Was one of the Portland, OR, techie Buffistas looking for work? A listserve I'm on just sent out an opening that might be useful. Feel free to contact me via my profile addy and I'll forward it. [Cross-posted with Bitches]
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm interested in buying a region-free DVD player (dammit, BBC, put out Victorian Farm in Region 1!). They seem easily affordable, and I'm wondering if it's a good idea to buy something like this online.
I had reasonable luck buying a region free DVD/Blu Ray player online, Connie. And when I ran into a technical glitch over a year after buying it, tech support was very responsive and cleared everything up. I used 220 Electronics. [link] The site doesn't look like much, but I liked their customer service.
I've bought two refurbished region-free players online and both have worked perfectly.
Excellent, now to find out that I can plug into my computer as well as my TV (I like hunching over my 17" laptop screen).
Strix, insent.
Omg that link made me laugh and laugh and then you all made me laugh. Crying.
I betaed a novel for Seanan many years ago, before she was published. She was definitely working on another novel, though perhaps taking a short break as she banged out the YA idea she had. Still, she sent me a reasonably long chapter every day as well as an edited earlier chapter. I was her beta for maybe three weeks and the novel was in workable second draft form. While she worked a full time job.
It was scary impressive.
Tonight my wife and I are blowing the entire "staycation" budget we set aside for our spring break at one restaurant, the Catbird Seat. Nashville only has one Michelin rated restaurant and this is it. I am excited.
Timelies all!
Seanan is indeed prolific. She posts a monthly list of what she's working on(just novels) and between that and her monthly "what's coming out when" post I'm tired for her.
Tomorrow night we're going to see Pentatonix in concert. Whee!
At this time of day I like to pull up the local news traffic website and watch the usual location suspects start changing color.