Tuesday, January 17, 2006
holy be-jezus
i have attained my goal of being within 6 degrees of kevin bacon. and in no less than a day. through the beauty and power of blogging, a fellow blogger (thank you C.C.) has connected me to the one and only, kevin bacon. now what do i do with the rest of my 348 days left in the year.
what to do? what to do? what to do? when i come up with something useless and trivial to invest my time in, i shall let you know.
now on to my latest adventures in consumeristic incompetance. i went to future shop yesterday (i know, the horror), with the aim of buying a new dvd player. i wanted dvd/divx for sure. i found a $150 dvd player (can't recall the brand) that will play divx. nice. oh, here's the thing. i've just bought it, when i read the disclaimer (i'm in law, i should read the disclaimer FIRST). it says that some dvd-r might not work. so i ask the guy, in the dvd department (wait for it) what that means. he explains that due to recording differences, blah blah blah. basically, he says that if i record movies on standard dvd-r i won't have problems. but i ask him about dvd+r and he says no, it WILL NOT play.
but despite the fact that i know i used dvd+r, i take his assurances that i probably didn't use dvd+r, i take the thing home, happy day. i get home, and guess what, all my recorded movies (dubbed for safely in case the original that i bought, uh-huh, scratches)are dvd+r. but, i'm frustrated, and i say hell with it, i'll just try it just in case. and low and behold... they work just fine. to my surprise and awe, the sales guy at future shop was wrong? but, how can this be? they are in their specialized departments because they know more than us, the laypersons, the know-nothings. we pay the prices we pay for their guidance, their assurances, their knowledge. their commission. how naive was i, did i really believe that he knew what he was talking about? good god, i did. lesson learned. don't believe anything the future shop guys says.
what to do? what to do? what to do? when i come up with something useless and trivial to invest my time in, i shall let you know.
now on to my latest adventures in consumeristic incompetance. i went to future shop yesterday (i know, the horror), with the aim of buying a new dvd player. i wanted dvd/divx for sure. i found a $150 dvd player (can't recall the brand) that will play divx. nice. oh, here's the thing. i've just bought it, when i read the disclaimer (i'm in law, i should read the disclaimer FIRST). it says that some dvd-r might not work. so i ask the guy, in the dvd department (wait for it) what that means. he explains that due to recording differences, blah blah blah. basically, he says that if i record movies on standard dvd-r i won't have problems. but i ask him about dvd+r and he says no, it WILL NOT play.
but despite the fact that i know i used dvd+r, i take his assurances that i probably didn't use dvd+r, i take the thing home, happy day. i get home, and guess what, all my recorded movies (dubbed for safely in case the original that i bought, uh-huh, scratches)are dvd+r. but, i'm frustrated, and i say hell with it, i'll just try it just in case. and low and behold... they work just fine. to my surprise and awe, the sales guy at future shop was wrong? but, how can this be? they are in their specialized departments because they know more than us, the laypersons, the know-nothings. we pay the prices we pay for their guidance, their assurances, their knowledge. their commission. how naive was i, did i really believe that he knew what he was talking about? good god, i did. lesson learned. don't believe anything the future shop guys says.
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