Geek Madness!

Yesterday, I went to the Best Buy to get my dad a printer he won't break. Yes, it's true, cheapo color printers and my dad do not mix, so I knew it was time to get him a workhorse. The problem with the cheapos is that the ink cartridges clog the nozzles if you don't use the printer very much, which is the case for Dad. Also, I needed a printer where jams are far and few between, since he's broken at least two printers yanking jammed paper. So, I got him a HP laserjet with a toner cartridge good for 3000 pages. He whined a little bit about losing the ability to print color, but I told him that the color printers that can take his abuse (which is really neglect) cost 5 times as much and the color toner cartridges cost upwards of 80 dollars. Black ink only, printer boy. Unless he punts the printer down the stairs, I won't be hearing about any problems for the next ten years.

"...and then, after you heat the hotpockets, you have to, like, wait two whole minutes..."

When I entered the store, I noticed a bunch of young urban males camping out. Not known for their love the outdoors, I quickly surmised they were pitching tents for the Friday release of the Sony PS3. I have reservations about Sony's plan with this thing, since the base model costs 500 dollars. Gaming consoles are supposed to be cheaper than middle-high quality desktop PC's, so this is ridiculous. I don't care how many Blu-Ray disks are on the market, these young guys are making their case for debtors' prison by buying this thing, along with a hi-def flat screen to go with it. All I know is, for Sony's sake, I hope these things don't overheat and explode either.