Month: October 2007

Isn’t That Special?

At work there are 4 of us in the “Car Guys” group. We each subscribe to a car magazine and then pass it around among us. Thank goodness the magazine people don’t have a RIAA like group looking out after them, we’d be in trouble.

Today the latest Motor Trend was sitting on my desk. You couldn’t see the cover because of the card stock overwrap announcing your chance to get two subscriptions for the price of one, your renewal and a gift subscription for someone, just in time for the holidays.

The tear out card has the current subscribers name already on it, it served as the mailing label, so all you have to do is fill out the blanks for your friend and send it back, just check the box marked bill me later. To the left of the address area is the text reading, “Yes, I accept! Extend my subscription for 1 year (12 issues) at the preferred subscriber rate of only $20 and enter my 1-year gift subscription to the person listed above – that’s two subscriptions for the price of one!”

Sounds great, until you realized that you can subscribe to Motor Trend for $10 a year from a bunch of places, including the Motor Trend site itself…

I wonder what their non-preferred rate is?

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Postal Withdrawl

We have hung around the house the last two weekends and couldn’t stand it anymore, we made some reservations in Anderson for Saturday night. We have two missions, 1) to take pictures of the last 8 Post Offices in the northwest corner of the state and 2) check for fall colors in advance of next weekend’s visit from the Florida branch of Donna’s family.

We have photographed 290, leaving us 170 to go. Of the 170, I have printed out 131 maps and of those I have placed 86 on the Google map below.


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I may go back and add all the Post Offices I have done and use a different color icon. I would definitely do it if I could link to my Flickr images (seeing as Flickr has me cut off at 200 on their map.) here are a couple of Flickr add-ons to the map, but not one that would limit it to just my photos…

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Which Day Should I Choose?

I’m thinking of picking back up with a photo meme to get me to take pictures of something besides the Emperor and Post Offices. At one time, back in the day when I had three blogs, one just for the photos, I was participating in four:

  1. Phototime Tuesday
  2. Lensday Wednesday
  3. Theme Thursday
  4. Photo Friday

The only reason that I did not do anything for Saturday, Sunday or Monday is there wasn’t one for me to do (at least then.) Let me poke around a bit before I decide, but right now I’m leaning towards Thursday because, at least before, they sent out an email on the Friday before to give you the theme for you to work on over the weekend and the next week.

The Wednesday site is “sponsored” by a T-shirt company and while wandering the aisles of their e-store I found a bunch of shirts I’d like to wear, but I’m too grown up to get away with them, but there is one I found that is a must have: Nerf Herder.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Lucy In The Sky With DiamondsI’m sitting here on the couch watching the MFY play the Indians in the American League Division Series. Because I would rather have the Red Sox lose, if they were to lose, to Cleveland than to New York in the League Championship Series, I am rooting for the Indians. Not only for that reason, but there is the usual one too, I always root for whoever is playing against the Yankees.

It is not entirely over just yet, but the Indians have a five run lead in the 5th inning and are leading the series 2 games to 1, so it is looking good for them. But the way the Indians are playing right now, maybe, just maybe, I don’t really want them to win…

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Not Spiced Ham

Recently Yahoo updated / changed their email and it has resulted in a couple hundred percent increase of spam delivered to the MMC mailbox. So much so that I wondered if I had unintentionally shut off their “Spam Guard”, I hadn’t. What is most annoying is that the Club gets so few mails of importance to begin with…

Also, I think I will go ahead and kill the brian@mr-miata.net address as it has been attracting lots of spam lately too. I rarely used it anyway. I was going to get cute and try to obfuscate that email address, but what does it matter if it will no longer exist after tonight. So if you have that email in your address book go ahead and delete it. Try Brian_the_Red with the domain, OK?

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California Here We Come

I wasn’t going to blog tonight. I didn’t need to write anything just so I could append it with the top count, because the car hasn’t moved all day. I didn’t really have anything profound to say. I don’t have any more cute gnome pictures to post.

So what prompted me to write this post, three things:

1) Reading this on TechDirt: If You Play Your Radio Loud Enough For Your Neighbor To Hear, Is It Copyright Infringement?

2) Seeing the phrase that is the title of this post on the Boston Dirt Dogs web site pertaining to the FRS and their trip to LA for game 3 of the ALDS after Manny’s walk-off homer last night.

C) And having the phrase that is the title of this post become applicable to me because it looks like our 2008 trip to the northwest will start and end in San Francisco with a trip up the coast to Victoria, BC in between.

Oh, yeah, for what its worth.

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Meet the Beatles

Meet the BeatlesLast night Gnorm went home with his parents, so here is one last photo from when he went it to work with me the other day. Gnorm was totally captivated as the Fab Four played “I Want to be Your Gnome”, “The Gnome on the Hill” & “Hey Gnome” for him.

Three more Spenser paperbacks came in the mail today and I already finished one, The Godwulf Manuscript. It is the first in the Spenser series and while not as polished as the later books, you can definitely see the character in his rough form. Sort of like a wood carving Spenser is working on a couple times in this story.

The MFY lost their second game to the Indians today, digging a big hole for themselves where they will have to win the next three games to advance. As I type this the FRS are trailing 3-2 in the 5th inning to the Angels, and if I had to guess by the way the breaks are going they will end up on the losing side of this game, but I hope I’m wrong.

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