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Dark and Stormy

In a tall glass…
.5 oz simple syrup
.5 oz lime juice
2 oz Goslings dark rum
6 oz ginger beer
1 lime wedge

Fill with ice cubes, and enjoy! One of my new favorites!

Vodka Stinger

3.5 oz vodka, .5 oz creme de menthe…… Still mintier than hell (if hell was one big peppermint!)

I think if I like these at all, they are with very little creme de menthe!

Stinger
3 parts brandy, 1 part creme de menthe.

I think on the next one I’ll try 3.5:.5

A little too minty!

Mojito

Serve in short glass
2 oz rum
12 mint leaves
.9 oz simple syrup (2 parts sugar, 1 part water)
1 oz lime juice
4 oz club soda
4 ice cubes

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add ice, Rum, syrup, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.

Hopefully if you were interested in getting your books scanned by 1dollarscan you already did so, because as of today it looks like the price has effectively doubled if you want PDF images with an OCR layer.

If you forgo the OCR layer the price remains the same.

We are very excited to announce a new version of 1dollarscan.
Please visit our site and check our new features and services!!!

New Features
Status Check
Now you can keep track of your order status on line. Has it arrived? Has it been cut or scanned? It’s all there for you!
Fine Tuning Option
Now you can fine tune your PDF to your device. If you have Kindle, you can optimize your PDF for Kindle. iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle, we have over 30 devices ready.
New Membership
We are now introducing two types of memberships for book scanning service. (please see detail info below)
For large volume customer, Platinum Membership definitely makes sense!! It’s faster and cheaper!!
Download App
As soon as your files become ready, you will be able to download from our server. We even prepared an app to download all at once.

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Regular Membership
$0 subscription/month
Book Scanning $1/set
OCR: $1/set (All of our books are searchable if you purchase this option)
Book title option: $1/set (Your PDF file name will be book title)
Turn around time: 2-3 months

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Platinum Membership
$99.99 subscription/month
Free scanning up to 50 sets ($150 value for $99.99. Include following options)
OCR: All of our books are searchable.
Book title option: Your PDF file name will be book title.
Expedited scanning. (5-10 business days)
Unlimited storage of your books on our server.
Amazon direct shipment: Now you can ship directly from Amazon order
No need to write order# on a box.
No need to count sets. We will count for you.
No Roll Over of unused sets to following month.
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Please be aware that,
as we introduce those new memberships and services,
old pricing and free OCR campaigns will no longer be valid.

In the last 24 hours I’ve gotten two emails from confused and irritated people that were annoyed over the fact that when I posted stuff to Google+ and they were in my circle they got Emailed even
though they were not members of Google+

I had a feeling that the email feature would be annoying to people, but I had to test it out anyway. ;-)

What I didn’t count on was people getting all confused over the feature.

My sister tried to reply to the automated mail, and was confused when the mail bounced.

A friend overseas thought that maybe my email account had “gotten hacked.”

Just goes to show that Google went a little too far with that feature. I am guessing that it was meant to keep Google+ in non-users minds, and maybe get them to sign up for it after getting a few emails.

But I think it had the opposite effect, making those people irritated with me, and Google+ and not wanting to have anything to do with it.

I received this in my Email from 1dollarscan today. All the more incentive for me to get that box of books together!

From: 1dollarscan Support
Date: September 22, 2011 1:10:02 AM CDT
To: support@1dollarscan.com
Subject: September only DISCOUNT COUPON up to 30%!!!!

To all 1dollarscan fan,

We are celebrating our 1 month anniversary and giving away this 10% discount!!!!
This is only valid until the end of September.

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Comment on your FB(to public), tweet, or write in your blog about our service.
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This promotion is only valid until the end of September so HURRY!!!!

#If you write on your FB status, make sure to make it to “public” so that we could check!!!

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support@1dollarscan.com

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If you are every stuck wondering what kind of cocktails to try next, just go on Facebook and resolve to try whatever drinks your friends are mentioning.

A traditional Cape Codder recipe:

Cape Codder
6 oz chilled cranberry juice cocktail
1.5 oz vodka
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Pour into a tall glass filled with ice.

I like to make my Cape Codder this way:
3 oz vodka
3 oz 100% pure cranberry juice (not cocktail)
1 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz Rose’s Lime Juice
6 ice cubes
5 oz Club Soda
stir all non-carbonated ingredients. Add ice cubes, and fill with club soda in a tall glass

Either way, it’s very refreshing. Great fall drink!

It looks like Jisui, or the act of scanning your physical book into an ebook, is coming under increased legal scrutiny in Japan. Makes me wonder about the future of the 1dollarscan service in the US.

Trouble Cooking in the Japanese Ebook market

I guess I’d better get the rest of my books scanned in ASAP. ;-)