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Re: Top Ten Underserved Web 2.0 Markets

Jandy — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:38:08 -0000

There probably is something like this, but I haven't located it yet: a book recommendation engine similar to the movie recommendation engines run by Yahoo!Movies and netflix and filmaffinity and even movielens.org. There are book/media cataloguing sites (LibraryThing, lib.rario.us, Listal, etc.) and recommendation sites like whatshouldireadnext.com and storycode.com that give recommendations based on a single book, but I have yet to find a site that aggregates a user's ratings and recommends books based on ALL their ratings, and has a fun and easy to use interface that makes rating and adding to lists easy. Amazon does recommendations like this, but it gets waterlogged by having so many different editions of books (and lib.rario.us and Listal all share this, because they feed from Amazon). It seems like I find a new movie rating/recommendation engine every week or so, and I can't believe someone hasn't done the same thing for books.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » WOW

Jandy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:20 -0000

Hey, I'm impressed you found it already! I've been working on and off all day getting stuff imported from blogger and tidy it up...haven't told anyone about it yet but Dad!

It wasn't really that hard once I figured out what I had to do. It's the old "anyone can turn the screw, but not everyone knows which screw to turn" situation.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » WOW

Jandy — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:52:38 -0000

Bobber, my bad. I haven't updated my links since I first added them to blogspot, and I didn't have your URL then. Fixed now!

Re: Music! And Pictures!

Jandy — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:02:06 -0000

Thanks! I know, isn\'t it great? Glad you have good music taste. ;)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » People are watching “Nobody’s Watching”

Jandy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:49:21 -0000

I don't think it's as good as SN, but then, SN is one of the best shows that was ever cancelled before its time. ;) I haven't watched all of SN yet...I'm savoring them. Agreed, Felicity Huffman is amazing. Have you watched any of Desperate Housewives? She's one of the more consistently impressive parts of it.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » People are watching “Nobody’s Watching”

Jandy — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:01:01 -0000

Yay, DH! I feel the same way...I've really enjoyed it, but I always hesitate to bring it up because of the perceived "tawdry" aspect. But in the first season particularly, the writing was nearly as high-quality as anything else on TV. I still have two episodes of S2 to watch.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Don’t mind the dust

Jandy — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:36:40 -0000

Oh, don't worry. The music player isn't gone for good...just until I stop playing with layouts long enough to code it back in.

Basically, it's the open source XSPF Flash Player, which has been turned into a Wordpress plugin which was pretty easy to install. I think it can be used with any webpage, but I'm not sure how to code it outside of Wordpress.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » testing asides

Jandy — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:43:15 -0000

Seeing how it displays if there are comments.

Re: So…weird weather we been havin’

Jandy — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:14:25 -0000

I've packed a couple of boxes of books. I'm a very last-minute sort of person. I would like to have quit working by now, but...need the moolah! ;)

Re: June Reading/Watching Recap

Jandy — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:48:14 -0000

Soon, soon! I bought it a few months ago and took it to Florida, but read Unbearable Lightness of Being instead. But seriously, it is very near the top of my list.

Re: Saying goodbye to St. Louis

Jandy — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:14:19 -0000

It was actually last Sunday. We're in Waco now, about to move stuff from truck into the apartment. Sorry I missed saying bye to you guys on Sunday!

We greatly enjoyed your U-haul woes...we had minor ones of our own which I'll post about later. But nothing compared to yours!

Re: Church report

Jandy — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:08:33 -0000

Dad - I know there's an RUF, because the pastor mentioned it. And exactly, there's so many different flavors to the PCA these days, I was very pleasantly surprised to find it so similar.

Jeff - The were around 200 people there today, I'd guess. At least, it seemed pretty similar in size to Providence. The pastor mentioned seeing students trickling back in, so I'm not sure whether they're up to full school-year numbers or not!

Re: Guardian column: Who needs critics?

Jandy — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:19:16 -0000

I agree. Most of my casual moviegoer peers don't listen to critics at all (I believe they all saw POTC2 multiple times during the first weekend, as well); they simply don't think critics are relevant. But critics have their place, and are necessary...I think you've hit the nail on the head with the critics-as-discussion-moderators idea, and I like your comment about "setting art in context." A good critic knows film history and theory, and that extra knowledge and insight is what sets him or her apart from the casual moviegoer. I'd hate to lose access to that insight because people think critics are irrelevant.

Re: Watch Veronica Mars. No really.

Jandy — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:28:03 -0000

Have you watched the show? This clip is extremely fast, and low-quality audio to boot, which doesn't make it any easier to keep up! Gilmore Girls is awesome, too. I'm so excited that GG and VM are going to run back to back this year!

Re: Finally (Almost): AllPeers

Jandy — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:51:56 -0000

I'm dying to try AllPeers! Looks like Matthew's upped the offer, so if you can, please send me an invite!

faithx5 @ gmail DOT com

Re: Leftover Beauty

Jandy — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:16:09 -0000

Jennifer,

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I disclaimer myself all the time (music, too...I don't know how often I had to scramble for the volume control at work because I had forgotten that the song had an explicit lyric or two).

re: Transameria. I still recommend it heartily as a film, and because Felicity Huffman is truly incredible. Since you're a fan of hers anyway, I think you'd appreciate it. There are a couple of scenes I would've left out, but more for suggestion than actual content. Just don't let the kids near it. ;)

Re: Out of Shape!

Jandy — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:41:04 -0000

But that's a long way away! I'm not in good enough shape to go that far, yet. (Or steady enough to be riding on the big roads yet...it may be true that you never forget how to ride a bike, but you do get rusty.)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Veronica catch-up

Jandy — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:41:40 -0000

Yeah, that was good. :) S2 was pretty confusing at times...there was just so much going on, and it wasn't all as closely related as everything in S1 was.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Addendum

Jandy — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:07:53 -0000

Oh, I can definitely appreciate the craftsmanship side of it, and especially, as you point out, the original manuscripts that were created before printing. Some of them are amazing and are deservedly treasured--I think of things like the Book of Kells in Dublin, and various other illuminated manuscripts especially. But somehow that doesn't translate over for me into printed books. I mean, I acknowledge that early printing was also time-consuming and difficult on the typesetters and all. But I don't get why the first printed edition of a work, for example, is so great, while the second edition (which could have been printed, like, two years later) is much less valuable. It's this obsession with first printed editions for their own sake that mystifies me.

Re: Las cucarachas

Jandy — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:39:46 -0000

Well, I'm sure you could "hit" them with Black Flag. I mean, big targets are easy to hit, right? Just might not do any good... :p

Re: Protected: Eeeeee! (password – my church’s first pastor)

Jandy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:53:04 -0000

Mark - hee.

Dad - Apparently, I'm not either. I just want to be. It's attractive to me not to need anyone's approval, but I'm not quite there. It's in my personality. Look it up. ;)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Water Ick

Jandy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:54:39 -0000

It tastes metallic or something. You do actually get more used it...I can drink from the water fountains at school now without making faces. But still. At least they do recognize there's some problem with it. Maybe instead of studying the stream or whatever they're going to do, they could, I don't know, PUT UP SOME SORT OF WATER FILTRATION DEVICE? Just sayin'.

Re: Howards End

Jandy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:56:05 -0000

Remind Mom that she's got to get past Chapter 5 before she gets to say that she's not into it yet. That was the chapter where I started writing a ton of notes.

Re: Howards End

Jandy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:43:24 -0000

Got you in trouble? How's that?

We finished it in class today, and the teacher had us split up into two groups and debate whether or not Margaret should have married Henry, and go back and forth rebutting points and stuff. It was good times.

We're not reading Willa Cather...she's American, isn't she? This particular class is limited to British lit. My American lit is really, really weak; I should probably work on that, but so far my working on it has been limited to F. Scott Fitzgerald!

Re: Howards End

Jandy — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:31:48 -0000

Ah yes, I remember that scene now. I remember being surprised by it, too, but not really offended....it wasn't very long or very, you know, close up. But yeah.

One of my classmates is doing her term paper on Cather (in a different class, obviously). I've been subtley avoiding her for a while; I have no idea why. I'll have to stop doing that, and put her higher on my reading list. Thanks!