Monthly Archives: April 2008

Nothing Much….but Hi

From Monday until last night, I was pretty busy…stressfully.  Now that I got those days caught up, I hit a brick wall on motivation today.  I did get some work done this evening, just didn’t get as much done I should’ve.    Depending on the weather tomorrow on whether or not I get much done.   It is suppose to be nice tomorrow, before the cold front moves in.  So if it is nice, I want to hit the park.

We watched the debates tonight.  They both got their hits in, but I think Obama got more in.  We are seriously debating on whether or not to register as dems so we can vote in the primary……The problem is that we don’t want to be on anyone registry.

Commentary: An ‘average’ American will never be president

**This author had a pretty good article on why a common man can’t be president………and honestly, would we want one?  Look at Jackson?  And some of our other presidents before and after Lincoln that were more “average.  They sure didn’t leave that much of a mark and some actually made it worst.  George W anyone?  He may have went to Yale..due to daddy and granddaddy, but he sure is not very smart….he is pretty stupid overall.

I want a president who is smarter then me on the issues, looks at all the finer details but balanced with common sense.   What is so bad about that?

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Toshiba you will never see another dime from me.

No wonder Sony kicked your ass in the Blu Ray/HD war; you are just too incompetent to conduct business.

I bought an Xbox 360 HD-DVD player on January 4, they along with Toshiba (Who I assume made the HD-DVD player) had a “5 free HD-DVD offer” with proof of purchase, I go online and see a list of 20 movies to choose from and none of them are really that good overall and to make it worse, you could only have 1 per group, so that made it even worse so I just selected:

The Hulk (seen it and……. yawn…)
Babel (not seen it and would like to)
Full Metal Jacket (seen it many times, and like it, but…. eh)
The Frightners (seen it, was ok, just got it since it’s a Peter Jackson movie)
Darkman (seen it… eh)

As I said, not really a good selection of movies to choose from but they are free so why not? We send all the crap in on January 5 and wait. February 24 I get a package and open it to find my envelope with all the crap I had sent to Toshiba and a letter saying I didn’t include my UPC code…. Which I know for a fact I did since when I looked inside the envelope I first sent to them that they just sent back to me I see…. the UPC code.

Ok, this ticked me off since all they had to do was LOOK inside and I would have had my 5 free DVDs. I call asking them WTF and I explain to the lady what my beef is and asked why could they not open the envelope I sent and look inside cause if they did they would have seen it just as I had. She tells me she doesn’t have a clue and to just send it all back which I do with a nice little letter at the bottom of the letter they sent me saying “Next time look, it was here” and drew an arrow to where it was located.

Another month passes and this past Saturday I get another envelope and I open it to find… all the crap I have now sent them two times but minus the copy of the receipt and with a very chewed up UPC code that was ripped to shreds so badly you could see only 2 numbers and a letter telling me I didn’t include the copy of receipt.

Now, if I didn’t send the receipt, and I sent everything they had sent back to me the first time, why didn’t the first letter say “you didn’t include the UPC code *AND* receipt” but it didn’t say that, it just said I needed the UPC. There is no doubt in our minds they had it all, but I guess my letter of “look next time” pissed someone off so my receipt got “lost” and my UPC code shredded.

So I call them again today and after waiting 25 minutes on hold I get another lady and explain my issues once more telling her I’ve been screwed over 3 times, once the first time when they claimed I didn’t send the UPC when it was there, and twice this time when they didn’t return my receipt and shredded my UPC. She told me to get another copy of my receipt and send it all back, which I told her was unacceptable and asked for a supervisor.

Her supervisor gets on the phone and tells me to send it all back, I tell her no, I’ve done this twice and twice I been rejected when I did everything I was supposed to do, and now that my UPC code is shredded I’m pretty sure I am screwed, so I tell her that I think Toshiba should honor their commitment and if they don’t than I won’t buy another product. She tells me she needs the receipt and UPC code which I remind her that it was HER COMPANY that shredded the UPC so I no longer have it and she tells me to send what I have back and they will see what they can do?

Ok, I’m done. I tell her I no longer want the movies and that I spent too much time on this already and I am done jumping through hoops for Toshiba if they do not want my money, they will not get it and told her I now understand why Sony kicked their ass, Toshiba is just too incompetent.

So no free HD-DVD movies for me so my HD-DVD collection is just 6 or 7 movies and season 1 of BSG.

Oh well, in 30 years they will be “cool” I suppose.

Oh yeah……….

Fuck off Toshiba.How Do I Feel?: calm calm

WAR! US (will) ATTACK BRAZIL OVER WMD’s (oil)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4649582&page=1

A deep-water exploration area off Brazil’s coast could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, the head of Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency said Monday. That would make it the world’s third-largest known oil reserve.
How Do I Feel?: blah blah

Meeting David Wilson

http://meetingdavidwilson.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTWTn6d-Qeo

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Amazing documentary and very well done, clearly one of the best documentaries I have ever seen and I highly suggest everyone to see this.How Do I Feel?: impressed impressed