Ryan Rampersad » Aside http://blog.ryanrampersad.com Thoughts, Ideas & Opinions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:11:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20825 ★ Friend Circles & Liberal Education http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2011/07/15/friend-circles-liberal-education/ http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2011/07/15/friend-circles-liberal-education/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:40:50 +0000 Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=3867 Mark Obcena shared a clever tweet yesterday with a picture.

Dante - Put his friends into circles like you on Google+

Dante / Google+

I thought it was funny. Being educated in classical literature and the latest social network.

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Netflix Example - Mostly Junk

Netflix suggests primarily junk!

I could steal others hard found tweets, but this one expresses the general sentiment.

#DearNetflix: To charge up to 60% more for streaming, consider offering good content. By Sept. 1, it’s adios @Netflix and hello #HuluPlus.

- via Twitter

How long will the trending topic last on Twitter? Dear Netflix.

Even on the official Netflix blog post, the comments are riddled with gems like this too.

Total crap. Your streaming catalog is complementary to your DVD/BD catalog. The 1 DVD + streaming plan means I can get recent movie releases on BD as well as the content you do not/and may never get streaming licensing for.

This is just a profit grab. Go piss up a rope.

- via Netflix Blog

I wrote some 500 words on this yesterday. Earlier this morning, I reconsidered. I’ve been telling people; streaming is absolutely wonderful but the selection is a joke unless you want to watch ten year old B-movies. $10 for that service was fair – the two aspects of the service covered each other, streaming was instant and DVDs filled in the blanks.

But in all honesty, $16 for the service is fair too.

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I read the episode summaries on Wikipedia.

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Ryan
Ramersad

Small 4x8 Brick
And thus the P from my name would forever be erased! I quickly sent off an email stating the error and hopefully I’ll get this fixed sooner than later. I had ten days to do this, the letter was mailed on the 21st but I received it six days later, which leaves until July 1st.

Long live, TWiT.

]]> http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2011/06/27/twit-brick/feed/ 0 ★ Conan’s Commencement Address http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2011/06/27/conans-commencement-address/ http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/2011/06/27/conans-commencement-address/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:10:25 +0000 Ryan http://blog.ryanrampersad.com/?p=3606 Conan O’Brien Delivers Dartmouth’s Commencement Address.

Conan is awesome in a commencement address for Dartmouth. There is nothing better than ripping on your own school when graduating, well, except having a professional comedian do it for you.

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