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Thanks Roger

I don’t always agree with him and some of his picks are too artsy, but more often than not, if I enjoy reading his positive review of a movie, I will enjoy the movie. Right now Mr. Ebert is in Toronto at their film festival and has been writing, not reviewing, about the movies he has seen. I have just gone through his posts from the festival so far and added 6 movies to the Saved section of my Netflix rental queue:

  1. A Serious Man
  2. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  3. Chloe
  4. Men Who Stare at Goats
  5. The Informant!
  6. Whip It!

Of course I will have to wait about a year or so for these to actually get into the regular queue. Then they have to migrate their way to the top through the 60 or 70 movies already there, but I’m pumped.

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The Monkey Needs More Soap

Sometime over the weekend I got something stuck between a couple of back teeth. Rigorous flossing removed the offending piece of food stuff. Later that day I poked my tongue back there and felt something sharp. And a hole. Great, I probably busted the edge of a tooth that was probably mostly filling. Visions of expensive crowns danced in my head.

Fortunately it only ached a little back there, not hurt, and it was sensitive to temperature. Tuesday I called the dentist and they had just had a cancellation for Wednesday at 11:00AM. Today was my lucky day. Turns out I had broke out an existing filling, so they just had to clean out the hole, scrape off a little tooth material and pack the hole full of Mighty Putty.

Our Dirty Monkey is really a lotion dispenser, but we use him for hand soap.

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Mr-Miata.net`s DNA

Mr. Miata Dot Net's DNAVia io9: DNA Portraits Reveal Your Inner Beauty.

They list three options for turning your DNA into actual art. These companies will send you a sampling kit which you then return for processing. Then you work with them choosing colors, images, etc. to get something that you would be proud to display in your home. One company wants $1500, another wants $299 and third ranges from $120 to $499.

There is a 4th option to get some DNA art and the price is right, free, but it is not your DNA, it is your website’s (or any web site for that matter.) WEB2DNA Art Project’s representation of this site is the image above.

Afraid to turn your web site’s DNA loose on the internet for fear of cloning, how about a simple dot graph? You can get that at aharef.info.

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Yucca Valley

Yucca ValleyWe saw no yucca plants on the Yucca Valley trail in Hitchcock Woods when we traveled it yesterday. I would tell you how far we walked in the woods, but I can’t because our GPSr is broken and hopefully in Olathe, Kansas by now.

This morning we got up early-ish and rode a big loop ending up downtown to pay bills. Unfortunately the New Moon wasn’t open so we couldn’t get a muffin for breakfast. Ended up at Waffle House.

After breakfast we drove over to Augusta to take a picture of a hockey puck in front of the James Brown Arena, which is as close to geocaching as we could get. Have I mentioned our GPSr is broken?

On the way home from Georgia a line of birds started to waltz out out in front of us way out on Pine Log Rd. They got part way and turned around and then as soon as I got by they came back out and completed the trip.

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Well, That's Interesting

I bought the Samsung HTIB today and when I got it home it talked to the TV just fine. I can now turn on the surround sound system, leave it on, set it to D-IN and the TV remote controls the volume…apparently this is a standard function of the HDMI interface and each manufacturer calls it something different.

On a slightly different note, when I reset the TV to factory defaults the other day, I let it auto tune in all the channels it could find. It found some digital channels along with the regular ones. Most of the channels come back as “scrambled” and show nothing, but the music channels, they come in just fine. I wonder if Atlantic Broadband knows this?

Changed the Emperor’s oil and rotated his tires today. While I had the back wheels off I relubed the slider pins on the discs brakes. I had been getting a slight moaning sound when backing up right after coming to a stop. The right rear top pin was getting kind of rusty, but it cleaned up good, so I hope i won’t be sounding like I’m running over cats anymore. Oh, and the back pads were getting real thin, gonna have to replace them sooner than I thought.

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Dining Out

Last night we went to dinner at Outback because we had received a coupon in the mail to buy one Special Summer Adventures entrée for $9.95 and get the second one free. I added a Coke to drink (actually required for the coupon to be valid) and we split a Caesar’s Salad. Total with tip $19.

Tonight we went out to dinner at Ryan’s for the MMC’s monthly meeting. We had a coupon to buy one Mega Bar (AKA: Stupefying Buffet) and get the second free. I added a sweet tea and our total with tip came to $14.43.

With the food and overall dining experience, the Outback dinner out was worth $35, the Ryan’s meal was barely worth $10.

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