Why Best Buy Sucks

So as some of you may know I recently purchased an Asus K60-IJ notebook computer from Best Buy. I mainly bought the computer in order to have mobile internet access (like when I'm on vacation), and to be able to use it for school work as I am starting College at the beginning of January. Given the Asus' reasonable price, ample hard disc space, and dual core processor it seemed like a decent enough fit.

On November 6th I headed to Best Buy to check it out in person, and pick it up if I liked it. As soon as I walked to within sniffing distance of the computer department, every sales associate in the building pounced. They were like car salesmen. I was asked probably 10 different times (that's not an exaggeration) if I needed anything, and it was a different person every single time. I even had one guy try and sell me cell phones, apparently totally oblivious to the fact that he was nowhere near the cell phone department.

Eventually I decided it was the computer for me. So when the 37th person approached to ask if I needed any help, I told him I wanted to buy the Asus. He proceeded to pull a dented box out from underneath the display model and hand it to me.

"Uh, not to be rude, but do you think you could grab me one that doesn't have dented packaging?"

"Oh, not a problem," he said, as he reached for his upscale Fisher-Price walkie talkie and radiod for a warehouse boy to fetch the notebook.

As we were standing around waiting he took the time to try and sell me on the "Geek Squad" services. Would I like my computer "Optimized" for 130 bucks? No thanks, I can always do most of that myself for free. Would I like to buy Geek Squads "Black Tie Protection" plan for 200 bucks, which protects against any manufacturer defects, or accidental damage? Nah. Asus already offers a 1 year warranty on manufacturers defects, and accidental damage so I should be fine. Finally my computer shows up, I pay them their money and am on my way.

For about a month and a half the computer is awesome. It does everything I want it to do, and I have no complaints. It's not top of the line, even for a budget laptop, but it works for me.

I brought it home from Jenny's one day, set it over the baby/dog gate in the hallway (got to make sure the dog can't get it), and proceed to go to bed. A few days later I decide to bring it to work. It's Christmas Eve, and will probably be slow. Might as well take it and listen to music or something.

I get to work and pull it out of the case. Right when I open it I know something is wrong. I can see the black splotches on the LCD Screen. I know it's bad news bears, but hoping against hope I turn it on anyway. Disaster! The screen looks like someone stepped on it. The entire upper LH corner is blank white. Parallel lines run horizontaly accross the screen. A family member must have stepped on it I think. I certainly didn't drop it, and I'm sure I didn't step on it. Why did I leave it in the hallway? I'm such an idiot!

Once the initial feeling of imminent upchuck subsides I start thinking rationally. It will probably be covered under warranty. I mean, Asus has a 1 year accidental damage warranty. Why am I worrying?

Why? Maybe it's because when I went to check Asus site it says that Asus does offer an accidental damage warranty. Just not if you bought it at Best Buy! You see, Best Buy isn't a participating member! No, rather than allowing their customers to take advantage of the FREE accidental damage warranty that Asus provides, they would rather force you to pay 230 GOD DAMN DOLLARS FOR THEIR NOTORIOUSLY SHITTY BLACK TIE PROTECTION PLAN!

Thanks Best Buy! For making sure that I advise my friends to never buy a computer from you, and for making sure that I NEVER buy a thing from you again.

Senate Ruling Party Reaches Deal To Screw Americans Out Of Real Healthcare Reform

From the AP...

WASHINGTON – Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Democrats are the new Republicans.

This Goes Out To The Ones I Love

This is for all my homies.

I hope this brings you all as much joy as it's brought me.

Guess Who's Back... Back Again....

Well, hello all! So I guess it's been a while since I posted... yep...

It's not that I don't enjoy writing, or blogging specifically for that matter. I just find it easier to blog about specific topics, rather than just my life in general. And I've never understood how people could be that interested in my everyday life.

I mean, I love my girlfriend Jenny, I love/hate my dog Wally, and we love to do lots of different things together. We go to ball games, we cook waffles together, we eat greasy diner/bar food, we run around on the beach, and we love going to the two dollar movie theater (which, by the way, if you haven't checked out, you should. Yeah, it can be kind of dirty inside, but it's two fucking dollars) We love to do lots of things, and I love every second of it.

But are other people really that interested in reading about how I ate a grilled cheese sandwich (with bacon, I might add), then went to watch Role Models in a 2 dollar theater a week before it came out on DVD?

Maybe I just shouldn't care if people are interested. Maybe I should just write about whatever the hell I feel like, and quit worrying.

Yeah... That's what I'll do....

I'm glad we had this talk.

Hey, Mariners?

Win some goddamn games! You're freakin' killing me!

Sweet Release Product Endorsement Thread

This post will be the first of an occasional, non regular product endorsement series. Basically, it's shit that I think you should own.

First up? I give you the iFart.

Now I don't own the iFart app. Hell, I don't even own an iPhone. But what I do have, occasionally, is a boring job with quite a bit of downtime. And why would I want to watch youtube videos all day when I can do this...





So all of you iPhone owners I beg you. Take advantage of this priceless opportunity to prank the office douche bag with a hi-tech whoopie cushion!

Plus according to the iFart website the app comes equipt with a "security fart". Because who wants to steal a farting iPhone.

This Guy Wanted To Be President

John McCain was none to happy that the girls on the View actually asked him tough questions.

According to Barbara Walters, the show's creator and co-host, McCain told her at
a recent Washington event he won't be appearing on the daily gabfest "any time
soon."
"He had been on The View and was not very happy," Walters told a
gathering at Syracuse University, according
to Portfolio.com. "And when we walked out and I saw him I said, 'Senator, so
nice to see you. I hope you'll come on The View again.' And he looked at me and
said, 'Not anytime soon.'”

The man who the right wing told us would be the tough and seasoned leader, ready on day one to fight the terrorists with his wrinkley old sausage hands practically crapped in his depends when he got asked tough questions by the ladies on the VIEW.

That guy..... wanted to be President. Have I thanked baby Jesus lately?

Obama Signs Stimulus Bill

John Boehner's head explodes...

“In response to the President’s request for input, Republicans offered a better solution that would create twice as many jobs at half the cost. Instead of delivering a responsible, transparent, bipartisan bill to create ‘jobs, jobs, jobs,’ the Democratic Congress produced a trillion-dollar, special-interest pork-laden, partisan backroom deal that will do little to get our economy back on track."

Oh, poor Republicans... They just can't understand why the mean old Democrats won't do exactly as Republicans say. I wonder if it has anything to do with this?













































I know that not every Republican idea is a bad one, but they are certainly the last people who should be lecturing anyone on the economy.

They had their shot, and they failed spectacularly.

Coolest. Website. Ever.

http://www.failblog.org/

Total Lunacy

It's pretty well known that the Republican party doesn't believe in history. Normally, their attempts to rewrite history are so silly that they aren't even worth writing about. But this moves beyond silly, and into batshit insane territory.

I give you Mitch McConnell...

“But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And,
we know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In
1940, unemployment was still 15%. And, it’s widely agreed among economists, that
what got us out of the doldrums that we were in during the Depression was the
beginning of World War II.”

Now, Mitch McConnell is correct when he says unemployment was at 15% in 1940. What he fails to mention is that unemployment in 1933 (when the new deal was put into motion) was a whopping 25%. I can gauran-freakin-tee you that you would have a hard time finding another President that lowered unemployment by 10%. I'd say Roosevelt was probably doing something right.

But the funniest part of Mitchy's claim is when he says that big government spending didn't get us out of the depression, but WWII did. Uh, what exactly was WWII but a massive government spending program? It would seem to me that, if anything, WWII proved that the New Deal didn't contain enough government spending!

This is just another reason why Obama never should even bother trying to work with the majority of congressional Republicans. Compromise, and bipartisanship is a worthwhile goal when the other side brings good ideas to the table.

But you have nothing to gain by trying to work with people who are certifiably nuts.