SUSAN TUSA/Detroit Free Press
I would daresay the gallon of pickles in the trunk [not pictured] is as much of an economic challenge as my decade-old Japanese sedan, but this makes for a better sign, right?
If I ever see her at a light, I’m going to encourage her to find a union sign shop to make her a nicer sign. Even the Westboro Baptist folks have prettier signs than this.
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I feel this Best Buy pricing phenomenon is best described in the terms of an Infocom text game:
> LOOK
You are at a Best Buy. There is a Blueshirt and 3 Memory Cards here.
> LOOK BLUESHIRT
A thin trail of spittle glistens on his chin.
> KILL BLUESHIRT
You heartless bastard. Just look at the memory cards.
> LOOK MEMORY CARDS
They are all Sandisk SD memory cards. One is 2GB, one is 4GB, and one is 2GB Ultra High Speed. Which one is the most expensive?
> TAKE 4GB
Wrong. It’s on sale for $24.99 this week.
> TAKE 2GB ULTRA
Also wrong — it’s on sale for $19.99 this week.
> TAKE 2GB REGULAR SPEED
Hey-ooo, big spender! $26.99!
> INVENTORY
You haven’t bought it yet.
> CHECK OUT
The clerk rings you up and offers you a 3-year Protection Plan for… $26.99.
> SOUTH
You are at the exit. There is a yellow shirt here and a gate. The yellowshirt asks to see your receipt.
> SAY “I KNOW MY RIGHTS”
You are forcibly removed from the store. Local police are called, refuse to arrest, but bemusedly ask you why you didn’t just show them the damned receipt.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
>IGNORE
Okay, this kind of wandered a bit, but you get the idea.
Tags: money, SD, retail
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“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it.”
Lisa Gregorian of Warner Bros. TV
Fictional Stars Get a 21st Century Facelift – NYTimes.com
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I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..
Ed Nather, The Story of Mel
Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”
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The kids’ TV series “Arthur” is produced in Boston, so could you blame them for having a little team pride following the breaking of the curse?
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Thumbs up, soldier. [P.S. Check out that watch!]
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Wet cats – a set on Flickr
There are probably more of these, this is just the first one I noticed… oh wait, here’s the motherlode!
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I would never have clicked these if Intel hadn’t made sure to drop Christoper Guest’s name. That said, “Everything Has Changed” is kind of a catchy little ditty, albeit not exactly “Lick my Love Pump.”
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I wondered, “How did they cram all the excitement of the arcade game into such a tiny package?” My question was more or less answered when I clicked through the tutorial and saw these ominous words: “PRESS 6 TO ATTACK”
High Voltage Online » Dial-A-Combo: SNK vs. Capcom on your mobile phone
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