Interesting video about Pac-Man Jones being signed to Dallas Cowboys:
Funny sign but true
Considering I paid $4.14 a gallon for gas on thursday night it was funny to see this sign down the road from where I live. It is at a local bar.
Fun at Best Buy again
As I was walking around Best Buy today, I noticed something getting more and more familiar. The employees using big technical terms to get unsuspecting buyers to buy crap they really don’t need. Case in point, I was walking near the TV section and the sales person was holding on to some gold plated monster cables (I think they were monster, not totally sure, but they were expensive). He then proceeded to tell the family that if they did not buy those then the huge tv they just bought would not get the proper HD signal and they would not see the channels in HD. I just sort of laughed to my self as he went on to explain why they needed this expensive gold plated cables, and how they were so much better than the cables that came with the tv. He kept going by saying, since you are paying for the installation and $500 calibration for the TV in your house, why would you want to use crappy $2 cables to have to pay to have the TV recalibrated all the time. (Like a cable is some how going to change the settings on the tv to show a crappy picture.)
The next one was near the camera isle. The guy was trying to push the biggest and most expensive SD cards onto the customers who looked to be buying a little point and shoot camera. The card was probably 1/3 the cost of the camera they were getting. He then started walking them around to get all the “accessories” they would need to use the camera.
The best one was back to the first guy, who after talking about the cables for a while, then went over to the proper cleaning of their new TV. He told them they had to buy “their” special cleaning fluid as normal household cleaning items would severely damage the new tv they were buying. He told them not to use anything with alcohol in it (which I bet the stuff he was selling them did). When I was walking away he was telling them they could use water on the screen to clean it.
I would like to go in there some day and just play stupid and see what all they would tell me I needed for what ever I was buying.
Weird survey
Tonight I got a survey from E-Rewards. Started taking it and it delt mostly with Cable tv. Then all of the sudden this question pops up:
Not sure what this had to do with cable television, but when I checked all of the items in the first column, it then said I was not eligible to finish the survey.. Guess they only wanted smelly people?
No wonder it is cold outside
This week the weather has went from 77 degrees to 40… I think it is beause Com(pression)cast has actually done something good… They finally made the local broadcast channels that are in clear QAM show up on the channel numbers they should be. So instead of using 108.2201 for the local NBC affiliate, now you just have to use 11.1 which makes much more sense. Now if they would just make the rest of the channels in the clear it would really make my day.