Sorry to get behind on posting, but I think I’m getting to one of those stages where I have to figure out how to regulate how much time I spend on my blog before it consumes and destroys me. I’d like to keep up one humorous post each morning, followed by Frank Answers™ in the afternoon when circumstances allow, and some links of the day at night, but I think I’m going to have to stop posting on the weekends so I can get some other hobbies going. Also, the In My World™ posts, though my favorite, to come up with, are also becoming too time consuming to write and I may change those to being once a week or make them much shorter or have more “To be continued” ones.
Anyway, I’ll still try to come up with one for tomorrow morning (along with having the next permalink contest poll up and questions for Group E), but I don’t have a clue what to have it about this time. Any ideas?

You may have noticed there is now a banner at the top of my page for Netflix. Well, I get $9 buck for everyone who signs up for a free trial. That’s great, because, before, I had been telling people how much I like Netflix for free. The idea is you keep a queue of movies online, and, for $20 a month, they send you the first three of your list. You can keep them as long as you want, and, as soon as you send one back (using the postage paid envelope it comes with), they then send you the next DVD on your list. I’ve found it usually takes less than a week between sending one out and receiving a new movie. If you watch movies as soon as you get them and then send them right back, you could easily see more than a dozen in a week. If you like movies even more, they offer other plans where you can keep more than three at once.
Now the great thing is their selection. Now, I’m an American, and I love government certified blockbusters as much as the next guy, but occasionally I like to seem some old artsy film or a foreign film (don’t tell Buck), and I’ve had trouble finding them at the local Blockbuster. My only recourse was to buy them if I want to see them (you should see my Aikira Kurosawa collection). Well, with Netflix, if it’s on DVD, they have it. Currently I’m watching the Zatoichi series through them, interspersed with a mix of comedy’s, blockbuster’s I missed, and old classics I’ve always mean to see. Anytime I think of some movie I want to see, I can just head to my Netflix page and add it to my queue.
If you own a DVD player and like movies (why do you have a DVD player if you don’t like moves?), you need to give Netflix a try. You get it for two weeks free, and they make it easy to cancel if you don’t like it. And, if you go more than two weeks and think better of it, you only pay month to month and can stop anytime.
So, go to my banner, click on it, and give them a try. If you want some move recommendations (they’ll let you rate movies you’ve already seen and give you recommendations based on that, but I’m smarter than them) see Equilibrium – it’s an awesome movie with some very inventive action. Also, The Hunted with Christopher Lambert (not to be confused by the more recent one with Tommy Lee Jones) is great if you like seeing samurais fight ninjas (and who doesn’t?). Also, everyone must see The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in widescreen. It is my favorite movie and has the most perfect ending of pretty much any movie I’ve ever seen.
I’m sure you’ll want to thank me later for pointing you to Netflix, but, if you join through my banner, you won’t have to, because I’ll get nine bucks. And nine bucks is thanks enough.