I received this in my email this morning concerning the recent Netflix outage. The 5% credit amounts to about$0.85 off of my next bill. Awesome! Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do with the extra cash? Maybe I could buy me one of them fancy soda pops that come in cans as shiny as faucets!?

This can’t be happening!!

I had movies due out today, but I never checked my que over the weekend to update which ones I wanted. AACCK!

Oh it had better be working tonight so I can stream a few more episodes of Heroes!!

Update:

Apparently the news about Netflix Stock reported to push the $40 mark in the coming days has doomed the website. Good news for stockholders, sad for us who needed to update our que first thing this morning.

Update#2: It’s late, and still not up so no Heroes for me. Looks like I am stuck installing new bathroom fixtures for the wife.

Update#3: 3-25-08 Netflix is back up, but it seems to be limping. When the user base becomes active again this mornig, it will be interesting to see how well it hold up.

As many of you know, I am a HUGE fan of Stephen King. While I often enjoy his books more than I enjoy his movies, that doesn’t stop me from watching them. I have been seeing a lot of commercials for the latest movie to be created from one of his books. The Mist by Stephen King is that movie. I just watched 1408 a little while ago, and I loved it. The visual effects were amazing. One of the better Stephen King movies in a long time. I have not read “The Mist” and I am not at all familiar with the storyline. Since I haven’t read the book, I am perplexed at what I should do. Should I see the movie and then read the book? I have never done it that way before, and it may make the movie more enjoyable.

I have always read the books first so I completely know what to expect when watching the movie. I thought about trying a completely different experience this time. I think I will watch the movie, and then read the book. That should give me a bit of a different perspective on the whole thing. I’m usually not one to break away from the norm, but every now and again it’s a good thing to do.

It’s not actually a movie trailer, it’s the first 4 minutes (the opening scene) of Saw 4. I really can’t believe there is another Saw movie coming out. I enjoyed the first two, but the third one really bombed. But that’s just my opinion, of course.

I don’t know how long it will be before youtube pulls the video, but it is working for now.

You can call it “The Dark Side of Oz” or “The Wizard of Floyd” or “Dark Side of the Rainbow, any title will do. Mention those titles, to any Pink Floyd fan, and they will be able to tell you a little story. When you play the cd “The Dark Side of the Moon” along with “The Wizard of Oz”, there are some very interesting similarities.

Here are a few of the more interesting ones:

Song “Breathe”

• “Balanced on the biggest wave” as Dorthy’s balancing on the fence.
• On the Run starts as Dorthy falls. Notice the theme of the music as everyone panics.

Song “Time”

• The ringing of bells is heard as Time starts and the witch enters on her bike. (This is my 2nd favorite similarity.)
• During the guitar solo in Time, you will see the fortune teller’s sign. It reads Past, Present, and Future.

Song “Money”

• The song starts as Dorthy enters Oz to the sound of cash registers and money chimes. (This is my favorite similarity. It is quite amazing to hear the cash register chime as soon as you see yellow brick road. It gave me chills the first time I saw it.)

That is just a very small sampling of what you can expect to see. I won’t list out all of the similarities here. If you are interested in reading them though, a quick google search will turn up all you ever wanted to know, and then some.

The reason for this post is because I took my DVD of “The Wizard of Oz” and ripped it to my HD. After that, I ripped my cd of “Dark Side of the Moon” to my HD. I created a new language channel on the movie, and put “Dark Side of the Moon” into that channel. I got it synced up perfectly with the MGM lions 3rd roar and re-created the DVD with the new language channel.

It worked! I can now show all of my friends and relatives what I have been telling them for years. There was one problem though. I had no dvd cover or disc label to put on my new “Wizard of Floyd” compilation.

I fixed that problem by creating my own label and cover which you can see below. I have also provided a download link if you have a need for the covers. I noticed that someone else had created a compilation DVD and released it on usenet a while back. It is not the compilation I created, but after watching that version at a friends house, I can say that they are nearly identical.

The cover isn’t the greatest piece of artwork that I have ever seen, but it seemed to work in a pinch.

Download via Rapidshare. Feel free to mirror, but give credit (a link) back to this post.

Enjoy!