My buddy Dave and myself woke up early and got to Best Buy since a little birdie told us there was a shipment of Wii's coming in. What I don't understand is people waiting 50+ deep when they only have 30 units to sell. I can see maybe 3 people's credit going crappy but seriously, 2/3 of the people having not enough funds?

With that said, popped over to Dave's house to play some Wii Sports and my god that is fun. Bowling and Tennis are fun, boxing is so so. However I have to say, playing the games is seriously tiring. After playing Baseball, my arm hurts. After boxing, I was sweating. Now, for a tiddle of a background, I bike fairly hardcore so it isn't like I'm out of shape.

But with that said, this is fun as hell. I love my xbox 360 (come on where is Halo 3) but zelda? Yes please.

I've witnessed the most rude thing someone could have done at 5 AM today. I really wanted to go up to her and say some very naughty things because it was crap.

But first, lets rewind and catch up everyone about me (cause who doesn't like talking about me).

Rule 1: I hate losing
Rule 2: I normally get what I want some way or another
Rule 3: I don't deal well with stupid people

SO, with my 4 rules in hand, I went out at 4 freaking AM to get a 22" LCD monitor at either Best Buy (who had the Westinghouse for $199.00) or Circuit City (who had a Samsung for $279.99). These monitors normally cost about $500.00 and as my coworkers know, I really want one.

SO I wake up and spend some quality time with my mom and wait in line in an attempt to get some 22's for myself. (yes I was going to cheat and have my mom pick up one and pay her back so I could have 2 22's if it was possible). However, I was thwarted by this woman who takes FOUR! What the fuck (sorry, the f-bomb has to be used). It is a Limit 1 item. Do people understand the term 1. UNO, SINGLE, MONO.

Not only did I not get a single 22's, this woman was taunting me with 4 of them. So I pop over and ask a manager about this and get the response of "She claims she has 4 people in line waiting for a laptop".

Lets get this straight, they can't bring the monitors in line with them too? They aren't CRT boxes, while big ass LCD monitors, the boxes aren't that big that you can't bring them with you. More so to the point, the manager knows she is hoarding them. For all you know the woman is having her husband buy 1, leave, buy another, leave, and repeat until they are down to two. And I know magically all those phatty monitors now are on Ebay without a shadow of a doubt.

My mom witnessed me fume for literally 5 hours after that (and I'm still pissed). Two of my friends got, in my opinion, a very funny, yet pointed text message about this woman and what should happen.

Switching to Circuit City ... in their infinitive wisdom, they only had 3 22" LCDs which were gone before I even got there. While they suck for not having enough supplies ... wait, they still suck. I think I've gotten 1 thing ever from them.

God this sucks.

the threat of black ballons doesn't phase me, calling me old man constantly does.

Unfinished trailer for spiderman 3. Last few seconds shows Venom.

even after attempting to fix it, still can't remote back to my apartment from work. This kind of blows.

How to test / fix? I think I'll use my laptop to RDC into my apartment while still in my apartment. Cheap and easy to see if it works and diagnose.

I can't remote into my home PC ... i feel like a lost child. How am I suppose to do things I'm not suppose to do now?

EB rules. After literally hitting up 8 stores going from the loop and walking north bound, EB finally had 1 copy. 1 copy of Gears of War.

After playing for 15 minutes, I need to stop playing and meet a friend, however, that isn't the point. Cause when I get home, sweet sweet senseless slaughter will happen.

Plus I should actually learn the controls rather than doing Halo style attacks.

SO I have a beef with Game release days. If you say you're going to be released on the 7th of November ... actually have stores SELL THE GAME on the 7th.

Gamespot, the evil tease that it is, sold the game on the 7th while everyone else (except EB) had to wait til the 8th to start selling it.

So I called up Gamespot today asking "Do you have copies of Gears of War today?" and I get the response of "Yes, but we are sold out of the Collector's edition." To me, that directly states, come on in and buy a copy ... which I left work promptly at 5 (this seriously is a first for me) and got to the Gamestop as fast at humanly possible.

What am I told then? "Sorry, for reserves only." Now initially, my response was fudge dookies, but I ran across the street to Best Buy and found out they can't sell the game til the 8th.

So now I've been teased and I got to say, I wasn't happy. It is like taunting a child with candy but never getting it. Eventually the kid is going to throw something at your nuts.

SO I walked back to Gamespot and decided to be a dick about this. I wanted the game and they had it and they taunted me ... twice ... by first saying, "Buy me", and second by displaying the copies of Gears of Wars.

Now after a solid 5 minutes "debating" with the high school drop out who needs to learn some personal hygiene, he calls up the manager to pretty much end the "debating". He said "we'll have 1 or 2 copies at the end of the night", I counted with "Ok, so you admitted you'll have extras, so sell me a copy". I countered with "Fine, if the game doesn't come out today techincally, let me preorder it right now." He goes ok and then realized what I just made him do and tells me he can't do that since that would be a loop hole in the system and blah blah blah game stop has been doing this for years and they know what they are doing. But in reality, I think they just lost a customer so I don't think so.

SO to "make the customer happy" AKA "get me out of the store" I now will get Gears of War tomorrow for 10% off.

Now, while I'm happy I got to harrass a kid for a solid 15 minutes countering any point he made with what he said minutes prior, I'm stilled irked cause I don't have what may be the coolest video game EVER (excluding halo 3) in my hands right now.

I'm thinking I should say "f' gamestop, and get it at Best Buy." While I hate Best Buy, I think they are the lesser of two evils. Plus they just didn't screw me over.

So in conclusion, screw Gamestop and one more day of longing for the coolest game ever ... EVER.

Update:
Just ordered the collector's edition off Amazon. Sweet sweet amazon prime 2-day shipping. 10% off? Should have just let me buy the stupid game and have my disposable income Gamespot.

I must collect more mp3 players. When I beta tested for Rio Audio, I had an mp3 player fetish. I had a TON. Only a few weeks ago did I give away all the old mp3 players they gave me since ... I only used 2 of them on a regular basis. But I have a confession, I have an 80 gig iPod. Pretty sure I mentioned that a bit ago. I also had a 30 gig 3rd Gen ... and a 2nd gen that died too. Why is this funny? Because I was a tester on the Rio Karma team. I got the 2nd gen iPod before the Karma was announced / was actually on that beta team, but I still had multiple hard drive players.

Now on reading that and where I wanted to go with this post, I'm not really sure how to reel it back in. HOWEVER, I have been reading a lot of the hype around town on the Microsoft Zune and I must say, I really ... really .... really want one. Why? Cause it has a big screen and to be honest, the iPod UI, while nice, is really kind of sluggish on the new generations. I really don't believe I've even heard a bad thing about it other than it is a tiddle larger than an iPod and only comes in 30 gig. That is something I can live with, I have more than 30 gigs of music, however, most of it I no longer listen to nor doubt I'll ever listen to again.

I will say, I'm kinda suprised that a lot of people are dissing one of the colors before it is even released too. That color is brown. Apple Geek's (web comic) made the statement (it did make me laugh ... a lot) that it was the doodoo pod. I haven't seen it in person but I actually wouldn't mind a brown one, or a black ... or a white too.

Gears of war is getting released tomorrow. This means I'll have a solid hour of sleep every day (to and from work on the CTA) for the next few weeks.

mmmmm, chain saw gun goodness.

I've figured out that I need the internet to live. Right now my apartment lacks both internet and cable tv. The TV I don't terribly care about. The internet, I need. I need it to live.

Yes, this is one of many reasons why I've been in the dark for a while.

I'm the blogger for coding 4 fun now. The idea behind it is great and they have a TON of free examples of code, to be honest, I haven't even seen anywhere else such as motion tracking with a web camera.

Now to start blogging!

Now that halloween is done, I can focus on more important things, like valves, event logging, server migrations, and actually posting more.

I'll have a couple more applications I'm writing posted shortly and explain why I've been a tad on the quiet side.