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Didn't leave the loft all day, except to fetch Oliver a couple of times when he started enjoying his own echo in the hallway a bit too much. Did install some extra lights above the closet. Took care of loose ends, but not enough. Had some food. Still wonder if I should take up Allstate on their earthquake insurance offer.

And finally tried out the Amazon / TiVo cooperation called 'Unbox' where you can order a movie from your account on Amazon (or on your TiVo if you told Amazon what your credit card is) and rent or buy a movie and have it uploaded to your TiVo. I'd never buy that way, because I'd want to offload it off my disk and burn and back-up and I bet that is a pain, but rental seems ok. They had a special on "Happy Feet", which I have always wanted to see, for $.99. (

jpeace says that won't even cover flipping the bit on the database row at Amazon, but I think he's wrong -- I bet it is at&t who is paying the most having those bits delivered to my home).

The integration is spiffy and spooky: buy something here, have it appear there. I could order a movie at work and have it on the box when I come home. The picture quality is excellent on my standard television, and although the sound alas does not seem to be encoded in some 5.1 or more dedicated standard, the quality of the signal does allow my receiver to interpret the standard broadcast Dolby (Faux-encoded) Surround quite lavishly, exercising my modest investment in home theater nicely (two subwoofers rumbling hard, woo-hoo).

And Happy Feet is a glorious little movie. As

nanne said, you expect one movie and it turns into another one halfway, and then it goes back, and then you realize the whole movie is built around leading up to the words of the bridge of a Prince song.

Which really, every movie should aspire to.

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Oh I keep forgetting about that unbox thing! I have the cheapest Netflix and every once in a while, a fill-in from Amazon would be perfect, if I could only remember. And Happy Feet is on my list!

How can you forget about Unbox when I'm constantly posting about it in

tivolovers? ;-)

You know, there's a reason for this... a few weeks ago, I moved

tivolovers from my LJ Friends list to my RSS feed reader. Bad move. I have so much crap in my feed reader that I miss the good stuff. As of right now,

tivolovers is back on my friends list where it belongs. Thanks for the remind.

Mh, can't find a post in my LJ about Happy Feet. Did I mention it in a comment somewhere? I mean, if I can't remember, how do you keep track?

I remember stuff. But I may remember this wrong.

I remember having a discussion on LJ about it, just not where.