I "fell" into my job on the web. my education is rooted in thoughts and communication between people. the web is quickly allowing me to get back to my roots in a professional capacity with Web2.0. i could not be happier!

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Blockbuster Online was created solely to steal Netflix’s online rental idea and drive them out of business: as such, if/when Netflix is bankrupted by Blockbuster Online’s Bauman-esque ripoff artistry, Blockbuster Online will raise its prices significantly, and probably get rid of the whole “free instore rental” thing. Thanks to the combination of No Late Fees and the Blockbuster Online free rentals, the BB Corporation is losing money – once their main source of competition is gone, they’ll do whatever necessary to get that cash back.

 

"Natural gas is typically used to produce hydrogen, but the process creates emissions. Hill said the goal is to demonstrate that hydrogen can be produced — and stored — using pollution-free wind power."

 

i'm a reader. i love to read. when i get started, i voraciously devour it in just a few days. case in point...

it was super freaking hot in Seattle all of last week. it is never super freaking hot in Seattle, so no one has air conditioning. to escape one night, Abi and i spent the evening at Barnes and Noble--she did homework and i browsed and started reading one of 2 books i was going to buy. The book was A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornsby. he is they guy that wrote High Fidelity, About a Boy and Fever Pitch--all which have been made into movies. he is bloody brilliant! he is also british, hence my use of "bloody" to describe his brilliance. i finished the book in about 3 days.

the book is written in the first person from the perspective of 4 different people, an american late twenty-something rock-n-roll flunkie, a disgraced middle-aged british tv personality, an 18 year old british delinquent with issues, and a mother of a 19 year old son with severe mental disabilities. they all come together by chance as they try to jump off the top of a tall building in London. the book follows their journey back from the brink of the abyss. deperessing, startling, charming, witty, and freaking hilarious!

While in Jamaica i read his other novel (the one not made into a movie....yet) called How To Be Good. i finished the book in about 3 days.

This was another dramatic yet funny book about a Dr in England who decides she wants to divorce her husbad. he says "no" and she is stuck. he then has a massive "spiritual conversion" and is determined to "be good"--which means he wants to have his neighbors host runaway teens, he gives half of his kids' toys away, and every meal that is cooked is given away to the homeless. the story follows the mom/wife/doc as she struggles to follow these life changes and save herself and her marriage.

How to be Good was the funnier of the two, but both excellant reads and worth picking up or checking out at the library (shout out to the libraries for you Lindsay!).

in other movie/book news, we went and saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix yesterday. It was awesome, but i bet more so to those of us who read the books. Abi didn't like it as much as not much happens (true) and there wasn't much action or magic (also true). i haven't pre-ordered the last HP book yet, but i'm going to try to pick it up somewhere the first week it is out. i'm sure i'll be done with it in no time. :)