New Bumper Sticker

Forgive me if I can’t remember which magazine it was in, the latest editions of both Automobile and Motor Trend landed on my desk this morning, but there were some photos of several near totally un-camouflaged Porsche Panameras. The four-seat, four-door sport coupe, that is supposed to be on sale next year as a 2010 model was out doing high speed testing. If they were parked along the side of the road in the pictures how did we know they were out high speed testing you ask? Because each car was sporting on both front and rear bumpers a bright yellow sticker:

Get yours here: Government Approved High Speed Testing Vehicle Bumper Sticker

Oh, yeah, IE users you should be able to change the theme back to Brian’s Red if you want to.

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Netflix & The New Throttling

For the 4th time in 3 months a disc we have rented from Netflix has not been available at our local distribution center. The British detective show, I can understand not being real popular in SC, and having to come from Chicago, but House, season one disc three? Discs 1 & 2 came from Columbia, how come #3 wasn’t there? I bet #4, 5 & 6 will be there.

Even though Netflix has lost a 2004 class action lawsuit for throttling (with legal feet dragging it is still not settled), I have no real recourse because they changed their user agreement to allow high volume renters to be “smoothed.”

What is really galling is the fact that when a disc is “not available” at my local distribution center they have to wait a full day before it can be shipped from the next closest center. Isn’t this all done via computer? Netflix knows what I want next, how long should it take them to get the word out? I kinda figure email would be pretty much instantaneous…

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I Checked The Mail

The Shirt isn’t here yet.

Neither is Season 3.

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Free Willy

A man wakes up the hospital, bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, ‘Ah, I see you’ve regained consciousness. Now, you probably won’t remember, but you were in a pile-up on the freeway. You’re going to be okay, you’ll walk again and everything, but… something unfortunate happened. I’m trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck, and we were unable to find it.’

The man groans, but the doctor goes on, ‘You’ve got $9,000 in insurance compensation coming to you, and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did – better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn’t come cheap. It’s $1,000 an inch.’

The man perks up at this.

‘So,’ the doctor says, ‘it’s for you to decide how many inches you want. But it’s something you’d better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it’s important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision.’

The man agrees to talk with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day. ‘So,’ says the doctor, ‘have you spoken with your wife?’

‘I have,’ says the man.

‘And has she helped you in making the decision?’

‘She has,’ says the man.

‘And what is it?’ asks the doctor.

‘We’re getting a new kitchen.’

4 8 15 16 23 42 Part III

Super Bowl 4: Kansas City Chiefs 23 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 8: Miami Dolphins 24 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 15: Oakland Raiders 27 – Philadelphia Eagles 10
Super Bowl 16: San Francisco 49ers 26 – Cincinnati Bengals 21
Super Bowl 23: San Francisco 49ers 20 – Cincinnati Bengals 16
Super Bowl 42: New York Giants 17 – New England Patriots 14

Oh, and I bought the shirt.

Washed the car this afternoon and I’m embarrassed to say that with the temperature in the low seventies, when I was done, I just drove it back in to the garage.

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The O’needers

Nothing to watch tonight. We watched Season 1 of Dinner for Five yesterday and we watched Shooter this afternoon, so we are out of red envelopes.

I was checking the local cable’s TV Guide Channel for something to watch. This one program caught my eye. Listed for CNN, AKA: Cable News Network, for 8:00 PM until 10:00 PM — To Be Announced.

Ended up watching That Thing You Do on E!.

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Everything Is Going To Change Hugo

Long time readers will recognize this theme, sort of. I’ve changed the background image to reflect my latest obsession — Lost. If you are viewing this using internet explorer, I pity you. Those glaring white post and header blocks are really 50% tranparent, but IE doesn’t do that well with the opacity tag in CSS. So ordinarily I would tell you to scroll down the sidebar to the Themes section and pick Brian’s Red, which is what the theme was yesterday, but once again for reasons know only to Bill Gates, IE won’t change to that particular theme. One of the other two work just fine. Go get Mozilla or Opera and see the theme as it was meant to be. Or wait a week, I’ll probably change again…

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