Extreme Excitement

I have been at the University of Minnesota since Sunday, and I will be here until Saturday night. I am taking a 6 day course on Windows security and am learning a lot about what we can do with a Windows server. I was really looking forward to eating on the tax payer dollar, but have now gotten to the point that I am tired of eating out. I have been watching quite a bit of TLC, because that is one of the 12 channels we get, and playing some Battlefield 2 in the worlds smallest lanparty. I am enjoying it, and am glad I am taking the class, but I am looking forward to going home. Sunday we will be celebrating our anniversary, and then Monday I will take a day off work to play a little NCAA football, and sleep for a really long time. Anyway, that is my excuse for no updates. Well, back to TLC...

Geeksquad sucks.

I have always had distrust, and hate for Best Buy's "Geeksquad." Besides being overpriced, incompetent, and pushy, they are, in my own experience, dishonest crooks. This happened about a year ago now, but at the time I did not have a blog. Now that I do have a blog that is frequented by almost 2 users I wanted to get this out there. My great uncle wanted a computer to replace his Gateway P5 120 (120 MHz I believe) so I told my parents that they should get him one of the cheap-o deals at best buy. These are the ones that are about a year out of date, so they clearance them off to make room for newer stuff. This was still a huge upgrade for him, and would meet his needs. My dad went in and told them what computer he wanted. They then told him he would need to purchase a whole stack of upgrades and software, all of which they wanted to install for their usually steep prices. My Dad declined, as I told him to. They then told him he should extend the warranty, my declined, as I told him to. They then told him that they would like to open the box, and start up the computer to make sure everything was working. My Dad, with the false idea that people are generally good allowed this. When he got it back I installed antivirus right away, before connecting to any network. Somehow it already had a worm on it... How could this get there? I would be willing to bet that Geeksquad would be willing to remove it for a $199, or $299 if you would like them to install the antivirus! I also would be willing to bet that they intentionally put it there. See the complete "rape me in the ass price list here"

Shortly after this event, my wife went to pick up one of these "bargain PCs" for her grandpa. They put her thorough the same thing, each time to the rebuttal of "my husband can do that for me" She stood there for quite a while as they tried to talk her into each thing on their list of evil. They even tried to sell her a $30 USB cable. For anyone who might fall for this in the future, here is one for less than $10 (most of that price is shipping) and even that is not a particularly good deal. F you in the A geeksquad. </rant>

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James Bond car

I missed my chance to buy a car that must have been designed by Q. This car has mounted shotguns, a machine gun, oil slicks, tire tacks, smoke screen, a pistol compartment in the steering wheel, and all kinds of other goodies. This car even has the initials R.G. embroidered in the interior. Obviously this car was made for me. I guess I will have to wait until the next time it is for sale on e-bay. Check out the auction listing for more craziness and for pictures.

Doctors allowed to be racist and rude

A court ruled that a doctor was in the right to tell a patient that she was so fat that she could only be attractive to black men. He then went on to perscribe that a brain surgery patient should shoot herself in the head to help dull the pain. I would not believe me either, so here is the article

people get arrested for selling coke.

I just read an article about a "high level" Coca-Cola employee and some friends who tried to sell some "trade secrets" and a sample of a new product to Pepsi for 1.5 million dollars. Pepsi did not want to get involved with the sure thing law suit that would result, so they let Coke know. Long story short, Coke executive's administrative assistant, Joya Williams, along with Ibrahim Dimson, and Edmund Duhaney are going to be enjoying some time in a beautiful prison resort, along with a few other people who got caught selling coke. A similar situation occurred recently where someone tried to sell a Pepsi trade secret to Coke, an offer that was laughed off as worthless. A Coke official is misquoted as saying "Pepsi, huh... Is that the company that makes those urinal patties?"