Dead dinosaurs, dead cats, and dead yoga instructors

If you’re a customer of Amazon.com, you know that new recommendations are suggested to you based on what you previously purchased. Usually this is a fairly useful process, and benign when Amazon is doing it (but not so amusing when one day it’s acknowledged that the feds are doing it too, and produce a more nefarious mismatch than Amazon did—see below).

Especially if you have kids, you might have already viewed the various Walking With… DVDs, produced by the BBC. They’re all good (and interesting for adults too), but my favorites are Walking With Dinosaurs and the superbly-narrated When Dinosaurs Roamed America( Discovery Channel). The best deal is The Complete Walking with… Collection, but it does not include When Dinosaurs Roamed America.

So what did Amazon recommend for me? How about One Foot In the Grave, a TV series by BBC. Maybe dead dinosaurs are similar to dead cats and dead yoga instructors!