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This morning the parkway was uncharacteristically slow, which I discovered only once I was well down the ramp. As I was crawling along I spotted a signboard ahead. Oh good, I thought; it might say what's going on. It said "congestion ahead". Well duh. Would it have been so difficult to say how much farther ahead? (Didn't affect me; I was getting off at the next exit anyway. It could have helped others, though.

I'd sure like to know why, semi-randomly, no browser installed on my home PC will render the ThinkGeek site. The only deterministic aspect so far is that once it fails, it apparently won't work until a reboot. I even tried clearing the cache, turning the firewall off, and trying the site -- zip. (Yes, of course I immediately turned the firewall back on.) Maybe I'll pull out the laptop later.

For what I assure you is a perfectly good reason, tonight I was trying to find DVDs of the Star Wars movies in the Italian language. Searching got a little more productive once I switched to the term "guerre stellari", but it's still bringing me no joy. Looks like even if I could find them, and find them in NTSC, they'd be region 2. Oh well. But it wasn't a completely wasted effort; back-translation supplied the following titles: "Vendetta of the Sith", "The Ghost Threat", "The Empire Still Hits", and "Stellar Wars YOU - The Return of the Jedi".

Last night I learned that my former boss (the most recent ex-boss) is going on the Israel trip. He doesn't live in this city any more, so I didn't expect that. Nifty! More people I actually know in the group. (I already know less than half the group, so far.)

From passionateusers: The zone of expendability: how management feels about you.