I read this item regarding Netflix and privacy on Tuesday Morning.
In the Afternoon I walked into town and rented a couple of movies from the local video rental place, which is celebrating 28 years in business this year. I was a member in the Eighties and I renewed my membership last Spring. It’s an old-fashioned store. Accounts are kept on note-cards, there is no computer, one has to walk around and discover the movies, but the selection is good. I haven’t cancelled my Netflix account, yet, but it seems likely that I will. Netflix works well and is easy, but this little local store is more to my liking, and is just an easy bike-ride away.
For dinner I made a salad of lettuce, carrots and raisins, although dates might have been better instead of the raisins. For the dressing I used a food processor, in which I combined the juice of one lemon, about 1/2 cup of olive oil, a handful Italian parsley, three cloves of garlic, salt and pepper. When the salad was done, I sprinkled some toasted sesame seeds on it. I had not used parsley like that, but after reading about a different sauce-recipe in a book of Ottoman cuisine, I decided it might work in a dressing. I really liked the flavor.
After dinner I watched the movie Silk. Not a great movie, but the visuals were beautiful and I concentrated on that. I read the book a year ago. The book is very poetic and worth reading.
In November the band will play in Japan. Dates to follow. We will be in Yokohama and Tokyo for a week. I am quite excited about it!
Would love to see Lovegrove’s solar trees at the MAK in Vienna, if I can find the time.
Naturally this item made me chuckle:
Five possibilities for the future of Facebook | Web Services | Macworld
Social networking will eventually plateau, skid, and fall off a cliff. Users will abandon ship, just as they did with MySpace, tired of scanning pointless Twitter-like status updates, step-by-step progress through silly games, and pictures of vacations you will never, ever take. Without a great deal of innovation and progressive thought, Facebook could find itself staring at a brick wall with no direction home to the simple glory days before 300 million turned into 600 million.
Unfortunately, our local video store closed this summer so we signed up for Netflix. When my son’s were children, that was a favorite destination for them to pick out a video game or movie. We used to have 8 movie theaters in our little city and a couple of drive-in’s in my teen’s. All within a 10 minute drive and 3 were just a block apart. The 8 theater’s are still existing but not used as a movie theaters. They make wonderful space when restored, as I worked with an architect that had his business in an old theater.
Hmmm dates in a salad, never tried but have used dates many times in a Danish Christmas cake that is filled with dates, pecans, maraschino cherries. Sounds like a great salad though.
Congratulations on the band booked to Japan. Wonderful!