Sticky, Sweet, & A Little Overdressed

I find this very interesting: according to a story at netribution, Anne Sweeney, the co-chair of Disney’s board, has recognized piracy as a “business model” to be competed with, deviating from the entertainment industry’s usual approach which has been to classify it as tantamount to theft.

“We understand now that piracy is a business model,” said Sweeney, twice voted Hollywood’s most powerful woman by the Hollywood Reporter. “It exists to serve a need in the market for consumers who want TV content on demand. Pirates compete the same way we do - through quality, price and availability. We we don’t like the model but we realise it’s competitive enough to make it a major competitor going forward.”

HT: Boing Boing

You know life is too meta when you’re linking to someone’s blog wherein that person is linking to your blog:

4. So, I met this girl, Kate O at Amanda’s birthday party and she was all “Oh, I have a blog but it’s on LiveJournal so you probably don’t read it.” and I said, “Probably not.” and then I got home and thought “Wow, I bet she’s got a cool blog” but thought nothing more of it. Then, I was reading Bloglines today and what did I see?

[excerpt from my entry yesterday, which would be way too, oh, what's the word for illusion where a picture is a picture of the same picture within a picture within a picture, etc? anyway, that]

Yes, I read Kate’s blog already! I’m just too “Aunt B., World’s Worst Detective” to realize it when I met her.

Your turn, Aunt B.

We’ve signed up for TerraPass for both our car and our home. As S-townMike points out, there is an advantage to living and working in town — our emissions based on mileage are very low. But there’s a major DISadvantage to living in an old, energy-inefficient house: the cost to balance out our home’s CO2 was pretty high! But I took a few of the discounts offered for greening the house: we’re starting to replace our lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, and we do turn off lights when we leave rooms and all that. I’m bad about not unplugging chargers from the wall, but I need to redo the layout of my desk anyway, and I have a surge protector monitor stand with switches on the front — I’ll put the chargers on the switched plugs when I redo the desk so I can turn those switches off when they’re not charging anything.

Did you know there’s a radio format called “Hurban”? Hispanic Urban. Hurban.

I love that word.

Over at What Would Coco Do?, Coco has addressed the issue of fall fashion, and I unintentionally meta-punned with some fall fashion tips of my own.

Karsten and I went to a very important birthday celebration last night: that of Amanda, she who is Chris Wage’s girlfriend and who has not her own blog so that I can give no appropriate linkage. (I could, perhaps, provide inappropriate linkage, but that would be inappropriate.) We enjoyed ourselves tremendously. Partied with the likes of Brittney from Nashville is Talking and none other than Aunt B of Tiny Cat Pants. As well as a bunch of other cool people who may or may not have blogs. And, of course, my new girlfriend: Strawberry Shortcake.

We got to feel all urban, too: we cabbed it over to the party and then, at 2:30 AM, walked all the way back home. And even got asked if we were models (”you’re beautiful!”) by a drunk group of what seemed to be government guys or something. And everyone knows you gotta watch out for those government guys.

One revelation: we determined that I’m older than Aunt B, who is older than most of the other party guests, so I guess all you crazy kids can start calling me Great Aunt Kate or something. Come to think of it, feed me homemade dolmas and some crazy delicious cheeses, and I really won’t care what you call me.

So anyway, now we have less than a week until the Oktoberfest street festival and it’s a race against time to get our house ready for the party. (Confidential to our favorite East Side hotties: hope we see you then!) Karsten has a mean hangover today but he’s still helping, bless his heart, and I’m coffee-powered so I’ve been kicking clutter’s ass! I’ve just got to pull myself away from the internets and get back to focusing on domestic goddessery. Maybe another pot of coffee will do the trick.

So it’s decided: I’m staying on at my job. Maybe you didn’t know I was debating this, but yessir, it’s a big part of why I haven’t been writing much lately: because so much of what I wanted to write was somehow linked to the decision and I didn’t want to talk about it openly.

But anyway, I had a really nice offer at a really nice company and I took it very seriously indeed, but several key people at my current employer made really nice gestures to convince me to stay and so I did.

Now that that’s all done, I can get back to obsessing about other things, like Oktoberfest and getting the house ready for all the people who are going to be there. Yikes!