Aaah....Sunday Morning
0830. Just some random stuff:
On TV to DVD:
www.tvshowsondvd.com is a website that makes no money from the web surfer. I think they get money for their links to online media retailers like Amazon. Anyway, you make a dream list of shows you'd like to see produced on DVD, and they email you when that show is announced as in production for DVD release. I am pleased to announce that Magnum will be released this year. The bonus material will contain the two Magnum/Simon and Simon crossover episodes. Weeee! Now I can sit back and wait for the production dummies in Hollywood to see the light and put Police Squad! out on DVD....
On night life:
As I get older, I find that the simpler social outings get, the more I enjoy them. Where once I found it to be the ultimate to go through all the logistics, time, and cash to do a big night on the town; Dinner, waiting for straggling friends, intermediate stop off place, waiting for straggling friends, nightclub or watering hole and still waiting for those straggling friends, now, a really good dinner in a friendly place with one person who is great company sitting across from you is all this kid needs...
On Southern Cal:
On any non-national-title-contention year, the Men of Troy and all of their USC fans would have vilified Mike Williams for his departure to the pro draft and never would have spoken a word of support for his attempt to return to the University and gain eligibility to play football again. This is a class organization for one of the toughest schools in the world, academically. You never hear about recruiting scandals there. It's like the Marine Corps. They don't have to go out and actively recruit. The talent comes to them, because of their reputation. So at the start of a college football season where SC is in prime contention for the national championship, when all I hear from commentators, school athletics officials, and alumni is how the NCAA is the great Satan for not allowing this Mercenary to return to amateur status, I feel disgust. Why don't you move to Florida, SC? With all the other great professional college football programs?
On the LTL freight transportation system:
LTL is like an aircraft charter. You pay to have a specific amount of cargo transported directly to a specific location. You do not have a contract with the freight company other than previously negotiated and set freight tariffs and freight handling charges when you DO use this company. There are dozens and dozens of freight companies that do this: Central, Saia, ConWay, USF, ABF, WKST, Yellow, etc. Now, these companies pick freight up from a myriad of locations, take them to any one of hundreds of freight terminals, sort all the shipments according to destination, load them onto empty trailers and roll them to their destinations. The farther away the destination is, the more terminals this freight will hit to be sorted. There is the problem. The more these shipments are moved around, by trained apes and felons by my guess, the more risk there is to damage to the shipment. So when a customer emails me with digital pictures of a shipment of TCFE, UHMW, and Acetal Copolymer worth tens of thousands of dollars and personally quality control inspected by me, and those pictures show the shipment in individual pieces strewn about a 57 foot semi trailer with half of it missing completely, am I wrong to threaten to kneecap the freight company's account representative?
On TV to DVD:
www.tvshowsondvd.com is a website that makes no money from the web surfer. I think they get money for their links to online media retailers like Amazon. Anyway, you make a dream list of shows you'd like to see produced on DVD, and they email you when that show is announced as in production for DVD release. I am pleased to announce that Magnum will be released this year. The bonus material will contain the two Magnum/Simon and Simon crossover episodes. Weeee! Now I can sit back and wait for the production dummies in Hollywood to see the light and put Police Squad! out on DVD....
On night life:
As I get older, I find that the simpler social outings get, the more I enjoy them. Where once I found it to be the ultimate to go through all the logistics, time, and cash to do a big night on the town; Dinner, waiting for straggling friends, intermediate stop off place, waiting for straggling friends, nightclub or watering hole and still waiting for those straggling friends, now, a really good dinner in a friendly place with one person who is great company sitting across from you is all this kid needs...
On Southern Cal:
On any non-national-title-contention year, the Men of Troy and all of their USC fans would have vilified Mike Williams for his departure to the pro draft and never would have spoken a word of support for his attempt to return to the University and gain eligibility to play football again. This is a class organization for one of the toughest schools in the world, academically. You never hear about recruiting scandals there. It's like the Marine Corps. They don't have to go out and actively recruit. The talent comes to them, because of their reputation. So at the start of a college football season where SC is in prime contention for the national championship, when all I hear from commentators, school athletics officials, and alumni is how the NCAA is the great Satan for not allowing this Mercenary to return to amateur status, I feel disgust. Why don't you move to Florida, SC? With all the other great professional college football programs?
On the LTL freight transportation system:
LTL is like an aircraft charter. You pay to have a specific amount of cargo transported directly to a specific location. You do not have a contract with the freight company other than previously negotiated and set freight tariffs and freight handling charges when you DO use this company. There are dozens and dozens of freight companies that do this: Central, Saia, ConWay, USF, ABF, WKST, Yellow, etc. Now, these companies pick freight up from a myriad of locations, take them to any one of hundreds of freight terminals, sort all the shipments according to destination, load them onto empty trailers and roll them to their destinations. The farther away the destination is, the more terminals this freight will hit to be sorted. There is the problem. The more these shipments are moved around, by trained apes and felons by my guess, the more risk there is to damage to the shipment. So when a customer emails me with digital pictures of a shipment of TCFE, UHMW, and Acetal Copolymer worth tens of thousands of dollars and personally quality control inspected by me, and those pictures show the shipment in individual pieces strewn about a 57 foot semi trailer with half of it missing completely, am I wrong to threaten to kneecap the freight company's account representative?
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