If you’re a big Harry Potter fan, and I’d say that’s all of my readers except you, you can pre-order the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, at amazon.com. Of course if you’re like me you’ve never read one of them. I’ve only seen one and a half of the movies. I have noted that various political figures keep making reference to it to get the young voters out. I don’t think that “John Kerry Went to Hogwart’s” bumper stickers will turn the next election around. Of course if Hillary Clinton runs then there’ll be a really good chance for them to win if they can use “This Witch is from New York” stickers. They will be popular at least in California and elementary school classrooms.
Author Archives: Randy Peterman
Dish Washer with Acid Rain
A Gassy dishwasher may cause some women to panic given the already high levels of gas emitting from their husbands. But Wait! There’s only carbon dioxide in this washer and it is really, really innovative. If this thing catches on then Las Vegas hotel/resorts could save millions of dollars. Texas might be able to up the water quality so that you might consider putting it into you. Water bills would go down, electricity bills would go down and the presidential rating would go up. Or not. However, it is really, really neat and I hope that some day I can turn one on and say to my grandkids, “Get your finger out of your nose.”
FeedDemon 1.5 Released
This piece of software has already come with rave reviews from me. Most likely you’ve read about RSS and various other technologies that I like about FeedDemon. Read about FeedDemon 1.5 here. Features that I like include:
- Great support for various feed types
- Podcasting support built in.
- You don’t need an iPod to enjoy podcasting [not really a FeedDemon feature per se, but an important point]
- Scheduled podcast download times
- Filters
- Styles for the viewing of the feeds
- Very easy to use and get started with
- Comes prepopulated with feeds that are not paid for, they’re the best ones Nick feels most comfortable offering to users
So, there you go, yet another pitch from me for you to buy FeedDemon. I don’t make any money from you buying it, I’m just an very satisfied user.
A Whole Different Annoyance
I’ve written in the past how good Frontier Airlines’ customer service has been to me and my family at various times. However their web site has one really annoying flaw in it: It appears to be built for Internet Explorer only. That was annoying. Also annoying was the lack of clarity for what format my phone number was supposed to take in their web form. Further, their error page basically says, “Call our toll free number since something’s not right.” Basically, they need to buy Defensive Design
and learn good user friendly design.
Recommended Reading
Farley Farts is a book that Abby picked out at the Library. Being a good mom, Jessica let her check it out. I strongly recommend this book to help get more dads reading to their children. Sure it’s about an amphibian with gas, but since most guys relate so well to this I think that it’s a must read.
My favorite part of this book is actually when Jessica reads it. There’s a mild awkwardness about it that makes it a book that we’ll most likely be adding to our library 🙂
End Times Fiasco
If you thought that end times debates and movies were bad (examples: Water World, The Postman and Dances with Wolves) you should check out this disservice: jacqueline stallone’s rumpology. This is future telling by the tale end. Or to put it another way: How to tell your future with your fanny. I’m sure the puns and such could go on for some time, but I just had to share this insane site.
Compressed for Time
Last week while I was in Texas I got a really good list of things I have to do before the next release of the software. However, the deadline also got moved up (perceptually, maybe it has always been there) so my time is limited. Blogging will be light to low for the next couple of days because I’ve got to have a lot of things to get done. Apologies that you’ll not get as many good jokes, bad jokes or lame puns during that time… oh, wait, maybe that’s a good thing.
Tupperware Bowl
Today the arguably biggest game in football is played while we gorge ourselves on name brand sodas, chips, beers and pretty much anything else name brand while watching at a minimum 45" televisions with surround sound and high definition pictures. Not really. In fact today I might watch the Super Bowl because of the commercials. I am half interested in seeing who wins, but since I don’t watch a lot of football the rest of the season I can’t say that this one game is going to make me a football junky. I do, however, hope to grill something on the patio which is kind of like a tailgate party. We’re all moderately sick (I’ve got a bit of something going on in my sinuses) so there’s not a lot of cheer and energy involved with the household.
Worst case scenario the bowl is much better than the party.
Indian Food
Today I got to have Indian food for the first time that I recall. That’s India the country type Indians, not Native Americans or any other slang that might be floating about. It was quite tasty and in the end I find myself now loathing the fact that I had seconds of what seemed like mild curry. I think that I want to have more later, but I’ll have to find something good and tasty in Denver so that I can enjoy Indian food again at home. Jessica just might like it, too.
Hotel Follies
Yeah! Hotels are so fun to stay at alone. I’m loving ‘going home’ to be by myself. Last night I was watching Emiril Live and realized that
- There is absolutely nothing on television worth watching at night on ‘basic cable.’
- Emiril is the Benny Hinn of Food Television. He works that crowd like a seasoned manipulator.