Drag the Tree Up From the Basement" Day
Ho ho ho ouch.
Others Do It Better Than I Do
I was going to attempt to give you guys a link a day for the December Advent season, as my gift to you. But I forgot to do it Monday and Tuesday and now it seems late.
So I will pass along one of the cooler links I’ve run into recently. It’s a Hubble Telescope Advent calendar. Man oh man, space photos blow me away, ever time. I snipped the url for you, but it points to Boston.com
http://snipurl.com/coolsky
What Amazon Thought I wanted to buy
On the left are two photos I took with my iPhone and uploaded via the new iPhone Amazon App. Apparently a human looks at the photos of things you see that you might want to buy and tries to match the photo so something amazon sells. The items on the right are the things they felt best matched my photos.
What Amazon Thought I wanted to buy, originally uploaded byBig DumpTruck.
So it’s a fascinating application and use of human slaves at Amazon, but really, does my USB snowman really look that much like a cat?
No, I don’t think so. I looked myself in Amazon for the first item (I happen to know the manufacturer, which is cheating, yet) and found of of the various styles they sold: http://snipurl.com/sunbobble
