Who's next?

Reading around the blogs, Roberta and Weerd are both down with something, NFO's back is trying to do funny things, and a bit more locally, MrsZ is passed out on thee hotel room couch recovering from what appears to be/have been a mild-to-moderate case of food poisoning.

Not sure where she picked that up, since we've eaten from shared plates for most of the last four days and I'm feeling fine thus fast.

Our park tickets are used up, and in the nick of time, too. I had reached people overload mid-afternoon yesterday, so today's zero pace was most welcome.

Ender's Game cast

I don't follow movie news at all, but just saw that Entertainment Weekly has a list (with pictures) of the cast for Ender's Game.

Looks to me like they cast it just about perfectly according to how I imagined the characters...

Roku

I grabbed a Roku (XS, the fancy one, because it has the USB port) a few weeks ago. Thus far, I'm still figuring out just what it's useful for.

I was getting Netflix through the PS3; that has continued since the PS3 has a better image quality and perhaps a larger buffer. The Roku has mostly been used to pipe Pandora into the big stereo. I've watched a handful of TED talks, but that's it. I know it can feed me Amazon on Demand and HuluPlus, but I'm not keen to cough up MORE money for entertainment now.

So ... what should I be watching? What (free) content do YOU like?

Idiots

There is a move in the state legislature to raise the minimum wage to 8.50. Of course, the voters want more. They're holding a rally today for a "living wage" of $12.78. Minimum. For unskilled labor. Welcome to the land of the $10 Big Mac. And a sure way to prevent new and small businesses from succeeding.

Public largesse indeed.

Deal Alert

In other gun news, I scored a case of 180gr Ranger for a phenomenal price at sgammo.com - and it's worth noting they still have it in individual boxes of 50 for $14.99 for 10 or more, but the actual case-lots are gone. Still, $0.30/round for quality defensive ammo is VERY hard to beat. Hie thee forth and get some if .40 is your thing. (Showing 110 left in stock as of this writing.)

Edit Monday morning: they have sold out of the Rangers, but now have  (still have?) 180gr Federal HST for $170/500. Still a phenomenal price, and if I had some extra money to play I'd be buying a case of those as well.