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January 19, 2007
throttling the icy death falling from above
so apparently over the weekend we'll be experiencing icy death falling from above, or frozen white death from above as some prefer to call it. i've warned J, but i think he's going to come visit anyway. in preparation i went to the farmer's market at lunch and obtained a small pile of nice looking firewood, as well as an obscene number of calories from the seafood restaurant. their hush puppies are really quite remarkable.
i told a co-worker about this adventure later in the day and he said, "you can't fit a pile of firewood in your car!!" ah, the wonders of the beetle. i believe its curved design fools the eye, and it appears smaller than it actually is. the pile of wood used maybe one-third of the available space in the hatch, and would keep my fireplace going for at least a few days if the worst happens and we lose power.
as for the evil masterminds at netflix and their machiavellian strategies to keep me away from Voyager, well, i have now put other things at the top of my queue. i might as well.
i also called easily a dozen local video stores; none had Voyager for rent. i checked out two other online services, greencine and intelliflix. both have voyager, but greencine is based in california, so shipping time would be a little long, and intelliflix has a slightly scary website, a kind of, "we're trying way too hard to get your credit card number" sort of site.
so i decided to give sui_generis' suggestion to use bittorrent further consideration. it appears that i have the hardware to burn a dvd; i've also got a copy of osx tiger sitting, un-installed, on my shelf. maybe dvd burning software comes with it? i guess there's one way to find out.
Posted by lisa at January 19, 2007 09:30 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.