Brainwaves of Sken

For those of you who don’t know what Woot! is, it’s a site that offers one deal a day, sometimes at a great price. That’s all they sell is one item at a time, and when they’re out of stock, it’s just gone, and you’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Anyway, I’ve been looking to pick up a bluetooth headset for driving, but the inexpensive ones use AAA batteries (lame). Until now.

Ten bucks! With a bluetooth USB adapter! My laptops a little too old to have bluetooth, so I had no incentive there.

Anyway, this is half the price of even the cheapest bluetooth headsets I’ve seen, and even if I don’t like it, I’ll still have the adapter.

One day, when the USB standard dies, I’m going to make a charm bracelet out of my bluetooth adapter, wireless adapter and countless flash drives.

In other news, I’ve finished four videos in two days, with another one I might do on the plane (if there’s room) or at home and a sixth one that’ll have to wait for a voiceover on Monday. Not too bad. Time to go home! (flight’s at 2:20p)

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I’m eating foraged chocolate and drinking stolen Diet Coke.

We auto show journalists (if I may call myself one) are scavengers, you see. We don’t really care about the cars; what we want to know is, do you still have any of those USB sticks in the shape of a bolt? Can I pick up another pair of bongos from Jeep for my friend? Are they serving pizza at Suzuki, or chili dogs at Dodge? Ooh, sushi at Mazda!

Today was a banner day for The Great Scavenge – there was a speech by Mark LaNeve at an exclusive dining establishment, and they saw fit to toss me a plate of grub when I was done. Okay, by “toss” I mean, “gratefully proffer” and by “grub” I mean filet mignon and coffee-flavored creme brulee. The filet was cold but delicious.

This has definitely been the most frustrating trip I’ve gone on for work. I spend most of my time pushing the reporters to get in front of the camera, and the rest of my time in a cavalcade of taxis. Except yesterday after the show – no taxis. No taxis for miles. I walked halfway to the Sheraton from Javitz, which took at least an hour.

The hotel front desk lady sympathetically pointed out that I was dripping wet. I nodded, as the gestures that came to mind would have required I drop any one of the three large containers I hauled across that lovely area of Manhattan called Port Authority.

Things did not improve when I got to my room to discover that, yes, I left my key in my other pants. And that the maid cleaned my room, which I don’t need – I’ll re-use a towel, and my bed was tousled just so, thanks.

I got almost literally no sleep last night, leaving me with a headache to beat all headaches, and I have 4 videos to edit tonight.

I’ve noted that my window opens wide, here on the 25th floor. If anything else goes wrong, I’m going to start throwing things out the window until catharsis is achieved.

PS I’m coming home with two sets of (kinda painful) headphones from Scion, 4 pens from Kelley Blue Book, a bag and two chocolate bars. I skipped the hip-hop-tastic Scion Hat.

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Lucy got a job for the mid-late summer (mid-june on) at a vet hospital 2 miles from my apartment!

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Click to see it animate into present-day cousins.

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It’s called a passive multiplayer game, and basically it lets you deploy mines and lightposts and crates for and against your friends on whatever webpages you want, throughout the great wide internet.

It seems kinda fun, though it’s a little slow on the uptake when clicking “deploy”. Also, it’s got a vaguely steampunky feel to it, which is kinda fun. :)

I only have Rikhei on my acquaintances list so far. Clearly, I need some rivals! ;)

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Government,

I wanted to thank you for spending $43 million on a notice about how I should expect a the economic stimulus ‘payment’ in May. Though I nearly threw it out when I saw the spam-tastic phrase, “DO NOT THROW AWAY!” in bold red letters on the front, I was curious enough to tear it open, and boy am I lucky I did!

See, I would have killed myself today, due to my owing so much money, but that damned waiting period kept me from buying a shotgun. However, the three- to six-hundred-dollar check will be just the thing to pay my extensive bills.

… what do you mean, I shouldn’t spend it on old bills? My bills are already calculated into our economic figures? So… only new debt, then. Government, I- … I’m not sure that’s …

Whoa, is it true that the PS3 is the only Blu-ray player that hasn’t gone up a hundred bucks since HD-DVD went ka-put? Shit, I’d better get on that!

Anyway, I just hope you know how much I appreciate you spending my money in order to tell me how you’re going to give me my money back someday soon.

Sincerely,
Skennedy

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ATHENA WILL RISE AGAIN!

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Last night, I reached out to my mouse as I sat down at my sweet, sweet laptop, felt a small shock, and watched Athena die.

Now, if I press power, the green light flashes rapidly for as long as I hold it down, and it is otherwise dead as a doornail. Using battery or plugged power doesn’t make a difference, so either the MB or CPU are toast.

Of course, it’s just over 3 years old, and so just outside of the extended warrany.

I hope to spend a little time today researching the cost of a replacement MB, because this is otherwise an excellent laptop – 17″, 1920×1200… The only things out of date (HD, RAM) are easily upgradeable. If it costs more than a few hundred dollars to replace the hardware, though… I may have to start thinking about a new computer.

*sadness*

Doesn’t change much about my internet access – I still have my work laptop, which I bring home every night. Thank pete that I picked up an external hard drive a month or so ago and copied everything of consequence onto it.

*mourns*

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I keep anticipating the day when I forget that predictive text wants “smuggle” instead of “snuggle”, to hilarious effect.

Unrelatedly, where are the bored people when I post a self-indulgent comment meme?! srsly.

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