rants

Ordered a cable-only Empower airplane adapter for my PowerBook. Processed and shipped same day (speedy), delivery via FedEx Ground (crap). The tracking number is live and it's off.

Walmart produce, because someone has to buy the left-overs.

Netflix happily overrode the USPS address-validation when their system didn't recognize my new address. Skype, on the other hand, said no override, no order. The end. Brilliant. Also, a duck committed suicide at the top of my neighborhood.

The Type A engineer in me insists: figure skating is the half-time show of the Olympics. You can't meaningfully measure it for medals. It belongs there about as much as someone throwing a ribbon around.