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I got my packages yesterday, from both FedEx and UPS. Still, this:

Not sure where else to post this, so I'll post it here: Amazon greenlights Man in the High Castle, amongst others I watched the pilot. I am excite.

I think he just wanted to use the word, 'blunt'.

http://time.com/3713252/little-caesars-bacon-wrapped-pizza-crust/

LOLOLOLOL

Outstanding. What insurance company is that again?

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, Steve! (party favour noise) Very nice cake, Al! Is that mahogany? I heard he prefers ebony, but I suspect he'll enjoy that just fine.

Yeezh. If I did that on my phone, I'd be 30GB over my limit, at $15/GB, and 29 days left of the month to tread water on. I actually have Spotify set to only play over wi-fi or download. Need to see if Tidal does the same.

Haven't read that yet. Yeah, October Daye is still the best...er...my favourite.

This show is the best. I love the touch'n'go humour -- it's typical "good guy vs. bad guy" shtick, and the CG is horrible (I think it even makes fun of itself at one point -- person falls, goes splat, and parts appear to have gone missing because they were rendered on the other side of the floor) but it's the little things that get me. Bad guy looks like someone out of Clockwork Orange; one of the professors is constantly slurping on coffee and spastic; etc.

Elementary is on my list as well, that is all I've got.

Shelly -- you gotta watch his standup, I have never laughed so hard. Yeah, wasn't aware of Scorpion, but I'll definitely give it a go watch the pilot maybe. Person of Interest -- now that one I was aware of, but had forgotten to watch, will check it out. Black Box, never even heard of. Okay, I started watching RWBY -- OMG, this is awsum. Weird girl shows up, Ruby says something, (silence, wind blows, a tumbleweed blows past)...Ruby says something else...(more wind, another tumbleweed blows past)..."sure is windy". Ruby (main character) starts giving a rousing speech, "Sisters! Friends! Weiss!" (Weiss is a "frenemy") Weiss: (offscreen) "Hey!" I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes. Yes, it's simple little humour, but it's definitely my kind of humour.

Snarky Puppy marathon (jazz rock fusion-y kind of thing)

Dude, I don't care what you say, that's awesome. It's heartening to hear such progress.

Yeezh. That's North Carolina? I just want to make sure I'm reading that right.

Lollers. I think if you turn on your porch light, you can clean up the rest.

Yeah -- let me know what else you watch, maybe I'm just not aware of it. Will probably start catching up on Justified and Blacklist...oh, and Librarians (which is just silly -- you know how silly it is when Bruce Campbell guest stars as the embodiment of the true spirit of Christmas. Thanks for that -- the way Netflix arranges them (by name -- Ghost Tears; Ghost Whispers; etc.) is very annoying, so not surprised I missed one. I have enjoyed the series, and am a huge fan of the two movies and the Stand Alone Complex series -- 2 seasons and a movie? I may not have seen the movie. Is that Solid State Society? I heard it was just pieces of the episodes glued together to run as a movie, or was that the Laughing Man movie? I think I just answered my own question. Well, I guess I know what I'm renting next. Oh, also: Steins;Gate -- absolutely fantastic. It starts off really light, but gets crazy dark in one episode about half way through. Just heart-wrenching.

My regulars: on CWTV.com -- Arrow and Flash and probably iZombie when it starts; on hulu: Marvel's Agent Carter (she climbs an electrified fence in the first episode without shutting off the power!) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Forever, Castle, and Gotham (Moreena Baccarin is crazy cute); on Amazon Prime: Archer. Just finished Dirk Gently. Did anyone else not know that this was made into a TV show? No wonder it only lasted for one season. Darren Boyd! Just started Black Mirror -- fantastic. Also watched the three Ghost in the Shell: Arise OAVs during my absence. Superb! Kinda reboot kinda prequelish, and they made her petite, which I think more suits her character. (I.E. not anime-huge boobs -- they do have one minor character that's more typically anime looking, but not Kusanagi)

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire -- superb so far. It's a collection of stories with a single main character -- a ghost. And an over-arching story. (You can tell she's a big fan of television serials like Whedon and Doctor Who.)

Wind's been gusting up to 50mph -- didn't realize the conditions when I went out, abruptly got off at the next exit (I was in the express lanes, so Springfield), ate, then went home.

Oh, I suck more than you know -- I saw them several times -- the first time on the 'How to Measure a Planet?' tour, was right in front of the bassist, and not that far off from Anneke. As well as seeing them again later, but to me, that was the lineup, and I'm very fond of my memories of that night. Didn't realize when I posted it that the Peter Gabriel show was an older show from 1987, so he plays lots from his third, fourth, and fifth albums, IMHO, the zenith of his career.

I've been getting some free concerts (streaming, not download) from Qello, and I know there's at least one other Styx fan (Mikey?) so thought I'd share -- doesn't even require signing up (they're trying to promote the snot out of it, so they're actually releasing some entirely for free. Styx Peter Gabriel If you follow them on Facebook, there are others -- Michael McDonald doing Motown, Waylon Jennings being Waylon Jennings, etc. Highly recommended. Feel free to share other services. What you got? There was a place in Amsterdam that used to stream every show they ever had come through their doors, saw The Gathering perform the entirety of Black Light District that way before actually seeing them play it for myself. No, don't remember the name of the venue or the website, alas. Wouldn't mind seeing that again, goddamn, I love The Gathering.

Someone on another forum was also struggling with an iPod Classic replacement. They installed a SSD, and got increased battery life out of it as a by-product. I'm hard on the controls (so worry about how much life the iClassic has other than the drive), otherwise I'd do similarly. There's a reddit thread that was mentioned.