Hello, friends. I just took the technological plunge and signed up for Netflix. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. It’s the online video rental service where you get a movie shipped to you, watch it, ship it back, then get another one, all for a set fee a month.

I usually rent most of my movies from the book depository (i.e., the library), where one has pretty fair bility to reserve DVDs, and is free of charge. Two reasons, however, finally convinced me to sign up for Netflix:

1) Limited Selection – the library is great for popular and recent titles (though it can take a while to receive these DVDs, which I suppose is another reason altogether), but some of the older and/or more obscure titles are harder to find. Like Trancers 6 — it’s not at the library nor any of the other local DVD shops. Netflix, however, has it.

2) Stargate SG-1 – this fucking show, which I have quickly come to love, cannot be found on DVD at any of the Blockbusters and Family Videos around here. The library some of the seaons, but certain disks they have no holdings for. So I can rent the second seasons, I just won’t get the first disk. Jason lent me the first season of SG-1, but that cheap bastard hasn’t bought any of the later seasons yet. And I certainly don’t want to pony up the money on seven seasons of it, each fifty dollars-plus, especially after having recently done so on a combined total of twelve seasons of Buffy and Angel. Fortunately, Netflix has all seven seasons of SG-1, and I’m slated to receive the first disk this Friday. Not a bad turn-around time at all, in my opinion.

In addition tocomparing and contrasting Netflix and Blockbuster’s online service — and I might add, I ultimately went with the former because I hate Blockbuster — I spent a number of hours researching LCD monitors. I fancy myself quite the expert on them now, and will probably purchase this bad boy in the next few days.

The reason why I’ve been quietly working on my new desktop computer, and why I’m gung-ho about buying a new monitor — aside from the fact that they’re fucking sweet — is that my laptop is in serious need of a complete memory wipe. Forgetting the fact that it’s been attacked and infected with an abundance of viruses and ad ware, it also has so much shit on it that it’s always getting bogged down doing the most complex of tasks, like opening Firefox and Microsoft Word. To quote Nick: “What shit.”

JAB