Disappointing

The saga of my dealings with Cook's Country Magazine!

I get Cook's Country, and really like the magazine. In the past, I've gotten gift subscriptions to their other magazine Cooks Illustrated, and I have some of their cookbooks. For my birthday, I wanted a particular cake that was in an issue. It was their back cover recipe, and it told you how to construct it, etc.. But the actual layer cake recipe you had to go to their website for. Okay, no big deal. Except I get to the website, and come to find that you have to have a paid subscription to their website to access the recipe! Now, I'm all kinds of unhappy. I paid for a magazine subscription and they want me to pay again to get the recipe! But I think, maybe I'm on the wrong part of the website, so I give them the benefit of the doubt and email them. I got a reply back this morning, and it turns out I was absolutely correct. So I just replied, basically saying that I had no issue with having a paid website, but that to require a paid magazine subscriber to pay again for recipes in the magazine was dishonest and a bait and switch. And that I would not be renewing my subscription or sending subscriptions as gifts anymore. To bad too, since they have a nice product, but I refuse to reward shady business practices.

There's lots of other food magazines for to give my business to!

Disappointing

The saga of my dealings with Cook's Country Magazine!

I get Cook's Country, and really like the magazine. In the past, I've gotten gift subscriptions to their other magazine Cooks Illustrated, and I have some of their cookbooks. For my birthday, I wanted a particular cake that was in an issue. It was their back cover recipe, and it told you how to construct it, etc.. But the actual layer cake recipe you had to go to their website for. Okay, no big deal. Except I get to the website, and come to find that you have to have a paid subscription to their website to access the recipe! Now, I'm all kinds of unhappy. I paid for a magazine subscription and they want me to pay again to get the recipe! But I think, maybe I'm on the wrong part of the website, so I give them the benefit of the doubt and email them. I got a reply back this morning, and it turns out I was absolutely correct. So I just replied, basically saying that I had no issue with having a paid website, but that to require a paid magazine subscriber to pay again for recipes in the magazine was dishonest and a bait and switch. And that I would not be renewing my subscription or sending subscriptions as gifts anymore. To bad too, since they have a nice product, but I refuse to reward shady business practices.

There's lots of other food magazines for to give my business to!

Disappointing

The saga of my dealings with Cook's Country Magazine!

I get Cook's Country, and really like the magazine. In the past, I've gotten gift subscriptions to their other magazine Cooks Illustrated, and I have some of their cookbooks. For my birthday, I wanted a particular cake that was in an issue. It was their back cover recipe, and it told you how to construct it, etc.. But the actual layer cake recipe you had to go to their website for. Okay, no big deal. Except I get to the website, and come to find that you have to have a paid subscription to their website to access the recipe! Now, I'm all kinds of unhappy. I paid for a magazine subscription and they want me to pay again to get the recipe! But I think, maybe I'm on the wrong part of the website, so I give them the benefit of the doubt and email them. I got a reply back this morning, and it turns out I was absolutely correct. So I just replied, basically saying that I had no issue with having a paid website, but that to require a paid magazine subscriber to pay again for recipes in the magazine was dishonest and a bait and switch. And that I would not be renewing my subscription or sending subscriptions as gifts anymore. To bad too, since they have a nice product, but I refuse to reward shady business practices.

There's lots of other food magazines for to give my business to!

More Thank Yous

layla_aaron wrote me a lovely Methos/Amanda fic for my birthday. Thank you! And thanks to enchantersnight and sfulton229 for the great LJ gifts! And last, but not least, thanks to strangevisitor7 for dedicating her M7 ATF/MIOBI fic, The Transitive Property, to me for my birthday! Apparently it was all my fault, so.... :P

More Thank Yous

layla_aaron wrote me a lovely Methos/Amanda fic for my birthday. Thank you! And thanks to enchantersnight and sfulton229 for the great LJ gifts! And last, but not least, thanks to strangevisitor7 for dedicating her M7 ATF/MIOBI fic, The Transitive Property, to me for my birthday! Apparently it was all my fault, so.... :P

More Thank Yous

layla_aaron wrote me a lovely Methos/Amanda fic for my birthday. Thank you! And thanks to enchantersnight and sfulton229 for the great LJ gifts! And last, but not least, thanks to strangevisitor7 for dedicating her M7 ATF/MIOBI fic, The Transitive Property, to me for my birthday! Apparently it was all my fault, so.... :P

That's Done

After thinking about it I did decide to tighten up the timeline between 'I Am Going To The West' and 'Practical Applications'. So I went through both and changed seasonal references and such. I also did a small bit of rewriting on PA while I was at it. So now, West takes place at the end of May, instead of July, and PA takes place at the beginning of July instead of November. I think the changes work better for both the emotional impact of the events and for reducing the chances that IM II will stomp all over the sequel to PA by keeping the events closer to the end of IM instead of butting up against the beginning of when IM II is set six months after the end of IM.

In the end, it makes me happy, and that's what's important [snerk]

That's Done

After thinking about it I did decide to tighten up the timeline between 'I Am Going To The West' and 'Practical Applications'. So I went through both and changed seasonal references and such. I also did a small bit of rewriting on PA while I was at it. So now, West takes place at the end of May, instead of July, and PA takes place at the beginning of July instead of November. I think the changes work better for both the emotional impact of the events and for reducing the chances that IM II will stomp all over the sequel to PA by keeping the events closer to the end of IM instead of butting up against the beginning of when IM II is set six months after the end of IM.

In the end, it makes me happy, and that's what's important [snerk]

That's Done

After thinking about it I did decide to tighten up the timeline between 'I Am Going To The West' and 'Practical Applications'. So I went through both and changed seasonal references and such. I also did a small bit of rewriting on PA while I was at it. So now, West takes place at the end of May, instead of July, and PA takes place at the beginning of July instead of November. I think the changes work better for both the emotional impact of the events and for reducing the chances that IM II will stomp all over the sequel to PA by keeping the events closer to the end of IM instead of butting up against the beginning of when IM II is set six months after the end of IM.

In the end, it makes me happy, and that's what's important [snerk]

That's Scary

My father on the phone trying to explain to one of his little friends how to get on the internet. He thinks the backslashes in http:// are LL

That's Scary

My father on the phone trying to explain to one of his little friends how to get on the internet. He thinks the backslashes in http:// are LL

That's Scary

My father on the phone trying to explain to one of his little friends how to get on the internet. He thinks the backslashes in http:// are LL