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[fflo]

I've got my work e-mail inbox down under 4500 messages! I chip away at it now and then. Sentmail over 6500.

Hoping to shave Netflix queue to under 300.

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radical april

[homovegetarian.livejournal.com]

don't be afraid, but this month, i believe i will cancel my netflix! it's true! as soon as i am done watching six feet under:)

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Hmm....300 netflix rentals...At a rate of what, 2 out at a time, and an average turn-around time in the mail for when you send a movie out to get the next one is about 4 days minimum, and assuming you can receive the new batch of movies, watch them and find a post office that's still sending mail out in the same day, you're talking like 150 * 4 (proably more like 5 or 6, if you count weekend days) days, or somewhere around 2 years of rentals stacked up there in your queue...At least a year, if you get three out at a time, and they have 3 day turn around because there is a local facility. Huzzah to a 300 movie queue :-) I had gamefly, the netflix equivalent for video console games, for close to 8 months and only had like 5 games out the entire time...but it was nice to be able to finish, or at least tire of them, before I had to return them.

wow. Most people's sent boxes are smaller than their inbox...of course, I imagine you've deleted well over 10 times what you have in there now....

Man, bitrot sucks ass...How can we save the world from this horror? I mean...to catalog every file on all of the systems and give them a rotten date (dependant on content) to be wiped clean from our lives afterwards would be one way, but it'll take a lot of bit rot inducing code to even come up with that solution. How much extra data do we keep these days just because they keep adding more space for it? I mean, we used to have to contain our filing to the size of our domicile, or perhaps even a storage unit or two, or whatever size filing cabinetry you have. But now it's limitless, and there are too many places to put things that are far more ethereal to the common thinking man than that filing cabinet down in the corner in the dark part of the basement...So there's no way we're ever going to clean it all up.

Dude.

Re: radical april

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I'll be done tomorrow night, if not tonight. Depends how late I stay at the building. The last disk should be waiting for me in the mailbox this evening.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dude, indeed, dude. I figure hard disk death will take care of a lot of backlog of info. At work we're networked and backed up to the hilt, though, but they'll wipe out all associated with me when I wipe out. Eventually. Probably. (Accounts do still exist in our system for some of the long-gone.)

Since May 25th of last year I've returned 127 disks to Netflix, only 2 of them, I think, without having watched 'em at least some. A lot have been TV shows. I rarely watch regular TV (as perhaps that rental rate indicates). I was going absolutely crazy at first with the thing, in the spirit of getting my benefactors' money's worth.

All this to say: your estimate of 300 being 2 years' worth is pretty close. Mostly it's a 2-day turnaround here, though---we send 'em to Lansing, and most come from Lansing, and it really is usually just one day in the mail in each direction.

It really has been one of the best presents I've ever been given.

Sorry I missed your party, btw. That night just got away from me. Did I have the right # for your cell when I left you a message a while ago? You don't seem like the type to use the generic recording.

That reminds me: I think I'm using the generic recording, since I got the new phone. Have to look into that.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I never got your message. No worries about missing the party...there was much fun had by all...and a lot of no shows...or very late shows. No worries :-) I'll still be around from time to time.

-Drew

[fflo.livejournal.com]

223-1538?

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

oh yeah...that message....yeah, I got that. Sorry...i was totally vegging out that day...you know how it goes sometimes.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

'scool. just glad i have the right #.  ;)