I like ‘Breaking Bad’ allot. A great show.
The real side of meth production looks way less glamorous.
Category: daily life
Just returned from a very nice stay in London.
We lucked out with the accommodation and with the weather alike.
We had a wonderful time in Notting Hill. The location is just awesome. A minute away from Embassy Row or the tube – yet very quiet.
Likewise the house has history and character while the apartment has all things in perfect condition.
If we would have liked to have the same space and features in a Hotel then we would have paid ridiculous amounts. I like that the Internet allows for a high quality services
like this apartment to find an audience. Hope that we find something similar in Brooklyn in the summer.
Recently I noticed two interactions I had with products / companies / services.
They are un related. I remember them both since they were better / worse than what I had expected.
The bad one
Being bored in a Hotel room I switch on the TV. Since I never watched I was shocked again how bad it was. That was NOT unexpected. I just keep forgetting that. I stumbled upon “Blue Valentine”. I liked it a lot. And interesting movie to watch from the middle. I liked it quiet a bit and wanted to watch it completely. I ordered the BluRay Version.
I liked the entire movie as well. Nice to see that this kind of project gets made.
What really bothered me was the previews and trailers that want to play every time I insert the disc. I can fwd skip through things. But it is annoying. Very.
People do no longer buy media on discs anymore. As a reaction it seems that people try to sell things even harder. An junk-loop-spiral towards doom. Much like the Hotel phone prices jumping up when cell phones took away the call volume. A failed attempt to keep revenues steady in a shrinking market.
The good one
I wondered if it is possible to get a report from Amazon on past purchases. Sure enough it is. It works well. And it is so helpful. I never choose Amazon because of this. I had no idea I existed. I would use them if they had no reports.
Both – the disc makers and Amazon – deliver the core product that they offer.
The difference is in what they do extra: Amazon tries to think about what could be helpful for me. The disc makers try to think what is helpful for them.
How funny that they think that that will work.
It is time that we start taxing sugar. R. Lustig and C. Brindis published a very compelling opinion piece in the current issue of Nature. (Vol 482)
It is ALSO high time that Nature stops paywalling ALL articles. Op pieces like this one SHOULD be public on the net.
Science and Nature are both on this idiot pay-wall trip. They need to get over that.
The should be ways so that they have their content online for all and still give extra for people that pay now for the content.
Last century we bought 3 full size Samsonite Oyster suitcases. Back then you had to put some stickers on them to distinguish them from all the others that people had.
That changed. Now there are all those black soft textile bags on the belt. I never understood why.
Those suitcases are simply amazing. They have traveled ridiculous miles by now. Life is tough if you are luggage. I can not imagine what kind of treatment they have gone through. They always worked.
I was very saddened when he lock broke on one of them. I don’t think I want any other suitcase. Rimowa seems to be en vogue. But I feel that they would not work better and probably look pretty beat up within a couple of months. I also don’t like if my luggage tells the world “Hey – check this out – I have money – stealing here is worth the risk”.
But as it turns out Samsonite did not only make awesome products, their service rocks as well:
I emailed them, asking if I could order a spare lock. They asked for my address and will send me a replacement lock for free.
I love it if things work right. I think this kind of service is truly inspiring.
Me loves my Samsonites!
Yeah for OptOutPrescreen. Takes less than a minute to have five years of no credit card offers in your mail box.
Unless they are not who they say they are and half of Ukraine is gonna have a big party now with my social and other info. Well – luckily https is still pretty safe,
and so is google showing the site as the first hit, as long one is careful.
I was expecting the Opt Out process to be tedius. Turns out it wasn’t at all. Nice. Now let’s see when the letters top coming in …
looks like Munch got it right (there are clips inside of the slideshow)
I made a map of the current ecoli outbreak in Germany.
There is actually also a german version: Ehec Karte Deutschland
On the carton of orange juice it reads “low in saturated fat”. Orange juice, fat?? WTF. What are they thinking. How many people ever considered OJ to be fatty? Pretty clear which country you are in when you read this kind of ‘nutrition information’.