Just look at him! He’s adorable! His name is pronounced Ka Noot, which might be the greatest name I’ve ever heard.
Moving ahead
After this passed weekends snow storm, I think that was winters last effort for the season. Spring looks to be on the way as the rest of the week’s temps are pushing into the 50’s. 60’s shouldn’t be that far behind. Taking off for CA this weekend so I’m going to be seeing some 60 degree weather regardless, I’m hoping it’ll get warmer than that though. I also hope the weather will be better when we get back home.
Saw 300 in IMAX this weekend at it was a sweet movie. Not much else you can say about it. It’s the mans feel good movie of the season. Director Zach Snyder is on a roll, first with the Dawn of the Dead remake that did great numbers in 2004 and now 300 which is setting records. It’s still going full steam ahead pushing past 120 million in less than 2 weeks.
TMNT the arcade game is on xbox live and it’s freaking sweet. Great little game for 5 bucks.
So that’s what happens when you order the wrong part
The dope ordered the wrong part for the TV. Nice trouble shooting, asshat. The “DLP Engine” is being sent back and supposedly a new Digital Board has been ordered. Going to have to follow up on that to see if he lied. So if we’re lucky, it’ll be fixed on Monday. I’m going to get a VGA cable for my 360 today, I can’t take it any longer.
Chloe Elizabeth Santos
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Three days late but Chloe made it in at the very last hour of March 12th! 6 pounds 9 ounces and 19 inches long. Mom and baby are doing well and will be heading home tonight. Danny says “She’s really cute!” A good observation I’d say.
TV: Still Busted, Best Buy Warranty: Shitty
Quick rundown on the tv situation. It broke on Thursday, March 2nd. I didn’t think it was the lamp that was giving the trouble (DLP HDTV). Called the Best Buy Warranty hotline that night, they got in touch with the repair place in our area that they are hooked up with (Frontier something in Hackensack. Monday the 6th, tech dude comes with a new lamp and I’m right, it’s not the lamp. Said he’s gonna put in the order for a new circuit board, a whole new part for the TV basically. We wait a few days from there and call to see what’s up. Frontier says they will call us when the part comes in.
So what’s happened in the past week since the tech was here? Basically nothing. It’s the 12th today and we haven’t heard a word from anyway, we’re getting very close to 2 weeks of having a busted tv. After getting the run around from Samsung, Frontier and Best Buy (who will all blame each other and say they can’t do shit because it’s the other parties part in the chain that is being slow).
After pulling some teeth we find out that Frontier waited 2 days (Wed. the 8th) to submit a request to best buy to ok payment for the new part (think it’s a few hundred dollars). Best Buy took until Friday (the 10th) to approve the part. Shit head Frontier waited until TODAY to put in an order to Samsung for the part. So it will be 3-5 business days until they get the part. So we’re basically looking at getting the tech here on Friday if we’re lucky. Oh, and Frontier doesn’t send out techs on Saturdays. So if they don’t get the part by Thursday, we’re looking at Monday, the 19th for a repair date.
Money wise it’s not costing us anything to get the tv fixed but the time is totally unacceptable. Frontier doesn’t care with their shit service. I peg them as the worse offender here. Sitting on a work order for 2 days, no communication and lying about what stage they are on. And the woman answering the phone over there is a snooty bitch. Last “big ticket” item we purchase from Best Buy.
When animals get crunk
Awesome.
Korn Unplugged
11 tracks and it’s an excellent album. Breaths new life into many of their classics and the collaborations with Amy Lee from Evenesance and The Cure are fantastic. It’s really different and there is some brilliant music making all over the album. 3 songs were cut from the live performance, all of which you can find online at korn-locker.net. Thoughtless and No One’s There are both really good while Dirty was left off with good reason. It’s just not good, I’m convinced it’s just a studio song. I really like it on Issues, but all the times I’ve heard it live it doesn’t sound right and saps the energy from the show. The new unplugged version doesn’t improve it all.
I’m really psyched at how well this came out, I think it’ll hit the top 3 in sales for debut week.
Kung Fu grip!
13 degrees F
And when the wind blows? Forget it. It’s like zero. It’s the kind of cold where it hurts to go outside. Locking it down tonight.
I was right, not the light.
TV dude came by on time today and needs to order a new part for the TV. As I thought, it’s not the lamp. So he’s gonna put in the order for a new…thing. Looked like an entire motherboard section that goes in conjunction with the lamp. Hopefully it’s done by Friday…
Man Down!
Our Samsung TV is broken, troubling news indeed. No picture shows up and the tv shuts itself off after about a minute. The lamp is turning on and no warning LEDs stay on so it’s very strange. Hopefully it will be fixed by tomorrow. Maybe the lamp just needs to be reseated.
Also, the Korn Unplugged is fantastic. Airs on TV tonight at 11:30pm (EST) on MTV and the album hits stores on Tuesday.
Crackdown, first impressions.
Crackdown is the type of game that you sit down to play and the next time you look at the clock, you can’t believe that that much time has passed.
It’s a very simple game that has been designed incredibly well. This is it: Pacific City has gone to hell and the Agency (“The Man”) has resorted to making super cops to crackdown on crime. At the start you have better abilities than your average human, when you max your stats, you can make cars transform, you shoot guns like you were born with guns instead of hands, you can throw trucks 200 feet and your vertical leap is 30ft. Basically, you’re the Hulk. I think I’ve put in around 5 hours and the game just gets better and better. The game constantly rewards you by letting you do cooler and cooler shit as you go. The area design just gets better and better. The city (13 miles of land, 1 mile high ceiling) is broken up into 3 islands, with a crime family on each one. 3 mob bosses, with 6 underlings below him. Take out the mini bosses (so to speak) and the thugs lose power, the get weaker, their guns get worse, that sort of thing.
So you basically run around and lay out justice anyway you see fit. The game looks fantastic, basically a comic book GTA that doesn’t look like ass and the sound design is phenominal. And it has online 2 player co-op which just makes the game better.
Another amazing game on the XBOX 360.