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In case anyone cares: the
only honest justification I've ever heard for the obscene cost of
shipping stuff to Hawaii came from an unidentified employee of Matson,
the company that holds Hawaii's economy by the reproductive organs. His
reason: "because we can."
That's it. Fuck you and thanks for calling. Hawaii is about as far
from California as the right coast of the US, and except for all that
water under the plane, there is no other difference. We must have
aircraft coming here constantly, none of the tourists I see appear to
be capable of swimming the distance. In fact, many of them could have
been towed, their excess body fat lending sufficient flotation to carry
cargo and perhaps some livestock.
Amazon sent my stuff via USPS,
otherwise known as the US Post Office. The order confirmation included a
tracking number, so I logged on to their website to find out where my stuff was and when I could expect to see it, but the only
information available was that someone had asked them to pick up my
package. Nothing about whether the the damn thing had actually been picked up, nothing else about
anything. I sent an email to the anonymous entity listed on the
website, and was surprised to receive this swift answer: "the
electronic rate of the Delivery Confirmation service provides delivery
information only, it does not provide tracking of the item en route or
acceptance scans. If we can be of assistance to you in the
future, please don't hesitate to contact us."
I'm still trying to figure that one out. it appears the USPS system can only tell me when I've received the package. Well hell, I'll KNOW that! So why bother. Shit, at least it was cheaper than UPS or FEDX or Bob & Roy's station wagon.
So while my new DVD burner is already installed,
my Tiger has been delayed until after the official release date this
Friday after which something will happen between here and somewhere. I
won't be able to share the experience with ya'll until after the
flying tourists arrive sometime. Until then, we'll return to
our usual programming. 7:42:44 AM 5:50:08 AM
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In a fevered response to my recent loss of all the files on an external drive
I recently ordered - from Amazon - a copy of 'OSX 10.4 'Tiger', the 'Disk Warrior'
drive repair utility and a 'dual-layer' DVD Superdrive for my venerable
PowerMac G4. Not only were their prices are few bucks better
than everywhere else, but the shipping costs were much lower than
my usual suppliers - shipping is a big issue when you live 2500 miles
from the next piece of rock.