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The Silver Apple's Death Song

Picture the old days with lap-belts in cars, when you'd drive down the street with the buckle bouncing along because you closed it in the door. Back slowly down your concrete driveway, mosey through your neighborhood, get on the freeway where it really starts whanging against the bottom of your car, pull off an exit, drive through a school zone, find an abandoned lot, do some brodies in gravel, turn around and head back home, and you'll have a good idea of the dying drive gestalt, complete with emotional mortification.

ct is taking a month off from information overflow, and I can't blame him.

What I can do is take advantage of the opportunity.

Chris, Moleskines are still gay.

With love,

reeses

I'm a firm believer in customer service. That's why I pander to Zamf, who likes pictures of naked bronze chicks on my blog. That picture has nothing to do with my blog, but it has everything to do with Zamf. I am customer-focused. What I want does not matter -- it's all about the customer.

I've received a few emails of the following sort in the past. I'm including it not to ridicule this particular person, who is probably on day three of her first job out of school. I'm doing it to ridicule the notion that what you, as a vendor of any sort, matters at all to the customer, if it does not have a direct benefit to that customer.

So I'm not so good at taking pictures in preparation of stitching them together, but I am good at making sure an architectural element (ie., a window frame) is blocking a notable landmark, in this case, the Coit Tower.

After my previous post, I got to spend all day Thursday watching jetskis tow divers around underneath the piers, looking for dead kids. For my own well being, I was glad they didn't find them there, although it was a very outside chance anyway, as the current flows in the opposite direction.

A recent firmware update for the LGDVB418 appears to solve one of the major problems I had with the device, that being the audio de-synch issue. On the other hand, it appears to have some problems with anamorphic DVDs, or at least my test DVD -- Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.

I know I've complained on various occasions about using Safari and Firefox, and one of the problems in switching between them (and now between them and the reclaimed Thinkpad running IE and Firefox in the living room) is keeping bookmarks up to date. There are things I'd like to look up in the living room (the Thinkpad is more mobile because it has 7+ hours of battery life and its lack of DVI output means I don't use it tethered to any of the external LCDs), but not disrupt lapsitting cats to go look on the Mac. If I haven't put it in del.icio.us, I'll google, and then do without. Sure, it's not the greatest of tragedies, but it's annoying.

What really annoys me is that I have to sleep until 1 or 2 in the afternoon just to cram them all in.

I know I write you often and don't give anything back, and never write thank you notes. Really, this time is different.

See, I'm looking for a good bar. Ideally, one like E9 or The Swiss in Tacoma, WA (what is it about Tacoma that creates these completely-out-of-character bars for such a plebian blue-collar town?), with scads of handles with beers produced using brewing techniques I've never even heard of.