Ever wonder where responses to “(some address)@donotreply.com” actually go?
As owner of www.donotreply.com, the Seattle-based programmer receives millions of wayward e-mails each week, including a great many missives destined for executives at Fortune 500 companies or bank customers, even sensitive messages sent by government personnel and contractors.
In case these two series have flown under your radar (as they did with me), I suggest you add them immediately to your TiVo/DVR and get caught up as soon as you can.
I fist read about Breaking Bad over at Uncrate, and finally started watching last week (AMC is showing the season in order again). I am two episodes in and it is pretty damn awesome. A chemistry teacher (played brilliantly by Brian Cranston from Malcom In The Middle), turned crystal meth cooker, and that’s just the beginning. This show is the perfect blend of dark, real, gritty, and gripping moments. I highly recommend watching the first episode and you will quickly be hooked into this series.
Also firmly planted atop my must-watch tv schedule of late is John Adams, a new HBO mini-series that covers the American Revolution, with John Adams as the central character. Paul Giamatti is simply perfect as Adams, and there are sure to be Emmys or Golden Globes, or whatever this sort of series can win, when the time comes. All of the acting, the sets, the script, the whole production is superb.
Also, as a life-long Massachusetts/Boston resident, I love anything to do with the Revolutionary War, as so much of it literally took place right outside my window, and on the streets that I walk every day.
Check both of these series out when you can, either now, or on DVD later. Both are absolutely fantastic.
I never even thought about who was behind those catchy and quirky Dunkin Donuts commercial tunes, but the latest ad “Power Walk” caught my ear as the vocal sounded really familiar. And wouldn’t you know it, my ear was right. It’s old favorites They Might Be Giants.
Who knew? Not me anyways.
I called the phone books a giant waste (which I know I am not the first to do), and now it would appear that Boston.com has taken notice as well.
They’re the original search engines, leftover from the days of rotary phones and answering machines. Once valued reference books kept in a certain drawer or cabinet for easy and frequent access, the massive telephone directories landing on doorsteps and in apartment foyers across the city in recent weeks seemed bound for more ignoble destinations.
more stories like thisDays after hundreds of thousands of the 2,000-page, 4-pound tomes were delivered, they began showing up in recycling bins and trash dumpsters. From Beacon Hill to Jamaica Plain, they moldered on porches and driveways, lay strewn across sidewalks, and sat in large, untouched piles in condo and apartment buildings.