Netflix

Well, we (my wife and I) finally decided to try out Netflix. We signed up on Sunday and got our first shipment of movies on Tuesday. Fairly simple to do and the movies came fast. I don’t think we’ll have any problem getting enough movies to justify the $20/month expense.

Homer’s Wisdom

  1. “Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddy’s and kids with fake IDs.”
  2. “Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie, and one to listen.”
  3. “You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of you life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
  4. “Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals, except the weasel.”
  5. “If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers.”
  6. “To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems!”
  7. “I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! I think it was called, ‘The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.’”
  8. “I want to share something with you – the three sentences that will get you through life.
    • Number 1, ‘cover for me.’
    • Number 2, ‘oh, good idea, boss.’
    • Number 3, ‘it was like that when I got here.’”
  9. “Marge, you’re as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda”
  10. “Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty ‘Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.’”
  11. “Don’t let Krusty’s death get you down, boy. People die all the time. Just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, good night.”
  12. “Son, when you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose: it’s how drunk you get.”
  13. “Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else – and it hasn’t – it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.”
  14. “Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.”
  15. “Stealing! How could you? Haven’t you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain what’s-his-name?
  16. “We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn’t hear anybody laughing, did you?”
  17. “Maybe, just once, someone will call me ‘sir’ without adding, ‘you’re making a scene.’”
  18. I’m not a religious man, but if you’re up there please help me, Superman!!!

Study: Very few bloggers on Net

Apparently a study has been conducted and has concluded that “despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called bloges and even fewer do so with regularity.” I could buy into this conclusion. Running a blog is not easy to do, you have to continue to add fresh content on a regular basis, something that I have trouble doing myself. Plus, although the blogging software available is fairly easy to use, it still takes a little knowledge of how websites and the Internet work to produce a blog that someone will want to visit on a regular basis.

Read More: CNN.com – Study: Very few bloggers on Net – Mar. 1, 2004

Image Troubles

You may or may not have noticed that my Gallery is down. I seem to be having troubles getting PerlMagick installed on this new server of mine. If any of you out there are linux experts and know how to install PerlMagick flawlessly, let me know. I would love to get my gallery working again.