Netflix sent
me a damaged DVD. Now, their DVDs have been very good the last year or
so. I remember in the beginning when most of their DVDs were
pretty scratched. My DVD player had a hard time playing quite a few of
them. Anyway, this DVD had been bent a bit, which damaged the DVD. You
can see this crease on the data side of the DVD with a sorrounding
discoloration. Oh well, I have nothing to watch.
I went to the ebMUG leadership meeting tonight. I left work at 18:40
and traffic was pretty bad all the way to the 880/238 interchange. So I
got there at 19:55 almost half an hour late. Basically they were
talking about upcoming guests and web site design and the ebMUG logo
and a few other things.
One topic that came up is whether User Groups are even necessary, what
with the Internet and all. The information part of a User Group is
mostly replaced by looking it up online. The community aspects are
covered by Yahoo Groups and similar services. There are boards and web
sites for question and answer. Even live demos and free stuff have some
web counterparts.
But going to User Group meetings and talking to other people hasn't
been replaced. There is a more personal sense of community with a
face-to-face group and the participants also have the common background
of living more or less in the same area. The ebMUG leadership has good
camaraderie and they're quite positive about their user group that is
almost two years old. Personally it's a bit intimidating being the new
guy.
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Apple
introduced iPod Photo yesterday. They come with 40 GB or 60 GB hard
drives, have a color screen that can display thousands of colors, have
double the battery life, and can manage and display photos including
A/V out for presentations. Again I keep thinking "eh" although they'll
probably see a bunch. The color iPods are $500 and $600 respectively.
You know, I just realized that eggs over easy means that the yolk is
basically uncooked. Since when I was a kid I had eggs scrambled because
that's the only way I knew when asked by a waitress. Then I saw on a
television show when someone ordered eggs over easy and it looked ok to
me so that's how I ordered eggs from then on. Actually I'd rather have
the yolk more cooked but I have no idea what the name is.
Dave showed me a couple of houses he looked at last week. One is in the
Ardenwood area as part of a community. House, yard, quite place. Very
expensive with lots of offers. The other house is a few miles south
still in Fremont. It's at the end of a road, reminding me of my
parent's old place on Bramble Way Trail. Anyway, this house is ok with
a nice yard and cheaper with no offers.
But the neighborhood is not the best, mostly because a lot of the
houses have dying lawns and the house across the street has a bunch of
cars, most of which don't look like they're running. Heck, they even
have a couple of cars parked next to the house. I don't know, it kind
of screams lower-class which I wouldn't mind if I was living along but
I would mind if I was raising a family.
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