short takes

[cellio]

Cats versus Roomba, from several people on my friends list. Very funny!

Seen at the entrance to an automated car-wash: "Do not enter car wash on foot". Um, yeah. I think I'd be happier living in a world where that's obvious.

I've been listening to Roundworm, a collection of Bob Kanefsky's filk parodies, in the car recently. (The linked page includes some MP3s; I particularly commend "Eternal Flame".) There's a lot of fun stuff on that album, and it's making me think upgrade thoughts about my Kanefsky cassettes. (Oh, drat -- it looks like this is his only CD so far. Oops.) He is particularly good at writing parodies that stand on their own but are even funnier if you know the songs he's parodying. A lot of parodies out there require knowledge of the original; his usually don't. Another nice touch is that he generally gets the original performers to sing the parodies on the recordings.

In January I sent in the rebate coupons for my new computer. Today I got email from HP telling me they'd received them and I should get my rebate in 2-4 weeks. Took long enough -- and I have yet to hear from CompUSA about the one they owe me. I begin to see how this works; not only do they make money from the people who forget to send the coupons in, but they make money on the float (as compared to just lowering the price in the first place).

The last beer buy included a side buy of Belgian lambics. Linedmann's has something new -- a "naked" lambic without any of the fruit additives they're known for. It's called Gueuze (no, I won't hazard a guess on pronunciation) and it's really good. My favorite fruit flavor is Peche (peach) and I didn't expect to like the plain version as much, but I do. For those of you who like beer that doesn't taste strongly of hops, and who can buy single bottles, check it out.

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[cellio]

Peach and plain are going to be my standards, too.

The first time I had the currant I wasn't too happy with it, but the second time I liked it better. Since I don't know which of those two data points was anomolous, I don't know what would happen with #3. :-)