F You Netflix

I really don't understand Netflix sometimes. This is a picture of my queue....




The Incredible Hulk is shipping today. Fine, right? Not so much. Burn After Reading and Death Race are both supposedly available NOW. HULK was 5TH on my list! What the fuck Netflix?

Get Better Link!

Poor Link has a bladder infection that he is having trouble. He has been to the vet twice in the past week. Get better buddy!

Scoreboard. 40-37

CBE Classic Issues

I was somewhat taken aback this morning when I heard the Sprint Center was offering 2 for 1 tickets to the CBE Classic. I'm not only a loyal fan of the CBE Classic and College Basketball but a Kansas season ticket holder. When I heard that KU would be playing at the Sprint Center I bought my tickets the second they went on sale. I thought they were a little over priced compared to last year (which I also attended) but still wanted to go support my team. Now I find out that they are selling the tickets as a buy one get one free promotion.

I have been to two basketball games at the University of Kansas in the past two weeks. At these games it was advertised that tickets were still available for the tournament and that we should "Buy our tickets today!" Nothing was mentioned about a pending 2 for 1 deal. I imagine that the people who purchased their tickets a day before the unadvertised "sale" feel even more taken advantage of than I.

I understand you want a full house, but what kind of message does this send your dedicated fans who purchased tickets they second they became available? If you were to do this for the cheap tickets in the upper deck I probably wouldn't have a problem with it, but to do it for even the lower level tickets? I feel like my loyalty to the University and the city has compromised. I am an avid College Basketball in Kansas City fan and buy tickets to the CBE every year, the Big 12 Tournament (when it is in town), and the NCAA Tournament (again, when it is in town). I will go to these events even if my team isn't playing because I love everything about College Basketball.

It will be difficult for me to purchase tickets to an event like this in the future. Yes, the Big 12 Tournament and NCAA will sell out just like they do everytime they are in Kansas City, but the CBE is where you see the real die hard fans. You typically don't see tickets "go on sale" like this, you usually expect to pay MORE than face value as the event gets closer. I do see it happen occasionally but, like I said before, it is usually the cheap seats, not the premium tickets. So even if this were to occur why are the current ticket holders not rewarded in some fashion? If you are practically GIVING tickets away now why not give them to the people that already have some as you know those people and their friends/family will actually show up to the game?

I have lived at my current residence, which is two blocks from the Sprint Center, even before the arena was built. There was no one more excited than me that College Basketball would be just a heartbeat away from my door step. Now, as a Kansas City, MO tax payer and an avid College Basketball fan I feel taken advantage of. Does anyone feel guilty for this? AEG, Sprint Center, Ticketmaster, Universities participating in the event? Why are the people in this town with the unbridled enthusiasim that makes Kansas City the best College Baketball city in America being punished in this economy for their loyalty?

Oh Woot.com, You Had Me At Hello

If you haven't heard of Woot.com I suggest you go check it out right now. They ususally have a product up for sale each day and when it it is sold out they don't but another one up until the next business day.

On very special days such as this they have a W00t Off! Meaning whenever the product sells out they put a brand new one up. Half the fun is reading the descriptions. See below.




Soon They’ll Have One That Makes Sandwiches Too

If there’s one thing we can be sure about, it is that in the future, there will be robots. And you don’t really get more future than the year 2000, do you? People were waiting to get here since the late Eighteen Hundreds. Obviously, when that steampunk time traveler shows up, you don’t want to disappoint him. You want to be able to take him to your pool and point out your own personal baby ocean, and then show him the robot that cleans it for you. And to make that happen, you’re going to want a iRobot Verro 300 HydroJet Pool Cleaning Robot.

In about an hour, basically, the Verro-bot will work out all that junk you leave behind when you swim. Leaves, hair, sand, silt, debris, algae, baby electric eels, warthogs that have undergone miniaturization and been implanted with gills, the iRobot Verro 300 HydroJet Pool Cleaning Robot will catch them all* with ease. And the 51 foot floating power cord means that there’s always enough room… unless you’ve got a two thousand foot long pool or something. And if you do, please invite us over.

To make for easy cleanup, the iRobot Verro 300 HydroJet Pool Cleaning Robot has a mesh Bag for large debris (like leaves and treasure) and a Fine filter Bag for debris as small as two microns (like bacteria and miniaturized warthogs). The floating power cord also has a swivel detangler so you don’t have to worry about sending a team of divers to rescue your poor little robot when it makes a wrong turn.

Maybe one day someone will visit your pool from the far off future, a future where robots live beside man in a clean and perfect paradise. And maybe that traveller will give you the secret to genetically engineered rubbish that throws itself away. But until that day comes, use the iRobot Verro 300 HydroJet Pool Cleaning Robot to keep your summer fun clean!

*iRobot Verro 300 HydroJet Pool Cleaning Robot has not been tested on eels or warthogs

Warranty: 1 Year iRobot