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The Family Drive-In Theatre (Stephens City, Virginia) — new ownership

17 May

Recently, The Family Drive-In Theatre in Stephens City, Virginia came under new management, and I had some thoughts about the experience that I conveyed to the new owners. Rather than write a formal review here, I’m simply posting the contents of the email:

Hi, just wanted to give feedback on the theater experience.  I'll try to keep it brief, but my wife and I watched Iron Man 2/How To Train Your Dragon.

The new ticket price is still a deal, so that is good, but what I most wanted to comment on is the "announcing" over the broadcast system.

Please, if you really want to do a message like that, record it in advance, and keep it concise.  It was some very boring rambling about the new ownership, the new website, patronizing the concession stand, and while all these points are worth knowing about, it seemed like 10 minutes.  Record it early, keep it brief and upbeat.

Also, the film cut out quite a few times in the middle.  It would have been nice if someone came over the system and explained what was going on.

Otherwise, same old theater, and I look forward to seeing more movies there.  It is also a welcome change that you are bringing new movies, although an unfortunate side effect to that is increased wait times and longer lines.

Anyway, just my two cents, thought you'd be interested.

And the reply (addended 5-18-10):

Thanks Jeremy for the feedback.

We will attempt to keep announcements short.   As for the projector cutting out, it normally doesn't do that--it was pulling the film harder than it should have been on one of the projectors and we had to adjust the film tension a few times to keep from damaging the print.

look forward to seeing you again.

Sincerely

Jim Kopp
Family Drive-In Theatre
Stephens City, VA 22655

www.thefamilydriveintheatre.com
 
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Twitter weekly updates by crimulus for 2010-05-16

16 May
  • Welcome back to the conference finals, #Celtics :) I can't decide if I prefer #Suns Celtics or #Suns Magic, but definitely no #Lakers #
  • Don't see how such long days can seem so short, but packing up now and heading home. #
  • RT @Discovery_News Cigarette butts could be recycled to make steel stronger (via @reillymj@). http://ow.ly/1KDjA Love cool discoveries! #
  • LET'S START A RIOT! #
  • Changing the universe to fit your tastes is a monumental undertaking. Changing your tastes is effortless. http://cchm.us/f #
  • I don't wanna come back down from this cloud! It's taken me all this time to find out what I need. http://abv8.me/2bo #
  • A project I envisioned for some time. "It Sounds Like": a wiki for things that sound like other things! http://abv8.me/2bn #
  • What can I say … VAYA CON LOS #SUNS amigo. :-D http://abv8.me/2bl #
  • Move over Starbucks … Jeremy's Gourmet Coffee Kitchen is open. #
 
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Google AdSense rejection and cross-domain duplicate content experience

08 Mar

Since the rejection replies you get from Google regarding applications to their AdSense program can be quite vague and even cryptic, I thought I would share my experience. First things first, you are not going to get to talk to Google directly — you have to use the forums. (Here is my thread.)

My rejection was simply:

Hello Jeremy,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we’re unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Unacceptable site content

Looking around their restrictions, I really could not find a solution, as I couldn’t find any rule that I explicitly violated.  I posted a request for insight on the forums, and a very insightful user (wasaweb) pointed out my extensive duplicate content on http://jeremytharp.com/ and http://www.coffeecuphalfmoons.com/.  And it’s true — I use my blog’s rss to feed much of the content on my music site.

Since I want to keep the sites separate, I saw no reasonable solution, but then I discovered that recently Google began allowing cross-domain canonical URLs.  Eureka!  I simply set the canonical URLs on the pages on jeremytharp.com that fed from coffeecuphalfmoons.com to the appropriate page that fed the same content on coffeecuphalfmoons.com.  When I resubmitted the AdSense application, it was approved!

Keep in mind that there are a LOT of reasons you might get rejected from AdSense, but given that this was very simply successful, I thought I would share.

I also noticed an immediate reorganization of my site:jeremytharp.com results on Google (for the better).  I’m hoping it has some positive effects on PR on both pages as well.

 
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