So now the Conservative party is leading a minority government. Big flippin’ deal.

I think that we would need to worry more if Harper started a dictatorship. This is highly unlikely.

I think that having the Conservatives in power is a good thing. Once people realize what a mistake it was to vote for them, they will feel like crap.

Then, when the next government attains power, a new law should be passed, allowing good voters to kick bad voters in the crotch.

Mr. Resetti

PS: I hate Adam.

So we have all heard Shatton’s wonderful adventures in his new Home, Nostromo. I also moved into a town, named Serenity. All was going well for the first few days and my experiences were pretty much the same as Shatton. We even had a little side business going on importing/exporting (Yes, we were “Importer - Exporters”) exotic fruit. We quickly payed of the mortage on our respective first homes that way.

Fast forward two weeks and while shatton is still doing very well, I am not. All thanks to this Mother Fucker, Mr. Resetti :

This is a plush doll of the in game character, and if I ever saw one personally I’d light it on fire and then piss on it to put it out. Or maybe I’d let it burn, I’m not quite sure. Anyhow, if you accidentally power off the system, or basically exit the game without saving, this guy makes a visit the next time you load up. He then gives you an annoying and lengthy lecture on the perils of not saving.

I made this mistake early on, by accidentaly powering off without saving. I lost an entire afternoon’s worth of work, which already sucked, and then I had to listen to this guy berate me, fine. Everything was good for a week or two and I actually powered off at one point after loggin in for only a minute. Next time I loaded up, no Resetti, all was well with the world. So I figured that if you only were logged in for a min or so, it didn’t really matter. The next day I had just turned it on, and got a call from a customer, so I quickly shut off my DS as I knew it would be a while before I could play.

When I finally got around to trying again, low and behold, Resetti was back. With a vengeance! Not only was he pissed, but he wasn’t letting me off easy. He decided that I needed to repeat some key phrases “after him” to prove that I learned my lesson, choice ones like “I am a Loser” “You are the best” “I am a cheater” etc etc. Needless to say, I respond back with “YOU are a Loser” “You are gay” “Fuck off” “Leave me alone, damnit!” and so on. After a few minutes, without him letting up and not being very impressed, I decided to bite the bullet and just tell him what he wanted to hear. Just so I could get back and play my damn game. Well damnit if he wouldn’t accept what I wrote, and tried to make me type the same thing over and over. After a few minutes of this, I gave up and slammed the damn thing shut in frustration. Who is this guy hassling me about a game that I payed $50 for. It’s my friggin game, and if I want to power off then I will. I didn’t play for a day or two, but finally I gave in, my town was surely missing me. I jumped through all his hoops, for about 5 agonizing minutes, and finally he left me alone.

In my absence, my favourite town member had moved out, which was devestating. But life goes on and I had a great time in Serenity that day, and there was even a fishing tournament. I caught a ton of fish, but lost out by 0.1 of an inch! Shatton won his town’s, with a puny 41″, while my 46.8″ monster wasn’t able to take the cake. After a fufilling day, I decided to save and log off. Unfortunately, in the process of saving, when you get the “Do not power off now, it would be dangerous” message, my hand inadvertently hit the power button. Believe you me I did not do this on purpose, as it meant that my entire days work would not be saved. Right away I knew, and went “I hope it was done saving. Please tell me it was done saving?!!” I know, you must be saying “Why’d you do it again, are you an idiot or something?” All I can say is, you know when you accidentally close a window on the computer? I mean, you deliberately click the X, but then go “Wtf did I do that for???” I’m sure at some point we have all done it. Just like actually clicking “dont’ save” in the “save before exit” dialogue. Sometimes it just happens, either reflexively, or some mental hiccup.

Needless to say, it wasn’t saved. I powered on right away and got Mr. Resetti. My days work had been undone, and I’d have to deal with that prick again.

I haven’t played since then, and I’m not sure if I ever will again. As if not losing all that info is bad enough, I have to blow 5+ minutes dealing with a rant, and jumping through hoops of some little computer controlled nazi. Animal Crossing hates me, and I think I might hate it.

This could be the end. :(

With the recent acquisition of the Best Keyboard Ever, my life was complete and everything was set, or so I thought. Enter a few days ago, and while using my Super Nifty Cool Mouse:

I do a right click, that doesn’t so much “click” as it does “clunk”. Huwha?? Yep, something must have broken inside of it, because the right mouse button is defintely going. About 1 in 5 clicks has way too much travel, and makes a very unhealthy sound. Did I mention that I’ve only had this thing less than 6 months? Or how about the fact that it’s a $60 mouse! (I got it on sale, of course ;)

Thank you Logitech, it’s not even the left mouse button, which is conceivable, since it gets alot of use. But how often is the right mouse button even used?? I mean, maybe my middle fix is extra strong, since I’m always flippin people off, and it was just too much for the mouse. But still, thank you Logitech for your expert piece of engineering. My previous mouse, was an old compaq 2 button scroll wheel, that I’ve used for years, and that Bobbo was using since 1998 is still going strong.

It’s only a matter of time, before it becomes one of those mice whose other button doesn’t click anymore. Which is only a step away from not working at all.

Looks like it’s time todo the old Futureshop Switcher-roo.

PS. Technically it’s still under warranty, so I *could* send it back. But it’l be 6weeks before I get a refurbished replacement. Thats far too long, and a wee bit gross, so the switcher-roo it is. Anything that screws futureshop is also a plus ;) If only there was a way to also screw Zellers ..

As Aggies11 reported Tuesday, the current Zellers flyer features, on its front page nonetheless, quite the awesome deal: Buy a Nintendo DS Mario Kart bundle for $179.97 and at no extra charge, receive Animal Crossing Wild World.

A deal like this is really just too good to be true! The system itself is awesome. It bundled with Mario Kart is a sweet deal in itself. But throwing in one of the most-anticipated DS games to date on top of that is enough to make me go crazy. And it did. Because I called up every Zellers store near my house and at all locations the bundle was sold out.

A Home Electronics salesperson at one store (Trinity Common) said that I should call on Friday morning to see if they got any more in, and that if they didn’t, I would get a rain check. However, when I spoke to this same person on Wednesday, I was told they weren’t giving rain checks. Wednesday night I visited a different Zellers location (Shopper’s World) and spoke with someone there who mentioned they can’t give rain checks for the item because it is a limited supply (each store only got 12, I was told) and that they didn’t know if they would receive any more Mario Kart bundles.

But then, not five minutes later, he said that the Mario Kart bundle would be going on sale in two weeks, so I could get it then. However, it would not include the bonus Animal Crossing.

And I couldn’t get a rain check because they didn’t know if they were getting any more?

What irks me even more is that someone Rob knows picked up three DS/Mario Kart bundles with Animal Crossing Wild World from that very store just yesterday. Which means that one day after I went in and was told I couldn’t get a rain check, and that they didn’t know if they would get any more in, they got more in! It also means that although this is a so-called “limited” supply, one person can walk away with however many system/game bundles they want.

A representative at the Square One location told me over the phone that he was told to not give rain checks for this deal.

Yesterday I went to Future Shop to see if they would match the deal, but again, no such luck.

What I would like to know is how this is ethical, and how this is not fraudulent, because the back of the flyer clearly states:

RAIN CHECKS & SUBSTITUTIONS: If any advertised item from our regular assortment is not available until the end of this sale event, we will offer you your choice of (a) a comparable item (if one is available) at the same price as the sale item (or at a comparable discount, whichever is better for you) or (b) a rain check entitling you to purchase the item, when available, at the sale price.

All the time I’ve put into trying to get this deal to work for me is clearly not worth the $44.97 price tag of the bonus game. But God damn it. If you’re going to put an item on the front page of your flyer, either have it in stock or state in the ad itself that it is in extremely limited quantities.

After reading Watership Down, which honestly is the best book I have ever read, I have a new appreciation for how amazing animals are. I also have a new sense of disgust with what mankind has done to the planet for the so-called benefit of themselves.

I’ll write in greater detail at a later date about Watership Down. Now, however, I’ll tell you that lately I’ve been thinking about how awful clothing made of fur is, and how I’d love to throw red paint at people wearing fur coats. If you can tear your eyes away from the nude model pictured in this article, you’ll find an informative read about bunny cruelty.

Some may argue that this is some sort of perverse form of population control. I beg to differ. Who told us we had to kill and torture animals for no good reason?

It breaks my heart.

But why does fancy coffee smell like poo? And why, despite it smelling like poo, do people actually pay more for it, as if it is some sort of priviledge to drink poo-smelling coffee?

I was in the Indigo book store in the mall yesterday. There is a Starbucks coffee shop inside the book store. As I walked by, I could swear that I smelled poo.

“Is that… poo?” I thought to myself. “No, wait. That’s coffee! Coffee that smells like poo!”

The best part is that I’m not making this up. It really did smell like poo. And people were there, drinking it. I swear, if you were to blindfold me and made me take a smelling test in which you alternated samples of poo and Starbucks coffee, I would likely not be able to tell the difference.

It’s like the more like poo a coffee smells, the fancier it is. Illustrated in the following equation:

P(x) = F(x)²

Where P is the value of how poo-like the coffee is (0 - 14 on the poo-H scale, where 0 is acidic poo and 14 is basic poo) and F is fanciness, measured in Snobs. x, of course, is the coffee, and is not necessary to the equation but I did want it to be represented.

If you’re going to pay $5 for poo coffee when you can easily get better coffee elsewhere for $1 and change, you should proceed immediately to my bank and deposit money into my account.

So the X-box 360 has launched. It’s a fine console. The X-box proper, was a good console. It’s the next generation. Better graphics, HD, multimedia support etc. It’s also rather expensive, at $499 CAD ($399 USD).

But fine. I don’t want one, but others do, and people will buy them for that rather outlandish price. They are also selling (sold) out. There may be a shortage.

So now, they are selling on E-bay for Monstrous sums of money. Here and Here. Thats right, $3,000, with over 30bids. These auctions have already sold.

Do people not know, that you can buy a computer that will kick the 360’s ass, performance wise, for less than $3,000? I mean, I can take that $3000, spend $1000 per year, and for the entire 3yrs I will have a system that will consistently make the 360 look like a child’s toy.

I should have pre-ordered one. And then sold it on e-bay, and taken that money and bought myself AND Shatton a computer EACH, both of them looking better than the 360.

I went to the mall and saw Call of Duty 2 demo’d at EB Games last week. It was nice looking, but my reaction was largely “meh,” I have a computer at home that looks just as pretty. It’s nothing new.

$500 is crazy, but $3000, well, you simply don’t deserve to have that much money. Give it to ME.