Notes to the AMC Star Southfield

Dear AMC Star Southfield:

Your "Hot Food Pickup" sign should be larger than an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Ideally, it should be large enough that a single person waiting for their food is not enough to block the sign entirely.

While I can appreciate that you wish to fix the underlying problem with your mustard dispenser, there comes a point where you should suck it up and bring me a small cup of mustard. That point is before I have been standing patiently at the condiment table for a full 10 minutes. It is certainly before my hot dog has gone cold and I no longer want it nor any mustard to put on it. It is WAY before I give up on ever getting any mustard and wander off lest I miss my movie as well.

If you've only been open for three hours so far today, the restroom should not be totally disgusting. Perhaps next time you could try cleaning it before everyone leaves the night before?

While I will admit that the woman who wanted a wheelchair was overly whiny, it surprises me that you, whose business involves having lots of people in dark rooms with stairs, do not have a courtesy wheelchair anywhere in the building. They are much cheaper than lawsuits are.

Love and kisses,
Me

Well, hell

For a while now, I've been happily using Google Reader for RSS feeds. I like the fact that it will keep track of what I've read and haven't read, and will hang onto things until I'm ready to look at them. It's like getting things emailed to me, only without the part where it clutters up my email inbox.

However, the more I use it, the more I find that there are some feeds that I'd like to look at less often than others. Google Reader doesn't allow for that kind of splitting up, which is fine because it would probably ruin a lot of the simple usability. But hey, no big deal, there's about a hundred RSS readers for iGoogle alone-- it should be easy enough to set up another one of those on a different tab, and look at those only when I have the time and inclination, right?

Only it seems that Google is alone in the idea of keeping items until you've read them, and also in the idea of marking something as read and not showing it again. Of the 15 other readers I tried, all of them showed just the top X items in a given feed, regardless of how long it had been since I'd looke,d or whether I'd already seen all of those items.

For now, my best solution seems to be to create another Gmail account (or, in this case, re-purpose my Mom's Gmail account), and put the don't-want-to-keep-up-entirely feeds on that. But it still lacks finesse, and I don't like it. Plus, I can't put it on my iGoogle page with everything else. (Why yes, I have sold my soul to Google, why do you ask?)

Well, hell

For a while now, I've been happily using Google Reader for RSS feeds. I like the fact that it will keep track of what I've read and haven't read, and will hang onto things until I'm ready to look at them. It's like getting things emailed to me, only without the part where it clutters up my email inbox.

However, the more I use it, the more I find that there are some feeds that I'd like to look at less often than others. Google Reader doesn't allow for that kind of splitting up, which is fine because it would probably ruin a lot of the simple usability. But hey, no big deal, there's about a hundred RSS readers for iGoogle alone-- it should be easy enough to set up another one of those on a different tab, and look at those only when I have the time and inclination, right?

Only it seems that Google is alone in the idea of keeping items until you've read them, and also in the idea of marking something as read and not showing it again. Of the 15 other readers I tried, all of them showed just the top X items in a given feed, regardless of how long it had been since I'd looke,d or whether I'd already seen all of those items.

For now, my best solution seems to be to create another Gmail account (or, in this case, re-purpose my Mom's Gmail account), and put the don't-want-to-keep-up-entirely feeds on that. But it still lacks finesse, and I don't like it. Plus, I can't put it on my iGoogle page with everything else. (Why yes, I have sold my soul to Google, why do you ask?)