Thursday miscellanea #228

Thank you, Coach Moore. We appreciate it. All the best. Roll Tide. God bless.
It’s supposed to precipitize in a frozenly manner tonight. Mid-40s tomorrow, so any transportation trouble in the morning should be minimal.
Right after we moved here in 1986—so, at age 15— I wrote a fan letter to WAFF news personality Kelly Cooper. Somewhere I still have her prompt, handwritten, and warm reply. That was a cool thing she did.
I finally gave up on the pipe dream of an inexpensive Surface RT, and plunged on an actual Windows 8 tablet. I’m digging it so far.
(What else could keep Gears of War: Judgment in the house but unopened for a full day and counting?)
I have to say, though, the Dell order status experience was a C- to D+ at best. My status emails almost never matched what the Dell web site showed, and I got a robocall from the carrier alerting me to the imminent delivery about 18 hours before the Dell site showed it had even shipped.
Samuel Adams Double Agent IPL is an interesting idea. It’s not bad—nearly nothing this brewery does is—but really, stick with good examples of one or the other thing it purports to combine.
“There are more men griping about marriage who kicked the whole thing away themselves than there can ever be wives deserving of blame,” wrote Ronald Reagan to his son Mike in 1971, just days before Mike got married. Read the rest of the letter here. It’s spectacular. Hat tip, Paul.

Jenny

March 21, 2013 at 7:40 am

I will always appreciate everything Mal Moore has done for the University. No one loves Alabama more than he does. Prayers for his speedy recovery.
Saintseester

March 21, 2013 at 11:02 am

It shall be a shock to my system returning to the somewhat wintery weather from the pleasant week at the beach.