5 posts tagged “amazon”

I hope this is not the way the Book Depository site, which Empress Nasi Goreng put me on to today, looks—but I have reloaded numerous times and have been getting this:

   While I understand the need for CSS, I didn’t expect it to be a substitute altogether for some of the more basic elements of web design.
   However, as I am totally sure this is an error, I can recommend this site, too. The free shipping means that the books wind up much cheaper than they do via Amazon, which can only be a good thing to those of us in the antipodes. And even if this is the way it looks, I’m prepared to wade through it to save a few pounds.

Yay! Arrived today, ahead of the July 1 delivery date Amazon predicted. It still took longer than the British order, but considering I ordered it 12 days ago, it seems the delivery times have come back to normal (the last season I ordered took over four weeks). I will be confirming my theory of whether the script quality is inversely correlated to the size of Peter Lupus’s sideburns.

Note to Vox: an auto-save feature, please, considering Maxthon crashed just as I finished the original and superior version of this post. Dammit, I really, really hate retyping. Here’s the short, short version.

   Right: ordered. Amazon. Saturday. Mission: Impossible, fourth season. Still good. But Martin Landau has left because he asked for a pay rise and Paramount said no, and they kicked out Mrs Landau, Barbara Bain, as well.
   In came the other guy who auditioned for Spock but won, but even Leonard Nimoy, playing the new master of disguise, began getting itchy feet and buggered off to England to play a racing car driver who solves crimes.
   Spock’s called Paris—like Kramer, before we found out his first name was Cosmo, we never learn if this is his first or last name. In this season, the IMF was still combatting spies and undermining régimes in the good ol’ American way, before anti-Vietnam types scared the producers into forcing the good guys to combat local hoods and finks in the sixth and seventh season. (Capt Kirk played one in 1971, but Spock had gone by then.)
   You wondered why the IMF was even involved when the US Government could have sent in the Feds, Popeye Doyle or even Popeye.
   Script quality for Mission: Impossible is inversely correlated to the size of Peter Lupus’s sideburns. His sideburns are growing in 1969 when the fourth series began airing, so there was basically one more year tentatively before the rot really began setting in.
   Amazon UK. Sunday. Discussed before: Dempsey and Makepeace, first series. Script quality inversely correlated to how typically ’80s Glynis Barber’s hairstyle got. Plot summary: a New Yorker (Michael Brandon) and a South African (Glynis Barber, née van der Riet) are teamed up. ‘Will they? Won’t they’ in the stories—‘they did’ in real life. They spar off each other verbally to see if Michael will say, ‘Thomas the Tank Engine had a hard night’s shunting,’ or if Glynis would go relapse into an Afrikaaner accent.
   No, actually, they both play cops: Brandon’s character is from the NYPD and Barber’s is an English aristocrat sometimes in various states of undress during the series. (Like Diana Rigg on The Avengers, she could beat the s*** out of someone, but did so wearing less PVC.)
   Best scripts from Murray Smith (The Paradise Club—sinfully still not on DVD) and even Ronnie Blythe appears in one episode but as a very evil villain.
   Darn you, Google: I was checking for the name of the actor who played Ronnie Blythe when Maxthon crashed. I won’t be checking again.
   Bets are that despite having a longer distance to cover and having been ordered later, the British package will arrive earlier thanks to Royal Mail being more efficient than the USPS.

Although I have finally tired of Facebook, my friend Jason Alba has co-authored one on the service, called I’m on Facebook—Now What?, to which I contributed briefly.
   I would recommend this as a how-to guide for those unfamiliar with social networks. The authors employ a lot of the tricks I use for the service. Do get it if you are new to Facebook, or even if you are not so new to it.

Which are your favourite sites for shopping online?

One word: Amazon. Since 1996 I have been happily shopping there and the way the website checkout is structured has become a de facto shopping model.