Paul's Journal

08/12/2011 22:47 #54931

Live at wemf 2011
Category: music

It's freaking awesome.

08/12/2011 17:13 #54930

The juiciest Litchis and sim cards

And dragonfruits were only 2.99 instead of 9.99 at Wegmans.

I wish I got the dragonfruit but I was in a rush to get my SIM card at the Rogers wireless store.

Its kind of a rip off. I got a similar card at best buy for $10. I was able to activate it over the phone but they has no way to charge it with an American visa or MasterCard, only American express unless you go instore and purchase vouchers. I don't understand why the brick and mortar store can take American visa cards. In the end I got 500MB of data, a bunch of phone minutes and 250 international text messages for $50. Its good for a month so it should work for (e:Terry)'s birthday at the quarry too. In general the process was so complicated and expensive. I wish they could make it easier. After Sept 11th they will have a prepaid 500mb topup plan for $25.

tinypliny - 08/14/11 21:56
I meant the sim. It would have been affordable for the fruit alone if you didn't want the sim card to be connected all the time. :)

paul - 08/14/11 20:18
Which the fruit or the sim. The fruit seemed like a good price.

tinypliny - 08/13/11 04:35
That is a ripoff. It's interesting how the cost of living otherwise seems to be waaay more affordable if you are not an American with an urgent need to be just connected.

heidi - 08/12/11 20:58
No screens on vacation! ;-)

I noticed this a few days ago... the PM timestamps don't indicate that they're PM on posts, although they're in 24-hour in the post list tooltips.

metalpeter - 08/12/11 17:43
Never had real dragon fruit only things that claim to be it flavored ........

08/12/2011 09:27 #54925

My Shoe Collection
Category: shoes

Here they all are. Each pair has a different purpose except for the near duplicate brown leather low top ones.

metalpeter - 08/12/11 17:23
I for sure thought your computers would out number the shoes looks like I was wrong....

tinypliny - 08/12/11 10:32
Those gold accented shoes are so cool! You need to wear them out! :)

08/10/2011 23:08 #54920

Trip To Ikea
Category: shopping

(e:libertad), (e:terry), (e:mike) and I went to IKEA on Saturday. I like the stainless steal microwave but the best part was the sweedish meatballs with currant sauce and elderflower juice. I am not sure I would ever buy any of their furniture, its really not my style.

metalpeter - 08/11/11 17:17
haven't been in a long time I like some of their stuff but some of it is way to out there for me.....

tinypliny - 08/11/11 12:07
I like their frozen yogurt and their furniture. :)

08/10/2011 23:00 #54919

Borders Closes - The end of an era
Category: books

Borders was probably the single most contributing factor to my credit card debt in the late 1990s - early 2000s. I spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on computer programming books. Then in 2004 I remember shopping one day with my brand new smartphone, a sidekick. I wanted to buy Make Magazine but I decided to try looking up the price online and it was way cheaper. I ordered the magazine right there from my phone. It remember because it was the first time I ever bought something online and I was real sketched out about entering my credit card number in. Shortly thereafter I bought all of my computer books on amazon. Now border is out of business. I guess it all makes sense. Now I shop from my phone all the time.

I will miss the experience of going to the bookstore (e:paul,32098)

Its so funny to see genres broken down by different percentages off. If you want magazine you should go now, they are going quick but they are 50% off.

metalpeter - 08/11/11 17:15
I think two things Really Hurt them.......
1. Amazon.com thing with amazon was that you could buy books and CDs and movies all in one spot online.... At one point if they didn't have one in your state you didn't have to pay tax on any of it..... But then Amazon started selling down loads and audio books and then kindles and if you get a kindle why pay for a book from Boarders when you have the kindle?

2. The other thing that I think killed them is that the library was less laid back.... yeah you could read like it was a starbucks but when you are supposed to be selling books not having people hang out like on the couches at spot how do you make any money.......

tinypliny - 08/11/11 12:10
I still can't figure out what that book was. Seriously I have never seen a book that didn't have a TOC, a preface, an index or even the briefest of introduction. It just started from nowhere and ended in nowhere and didn't look like it was missing pages. Or maybe it was fashioned after one of those super elite restaurants that only have a single alphabet (or sometimes not even that), unlabeled " exclusive" store facades etc.