Apple came through

Dear Steven,

Thank you for con­tact­ing iTunes Music Store Cus­tomer Service. 

We apol­o­gize for the incon­ve­nience you have expe­ri­enced with this title. We have regrant­ed your abil­i­ty to down­load it again. To down­load again, ver­i­fy that you have an active net­work con­nec­tion, open iTunes 4, and select Check for Pur­chased Music from the Advanced menu. Should you have an issue with the new down­load, please reply to this email with the fol­low-up in the sub­ject line or the mes­sage body. 

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Service request sent to Apple iTunes tonight

Nev­er received one song from my order. I had ordered the album “Some­thin’ Else” by Art Blake­ly, Can­non­ball, Adder­ly, etc. I received an error mes­sage to the effect that the down­load had been inter­rupt­ed and that I would get the remain­der if I select­ed “check for pur­chased music” from the “advanced” menu. All of the songs are com­plete, except for the final song “Ban­goon” which nev­er appeared on my machine. 

Since it took sev­er­al days for me to get the

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Public Access Smut

Wow. I just watched about a half hour of what appeared to be a cheap­ly-pro­duced ad for a strip club on SF pub­lic access TV. Um. Yeah. It offend­ed me so much I had to sit and watch the whole thing. LOL

Seri­ous­ly, I’m not par­tic­u­lar­ly offend­ed, but I am sur­prised to turn on the pub­lic access chan­nel and instead of see­ing some preach­er rant­i­ng about the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, see naked girls cov­er­ing each oth­er in whipped cream &c.

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Paying for TV???

OK, some­times I watch as much as three hours of TV in a week. Since anten­na recep­tion in San Fran­cis­co is so abysmal that it makes North­ern Ver­mont look good, I shell out $16 per month for basic cable so that I can see the occa­sion­al show I want to watch.

But some mar­ket­ing genius has pushed my but­tons by re-mak­ing Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca, a series I have fond child­hood mem­o­ries of, in a SCI-FI Chan­nel minis­eries that starts on Mon­day. … Read the rest

Goal: Escape From Alcatraz

OK, it hit me like a flash as I rode the Hyde Street cable­car in to work this morn­ing. My new fit­ness goal should be to do the Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon.

It looks like even get­ting IN to the Escape from Alca­traz Tri is beyond my cur­rent capa­bil­i­ty, and they’re deter­min­ing slots now. The event is in June and I’d have a lot of train­ing to do in the mean­time. So maybe my goal should be to do a … Read the rest

I learned something tonight

It is pos­si­ble to show­er, shave, do laun­dry, write a cou­ple pages long­hand, get dressed, and make it to the oth­er side of town in two hours, if prop­er­ly motivated.

Hang­ing out at the Cat Club was fun. Did a lit­tle bit of danc­ing, enough to momen­tar­i­ly break the spell of dance­floora­pho­bia. Then went with K. to Union Square to see the lights and rode the Cable­car up to Fish­er­man’s Wharf just for the heck of it. I have my … Read the rest