random bits

[cellio]

Last week the mail brought me a lovely gift from ohiblather, and yesterday's mail brought a nice surprise from chaiya. Thanks to both of you! You brightened my days.

This Saturday is the annual Shabbat service run by a local women's (Rosh Chodesh) group. I've chanted torah for them in the past, but concluded last year that that's too much work for those circumstances (not my congregation, very difficult scroll to read). So this year they asked me to lead part of the service. I'm still waiting for details on that; fortunately, I know the siddur they're using and I can lead pretty much anything from it at will. But you'd think that for something that only happens once a year, they would be organized a little farther in advance. (To be more specific, they have neither given me details nor given me autonomy to just do what I want. If they don't do the former they get the latter by default.)

A week or so ago at the grocery store I received a coupon good for a free car wash -- to be redeemed in February. Um, right. As it turned out, I got an accidental extension for another week or so; there was a nice day last week so I redeemed the coupon, but then the cashier said "the line's more than an hour long, you know". I said "um, no, I didn't -- can we undo this and I'll come back later?" No problem, she said -- the code is good for two weeks. If I'd known, I could have waited until today to try that. :-)

Yahoo is snooping on its users again. Thanks to blackpaladin for pointing this out. Look at their privacy statement, scan down to "web beacons", click the link, scan down to "outside the Yahoo network", decide if you're happy with that, and if not, click on "opt out". Then, do not be misled by the button on the results page; it's not a "submit" or the like but rather "undo this".

I enjoyed these food quotes from magid.

This is what happens sometimes when creative people are confronted with stupid demands while in silly moods. Thanks, mortuus.

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Read the web beacons stuff. Don't bother me too much, as I use my Yahoo mail account only as my spam mail box, and all I mail out are any identified false positives. Of course, Yahoo might wonder why there is so much spam being forwarded there :-)

[cellio]

I don't use Yahoo mail at all, but I know lots of people who do. (I am on some Yahoo mailing lists.) As far as I'm concerned they can attach any strings they like to a free service, but they should be up-front about it. Yahoo users didn't receive mail announcing the change in the privacy policy, and I think that's wrong.