I registered with ebay a long time ago, but I have yet to make a purchase at the famous online bidding house. Initially I was looking for a good price on a pair of AEGO2s, but either my interest ran out, our more likely, my money, before I ever got that accomplished.
Now it is today, and I have decided to spring for a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (yea, I’m a fucking high-roller, yo). I saw one for around $50 in Best Buy or somewhere like it, and thought “ya know, I could probably find one for cheaper on eBay.”
And I did, quite a bit cheaper in fact. With 0d 6h 30m left the bid was at $3.65 (only 2 bids). So, I place a $25 maximum bid, with 7.35 shipping. I am stoked, cause I just might get this thing for a little over 32 bucks. HA! Screw buying it in a store.
30 minutes after I bid, I start thinking, hmm, I wonder if my local hardware shop sells this thing OEM. Every now and again I look at motherboards and ram over there, but l33t HARDWARE TECHNICIANS like me don’t need to buy mouses and shit. Do they?
So, I drop over and I’LL BE DAMNED. $30, but more importantly, I CAN PICK IT UP IN STORE RIGHT NOW! DAMN YOU EBAY and your 0d 5h 11m, I want that fucker now! Do you have any idea what it does to an instant gratification seeking person like me to read 2-4 days to ship? DO YOU!??
So, right now I am currently waiting in eBay Hell(TM), looking at my eBay items page, hitting refresh every 10 minutes hoping someone will outbid me.
C’mon, somebody has got to want this thing more than I do, outbid me man, c’mon…
*hits refresh*
FUCK!
It is a rather odd experience.
Current bid is $23.15. 0d 5h 11m and counting. This eBay thing is really great.
UPDATE!!! Thanks to all of your heartfelt prayers I lost the bidding. dragonboi9 is now the proud owner of one Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for the ripe price of 26.00 plus shipping. Me, I will continue on with life, further enlightened with the knowledge that I am one impatient bastard. Either way, I will have that damn mouse tomorrow, and that is all that matters.
Farm Sluts: The Movie
by Jacko on @ 4:04 pm
Lifted straight from the forum (thx Pie4me), work safe.
As Faaq promptly chimed, “Is that a pony?” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Heart Attaq.
by NHDJ1 on @ 2:05 pm
The weight issue “comes up a couple of times each year,” said Steve Noland, Life Flight’s program director. “It’s not just the weight, but also the physical size of patients.”
No shit? I’m sure there’s some algebraic equation for that. Too bad I suck at math.
Now, I’m not some fatty hater, like most of you would like to believe. To tell you the truth, I love fat people. Hell, if it’s fat, I like it. I’m sure most of you would like to sit back and imagine me in Papa Lovetti’s standing at the lasagna buffet counter with a crossing gaurd sign that says “stop” on both sides. I bet you even fantasize about me going to the mall and walking around the food court pointing at those people who have a very distinct and un-mistakable weight problem who are shoveling food down thier gullets faster than a cheesecake eating whale and then getting right up in their faces and yelling “YOU FAT FUCKER. JUST WHAT IN FUCK’S SAKE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING!! YOU’RE DONE!!! YOU WERE DONE YESTERDAY!! TAKE A DAMN CHOW VACATION YOU FAT FUCKING SON OF FATTY FUCK!!”
Well, I might do some of that. It has nothing to do with their obvious weight problem.
I’m just mad about losing my job. Really. Hold me.
Operation: Dance Dance
by Jacko on @ 10:39 am
Crazy Geek from the Hacker Network has sent us a link to a spankin’ new flash video:
Additionally, so you don’t get the impression that I will post anything you sick people send me in e-mail, I provide the following:
- I am not creative. As even installing Flash is difficult for me, I am quite amazed when people actually make it work.
- I am never the first one to see anything. Since this is fairly new, well, here is my chance to be on the CUTTING EDGE OF ENTARTAINMENT!!!111
- I will post anything you sick people send me in e-mail.
- It is actually pretty damn good.
In closing, to steal (then bastardize) a quote from the beloved MoFemme Teflon Parakeet, if you have a problem with this, give me a call—I’ll be there to not answer the phone.
AS SEEN ON TV
by Jacko on November 12, 2002 @ 9:22 am
A 15-year-old Washington state boy suffered serious burns when he set himself on fire trying to re-enact a stunt similar to those from MTV’s controversial show “Jackass,” though an MTV spokesperson noted the stunt the boy tried had never appeared on the show or in the recent movie based on the show.
The boy from the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington, soaked his shirt in rubbing alcohol late on Friday and ignited it while his friends stood by with a video camera shooting footage they planned to sell, police and local media reported. [Linkage]
In other news, I am suing the Washington state police department for assault. Well, they didn’t actually assault me, I wrecked on my bike, but my injuries are similar to those inflicted by Washington state police in other assault cases, so I don’t really see why they can’t share some of the blame.
Just when is our society going to realize that mankind has been doing stupid shit since the beginning of, err, mankind? Just look at disco, or the crusades. Or look at what this kid told the police:
After suffering first-degree burns over his face and upper body, the teen-ager initially told police that someone had set his clothes on fire while he walked on a trail after attending a high school football game
I am assuming that when he thought this story up he was planning on crossing the “how the fuck did you get saturated in rubbing alcohol” bridge later. I tell you, I have crossed some pretty dangerous bridges in my day, such as “you didn’t happen to driving down this road with someone riding on your hood, did you?” and “then why does your breath SMELL like alcohol?”, but I can thankfully say that the “doused in rubbing alcohol” is one I have never faced.
Yes, my friends, and I can assure you, even if you did manage to cross that one, your shirt would still be wet.
We Are Ever Vigilant
by Sharkey on November 10, 2002 @ 7:00 pm
Even though my home machine is currently fux0red beyond the capacity to even email (first time a Maxtor fucked me over) I still have other means of sending out… messages.
THERE was an uneasy calm at the Government House, Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday, when a horde of monkeys allegedly broke into the state governors office and destroyed some stationery materials and his tea chamber.
Our source said midway into the investigation, a security report came, revealing that about 15 monkeys were seen around the governors office late on Tuesday.
Thanks Brian for comfirming Chim-Chim’s report. And to everyone else, watch your asses. I have more bananas than Bush has uneducated critics.
PICK ME! PICK ME!
by Jacko on November 8, 2002 @ 11:37 am
[Father sues team for not naming son MVP]
A Canadian father is suing the New Brunswick Amateur Hockey Association after his 16-year-old son failed to win the league’s most valuable player award.
Michael Croteau is seeking about $200,000 in psychological and punitive damages from the association. He also demands that the MVP trophy be taken from the winner and given to his son, Steven.
Be aware that I posted this story solely because it takes place in Canada, proving once again that the only things our friends to the North care about are Hockey and Beer. *wipes tear from eye* God bless.
Bedtime Story Limerick, In Engrish
by Sharkey on @ 2:52 am
There once was teen whore from Japan, in eight months she fuck 800 man. But the whore underage, now her pimp in a cage and her junk’s just as coarse as the sand.
Jeez, I’m fairly crass once exhaustion hits. [ Linky ]
A second-hand dealer has been arrested for pimping a 17-year-old girl to a whopping 800 clients in eight months, police said Friday.
The man, Takayuki Miura, and a teen-age boy who worked under him, were arrested on charges of breaking the Child Welfare Law.
From November last year until July this year, 44-year-old Miura set a minimum quota of six men a day for the 17-year-old runaway girl. He pocketed some 12 million yen during the period but only paid 500 yen per day to the girl to cover her lunch expenses, police said.
KlfJoat probably made up a good third of her business, since I heard he raised his age minimum. *BA-DUM-CHING!*
With that cheap shot delivered, it’s time for bed. Tip your waitress.
DWARF…Uh… SQUIRREL INVASIONNN!
by Sharkey on November 7, 2002 @ 3:23 pm
Seriously Britain, you just keep digging yourself in deeper and deeper, don’t you?
A squirrel is spreading terror in a Cheshire town where it keeps attacking people.
Children have been attacked, grown men chased and residents of Knutsford, central England, are fearful of letting their kids out to play, the Times newspaper said.
Local resident Blanche Kellye said the problem was not funny. “Everyone round here is living in fear…it’s a vicious little thing. I’ll never trust squirrels again.”
*shakes head in shame*
Next thing you know they’ll be afraid of France. Fucking pansies.
It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night, I Should Be Sleeping Like A ‘This’…
by Sharkey on @ 6:09 am
The sun’s rising, and so it is time for me to hang up my webmasterin’ guns and take a siesta. But thanks to my newfound dietary regiment of caffeine pills and Bic White-Out, I’ll only need 1.25 hours of sleep before I’m up and ready to work on my next piece of savory web deliciousness. Or, I’ll wake up ready to murder and stumble into a bowl of Fruity Pebbles while collapsing in front of the television for a few hours, but hey, that’s the life of an independent contractor for you. Constantly on the go. …Shoot me now.
Or, save a bullet for someone more deserving, like say, a guy who would believe that a street magician turned him invisible and started robbing banks… then got his ass kicked. It’s really just too good to be bullshit my friends. See for yourself:
Customers at a Tehran bank quickly overpowered the deluded robber after he started snatching banknotes from their hands.
Appearing in court, the repentant thief said he paid five million rials ($625) to a man who gave him some spells and told him to tie them to his arm to become invisible.
“I made a mistake. I understand now what a big trick was played on me,” the would-be bank robber was reported as telling the judge. His name was not given.
I’d like to tell a few select Dell spokesjackasses that they’re intangible like Kitty Pryde, and can easily wander through traffic without fear of suffering horribly dismembering consequences.
Something seems a little suspicious about this “street sorcerer” fellow though. I wonder who else he’s pulled this bullshit scheme on…
Nah. It wasn’t a street magician that conned Winona. It was good ol’ fashioned blow. Just like momma used to make.