Even the buying experience is rife with mystery
Today at Sam’s Club, I noticed that there are some reasonably-priced DVD collections of the David Suchet Poirot movies and TV shows up for sale. Since I really liked those whenever they would show on PBS Mystery, I thought they might be a good addition to my Amazon wishlist. After all, Christmas is coming up, and I’d like to have some things on there that my relatives can relate to, so that they actually know what they’re buying.
However, it turns out that there are about 110 compilations for sale. One hundred and ten. I’m pretty sure there is some serious overlap in there, and I’d have to make a spreadsheet to figure it out. Has anyone already figured out which sets you actually need to buy to get the full collection? I don’t just want three copies of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd with varying cover art.
This is madness…
You’re Almost In Line-Of-Sight
It looks like Tiger Direct has now opened one of their retail outlets LESS THAN TWO MILES FROM MY APARTMENT. Must stay calm… Must breathe… Must hide all the credit cards…
The web server upgrade was grand for a while, but then I started getting mysterious, daily kernel panics. While the occasional glitch is expected for any machine built out of parts that are just lying around, 40% downtime does not indicate a respectable level of reliability, even for the $0 price. After all, having a slick’n'fast WordPress installation is worthless if it’s never actually running when I want to post!
Continue reading ‘It Got Around To Me’
I had enough hardware lying around that I no longer had any real excuse for running the web server on a PII-350. Now it’s running a bit faster.
Continue reading ‘Got Around To It’
I was about to write about how much we have been enjoying RiffTrax over the last week at Fort Pika, but as of last night, the website is suddenly inaccessible!
Come back, RiffTrax! I hadn’t even bought The Matrix riff yet!
UPDATE
Conor at RiffTrax lets us know in the comments that they’ll be back soon. Hooray!
UPDATE 2
RiffTrax.com is back online.
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