Assuming Charlie Brown was supposed to be five years old when Peanuts premiered in 25 newspapers, sixty years ago today, he’d be getting ready for retirement. But, thankfully, there’s no end in sight for the timeless creations of Charles M. Schulz.
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May the Eforcity be with you
Praise and thanks for electronics vendor eForCity. The 50-ft. HDMI cables I use for my video projector came from Eforcity, through Amazon. They’re rugged, they work perfectly, and they cost a fraction of what a regular retailer would charge.
When Eric started school I ordered a 10-ft. HDMI cable to connect his laptop computer (with Blu-ray) to his LCD TV. Amazon insisted on using a slightly different address than the one the college lists, but the ZIP code was the same, so I went with it. Two weeks after Eforcity sent the cable it still hadn’t arrived. I don’t know if the Post Office decided it didn’t like seeing the section of the town listed, rather than the town itself, or if the package was stolen from the college’s mail room. Either scenario is possible.
Through Amazon, I wrote to Eforcity to say the cable was lost in shipment, but I said for the small amount of money involved, $3.56 total, I wasn’t going to worry about it. I was about to order another cable when I received e-mail from Eforcity, offering to ship another cable. I said thank you, and requested that the cable be sent home, instead of to school. The cable was sent Tuesday and arrived today. Thank you, eForCity!
The Nazis’ highway to France?
Jon Stewart got some laughs at Belgium’s expense last night. Hey, Mr. Daily Show, pick on somebody your own size! Although, come to think of it, I guess you were.
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One thing worth mentioning about Belgium, in relation to America, is that a Belgian company owns Budweiser.
Boring *YAWN* Belgium
On Monday, the Boston-produced PRI show The World turned its attention to tiny Belgium. Here’s the podcast…
[audio:http://media.theworld.org/audio/092720109.mp3]… and this is the video that’s discussed in the podcast…
http://youtu.be/Ceg6NQKHd70
… but if you really want proof that Belgium isn’t boring, there’s this…
http://youtu.be/VgzFt5hsS7s
BTW… Prue Bury’s family is from Belgium, both of her sisters were born there, and if not for WWII Prue would be Belgian, too.
Goodbye, gorgeous, glorious, Gloria
More TEAsing
The Boston Globe has added more strips to its Tea Party takes over the comics page parody, so take another look. But there’s no comparison between what’s online, and the full page that’s in today’s print edition of the Globe.
