I’m in a charming little town in the middle of Ohio. Back in the auto heydays though, it was suuuuper mobbed up.
16 thoughts on “January 31, 2020: Goodfellas”
We are only three weeks from the first spring training game. It can't come soon enough.
I don't think baseball will be enough to shield us this year.
Maybe not, but it'll help.
Spring training is a big tease. Every year it gets me all excited for what's coming, then it fails to show me what I really want to see. My sights are set on April.
Just having live baseball on the radio again puts me in a better mood, even when I know the games are meaningless.
Last year was especially hard because actual spring weather came so late up here. If I could spend a week in Florida at spring training every year it would be a different story.
Who else considers IMDB's revised homepage format a total failure?
I really don't like video content unless I specifically go looking for it, so I hate it. That being said, I usually google "{name of movie} IMDB" to find the specific page I'm looking for, anyway, so I almost never see the main page.
The content is way out of whack for a "database" of movies, but even so the layout is so much wasted space and has Amazon written all over it. RIP, IMDB.
Goodreads has also been ruined by Amazon.
How so?
(This question is coming from someone who didn't necessarily have a high opinion of it to begin with.)
I use it primarily to maintain a full database of my books, for which it’s...fine. That’s what got me to open my account in 2011. Scanning books in with the mobile app is great (as long as it has a bar code!), but populating books with any metadata other than the reading status is a hassle. Likewise, searching/filtering bookshelves is very rudimentary. It just feels like the site’s core features have been stagnant since the acquisition.
As for the tech-y areas where I’d expect a company like Amazon to be most focused, the mobile app is, even on my new phone, very laggy and lacks persistent settings. The ability to receive personal recommendations from friends is very nice, but Goodreads’ algorithmic recommendation engine really misses the mark. I have almost 1000 books in the system, and I finally had to shut it off because the recommendations seemed intended for a person with totally different taste.
At this point all I review is their monthly new books email, and even that is awful limited.
main headline on USA Today's Money webpage currently: Why you should check your Security Security statement
We are only three weeks from the first spring training game. It can't come soon enough.
I don't think baseball will be enough to shield us this year.
Maybe not, but it'll help.
Spring training is a big tease. Every year it gets me all excited for what's coming, then it fails to show me what I really want to see. My sights are set on April.
Just having live baseball on the radio again puts me in a better mood, even when I know the games are meaningless.
Last year was especially hard because actual spring weather came so late up here. If I could spend a week in Florida at spring training every year it would be a different story.
Who else considers IMDB's revised homepage format a total failure?
I really don't like video content unless I specifically go looking for it, so I hate it. That being said, I usually google "{name of movie} IMDB" to find the specific page I'm looking for, anyway, so I almost never see the main page.
The content is way out of whack for a "database" of movies, but even so the layout is so much wasted space and has Amazon written all over it. RIP, IMDB.
Goodreads has also been ruined by Amazon.
How so?
(This question is coming from someone who didn't necessarily have a high opinion of it to begin with.)
I use it primarily to maintain a full database of my books, for which it’s...fine. That’s what got me to open my account in 2011. Scanning books in with the mobile app is great (as long as it has a bar code!), but populating books with any metadata other than the reading status is a hassle. Likewise, searching/filtering bookshelves is very rudimentary. It just feels like the site’s core features have been stagnant since the acquisition.
As for the tech-y areas where I’d expect a company like Amazon to be most focused, the mobile app is, even on my new phone, very laggy and lacks persistent settings. The ability to receive personal recommendations from friends is very nice, but Goodreads’ algorithmic recommendation engine really misses the mark. I have almost 1000 books in the system, and I finally had to shut it off because the recommendations seemed intended for a person with totally different taste.
At this point all I review is their monthly new books email, and even that is awful limited.
main headline on USA Today's Money webpage currently: Why you should check your Security Security statement
Is the reason for security?
doubly so!