Gadget-ry

I've always been fascinated with gadgets through the course of my life. I've had Gameboys, Palm Pilots, Cell Phones, Walkmans, Discmans, iPods, you name it and I've probably had a variation of it. Now we can add a Blackberry to the list. After a long, excrutiating wait at AT&T yesterday, I now have another gadget I'll probably never use to the fullest extent.

I left work yesterday with one goal in mind: Get a new phone/Blackberry. I got home and changed clothes. I donked around on the fantasy league a little bit to allow traffic to die down some. Then I headed towards the store.

The store is in the same shopping center as a Wal-Mart, so it's painful just getting into the parking lot. I finally got the mouth-breathers to part the seas and let me into the parking lot. Then as I walked up to the AT&T store, I saw the line. Ugh. I came to this store, so I wouldn't have to wait in the line at the mall. If I wait and they are out of Blackberrys or come up with some chicken shit excuse for not migrating me over, I'm going to explode!

As I stood in line, I took notice to the setup. They had 2 women working at 2 terminals and nobody else in the store. However, there were 3 other terminals available, but no workers to man those terminals. Efficiency! The front lady was dealing with someone's fucked up bill. The 2nd work dealt with one of the Wal-Mart immigrant mouth-breathers who bought a GPS Enabled phone and was too dumb to RTFM. So, she wasted everyone in the stores time giving out a tutorial on how to find out where you are. It wasn't getting through and that same session was going on, even after I left the store.

Thankfully I made it to the counter without wanting to initiate mass genocide. One thing I hate about these underpaid cell phone jockeys is the negativity.

Me: "I want the Blackberry Curve special, I'm a cell one subscriber and need to be migrated"

Girl: "You do know that we have to move ALL of your paperwork over to AT&T?"

Me: "Isn't that going to have to happen eventually?"

Girl: "Yes...but all we have are red Blackberrys"

Me: "That's the color I want, write it up".

Girl: "It burns when I pee"

I wasn't let the bitch swindle her way out of this one. After a full 5 minutes of work on the girl's end, I had my new Blackberry. Surprisingly everything seemed to work when I got home to play with it. I've spent a bunch of time tweaking, installing, and learning. It's a cool gadget. So cool that I forgout that my new camera was being delivered today...Another gadget to play with tonight!

Small Business > Big Business

I love it when small businesses get pushed around by the corporate giants and fight back. This particular company pretty much made the folks at Monster Cable look silly. No matter how this turns out, I like this guy!

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-strikes-back