Weather.com has purchased Weather UndergroundYou can add this to my list of companies I liked that then got bought out by a competitor who changed the business model and (usually) ran the original company into the ground, screwing the loyal customers. Some other examples from this list that I can recall ( Read more... )

I spent this afternoon at this thing called a mall. I hadn't been clothes- or shoe-shopping since January at the Joint Meetings in Boston where I snuck out one afternoon to Newbury Street and hit up a shop or two for an hour. Being at the mall today felt like such a novel experience, especially since this was one of those open-air promenades with ( Read more... )

I ordered four Blu-Rays from Amazon.com.uk a couple weeks ago. I wanted two of them really badly (a Polish one and an Asian one) and threw in the other two for good measure since I was already paying for shipping. All of them were regionless and had not been released in the US. The previous regionless Blu-Ray I had bought from the UK plays fine in ( Read more... )

Well, I can finally post this since I have internet again. It came on sometime in the last three hours; I can't specify exactly when because I was napping ( Read more... )

I bought something on eBay today for the first time since 2003. Now I remember why I stopped using it: I always end up paying more than I wanted to for an item.

We're back on the internet! Our modem came this afternoon and we've hooked everything up. I only had a chance to go online now, since we've been so busy doing apartment things. Update on all that in the next post ( Read more... )

In Warsaw, GoogleMaps doesn't have Streetview. I don't know if it was banned because of privacy concerns (Europe has had a much stronger reaction to this service than the US), or that Google just hasn't gotten around to it ( Read more... )

ugh, our internet went out again for three and a half hours this evening. This is getting annoying.

The high school students are striking again today. This wasn't a pre-announced strike like yesterday's general strike, but similarly "spontaneous" like the high schoolers' strike Monday. Christian and I don't know the extent of what's happening, since we're outside of the main part of the city where the protests are occuring, but all the public ( Read more... )

For some reason, yesterday I received an email from the UGeorgia Endoscopy mailing list. I opened it, wondering why I would be getting this legit email, only to be greeted with numerous pictures of stretched ureters. ewwwwwww. I really don't know how they would have gotten my email, since it's a closed list from a legit source that I've had no ( Read more... )