Tuesday Morning notes

[yendi]

1. Oh No! Oh My! covers one of my favorite Huey Lewis and the News songs. Alas, they don't quite do it justice, but hey, free MP3.

2. Cheap Weed! Um, Weeds, that is. Season 1 is the Amazon Deal of the Day, going for $11.99 (60% off).

3. Other cheap Amazon deals are there for the Wii owners: WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Super Paper Mario, and Cooking Mama are all 20% off, down to $39.99. Not bad for three of the best games on the system.

4. Apparently, UPS fudged some of those guaranteed deliveries for Amazon this weekend. Which would be bad enough, but one of the folks they failed to deliver to is a Technorati Top 100 blogger.

5. Not, incidentally, that I haven't had my share of experience with UPS (and, more often, especially in the new location, with FedEx) lying about attempted deliveries. Anyone surprised by this has led a charmed existence when it comes to package deliveries.

6. Y: the Last Man is being made into a movie! It's the same team behind Disrturbia (which I haven't seen, but about which I've heard very mixed things).

7. Big Love has been renewed! Yay!

8. A look at add-on ticket fees in baseball. The Red Sox, Giants, and Cubs should all feel pretty ashamed of themselves here, although few teams are off the hook on this one. As noted late in the article, it's not a matter of what the ticket costs, but the implication that your ticket is $17 when you're really shelling out $25.

9. Alan Moore, Dan Clowes, and Art Spiegelman on The Simpsons!

10. Finally, Starbucks is raising their coffee prices again! Run for the hills! Or just, you know, make coffee at home.

Comments

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

the idea of a 'y' movie sort of makes me nervous.
it would be way to easy to head down misogyny ave. with that source material.

[sistermaryeris.livejournal.com]

Yeah well. Sometimes Starbucks makes me sad. They have definitely changed their coffee AND their business plan because now they hire WEIRD people and their coffee is starting to suck. :(

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

2. Once again, you link up something that I must buybought immediately. Thank you!

[yendi]

No problem. :-)

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Now I just hope it wasn't among the $450 worth of DVDs I ordered from Amazon this weekend. I don't think it was, but my memory is shite, so I can't be certain.

[yendi]

$450? Wow.

Although you know that you can just check your order online, right? Also, it'll post a "you bought this item on notice at the top of an item page.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Thing is, it's not "my" order. I was taking advantage of my Amazon-employed friend's 10% employee discount, so the order is on her account, to which I don't have access when she's not around to type in her password.

She said she'd forward me the email receipt, but I haven't seen it yet.

$450 goes quickly...

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

What I can remember:

Undeclared
Veronica Mars S1 & S2
Firefly (loaned my old set)
Firefly Visual Companion vol.2
Battlestar Galactica S1, S2.0, S2.5 (What kind of nonsense is that?)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer 7-season Collector's Edition Box
(I already had all seven individual season box sets, but a few of the disks contained scratches, plus I wanted to get all the new extras, as well as contribute a little bit more to Whedon's royalties. I gave my old set to the aforementioned friend, who originally hooked me on BtVS, but had sold her own sets to buy food for the kid.)

(Yes, I realize this is way more information than you need or want, but it beats posting it in my own LJ.)

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

UPS will sometimes just leave a package by your apt door,
(it depends on the driver
on your route) but Fedex...
They'll leave a package in any public place near your door or the entry
of the building, after "maybe", one buzz to your apt.
If it's stolen and you call them, they just default to
"we delivered it". Arrogant Bastards.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Random weird link for you: http://trailersfromhell.com/ :)