Archive for May, 2004

Adventures in Not Buying a Motorcycle

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

My car exploded, so now I’m getting a motorcycle. Oh, okay, it didn’t exactly explode, but it might as well have.

Anyway, I wanted to get something cheap. I found what seemed to be a really good deal on a ‘79 650 Yamaha with only 3400 miles. It was in wonderful shape and idled great, but because it hadn’t been driven in 10 years, the carbuerator was gummed up and it died every time you gave it gas. After leaving, I called and offered the guy 500 bucks, but I didn’t get the bike because some other guy showed up right after I left and offered him what he was asking ($700).

Oh well. If anyone finds a decent street bike for under a grand, please let me know.

As soon as humanly possible, I want to statistically increase my odds of being killed or injured (read: buy a motorcycle).

Rebirth of an iPod

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

After my old 10 GB iPod broke and I sent it in, I received a voucher in the mail for a new $299.99 iPod. It is really just a shame that not only do I get a shiny scratchless new iPod, but that Apple also discontinued their 10 GB model. Convieniantly, now the 15 GB model costs the same as the 10 GB model used to cost so I got a replacement iPod and an extra 5 GB for practically free. When I say practically free I mean that the price was actually $2 less than it had cost me before. So I got $2 back, and then paid $40. You see, while purchasing the $40 2-year replacement plan for my original iPod, the retailer forgot to inform me that if I were to actually call the number in the pamphlet that it would automatically void the insurance plan from carrying on to my replacement. They also did not tell me this when I called that number. I did not like the idea of my iPod breaking again, so I bought a new insurance plan. It looks like the Best Buy insurance plan has its own dirty little secret.

One Hour News: 3 in 1

Monday, May 24th, 2004

Steve and I ventured out into another One Hour News adventure. Being incapable of actually investigating anything, we just decided to revert to walking into businesses and seeing how many questions we could ask before being asked to leave. (That was pretty much all that had been done in the past, right?) Surprisingly, Super 8 talked to us. McDonald’s almost talked to us. And we walked right through the mall! As most people know, malls are notorious for tackling anyone weilding a camera before the “record” light can even come on, but we walked around for quite a while before being tackled…