Entries from February 2006

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Last Olympics thoughts

and they aren’t positive ones… Dear NBC, please don’t take a lack of ratings on the Olympics to mean there is a lack of interest. Instead, take them as a criticism of your crappy coverage (again). Maybe you could spend less time doing puff pieces about the athletes and more time showing the actual events. [...]

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

If I was an olympic skating judge

anyone skating to Nessun Dorna or Love Story would get a zero. and their coach would get a punch in the head.

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Seattle Meals By Location

Here are some of my favorite meals by neighborhood, these aren’t the once a year meals, there are the once a month meals (not that I eat all of these every month, I’d be dead of heart disease if I actually ate like this every night). I mean that they are all reasonably priced (and [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

netflix part deux

supposedly, the more you rent from netflix, the slower your service will be. They do this so that your per-rental fee will always be above $2. I can understand this from a business perspective, but from a customer service perspective, it sucks. Given a choice, I would rather pay more money for my membership and [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

my e-mail to netflix

I sent the following e-mail to netflix this morning There is a longer and longer gap between when we send movies and when you acknowledge receiving them. Also, once you have received them, you are taking longer and longer to mail out the next film in our queues. We live in downtown Seattle, films dropped [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Icon Grill

worth checking out if someone else is paying Walking in the door any night at the Icon Grill, you’ll see large parties of people. These are business groups on expense accounts. You will also see a fair number of tourists due to its proximity to the Westin and other hotels. That these groups are the [...]