Does your car have OnStar? If so, you’re probably driving a GM vehicle, and are therefore probably not smart enough to take it apart!

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Hey, the house next to ours is for sale!

If you’re looking for a nice little three bedroom/two car garage with great neighbors, have I got a deal for you!

I’m actually not sure how much it costs, but you’d be living next to Brett and Tammy, so I think it’d be a bargain at any price!

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Sure, Dish Network and DirecTV offer some HDTV channels, but a new upstart satellite provider, VOOM, seems to specialize in HDTV.

Unlike the competition, however, VOOM doesn’t appear to subsidize equipment costs. A dish, off-air antenna, one receiver, and professional installation will run you $750. And no, that’s no typo! It really is seven hundred and fifty american dollars!

They won’t actually start charging subscription fees until March 1st, 2004, so if you order now you’ll get two months free. Basic service after that date will be $40 a month. Local channels are included at no extra charge. If you can swallow the insane setup cost, their pricing is actually really competitive with Dish and DirecTV, the only other two competitors in the satellite field.

I gotta say it’s nice to see a provider targeting the HDTV crowd for a change. The faster we all move to HDTV, the better! I’m still waiting for plasma screens to come down in price (way down) before I get one, ’cause the lack of focus on projection TVs pretty much wipes out any benefit afforded by the high-definition signal. I think I’ll be waiting a long time.

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Must…have…Predicta Holiday…must…!

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I have no explanation for this.

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My Dad finally made a decision on that mp3 player. He decided to go with the iPod rather than the Jukebox Zen Xtra, mainly becuase there are so many accessories out for the iPod.

It’ll be my mom’s Christmas gift to him and I volunteered to get it for her. Apple.com and every other website I could find were sold out of the 20 GB units, so last night I went to the Apple store in Costa Mesa (which had plenty) and picked one up along with a PCI firewire card.

We did some other shopping while we were at the mall, too. When we were in Z Gallerie I accidentally knocked over a small metal flask which fell on the floor and made a horrible clattering noise that you could hear all through the store. It was right next to some tall wine glasses and for a second I thought one of them had fallen, but nope! During the three seconds when the commotion was being made I saw everything happen in slow motion and in the back of my head I saw dollar amounts slowly adding up. $15…$30…$45…how much is this going to cost me…

I’m not sure why, but no employees ever came by to check on what had happened. I bet that people had been knocking that flask down all day long and they were just tired of checking. Score one for Brett!

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The lowest price on the Internet that I have seen for a GameBoy Advance flash cartridge and linker can be found at MW Electronics. A 256MB EZ-Flash Advance cartridge with USB linker is a mere $100. That’s a good $50 less than I’ve seen anywhere else. Shipping is $7 more. They’re located in the USA, so you don’t have to worry about waiting two weeks for it to pass through customs.

Get one for the geek in your life today!

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Street Fighter 2 in a most hilarious live-action format.

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The greatest screensaver of all time, Sierra On-Line’s Johnny Castaway, is now freeware!

You can download a copy from screensavers.com.

Here’s how I got this 16 bit marvel running in XP:

* Download johnnycastaway.exe

* Don’t run it. Instead, extract its contents to a temp folder. (It’s a zip file in disguise, so winzip or winrar should handle it.)

* Delete install.exe and installx.inx.

* Rename ‘JohnCast.scr’ to ‘ssJohnnyCastaway.scr’

* Move these four files into c:\windows

And viola!

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When is the striking grocery union going to realize they’re wrong?

Seriously. It’s getting a little out of control now.

I supported them…for about the first week. Now they’re just being idiots. When you have a job, you have to understand that management makes the big tough decisions. That’s why get paid more and have fancy job titles instead of, say, “Deli Clerk” or “Shelf Stocker.” If you don’t like the decisions being made, you go find yourself another job. That’s just how it is.

Most Americans have to pay a little bit for their employer-provided health insurance. I don’t think that’s too much to ask. The union has raised some other issues that I don’t see as mattering at all, so I won’t even address those.

I especially like how they chose to start picketing grocery store distribution centers the Monday before Thanksgiving, effectively screwing up Thanksgiving for countless families. That wasn’t an attack on management – that was an attack on customers.

This whole thing just makes me hate unions, and now I really support the grocery companies’ decision to stick to their guns!

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