Rants

It was fine early this afternoon, but at 5:00 PM eastern time, poof, they were gone. 5-1/2 hours later they are still unreachable. It is not just my Miata Club site or the Bike Club site and any other number of sites they are hosting, but their’s as well. Email is also gone. It is as if That Hosting Company has been wiped off the face of the earth.

I say three in the title, but it could be four, I’m not sure. I know that since signing up in September this is the 6th major outage….I wonder how much it will take to buy my domain from them?

Here is another movie I would love to have on DVD, but is unavailable. For now. According to the web site http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/ fall of this year is the target date for re-release on DVD around the same time as the theatrical release of the third of trilogy, NAQOYQATSI.

All this was brought to the front by my renting from Netflix another film with a Phillip Glass soundtrack, Mishima.

I hope I stay online long enough to post this. Trying to use Juno to blog because I am in Hilton Head Island for the weekend and it is a free way to connect, but for what ever reason about every minute I get a pop up ad that fills the screen trying to entice me to use something called HotHomePages. Even if I go through the first few screens they keep coming and coming and coming. There are about a dozen of them in the background. Sometime soon they are going to overload the memory of this laptop. The bright side is Juno must think I’m surfing the web or they probably would have disconnected me by now ’cause I’m just typing….

We are going away for a weekend – 2 nights and a day really – yet the trunk of the Miata will be fuller than when we take a 2 week vacation. Do we really need all this stuff? Books and magazines that we will never read. 4 shirts each? Camera, we have been there a dozen times before what more could there be to take pictures of!?! It is going to rain anyway we probably won’t even veture outside.

I know I gotta have the laptop, how else will I do the daily blog thing. Gotta have our own showerhead, no possible way should any place be allowed to call themselves a resort if it has a water saver showerhead.

Must be the same marketing folks that did the Chey Impala commercial I ranted about awhile back. Boomer aged guy driving a cherry 60’s vintage Cadillac Seville Convertible. They show him breaking out of a traffic jam and then while cruising down a two-lane back road he is passed by a new CTS. If you thought the Impala was angular, this sucker has got F-117 Stealth Fighter angles. No one, and I mean no one who appreciates that vintage Caddy would want this new car!

Oh yeah, new car is silver with heavily tinted windows….