Memorable

[randy_byers]

This morning I opened my e-mail and found a message from notification@powells.com.

'What the hell?' I asked myself.

'Psst!' said the e-mail. 'A book on your Notification List at Powells.com is now in stock or available for backorder.'

'What the hell?' I asked myself.

'Cinema of Josef Von Sternberg by John Baxter,' said the e-mail.

Oh, right! I must have used the Powells notification service on a whim because I couldn't find the book anywhere online, which I kind of remember. That must have been, what, over a year ago? I dunno, I forget. Computers never forget, eh? Or at least they remember longer than I do.

Score!

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That's good. Amazon has or used to have a user-generated notification service for new books, but mine seem to have terminated years ago. (Not to be confused with the Amazon-generated "You bought X, you might like Y" service which goes on for ever.) Nice to confirm that Powell's works, even the next year.

[profgeek.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love it when you forget about something you ordered or put a search on months ago, then suddenly it pops up in your e-mails? It's almost like another Christmas!

BTW: who the hell's Josef Von Sternberg?

I'm serious about this; I really don't know the name. Please enlighten me as to some of his work.