Mostly Harmless

My new tires (and wheels) from TireRack.com have finally arrived. Since I had them drop-shipped to the local Euro car mechanic I will have to wait til Monday to get them mounted.

If you’re thinking that buying a new set of tires and wheels on the internet and having them mounted, balanced, and shipped FedEx 2-day economy would cost more than, say, going to TiresPlus and having them do it, you’d be wrong by about $200.

And as we all know, $200 is almost enough for a tuneup.

The movie"Hackers"gets funnier and funnier every time I see it. I’m gonna rupture my spleen one of these times I swear to God. The best parts are the bits that, apparently, aren’t supposed to be funny.

I only caught a couple of minutes of the movie Sunday night but that was almost enough to have me on the floor laughing my ass off — almost.

While waiting for that last credit card payment to clear the bank I’ll be spending the hours pouring over reviews and spec sheets for DVD players.

I have already decided that I will buy a DVD player, most likely a 5-disc changer, to celebrate The Final Payment (and X-Mas). What remains to be seen is if I will spend more money on video magazines looking for the perfect mid-range player than on the actual DVD player itself.

I speak, of course, about my final credit card payment. The payment which was to be The Final Payment, became the Penultimate Payment when a last, spiteful interest charge was debited to my account.

Alas, it was but a few minutes after receiving the bad news that I scheduled the payment for the new, This Time I Really Mean It, Final Payment of $26.85.

Soon, the Evil Credit Card Beast will be slain, once and for all.

At least, that’s the theory.

I don’t understand why people bother to use Napster and it’s ilk — all you gotta do to get all the free MP3s that you can stand is put up an anonymous ftp server somewhere on the internet. Someone will find it, make a ‘hidden’ directory, and start loading you up. As a bonus you will also get the occasional movie and lots of pirated software.

Everything will be peachy until you get the bill from your ISP, then you will have a heart attack, most likely. That’s pretty much the reason that ‘they’ are using your server in the first place.