Tag Archives: shopping

got a PS3

Published: 4 March 2010
Just a quick note to say Best Buy happened to get some 120GB PS3’s in today and I just happened to call at the right time, squeal “Omigod, can you hold one?!”, and buy one. :) I couldn’t find Eternal Sonata at either Best Buy or Gamestop, so I ended up with Bayonetta [...]
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more corporate confusion

Published: 3 March 2010
First there was Toys R Us and a PS3, now there’s AT&T and my refurbished phone purchase. I blogged just this morning about buying a refurbished Samsung Magnet to replace my dying Sony Ericsson Z750, but I had some hassle today when I checked the AT&T web site and saw that I could’ve gotten [...]
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new phone on the way after mine snooped on me

Published: 3 March 2010
I’ve had a few problems with my current phone, a Sony Ericsson Z750, over the past few months. It started when I would try to make a call and it wouldn’t ring, it just sat there silently displaying the text “Calling whoever…”. I would hang up, try again, and it would usually work. [...]
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mad lib forms and backordered PS3

Published: 2 March 2010
Devin just sent this to me via StumbleUpon: “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%. I think those examples look totally neat and I want to try out a mad lib-style form or two on 3till7. Maybe the comments form and contact me form. Also, it seems as though the left hand doesn’t [...]
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PS3’s hard to find

Published: 27 February 2010
I just wanted to buy a 120GB Playstation 3 but apparently everyone around here is sold out of them. I figured the console has been out for a few years and the 120GB version came out in I think September, so I didn’t even consider that they would be hard to come by. [...]
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inflexible Adobe

Published: 8 December 2009
Wow, Adobe doesn’t make things convenient for you. I just called about their $199 offer for Photoshop CS4 for students, hoping that I could use it on my Mac or in Windows and perhaps be restricted to using only one at a time, but no. I can download it for Mac or Windows, [...]
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a Strange Land of cedar

Published: 2 December 2009
I’ve been reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein for the past couple of days, ever since I brought it back from my parents’ house over Thanksgiving break. I’ve tried to read the book before but never made it very far because 1) I’m fickle when it comes to books (my Wii [...]
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AWOL RAM

Published: 19 October 2009
I really hate ordering stuff online because receiving it is always a pain in the ass. I ordered some RAM for my desktop the other day from Newegg and it departed on 10/13. I still haven’t received it and I wondered where on earth it might be, so I checked the tracking info [...]
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espresso machine

Published: 20 August 2009
My espresso machine arrived today! Well, really it arrived yesterday, but the post office only left me a little receipt in my box and then they held it hostage till today, when I went with Jon to pick it up. It was a whopper of a box with a $16-something shipping label on [...]
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you gotta log out

Published: 15 September 2008
I just had to call Todd and tell him that I spent some of his money accidentally. Jessica and I have been singing the song “Hot Rod Lincoln” all day, so I went on Amazon to buy the MP3. I didn’t notice that I was logged in as Todd, who must have used [...]
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