I'm in just the right mood

I'm in just the right mood to do hard drive cleanup today. Namely, I'm in the mood to throw stuff away. I've deleted hundreds of folders of stuff that I once thought worth saving. I've deleted a few dozen movies and I'm just getting started. Seriously, do I need to keep Groundhog Day? It's not like it's worth watching twice. This is not to mention the amount of stuff I have that's not worth watching once.

Throwing stuff away is by far the most effective use of cleaning time - it not only makes the place cleaner now, but forever. Hard drive cleaning not so much but it does make me not have to buy more drive space to hold new stuff when I've got probably terabytes of drives holding crap I'll never use again anyway.

Movie catchup

X-Men 2 and 3
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Anybody want to buy an Android tablet cheap?

I bought a HeroTab C8 a couple of months ago, and after playing with it for a couple of weeks I came to the conclusion that the only real use I have for a portable device is as an ebook reader, and for that I'd rather have a dedicated eInk device, so I bought a Nook Touch.
The thing is a 7" tablet, specs are online or you can email me. I paid about $230 for it shipped, I'll sell it for $150. It has no issues, I just find I don't really have any desire for mobile connectivity. I'll be putting it on ebay in a few days if nobody here wants it.
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Hidden allergens

A friend who is very allergic to gluten has been going downhill health-wise for about 6 months, and has now been off work for 3 weeks straight taking all kinds of medical tests. She was so bad that there have been times when she was too weak to get out of bed for multiple days in a row. She pulled her diaphragm from several hours of continuous vomiting last week.

Today she found out that Nestle just announced "hey, we said Carnation Instant Breakfast was gluten-free, but we were wrong" In fact they were wrong at least twice; at least two ingredients in there contain gluten. She's been drinking two of them a day for months now.

Hopefully she'll get better now. This is pretty lousy of Nestle or whoever down the line messed this up. It cost her months of time and thousands of dollars of income and probably many times that in medical tests.
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