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May. 26th, 2008 02:54 pmThe Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Orphan Works legislation
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Dear Netflix,
What does "at the very tippy top of the queue" mean to *you*? I have a movie there that is completely available. It has no impediments to being sent whatsoever. And yet, this is the third time that the second movie in the queue was sent rather than the first.
It's not like "Mist:The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy" has thousand of people clamoring for it. It does have one medium-sized child who'd like to see it, though. So, if you could send it along sometime before the heat-death of the universe, I'd be *so* thankful.
Sincerely,
Me
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And this is why I generally don't read forwarded e-mails, unless I truly trust the person sending it. There's one circulating that lists the supposed racist remarks that Barack Obama makes in his books. These are things that are taken out of context, sometimes with bits snipped out. Oh, and one is from a *review* of the cited book, not in the book and not by Mr. Obama.
Feh.
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Dusty has a very good article about when buzzwords fail.
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Why did Charlotte Perkins Gilman write The Yellow Wallpaper? Click and read the explanation in her own words.
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Y'know, if you're going to go to the trouble of making/filling out and sending a card to Post Secret, you might want to double check to make sure there isn't a huge glaring error somewhere on the card. Like, for instance, a your/you're mix up.
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I was having a craving for potato pancakes (the kind made with mashed potatoes) and started planning a dinner that would include mashed potatoes, so I'd have some left over. I'm thirty-six years old and I'm pretty sure that this is the first time it has occurred to me that there's no law saying that the potatoes must be leftovers! I can make a pot of mashed potatoes, let them cool, mix 'em with egg & onion and then fry 'em up. Sometimes, I am very like Mr. Banks...I can't see beyond my own nose.
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Dear Netflix,
What does "at the very tippy top of the queue" mean to *you*? I have a movie there that is completely available. It has no impediments to being sent whatsoever. And yet, this is the third time that the second movie in the queue was sent rather than the first.
It's not like "Mist:The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy" has thousand of people clamoring for it. It does have one medium-sized child who'd like to see it, though. So, if you could send it along sometime before the heat-death of the universe, I'd be *so* thankful.
Sincerely,
Me
~~~
And this is why I generally don't read forwarded e-mails, unless I truly trust the person sending it. There's one circulating that lists the supposed racist remarks that Barack Obama makes in his books. These are things that are taken out of context, sometimes with bits snipped out. Oh, and one is from a *review* of the cited book, not in the book and not by Mr. Obama.
Feh.
~~~
Dusty has a very good article about when buzzwords fail.
~~~
Why did Charlotte Perkins Gilman write The Yellow Wallpaper? Click and read the explanation in her own words.
~~~
Y'know, if you're going to go to the trouble of making/filling out and sending a card to Post Secret, you might want to double check to make sure there isn't a huge glaring error somewhere on the card. Like, for instance, a your/you're mix up.
~~~
I was having a craving for potato pancakes (the kind made with mashed potatoes) and started planning a dinner that would include mashed potatoes, so I'd have some left over. I'm thirty-six years old and I'm pretty sure that this is the first time it has occurred to me that there's no law saying that the potatoes must be leftovers! I can make a pot of mashed potatoes, let them cool, mix 'em with egg & onion and then fry 'em up. Sometimes, I am very like Mr. Banks...I can't see beyond my own nose.
