I'm at the top of the list!

I think I might start cross-posting some (all?) of my blog posts from Reid.cx over here at the Strip. Why not spend the extra 3 minutes of effort. Or maybe I'll use e:strip and write something on my end to rip the RSS and plug it into my site's database (yeah right, too lazy for that -- much easier to just use brute force).

Seriously, that dude has gots ta go. He's terrible. Terrible. If it weren't for all the tweens he's probably got on his side voting for him, he never would have even made it to the final 12.

I don't remember the US Postal Service ever doing any type of cross-promotions when I was growing up. Now it seems like they're constantly pursuing new revenue streams through the marketing angle; like when they did all the stuff for The Cat in the Hat a couple years ago and there were posters practically wallpapering the inside of my local branch. I guess it's probably due to the emergence of e-mail and other alternate methods of communication.

Anyway, with that said, how cool would it be if one of these ended up on the corner of Nassau and Delaware?



Yeah, right. We'll be lucky if they even place one in the B'lo at all since they're only rolling out 3 or 400 of them nationwide. Here's the site where they're promoting it: USPSJediMaster.com

Yeah, whether it makes me a tool or not I don't know, but I'll admit it: I'm a big Adam Sandler fan. You can't do much better than Waterboy. Or Mr. Deeds. Or 50 First Dates. Or The Wedding Singer. Or... Well, you get the idea.

If you're one too then check out Letterman tonight because apparently he's taking a sick day and his lead guest (Sandler) will be hosting the show in his stead. Should be a good time I think.

Update, 10:56am: Argh, apparently the article was from yesterday (blast you, Digg!) so yeah never mind. Well, I'm off to YouTube to see what I can find.

Has anyone else seen the new themes and tabbing options that Google pushed out this week for their "Customized Home" pages? I'm using the cute one with everyone at the bus stop. It actually changes along with my local weather, supposedly.



You can now create your own tabs based on subject. Not to gush, but it's pretty fantastic.



Between their site's flexibility and my content providers' respective RSS feeds, I've now got all my mandatory daily browsing coming to one convenient place that follows me wherever I go. What a great time to be alive.

...but I'm a big fan of getting into the car after the sun's been beating down on it and leaving the windows up, just enjoying the swelter. Even in the middle of the summer, but especially now in the early spring. I love the heat.

And I live in Buffalo why?

Well, I finished my first Star Wars read of 2007: The Courtship of Princess Leia. Let's hear it for overly descriptive book titles. It's actually a pretty fitting title based on the book's content, but it's embarrassing if you have to answer a question like...

"Hey Del, what are you reading these days?"

"Um, 'The Courtship of Princess Leia,'"

"Yeah, have fun with that. ... Nerd."

Anyway, I'm giving this one four stars even though it probably deserves three. It just feels good to be back in the GFFA again (and no, I'm not linking GFFA for you guys that don't know what it means; it's a nerd thing, you wouldn't understand).

The whole premise of the book is that there's this area of the galaxy which has remained aloof from the rest of the universe and now wants to join the New Republic, but there's a catch. It turns out that the Hapes Cluster's Prince Isolder has fallen in love with Leia and wants to marry her and in return this incredibly wealthy and powerful segment of the galaxy will lend a hand in beating down the remnants of the Empire. Of course, as we all know, Leia is spoken for by Han Solo but since there's no ring on the finger, she's fair game! So she plays along with Isolder's advances until Han Solo happens across a useful plot device that allows him to kidnap and take her to a planet that he just won in a Sabacc (that's "cards" for the nerd-handicapped) game. Because winning the rights to a planet is just that easy.

So the story plays out in that the planet is actually inhabited by all these women who are basically force witches (some good, some bad) that are stranded there and are in the middle of their own war. Good times. Like most Star Wars books, in the end everyone lives (although the author does a good job of making Han embrace his own death, hoping to save hundreds of innocent prisoners) and Han and Leia tie the knot. And Isolder marries someone else.

What I liked:

* Luke's near-death experience: did he use the Force to save himself, or did it do it by itself?
* Han's trip to Gethzerion (that's a person, not a place), knowing he was walking to his death. Interesting that he tried to go out as a suicide bomber. I wonder if this book was released nowadays (instead of 1994) if the editor would have allowed the author to use that idea, given current events. I thought it was cute, but a little trite that when Leia (almost) told him she loved him as he left that he said "I know." Come on, Dave Wolverton. Be creative. The "I know" thing... it's been done.
* If you take the title literally and consider the book's events to be the full "courtship" between Leia and Han, then it's kind of funny that their "courtship" involves all this violence and bloodshed. Like I said above, good times.
* Zsinj's death. Any time any link to the X-Wing novels is extinguished, that's a good thing.

Now it's on to Tatooine Ghost, which is probably about their honeymoon or something... But first I need to read a Crown Financial Ministries book so it might be a few weeks until I get back into the GFFA.

TTFN!

Chris Sligh goes home and Sanjaya isn't even in the bottom three.

What a world, what a world.