Right Here, Right Now 3.0

All Grammy winning albums are $2 off. I'm looking at: this one by Wilco.
Also, greatest hits albums are usually really cheap. Like Sting & The Police, 18 tracks for $12. And Suzanne Vega's greatest hits, 21 songs for $12. If you're curious about an artist, it's a nice way to check them out.

BBC - Food - Recipes - Chicken Breast in a Bag.

Dori, at Backup Brain notes:

"Mac OS X Update 10.3.8 is out. And I really, really hope that it fixes my Safari constantly crashing problem, although I haven't been able to find it mentioned in any of the docs.

I've mentioned here before how much I like Saft, a Safari add-on. Without Saft, for instance, I'd lose all my open windows in Safari when it crashes (several times a day), but Saft keeps track of what's opened. Version 7.5.1 just shipped, and it helps detect possible IDN Spoofs."

Safari doesn't hardly ever crash on me, but then, I don't use Saft.

You can help this rabbit, or you can turn the page.

Ouch My favorite line: "that's yours...".

I really want to be a good apartment neighbor. I'm sensitive to the fact that my downstairs neighbors might not be grateful if I take up clogging. I make sure I don't start laundry after 9, since I heard my neighbor's washer running one night. If I can hear them, they can hear me.
So, we weren't pleased when the new downstairs neighbors wrapped up their move-in at 3:00 a.m. last night.

3:00 a.m.

I'm hoping to meet them and actually bring it up with them. Perhaps they're as chagrined that they had to wrap up the move at that time. Maybe they wanted to return the U-Haul and save a day's rental fee. But in the meantime, I called the apartment management to complain.

She was entirely consistent.

Me: Hi. So, we have new neighbors, downstairs?
Her: (warily?!) Yesss.
Me: Well, they moved in at 3:00 a.m. last night.
Her: No they didn't.
Me: I'm sorry?
Her: I saw them moving in during the day, they were quite busy.
Me: I don't know when they started moving in, but they were still at it at 3:00 in the morning.

At this point, she changes gears and says that she'll talk to them 'within minutes'. I'm sure, given her communication skills, that conversation will be something like: "the neighbors upstairs called to complain about you."

I've always been (proportionately) jealous of my cousin, Jennifer, who was born one day before me, on July 16th. July 16th is the anniversary of all kinds of interesting things. Some are fun, like the opening of Disneyland; some are of historical note, like the first test of the atomic bomb. Well, finally, an anniversary of note that occurs on July 17. Camilla Parker Bowles was born on July 17th, 1947.
The other mollifying recognition of 7/17 is that the default date for the iCal icon is my birthday.

Peerflix: No DVD Rentals! Trade Your DVDs -> Clear out that stack of DVDs you don't watch anymore.

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." -W. Somerset Maugham

Mike Connolly's daughter, Kelly, rocks. She got her dad the very cool M&M dispenser that's been feeding us the past week or so. Thanks Kelly!

Dooce makes the Times: "I had a hard time containing my glee — not because I and some of my fellow women writers were made out to be selfish, resentful, overreacting pigs in search of validation; funny that none of us were informed that the article would run with that notion when we were interviewed — but that my child’s green eyes were staring at me from the pages of a national paper."

I can't link to her everyday, can I?