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[jazzfish]

My email provider has been hungry lately. For patches of an hour or so over the last two or three days all mail to me goes curiously missing. A Missing Email Report has been filed but the police can do nothing. It's getting on time to take matters into my own hands. (Cue dramatic music.)

Here, have some links from the past month or so.

Grammar, from merseine0613.

John Kerry, funnyman: "Q: On what types of products do you never go cheap, for the sake of quality? A: Ketchup." (via adamcadre)

I LEGO N.Y., from Making Light.

ML also gives us Peanuts Watchmen.

Speaking of Watchmen, there's Saturday Morning Watchmen. It's been a very long time since I've seen that much sheer wrong packed into one minute thirty.

Terror: The Director's Cut: "Black is an identifiable thing. What I faded into wasn't identifiable, because identity of anything had gone away. It's impossible to describe what I 'faded' into, but I'm going to try my best." (via salzara_tirwen)

And I leave for OMG Vancouver in two days. My knowledge of Canadian telecom suggests that net access will be Spotty At Best. I /think/ the hotel we got has wireless. . .

Suggestions of things to do or not do are welcome.

Comments

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

When we were in Vancouver last, it was only like $0.10 per minute charge for calls to or from the US. This was with T-Mobile roaming on Rogers.

I did have to specifically enable "Worldservice" from my provider before it would even roam onto Rogers though.

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

That's a big improvement over AT&T's rates a year and a half ago, which is the last time I took at US cell phone to Canada. Glad to hear it's improved!

Now I take a Canadian cell phone to the US, and Rogers charges an arm and a leg, but they're like that for everything. Cell phones, cable, internet - all more expensive here.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Looks like roaming has gotten more expensive in the past couple of years on Rogers. Still for work or emergency calls it's useful.

Canada
Rate per minute : $0.49
Country code : 1

http://www.t-mobile.com/International/RoamingOverview.aspx?tp=Inl_Tab_RoamWorldwide