No denying it; this is totally awesome. Barack Obama answers the questions put together by the BlogHer community.
On my short list, he talks about birth control, education, and the banking industry. Check it out:
I did it! I hopped on my bike for my Lipton Bike Giveaway winner drawing!
OK, so this is really slapped together and next time I clearly need some sort of wind screen for the Flip Video, but here it is! Check it out to see if you've won, and I'll email the winner on Monday:
And thanks for all the *great* healthy snack ideas in the comments!
If you want to get into the drawing tomorrow, you need to comment on my post: Free Bike = Youthful Fun. My First Contest! with your favorite healthy snack by the end of today, Saturday.
Drawing tomorrow. Hopefully on video. Hopefully from my bike. Off to pump up a tire right now...
Sometimes I go ages without logging into Site Meter, but generally I pop in every few days just to check where people are coming from, to see if anyone linked to me and I missed it, and to check the basic level of my traffic.
A glance at Google search terms is always fun.
One thing that always catches my eye is links coming in from email programs like Yahoo and Gmail. You can tell what post was in the email, and I always think it's cool that someone was moved to email a link to something I wrote.
Usually, it's one of my IUD posts.
But recently, someone read my post, Gen X and Gen Y in song. (Weezer & Flobots, respectively) and apparently emailed it to a bunch of people. Who all clicked on the link and read it, but no one commented.
What a mystery, huh? Did they think I was onto something? Or did they think I'm an idiot? Weezer fan? Flobots fan? (For the record, I rock out to both, baby.)
Gen Y commentary, perhaps, about those cranky old Gen Xers? Gen Xer sending out a hell yeah?
It's a Mystery to Me.
OK, I have no idea how it is if you buy your comic books from a bricks and mortar comic store. I could never keep track of or deal with that, so I buy my comics online from Things from Another World.
Now, every issue of Buffy Season Eight has a regular cover and then every four books are printed with a variant cover.
So. If you want to guarantee that you receive the variant cover, you have to order four copies of every book. This is absurd, and luckily, I prefer the regular artwork anyway. It's absolutely stunning.
But. If you want to guarantee that you receive the regular cover, you have to order two copies. Otherwise, you risk receiving the variant cover on your one issue, thereby not having a complete and beautiful set of the regular covers.
At first, I would just order my one and cross my fingers. But then, if the variant cover arrived, I had to reorder - and then I still had to reorder two to make sure I got what I wanted. So now I order two copies.
Except somehow I accidentally ordered three of an upcoming issue, and it seems too late to cancel one, at least, not without calling about it. Who wants to bet I don't even get the variant on that one?
Oh, and the one time I really, really liked the variant? Of course, didn't get it. I might have ordered four to get this one, but I didn't see it in time:
What's beyond annoying is that now what I have is:
That last one would have me stark raving mad if I stopped to think about it.
It's not the cost; comics books are under $3. But the annoyance, and hello, the paper involved in these equations??? The fact that people are ordering four copies every issue to get those variant covers just seems like such a paper suck.
I guess what most annoys me, though, is that I have to order extra copies just to ensure that I receive a complete set of the normal covers. I don't want any of these extra copies! The whole system is the suck.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read Wolves at the Gate Part 3 (#14) before I go to bed. Gee, which of my matching copies should I crack?
(I am happy about my free Hellboy I got for Free Comic Book Day.)
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