Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.

Xander ,'Lessons'


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amych - Mar 22, 2007 6:31:53 am PDT #974 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I had a feeling I got it easy with my setup.

I suspect yours was the more typical one, actually.

I'm eyeing the door and wondering if I can sneak out of work for the afternoon. Not because it's a gorgeous day or because I have exciting international spy plans. Because I want to go home and play with my remote.


esse - Mar 22, 2007 6:56:02 am PDT #975 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

The thing that killed me is that I was debating between a Blackjack (which runs Windows Mobile) and the Blackberry, and the kid tried to tell me that "nothing running Windows will work with a Mac" and refused to believe me when I told him I'd been happily syncing my 8125 via Missing Sync with no problem. SMACK!

Little moron! It drives me crazy when people tell me things that are incorrect in stores that I can confirm with a five-second google search.

Glad you could get your phone partially working though, Kristin.


tommyrot - Mar 22, 2007 6:58:06 am PDT #976 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I remind myself that salespeople in electronics stored don't earn all that much money. If they actually knew what they were talking about, they could probably get much higher paying employment elsewhere.


Pix - Mar 22, 2007 6:59:25 am PDT #977 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

These guys make a fair amount of money on commission. Regardless, no excuse for giving customers misnformation. (I feel justified saying this, having worked my share of minimum wage retail jobs.)


tommyrot - Mar 22, 2007 7:04:31 am PDT #978 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

These guys make a fair amount of money on commission.

Oh yeah. When they put a huge amount of effort into pushing one product over a similar one - I figure that currently their commissions must be higher for that product.

IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.

Damn, I remember reading about the Pentium a year / 18 months before they came out. I was amazed that the Pentium would run at 60mhz! With higher speeds to come!

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amych - Mar 22, 2007 7:07:33 am PDT #979 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.

Ah, the good old days. The hopes! The dreams! The bizarre floating-point errors!


Jon B. - Mar 22, 2007 7:13:47 am PDT #980 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The bizarre floating-point errors!

Oooh. I\'d forgotten about that one. Ahh.... good times...


Gris - Mar 22, 2007 7:42:11 am PDT #981 of 25496
Hey. New board.

I'm about to order a Harmony. I hope it works on my Mac because my roommate's computer is the slowest Windows computer in the universe (I believe he paid $500 for it almost 3 years ago).

ETA: Hmm. The 670 is $100. The 880 is apparently only $150 on Amazon right now. Should I pay $50 for pretty colors? Very tempting!


Jon B. - Mar 22, 2007 8:13:07 am PDT #982 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I ordered the 880! Not so much for the colors as for the greater number of activity keys.


Gris - Mar 22, 2007 8:27:27 am PDT #983 of 25496
Hey. New board.

I went for the 880 too. Woot. Now I just need to figure out how to actually make sure it gets delivered to me... living in a non-doorman apartment is a big PITA.