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Blud On The Tracks

Posted on | October 9, 2008 at 7:17 am | 10 Comments

It’s a List O’ Links Day! But first: I knew it had to happen sooner or later. I got this e-mail from NetFlix today:

Dear Greatest Customer Ever,

As you may know, Blu-ray movies are more expensive than standard definition movies. As a result, we’re going to start charging $1 a month (plus applicable taxes), in addition to your monthly membership charge, for monthly access to Blu-ray movies.

The additional charge for monthly Blu-ray access will be automatically added to your next billing statement on or after November 5th, 2008 and will be referenced in your Membership Terms and Details. If you wish to continue getting Blu-ray movies for $1 a month more, you don’t need to do anything. If not, you can remove Blu-ray access anytime by visiting Your Account at the Netflix website.

If you have questions about this change or need any assistance, please call us anytime at 1-888-638-3549.

-The Netflix Team

As if I can afford, in this current economic climate, to spend $1 more on movie rentals a month! The hubris! Harumph, I’m on the cheapest plan and I usually don’t watch movies fast enough to get my money’s worth as it is.

What about the people who mostly watch DVDs but only rent the occasional Blu-ray? You’re paying the additional money for Blu-ray access, not per disc. So those people are screwed.

What’s next? Are gas stations going to start charging more for premium fuel??

In other news, all undecided or McCain voters should read this week’s Rolling Stone cover story about the “Maverick”. I realize it’s a hatchet job by an admittedly liberal-biased periodical, but if even half of what it says is true, this man is not at all fit to run the country. Scary stuff.

In really funny news, the U.S. National Debt Clock has run out of digits! Get it – the National Debt is now too big to display there in its entirety! They had to use the dollar sign slot for the extra digit. Ha ha! Isn’t that humorous?!?

Two more reasons why it must be fun to live in Dubai. Why wasn’t I born a rich oil sheik?

Finally, an explanation of why I’m not a very good video game player: It’s genetic! Was that TMI? (Yes, I know that The Daily Show mentioned this in a recent episode, but I wrote this before I saw that.)

Question: Why isn’t the iPhone Developer SDK available for Windows?

Latre.

Pet Peeve of the Day: Direct mail election ads. I got about a thousand of them yesterday.

Comments

10 Responses to “Blud On The Tracks”

  1. Sue T.
    October 9th, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

    My pet peeve of the day: the horrible sinkhole of unfunniness that was last night’s “South Park.” And I didn’t even like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Offensive humor is OK, but only if it’s FUNNY.

  2. Phil
    October 9th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

    Oddly enough, my sister is living in Dubai at this very moment! Only for a couple weeks though.

  3. george charles gray
    October 9th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

    Re’: Maverick McCain.
    I am a veteran dependent upon the VA Medical Center for health care. McCain, a veteran himself has been in lockstep with the Bush administration in NOT adequately funding care for veterans. Just check his voting record. The reality is that the Maverick is a lapdog for rich folks.

  4. InfK
    October 9th, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

    > As if I can afford, in this current economic climate, to spend $1 more on movie rentals a month!

    Maybe you shouldn’t blog about your big-screen TV, videogame consoles and vacations…? heh

    There’s an article somewhere about the original “Maverick” family from Texas, whose history includes the sort of folks who turned their name into an adjective (a rancher who refused to brand his cattle, for one example). They’re not McCain supporters, in a nutshell.

    I still say – just relax about this election stuff, everyone! Regardless of their policy differences, each guy can take the blame for inevitable ongoing collapse in a dignified, Presidential fashion.

  5. yellojkt
    October 9th, 2008 @ 9:09 pm

    McCain managed to trash five planes in his flying career. Admittedly, he had some help from the NVA, but that makes him an anti-ace.

  6. Flasshe
    October 9th, 2008 @ 11:18 pm

    My pet peeve of the day: the horrible sinkhole of unfunniness that was last night’s “South Park.”

    Haven’t watched that yet. Maybe I shouldn’t.

  7. Flasshe
    October 9th, 2008 @ 11:20 pm

    The reality is that the Maverick is a lapdog for rich folks.

    Yeah, I love how Bush, McCain, et al are all for “supporting the troops” as long as that doesn’t include veterans. There is no shame.

  8. Flasshe
    October 9th, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

    McCain managed to trash five planes in his flying career.

    He was entitled to trash those planes from his birthright.

  9. Flasshe
    October 9th, 2008 @ 11:23 pm

    Maybe you shouldn’t blog about your big-screen TV, videogame consoles and vacations…? heh

    Hmmm, I wonder if I paid for all that before the current crisis? Yes, yes, I think I did. Well, not before the subprime mortgage crisis, but definitely before the Wall Street And My 401(k) And My IRA Take A Dive Crisis.

  10. InfK
    October 10th, 2008 @ 2:24 am

    Nah, remember that McCain fixed all that. He even halted his campaign to rush back to Washington, and keep those out-of-touch fatcats in line. Go shopping, it’ll be fine.

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