Typing on a mac … forgive the spelling errors.
(Why do the blind people dots sit on the d and k? I feel terribly having to grate my middle fingers against these things … I think some day soon I’ll be telling somebody what I think about them and they’ll say something like, “I see you’ve been typing on a mac! Hahaha…”)
I went to best buy and circuit city today to look for a cheap cd drive. I found them for $39 each. Something like 52-speed drives. Overkill when I only want some crappy drive. Then I found a cd burner for $49, so I figure I might as well spend the extra $10 for the extra features while I’m there. (… grr … remembering some years ago when I bought a 2×2x6 drive for $300 … ) Anyway, I do some more looking and find a DVD drive for $15. Me say giddy-up. Me like $15 DVD drive. No make sense, but me no care. Then I stopped thinking in the Frankenstein voice. All sold out, yippee. At the other place, I found similar prices and the same situation with the DVD drive. At circuit city, I bought a pair of 10/100 cards for a grand total pre-tax purchase price of -$0.02. Kinda wanted to give them a lecture in capitalism, supply & demand, etc., but I figured I should keep my mouth shut and just take from the man.
I’ve been watching some of the pre-season football games - mainly the Bucs games. For some reason that’s the only team I care about right now. I don’t like thinking of myself as a fair-weather fan, but I guess I am. If you didn’t notice, the Bucs sucked for the first 17 or so years of my life, so it’s not too bad to be a fair-weather fan in this case. Preseason games aren’t completely useless. True, the best players don’t play as much or as hard as they do during the regular season, but there are some benefits. In the regular season, for example, few people confuse the NFL and the WWF. Earlier this week I saw some rookie do the piledriver on somebody he tackled.
My fairly new Koss car cd-player isn’t working right. True, it’s the cheapest and crappiest cd player on the market, but I didn’t expect the thing to fart and die on me so soon. The manual says that there’s too much noise from the electrical system and the microcontroller got confused (apparently a steady 12.47 Volts isn’t enough - thanks be to joel’s multimeter). So it says press the reset button. This instruction is as helpful as being told to press the reset button on a refrigerator magnet that doesn’t stick to anything. There is no reset button. I tried unplugging the mess of wires from the thing and reconnecting them. No luck. Maybe Koss tech support will want me to purchase a separate reset button add-on for another fifty bucks. “You have used your cd player for thirty days of your thirty day evaluation period. Thank you for purchasing the demonstration version. If you would like permanent use of your car cd player, please purchase something more expensive.”