Thoughts From an Iowan About Anything: July 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009

woot follow up...

well I just read how the Crap is being sent out from their blog :(I need to learn how to read SO COME ON NUMBER 2)

Thanks For Five Years Of Wooting, Wooters!
Don’t you hate those jerks who have nothing better to do than sit up at midnight and hit refresh so they can snipe your rightful Bag O’ Crap out from under you?
So we’re faced with the strange problem of figuring out the fairest way to dish out your crap. Fortunately, those low-down crap rustlers don’t usually read this text. So they don’t know that everybody who buys today’s Woot-Off lights will automatically have a (slim) chance at receiving a genuine Bag O’ Crap. That’s how we’re celebrating our fifth birthday today. It was either this or Chuck E. Cheese.
Here’s the way it works. You buy these tasteful, dynamic, unique, attractive, useless Woot-Off lights, for the oddly familiar price of $3 plus $5 shipping. That’s your end of the deal.
Then, if the last digit of your order number matches the last integer digit (that’s the ones digit) of the final Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close of business Monday, July 13, 2009 (after all settling), we’ll send you a bonafide Bag O’ Crap. We promise only that it will include a bag and some quantity of crap. Thrilling, we know.
Since these lowly Woot-Off lights are likely to be available for a while, we figured this sort of randomness was a better way to distribute crap than the usual mad scramble where everybody gets mad and blames everything on our poor servers. They’ve taken too much abuse from you people already. If you don’t like the outcome this time, take it up with Wall Street.
So those of you who aspire to buy our crap, buy these crappy lights and wait for astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell (along with some Louis Vuitton executive) to ring the closing bell on Monday. 9 out of 10 of you will receive Woot-Off lights and only Woot-Off lights. 1 out of 10 will receive Woot-Off lights plus the obligation to take some of this garbage off of our hands.
The question in that scenario is, who are the “winners” and who are the “losers”? If you’re one of the aforementioned jerks, feel free to tell everybody in our forums how much you regret wasting your money on that garbage.
And we’ll go ahead and give the rules again for those of you unlucky enough to nab Bag O’ Crap XL (that’s 40 in Roman numerals, not extra large):
THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.1
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and SOME NUMBER OF crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.
VI. Shalt thou receive Woot-Off lights only, thou shalt consider that crap enough.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Happy Days are Here Again

w00t! logged on later last night to woot, and it was their birthday and here was the screen:

So I will be the proud owner of some woot lights and random crap.... Oh I hope it is a TV with out a remote and not an IBM blade server rack... I also have 3 random shirts coming too, so you'll be seeing some updates on all that coming up soon.

I think the next post with be my Palm Pre review the good the bad and the great.....

PEACE! CT

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.....

Well Jamie Lou's uncle Charlie gave a call to the house sometime back. (a little background here, Uncle Charlie used to drive a big rig and Des Moines was one of his routes. and when ever we would be in Kansas City he would say "I drove by your house the other day" and we would ask why he would never call. Well 12 years later Uncle Charlie called.) The call was a few weeks back and Jamie whispers to me, "I think something is wrong, it is Charlie on the phone." Well the complete opposite was true, there wasn't a thing wrong... in fact he was taking us up on the offer to come to Des Moines with a place to stay. You see over the 4th is the 17th annual Good Guys Heartland Nationals. Now Charlie isn't just a car show buff, he happens to be the proud owner of a blue 1970 Torino GT with a white drop top. While it was the 4th of July 2009 in Des Moines Iowa global warming made sure that it was in the 60s and raining most of the day. But was had a good time and below are some of out favorites from Saturday the 4th. Please leave a comment let me know which ones you really like.

Charlie and his torino