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[teg]

I just picked up a new movie and now my shelf is in disarraaaaay.

[Thad]

So I have company visiting this weekend; old buddies from college.  We used to watch Justice League in the dorms together and I figured a little McDuffie tribute was in order, and decided I'd get All-Star Superman from Netflix.  So I blew through the Mighty Mouse DVD I had rented (falling behind on my Stewarts and Colberts in the process) so I could send it back and get All-Star Superman.

So today I went and double-checked my queue, and there it was at the top, but -- and I swear this wasn't there last night -- with an angry red Available 3/22/2011 next to it.

So of course I did what anyone would do in this situation: I went down to my local Tower Virgin Circuit City FYE Hollywood Video Ultimate Electronics Blockbuster Borders place where people get movies on physical media that is not Netflix and paid full price for it.  Because that is totally what Warner's asinine policy of not allowing Netflix to provide movies until a month after release encourages me to do!

[Brentai]

Amazon.

/pizza

[Dooly]

He wouldn't have gotten it anywhere near this weekend.

[Royal☭]

You can rent movies on Amazon for $4 and you get to use it for like 3-4 days.

[Brentai]

My delivery time for most Amazon stuff is about comparable to Netflix, and that's without Prime.

(Assuming it's actually sold by Amazon and not a partner, which if it's a recent release it probably is.)

[sei]

Housemate:
buys something
opens it and discovers it's rotten
is going to return it to the store, god damn it, and get that money back!
leaves it exposed in the fridge, turning the good food like 1HD undead

[Thad]

Amazon.

Yes, all right, but I wanted to rent it, not buy it (though I realize my litany of brick-and-mortar stores-for-purchase probably made that unclear).

You can rent movies on Amazon for $4 and you get to use it for like 3-4 days.

1. I'm already paying for Netflix.
2. $4 is, like, Blockbuster rental price.  Worked out really well for them.
3. What's this crap where I need a set-top box to watch it in HD?  I'm sure the client's just a damn Linux binary; let me stick it on the computer I have hooked up to my TV, you dicks.

...truth is I'm not buying a whole lot of movies at this juncture (though I'm using the hell out of Netflix).  Thing with DVD is, it's now the low-quality format; I'm reluctant to buy it for anything but TV shows made prior to 2007.  (I DID make an exception the other day as Costco had the new Back to the Future Collection for $13.  Which brings us back to the point of price.)  Thing with Blu-Ray is, I don't know if it's still going to be around in five years.  (Though if it is, I should at least be able to play it under Linux by then!)  And the thing with digital downloads is they're DRM'ed.  No format is really acceptable for purchase for most things, especially at current prices.

So for the time being, it's mostly renting and streaming.  Netflix is good for those things!  Maybe Amazon is too.  I don't know, and I'm not going to pay $4 a damn movie to find out, no matter how much the studios artificially restrict the market.

[Brentai]

There's also PSN Store if giving Sony money doesn't make you gush blood from your eyes.  I mean okay technically that requires a kind of set-top box too...

(My TV has most set-top apps built right in, so I'm kind of unaware as to what requires what these days.)

[Misha]

snow in fucking april. There was no snow on the ground yesterday.

[Lottel]

"just tried for 30 minutes to figure out why my internet wasn't working only to realize I was using the wrong cord that wasn't plugged into anything. April Fools on myself. :P"
"Happy April Fool's! LOL!"
"It's NOT April Fool's. LOL"

Motherfuckers. I taste BLOOD.

[Büge]

snow in fucking april. There was no snow on the ground yesterday.

Welcome to Canada!

[Thad]

Today's forecast high is 98.  I'll trade you.

[Thad]

Some fucking kid has decided it's the height of hilarity to honk his dad's truck's horn with the keychain.  At least, that's what I assume is happening; at any rate there's a truck that keeps honking its horn and nobody is inside it.

[TA]

When all else fails, use fire.

[François]

Some fucking kid has decided it's the height of hilarity to set my truck on fire. At least, that's what I assume is happening; at any rate downtown has been burning for six hours now and apparently it started in a truck that looks like mine.

[Thad]

When all else fails, use fire.

I've seen a police car parked in front of that house.  So no.

[Mongrel]

But I hear you get MAX bonus points if you set Sheriff Joe on fire.

[Thad]

Yeah, but it was city PD, not MCSO.

And it was definitely not Sheriff Joe's car.

...anyway.  Speaking of things bursting into flame, it was not 98 yesterday after all.  It was 100 degrees.  On the first of goddamn April.

Hoping the forecast holds and we're back down to 85 tomorrow.  And if we really do get to 76 by Friday I'll be able to turn the AC off.

[Catloaf]

People who drive while stoned.

In Ann Arbor, we have an event called 'hash bash', where drug paraphernalia is sold openly on the street, pot is sold under the table while the cops look the other way, and stoners of all ages (though mostly students) wonder around down town/the U of M campus reeking of pot, tobacco and junk-food.  It happens to be today.

The thing is, many of these people go elsewhere via automobile...  Leading to virtually every intersection anywhere near down town almost constantly gridlocked. 
I saw one particularly stupid idiot get frustrated, drive around the person in the front of the line--who was doing the right thing and waiting for there to be room on the other side of the intersection--suddenly break upon seeing that there was a car a scant 2 inches from their front bumper, and ending up not even two car lengths ahead of the good driver, which happened to also be in the dead-center of the intersection.  This happened just as the light changed and led to those with the green light having to wait another whole cycle (2~3 minutes) to go, which led to another fucking idiot gridlocking the intersection behind them!  And the cops don't do anything about it because they're busy looking the other way from the pot-heads, even though the city could've raked in tens of thousands of dollars had they ticketed half the people who blocked an intersection.

By the way, I'm only down town today because I use my dad's office to study in when it's not in use.  Yet by the time I walk one block amongst the crowds my throat is dry and my eyes are red.