The Queen (same director as Frost/Nixon),

Err, no. Ron Howard is the director, which is my one big ? on whether I'm going to see it.

I like Virgin. Even though all their marketing is tailored for teens/twenty-somethings....

I agree with both these statements. They also text spam me a bit more than I would like, but I love the pay-to-play aspect given how little I use my cell phone.

Sheppies! And, yeah, that's a pretty typical silver sable -- it's a weird color, based on application of the sable series to what in a non-sable would be the IMO ugly washed-out cream-and-black color. In the sable version, though, it's very wolfy and oddly un-shepherdy (given what wolfy dogs they are in a lot of other ways).

Anyone have any firm opinions on prepaid cell phones? Best/worst?

I used Virgin for several years (happily) before I got my crackberry. They've got a flip phone with a full keyboard and good rates on web access too if that's something you're looking for.

See, I remember Mark (my gran's dog) as sable with a blanket. And you know brown and other colors. My cousin remembers both Mark and Nickel, his brother, as silver sable. You understand that these dogs were born a year before I was. My memory may not be very accurate. Of course, my cousin was only 3 when they were born. Her memory of Nickel should be better - given that he was her family's dog.

Err, no. Ron Howard is the director, which is my one big ? on whether I'm going to see it.

Oops! I was reading something about the movie and saw a The Queen reference in it, which must have been for the actor Michael Sheen, not the director of F/N.

So, Ron Howard directed, hmm? That explains Frost's reference to Howard during his TDS interview last week.

Could a silver sable have a black saddle?

ION, I just had a frustrating conversation with Amazon customer service: I checked my outstanding orders and to my horror discovered that something that I was not expecting 'til after payday was "shipping soon." I raced to my end of payperiod skinny checkinig account to see if I could cover the order and no - probably not. So I did that express phone thing to see if I could figure out when/if the ax would fall. An ax including massive overdraft fees and they told me that not only was it "shipping soon" - in fact, it had actually shipped last week.

Given that I typically receive things in a week and that Amazon was not on my checking account records I was sure that this was not so.

But he insisted so I glumly hung up the phone and went and emailed customer service. While I was doing so I received an email from Amazon saying that the package had been shipped.

And then, while I was venting (on email) to a friend about the whole thing - I got another email saying, no, sorry - that item will not ship until after December 4th - because it is not yet released.

WTF? Is it that Christmas rush thing already that is confusing them?

So, Ron Howard directed, hmm?

The movies of his that I really like (Night Shift, Splash) don't exactly scream Frost/Nixon to me, but we'll see.

A funny picture of a cat hitting a dog: [link]

eta: Some of the other posts at this blog are NSFW

A picture of a child sitting on the Easter Bunny's lap: [link]

It looks like the Easter Bunny is just waiting for the photographer to put the camera down so he can eat the child.

eta: Some of the other posts at this blog are NSFW

Thanks for the Virgin recs. It's for a Christmas gift, so the easiest to use with as few bells and whistles as possible is best. I've looked at their products and like them a lot.

Thanks!!

t checks one more gift off list