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For reference I have an PIXMA iP4200. It has 5 ink cartridges: 3 color and 2 black (one for photo printing and one for text printing)

So a few weeks ago I was needing to print out something and what do know I was running low on ink. My magenta and cyan were both empty. I thought no worry because all I wanted to do was print a page that just had black text (which my main black tank was full). But wait, my printer stops and refuses to print flashing lights telling me change the 2 color tanks. So I search online to find that you can’t force the printer to just print when any one cartridge is out no matter if you are using that color or not.

I first check online and find the cartridges sell for about $14.99. I then check at the store to find that Canon ink can not be refilled. It didn’t really matter anyways since color refills started at $15. I then find a color 3 pack for $31.99. Since my yellow was getting close to being out this was a great deal (compared to $45.00 if bought separately).

A wait a week and finally get the new tanks in and install them. Whew! Back to printing. I go to the document I wanted to print and click print. WTF! A message pops up saying now my small black tank is out. This time I went to Staples and paid $16.99 + tax. Now my total price for ink is up around $50.

Right now newegg has an PIXMA All-In-One starting at $59.99 LINK

The thing that really gets me is I bought this one because it had the separate tanks figuring that I would always replace one at a time. Just another consumer scam.

Pixar gets much respect for this. A tear came to my eye reading it.

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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Colby Curtin got her final wish.

The 10-year-old girl desperately wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie, “Up.” But the cancer-stricken girl was too sick to go to a theater.

Thanks to a family friend who got in touch with the movie studio Pixar, an employee of the Emeryville-based company arrived at Colby’s home with a DVD copy of the movie, The Orange County Register reported Friday. The girl died later that night.

Colby’s mother, Lisa, said she had asked her daughter if she could hang on until the movie arrived.

“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” she said her daughter replied.

“Up” is the animated tale of a grumpy old man who, after his wife’s death, tries to fulfill their joint dream of visiting South America by tying thousands of balloons to his house and floating away.

“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” Colby’s mother told the Register. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”

Colby, who was diagnosed with vascular cancer in 2005, saw previews for the film in April.

“It was from then on, she said, ‘I have to see that movie. It is so cool,’” family friend Carole Lynch said.

But the girl’s health began to deteriorate. On June 4, Curtin asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair so that her daughter could go to a movie theater but the chair was not delivered over the weekend, Curtin said.

By June 9, Colby was too sick to go anywhere.

Another family friend, Terrell Orum, called both Pixar and Disney, which owns the animation studio. The message was received by Pixar officials, who agreed to send someone to Colby’s house the next day with a copy of “Up” for a private screening, Orum said.

The employee arrived with the DVD, stuffed animals of characters and other movie memorabilia.

Colby was unable to open her eyes to see the movie so her mother described the scenes. When her mother asked if she enjoyed it, the girl nodded, Curtin said.

The Pixar employee left after the movie, taking the DVD, which has not been released. Lynch, who was with the family during the screening, said the employee’s “eyes were just welled up.”

A call to Pixar seeking comment was not immediately returned Friday.

Colby, with her parents nearby, died later that night.

Her mother said one of the memorabilia left by the Pixar employee was an “adventure book” based on a scrapbook that, in the movie, is kept by the wife of the main character.

“I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,” Lisa Curtin said of her daughter.

So I woke up this morning and a  thought popped in my head, “I don’t remember sending my Father’s day card”.  Another thought popped in my head, “Wait today is Friday, it’s too late”. Now I had to decide do I hand deliver is or send it late. A hand delivered card is never as good as opening your mail and seeing a card for you. Sending it late would just seem wrong. So I did what any good son would do (really a good son would have had this thought 3 days earlier) and decided to send the card overnight. I check first the rates on the computer. FexEx ~$38, USPS ~$17. USPS it is. I go to the post office and print out the shipping sticker and see that the price is posted on the label. Now my Dad knows how much I spent and will remind me of this. What really upsets me is I bought the card over 3 weeks ago thinking I would be smart and beat the rush. I am just happy knowing no matter what my Dad will have a card to open before Father’s day.

Only 6 more days!

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secretdojo.com is no more. Now we have the new and improved feartheninja.com. There are no promises that this one won’t be as short lived as the dojo (and it was short), but I will try and make a better attempt at adding content.