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Netflix inspired some customer ire recently when the movie delivery service raised the membership fee for accounts renting DVDs. When I heard about this, my first thought was, “People still rent DVDs from Netflix?” Well, my parents are still on AOL so I guess anything is possible. I signed up for Netflix in the summer of 2004 when even @NJFilm2011 thought DVDs in the mail was a bit sketchy (he’s come round since then), but switched over to the streaming only service option 2 years ago. I admit, there are few new releases on demand but most aren’t available from Netflix in DVD format in the first month after release, and after all, I do live less than 2 miles from my library where movies can be reserved and rented for free. The hours of...
Summer Reading
Reading through the triple-H summer months always appeals to me. Curling up with a good book on a snowy winter night with the fireplace going is a wonderful treat, but knowing you’ll wake up to everyone bemoaning the snowpacolypse the next day takes some of the joy out of it. During the summer between 4th an 5th grade, I set out to read one Nancy Drew book a day. I don’t remember if I read one book everyday, but I do know that by Labor Day, I’d read every book in the series available at the local library. When the Harry Potter phenomenon got rolling and my kids were younger, I’d buy 3 copies of the newest tome each summer, and we’d read about Harry and friends together. My son always made it to the end first and had a hard...
WordPress
I really wanted to call this post “WordPress: the One Your Mother Warned You About”, but after this yesterday’s discussion regarding the need for brevity in titles, I removed the clarification. However, it is what this blog post is all about. Until this past weekend, my current blog lived at wordpress.com. I created a few blogs on that platform in the last couple of years; it’s easy to set up, if you write a post about being “this close” to Martha Stewart you might be featured on Freshly Pressed, and let’s face it, blogging should be about content not design so modifying one of the standard themes offered wasn’t a deal breaker. As I began not only to blog regularly last fall but also consume a steady writing...
My kind of 4th
Those of you who’ve read the blog for any length of time know I love birthdays. I share a (nearly) half birthday with the United States and enjoy celebrating this event in my own special way. Today’s blog post will take a look at those everyday events in my life that I believe truly celebrate America (not Canada – I like those folks, but they had their day on Friday). Before we start, I just want to point out that I’m not a fan of fireworks. When my kids were little, their Dad would drag them off to a fireworks display through which the girl would scream and the boy would either cry or hide while Mom had a peaceful hour at home. These days the girl takes in KaboomFest in Red Bank … and I’m not quite sure what the boy is...
Guerrilla Girls Exhibit at Rutgers
This past Tuesday, I headed up to New Brunswick to see an art exhibit with @mswas and @yuricon. Surprising in a number of ways, not least of which was seeing @mswas so soon after attending a concert in Asbury together, I not only enjoyed the exhibit but, more important, loved the discussion these images produced both during our time there and at lunch afterwards. Entitled “Feminist Masked Avengers: 30 Early Guerrilla Girls’ Posters” and presented by The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers (my alma mater), this small exhibition included posters, books, and videos produced by all incarnations of Guerrilla Girls over 3 decades. If you’re unfamiliar with this activist group but you know me well, you won’t require a long explanation of their...
A Backpack in Paris
I love serendipity, both the concept and the movie. Within a 48 hour time span, I watched Up in the Air and Midnight in Paris for very different reasons. The former I chose to watch with my 6 eCommerce students as their last assignment in an effort to put some of the pressure of graduating and going off to college in perspective. The latter I was lucky enough to see for free with @sfadem because, when your daughter works at the movie theater, you get to see movies for free. I’ve been a Woody Allen fan since the mid 70′s when it seemed like he released a movie a year. We all know how he fell out of favor, and his Mia period never did much for me, but this European discovery tour he’s been on the past 5 years or so has been lovely. The...
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