According to this list, yes. Say it ain’t so, Guy!
Monthly Archive for January, 2005
No brandname, model number PL-1 “Stereo Ear Buds.”
No foam covers; left channel started to fail within the first minute of use. [The song: "Metal" by Gary Numan.]
I read an article like this’n and I want to take an Interracial Pornography-Dumping Road Trip to I-55.
Victor gives props to that one guy whose name I didn’t know on SNL. I don’t remember seeing him in “Anchorman,” but hopefully I will come to recognize him with repeated viewings of the Ultimate Best Buy edition I recently scored. [rests chin on hand, assumes constipated expression]
And not a moment too soon, William Shatner’s magnum opus finally becomes available on the iTunes store.
It figures that as soon as I go to install the WP Hashcash plugin to hopefully head the comment spam off at the pass, I go checkout ioerror.us [home of the SpamAssassin WP plugin] and find I can’t post because my IP is on a SPEWS blacklist. So I’m freaking, then I read the SPEWS entry… they have all of Local Cable Monopoly blacklisted. Whew.
At Costco tonight, noticed that the successor model to our faithful Olympus D-40ZOOM camera [the one that powered britainandabbey.com] runs $199.
We are unfortunately compelled to search for a new camera. Last year in the Bahamas, the D-40 lost its shutter button and the little ring around said button that controls optical zoom. After a few months of operating the camera with either no zooming or minimal zooming activated by sticking a sharp implement in the ring area and working the lever, I finally bought a replacement button/ring assembly from Olympus parts and installed it. At some point during this process I screwed up the sensor for the card door, so now the camera thinks the door is always open. I called Olympus about them fixing it: $179 plus shipping.
The D-580 costs $199 at Costco and about the same online. The advantage of buying from Costco is that if this happens again I can return the darn thing, in six months or three years [Costco's return policy is endearingly liberal].
[8/9/5: Comments closed to thwart spammers. This is by far the most comment-spammed item on the site.]
Finally moved off the cable modem. Unfortunately not hosted on OS X anymore. And as long as I’m typing this, I am compelled to point out the recent radio and TV ads for a Detroit area Pontiac dealer whose motto is “Reputation is Everything,” but whose music in their ads is a kicky, royalty-free pop-punk ditty bearing an uncanny resemblance to Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation.”
Still working out how to migrate everything over. Getting closer, even if I get an odd error from blosxom on the way out. [UPDATE: I did it! Where's my gold star?]
