My daughter's crib night-time light-show music thingie uses D batteries...and goes them them at a prodigious rate. D batteries are not cheap. I would jump on a woot that sold me many, many D batteries on the cheap.
Here’s my plan: I’m going to ask that neighbor kid Keith to come over and sit my iguana overnight. Explain that he doesn’t need any special care or feeding, just that he’s been ill with some bogus iguana disease—say “herpetitis”—and I want someone in the house to look in on him every four hours and call the vet if he starts to turn purplish. He’ll come over at nine or so, just as I’m headed out to catch a late bus or something. I’ll explain that he can help himself to whatever’s in the fridge, but that he can’t turn the TV or radio on, because Mr. Mojo has to rest.
That’s his name, Mr. Mojo Risin. He’s the Lizard King, see.
So anyway, little does Keith know that just before I let him in to stay the night at my place, I’m going to press play on an extra-long mp3 file I made special for this occasion. It’s four and a half hours of silence, followed by the sound of someone clearing his throat followed immediately by someone else going “shh!”
That should come on just after 1:30 in the morning, through my new Premier Acoustics 2-way speakers. I’ve got them wall-mounted on their keyhole-style clips right across the room from the sofa where Keith’s almost certainly going to crash. They’re pretty great for plain old rock and roll with driving but nonetheless subtle bass. They also deliver thrilling highs way up in the limits of the human ear’s range. But what’s going to sell this prank is their plain old clear, convincing verisimilitude.
Man, Keith is literally going to urinate in his cargo shorts. He’s going to freak out. He’s going to think he’s got some kind of The Strangers home invasion happening. He’ll be terrified. He’ll weep with fear.
That ought to teach him to ride his Big Wheel in my driveway!
Dunno, but based on that one I'd say it's the same kind of vicious bastard who organizes the product line-up. And speaking of which, it's time for more torture from him...
This computer is the beefiest thing I've seen sold on Woot. Pretty nice, really.
Features:
* 1 Terabyte of SATA 7200 RPM hard drive space (2×500GB)
* Core 2 Quad Q6700 (K) 2.66 GHz processor
* 4GB PC2-5300 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM
* 16X DVD (±)R/RW 12X RAM (±)R DL LightScribe SATA drive
* 2.4x HD DVD-ROM drive (High Density Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Memory)
* GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB memory, S-Video out, and Two DVI-I out ports (dual-link, also supports single-link)
* Integrated 10/100/1000 Base-T networking interface
* Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
* TV tuner card with FM tuner
* Realtek ALC 888S audio chipset, supports up to 8 audio channels
* Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Media Center (64-bit)
I'd actually consider buying it for my brother save for that
A) I've heard bad things about Vista 64's driver support, and
He lives over in the UK, so goodness knows how it'd react no matter how many converters and inverters and transformers we plugged the thing into.
Granted, it's HP, but I ain't using it...
You don't need to worry about Vista 64 driver support, it's generally very good on recent hardware.
The only thing I'd really worry about on this computer is that, since it's prebuilt there's likely some bloatware included. Also the HD DVD drive is a little silly, heh.
I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the people who bought 2, according to the woot stats. I built my own computer for $1500 and it blows that one out of the water.
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why isn't anyone buying this?
They still make things that use D batteries? I thought that went the way of the dinosaur after people stopped carrying boomboxes on their shoulders.
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Man, wtf? Who writes these?
EDIT: Expensive liquor. Oh, joy.
That said, I'm not in the market for wine at the moment.
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EDIT: Headphones. They're Senns, but ew, wireless.
Features:
* 1 Terabyte of SATA 7200 RPM hard drive space (2×500GB)
* Core 2 Quad Q6700 (K) 2.66 GHz processor
* 4GB PC2-5300 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM
* 16X DVD (±)R/RW 12X RAM (±)R DL LightScribe SATA drive
* 2.4x HD DVD-ROM drive (High Density Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Memory)
* GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB memory, S-Video out, and Two DVI-I out ports (dual-link, also supports single-link)
* Integrated 10/100/1000 Base-T networking interface
* Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
* TV tuner card with FM tuner
* Realtek ALC 888S audio chipset, supports up to 8 audio channels
* Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Media Center (64-bit)
$1089.99
EDIT: Though if anything this reminds me that I've got to get around to ordering those two other sticks of ram I wanted for my pc...
But full, all-natural C-cup breasts! Woot would not lie to me...right?
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i'd buy it
except, i'm glad im closing on a house
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I closed on my house 2 years ago. My computer/game budget is now the landscape/home improvement budget.
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A) I've heard bad things about Vista 64's driver support, and
Granted, it's HP, but I ain't using it...
Stupid woot hates me. I think thats my cue
Even has an ASUS mobo, not some HP piece of crap.
I head ya, dude. Thing is, we're basically short a computer, so i get to build one once we get settled.
Then, i'm done buying stuff for like.. ever.
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You don't need to worry about Vista 64 driver support, it's generally very good on recent hardware.
The only thing I'd really worry about on this computer is that, since it's prebuilt there's likely some bloatware included. Also the HD DVD drive is a little silly, heh.
As for the UK thing... ah well.
Although I would never buy that computer.
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