Day: October 18, 2005

Heather points out via e-mail that Amazon appears to be offering the Season One Battlestar Galactica DVD set in a package deal with the 2003 miniseries that spawned the show. Which is all fine and good, except the Season One set already contains the miniseries among its many hours of bonus features^*. The savings you get for taking the deal pretty much cancel out the cost of buying the miniseries separately, so I guess it’s a good deal for the completists out there. But otherwise, it just seems a little silly.

It looks like it may only be Amazon’s Canadian site that’s offering the deal. (The US site, for some reason, is offering Season One with the 2005 straight-to-video horror movie Fallen Ones.) So if you’re one of those completists and not a Canadian resident, keep in mind the exchange rate.

* A fact not lost on those of us who already bought the miniseries. Grumble grumble.

Today’s Spam Reading Club selection…well, mostly just gibberish, but the tiny understandable bit is from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.

I wish I’d had all this photocopying to do last Wednesday, when I got drenched in the rain on my way to work and spent the day shivering and damp. (The copy room is a good five or ten degrees warmer than the rest of the floor.)

Like, I think, a lot of people, I pretty much gave up on Meetup.com around the time they started imposing monthly fees for group organizers. (With options like craigslist and Yahoo Groups available for free, I honestly don’t know what they were thinking.) It wasn’t a difficult decision, and it’s not like I’d had any luck actually meeting people there — Long Island being somewhat under-represented. I just closed the one or two groups that I’d tried without success to organize, and I didn’t look back.

Because New York and New Jersey? Different places.