Month: December 2010

The answer in plane sight

A few weeks ago I wrote about the mysterious appearance of the body of a dead teen on a dead end street in a town near Boston. The only explanation that fit the facts was that Delvonte Tisdale fell from an airplane. I had said, “I’m surprised that the theory is still being called an “unlikely and remote possibility,” because it’s the only thing that makes sense,” and now, finally, it seems this explanation is going to be made official.

Mistah Magloo returns

Last year I posted an unauthorized YouTube copy of Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, the first of the classic 60’s animated Christmas specials. That copy has been pulled, but this year Hulu has it.

I wanted to watch Magoo on regular TV, and thanks to my friend tastewar, who had an Amazon video-on-demand $5 promotional credit to spare, I got it for free. However, mere minutes later, the same program was available for purchase for only three dollars.

I know there’s a lot of dynamic pricing based on cookie scanning, but I’ve never seen it happen so abruptly. I wonder if I’d not purchased it on first viewing, and gone back to the listing a second time to buy it, would I have seen the lower price, leaving me with a couple of extra bucks to rent something else?

The Colbert-Trudeau Report

Garry Trudeau was on the The Colbert Report Monday night, talking about the 40th anniversary of Doonesbury. Which makes me remember the 40th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, when I was in my first year of employment at the same place I am now, still working for the same people.

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Trudeau says he hasn’t recycled any strips, and I guess that’s correct, but he has repeated many strips, of course. For most of the strip’s run the finished art has been rendered by Don Carlton.

http://www.thebesttimes.org/people/cover_stories/1210_don_carlton.shtml