Posted in life on Jul 1st, 2008
Recently it was reported that Netflix was eliminating the profile feature on their web site. Profiles allow you to create sub-queues of movies for family members or others in your household, which are independent from the account holder’s queue. You could create a one-movie at a time, G-rated profile for a child, for example.
The public [...]
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Posted in life on Feb 23rd, 2008
Today, Sibylle and I traveled to Manhattan KS to participate in and watch the 2008 Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition. Students competed in four age categories by performing concertos accompanied on a second piano by their teacher, who played the piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment for the various pieces.
The adjudicator has [...]
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Posted in random on Dec 1st, 2007
Once in a while, Sibylle and I will order take out from the nearby steakhouse and eat at home. By ordering out we get to avoid the crush of people waiting 30 to 45″ minutes for a table, and we save some money too. Neither of us needs or wants to eat an [...]
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Posted in random on Nov 21st, 2006
Yesterday I set out to pay some bills online. Most of the creditors I have sport payment pages on their web site making it easy to point, click, and pay. One loan, however, proved to be the exception. Several years ago, when purchasing the two Apple computers I own, a line of credit was established [...]
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