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I love direct deposit.

I am now officially credit card debt-free. Woo. And I still have a huge chunk o' change left over. :D

(Granted, I was entirely debt-free a couple months ago, and now I have a car loan. But still, it feels good, after such an expensive month.)

Subject: You're invited: Private Screening of Fantastic 4 at the Cinerama on July 6

See the Fantastic 4 before any of your friends!

Amazon.com is working with Fox Studios on a major Fantastic Four promotion and, as a thank-you, Fox has arranged for a special, private advance screening of the film for Amazonians at the Cinerama.

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Check out our exclusive clip from the movie to get you in the mood.

Thanks -- and we hope you enjoy the show!

-- the Strategic Communications, Content and Initiatives team.

Work was fine, though it kept getting later and later before I left because I've been trying to figure out a stupid thing in one of the web templating packages.

I've been here for a whole month, and I still like the job a lot. A new record! :)

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One of the many many perks at Amazon is that occasionally we get to go to things called "fishbowls" where an artist or musician or author whose stuff is on Amazon gives a little presentation for Amazon employees. Usually it's just some up-and-coming indie rocker or some motivational speaker who has a new book out, but next month for Amazon's 10th anniversary, the fishbowl is for Bob. Motherfucking. Dylan.

And I can't go because it's the same day as my sister's wedding.

(Of course, I talked about this already but it was buried pretty deep.)

Oh well. Tomorrow there's a fishbowl with Bruce. Motherfucking. Campbell. at lunchtime. Which HELL YES I am going to.

The building I live in is such a neat fusion of old and new, built in the 1920s but updated and transplanted into the 21st century, and its occupants are a perfect reflection of that.

The main reason I don't drink a lot of wine is because I can never drink a whole bottle before it goes bad due to oxidation and so on. Box wine always seemed like it'd be a perfectly-good wine storage method if there was ever a decent wine put into it.

Because the main Amazon HQ and the supplemental development offices are both nearly out of space, smaller groups (including mine) may be getting moved to the old Seattle fulfillment center, which is where more "ancillary" things are kept, such as HR, product reviews, and customer service. And the company store.

That's less dangerous for my wallet as it is for the free space in my apartment.

At Amazon.com, we get a lot of products to put on the website. Many products get a review from Amazon.com staff, and also get their pictures taken. However, we can't just keep the products, because it would take up way too much storage space, and we can't resell them because they're no longer new, and we can't simply give them away to employees, because that would incur a fairly large tax liability.

So, this is where the company store comes in.

Yay, I've moved into my new apartment. (Though my furniture won't be here until tomorrow morning so I'm still sleeping at the temp housing.) This place is AWESOME and STYLISH and my neighbors have an open WiFi access point! HOORAY!

I have finally jumped on the Technorati bandwagon. I think the way I've implemented my Technorati links fits in with the Technorati goal without actually mucking up my own tag navigation, though it's a bit ugly. I might play around with different ways of representing the tags though.

and said, "Ketchup."

So, yeah, I haven't been very posty in a while. So here's a post to make up for it.

Why don't they support third-party PalmOS PDAs (e.g. Tapwave Zodiac) with their OSX sync software?

And, why don't Apple buy out Mark/Space so that they can just bundle Missing Sync with iSync? $40 is way the hell too much for an "add-on" which should have come with it to begin with. Grr.

Someone left a voicemail for me, and my phone actually reported it as a voicemail instead of as an SMS. I guess T-Mobile have finally gotten around to implementing that part of GSM.

I am now 3³ years old. This is also the first time in a long time that I haven't had a shitty birthday. (Though I had a couple close calls to shittiness today. But they didn't happen so it's not worth worrying about.)

Yay!

I just saw an ad for glass cleaner, which leaves your windows not only clean, but high-definition clean.

Yeesh.

Okay, I'm getting pretty sick of not having actual Internet service at this point. T-Zones is nice but it can't quite replace a real connection. So, does anyone know of any short-term dialup ISPs which have access numbers in Seattle, don't require a long-term contract (or, better yet, allows month-to-month payment via Paypal), don't have any per-connection hourly limits, and just use normal PPP rather than any stupid proprietary protocol?

I only need a few weeks of access. The only ISPs I can find when I do obvious Google searches are either in other countries or are things like NetZero which use their own custom dialers (and think that I'm trying to download the dialer for my cellphone because they get confused by T-Mobile's proxy).

All he does is keep piling stuff dead-center and letting them spill around however they spill, even if there's absolutely no chance that the stuff he's piling up will stay in the middle.

Plus, he keeps adding stuff which both overcomplicates and masks the flavors of what he's preparing. I shudder to think what he'd do to delicate Japanese food.

So, today, the phone I ordered (Samsung E315) arrived. It is, of course, a complete piece of crap (by far the worst phone I've ever had), and I only got it for the $200 in rebates (with an up-front cost of $100). Of course I will probably just sell it on eBay. (It goes for $140. So that means I get $240 for basically just extending my T-Mobile contract another year. Which is basically what the carrier subsidy for a new one-year contract is anyway.)

I got my new car today. :)

So much time spent doing nothing!

Not only is Alton looking really young, but he's actually explaining why to use kosher salt! (Yay, now I finally know!)