When you subscribe to Netflix, you get an email whenever their shipping office receives a DVD you’ve shipped back, or when they ship a DVD to you. So, since I felt that the service was slowing down, I decided to do a analysis of the times to see if the service really was slowing down. [...]
I’ve been seeing news articles about Morgan Stanley, and some kind of problems they are having at the top. Should I be concerned?
My wife and I have been Morgan Stanley customers for over 10 years. We started out as Dean Witter clients. A few months ago our broker left. We got no notice. We moved [...]
I’ve always wondered how to fold shiirts in a store after I unfold it. But it never looks right. I’ll have to practice this t-shirt folding technique. Wow.
Why do some corporations not have a sense of humor? In another example of trying to take the legal system too far, FedEx tried to get a web site shutdown. This guy created furniture with nothing but FedEx boxes and stickers. How does FedEx respond? Do they send him money for real furniture? Do they [...]
The best thing about the web is that it allows anyone to publish.
The worst thing about the web is that it allows anyone to publish.
High school age children are generally not dumb. They are curious, bright, and tend (like children do) to do the opposite of what they are told. Give a high schooler a laptop computer and tell them they can’t do something, and they’ll do it just to see if they can. Charging the student with felony [...]
A professor from MIT has written a paper on how light and darkness affects our perception. Check out the examples, you’ll think you are going blind.
My wife and I saw The King and I at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore. Stefani Powers was Anna. Wow, a very exciting performance.
We saw the story of George Burns’ life, Say Goodnight, Gracie, at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore. Frank Gorshin played George Burns trying to get into heaven by telling God his life story. Really well done, I felt as if I were eavesdropping on a conversation between two friends. Mr. Gorshin was quite good in [...]
Since early July, Netflix has been slowing down how quickly they process the sending and receiving of new DVDs from my queue. Historically (over a year now) I would send a DVD back, get an email in the morning, and then get an email that same afternoon letting me know my next DVD was being [...]