don't ya hate it when that happens?
Sunday, December 25, 2005
IP Freely
So something fishy was up with my dell 700m. it wouldn't connect to the wireless routers at all.. when i looked at the computer i saw that its ip address wasn't refreshing. i wasn't sure what i had done in the past couple days to make this happen, but i suspected it might have been one of those warez programs i was checking out. ug, they make my life more complicated.. i want songs, but to have these problems and ads? i think i'll pass.i googled the problem and after many a site i went through a series of steps. installed SP2 and it's patch. nothing. then from the notebook review forum i was referred to the pc hell website to trouble shoot it more.. all it took was a simple fix: WinsockXPFix.exe to fix my corrupted ip and i was back on the map. finally time for bed. ug. 3am. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
on another funny, yet geeky note, i saw that woot.com was selling a bag of crap for $1 with $5 shipping. hehehhe. they sold 6000 bags!!?!? the page is pretty funny, check it out:
Random Crap
$1.00
+ $5 shipping
condition:
Crappy
product(s):
1 Stocking of Crap
Discuss this product (742 comments) Sold out!
product info product stats Stocking of Crap VIII: Santa Strikes Back
You don’t have anyone to share the holidays with. No kids to put presents under the tree for, no big group of friends to share a Christmas drink with. You have nothing better to do at midnight on Christmas morning than to look at Woot. Again.
You lucky bastard.
Santa knows all about your unusual tastes, so he’s saved a stocking full of crap for the least naughty among you. If you miss out, you have only yourselves to blame. We’re talking Santa here. He knows. He knows it all.
ATTENTION! Somebody misunderstands this concept every time, so please READ THE BIG PRINT:
1. WHEN YOU ORDER THIS ITEM, YOU’LL GET ONE BAG WITH (up to) THREE CRAPS IN IT.
2. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SELECTING THE QUANTITY OF THREE WHEN YOU ORDER.
3. YOU WILL WASTE FREIGHT IF YOU ORDER FEWER THAN THREE.
The item quantity you select is the number of crappy items we’ll put in your bag. Select THREE. You will only get one bag. Later, you can watch with smug satisfaction as a surprisingly large number of less observant Wooters complain on the forums about their two missing bags. We say again: YOU WILL ONLY GET ONE BAG.
We make absolutely no promises about the bags or what’s in them. You pay us real American hard currency – we send you the dregs of our warehouse stock. Funny how that works, huh? It’s like a blindfolded shopping spree at a dollar store!
THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v2.0:
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond one bag of some kind and your chosen quantity of crappy items (which should be THREE).
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not order just one crap and blame it on anything but your own inattention.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.
Warranty: you wish
Features:
1 (one) bag
Some (some) crap
Current numbers (updated each minute):
Last purchase by: eVil
Percentage of each quantity purchased:
10% bought 11% bought 289% bought 3Percentage of sales per hour:
100
12 0%
1 0%
2 0%
3 0%
4 0%
5 0%
6 0%
7 0%
8 0%
9 0%
10 0%
11 0%
12 0%
1 0%
2 0%
3 0%
4 0%
5 0%
6 0%
7 0%
8 0%
9 0%
10 0%
11
Purchaser Seniority:
(People who bought this product have been Wooters for x days)
4% joined today4% < one week old9% < one month old83% > one month oldGot any ideas for other Woot product stats? Well, let us know!
Today's item quantity: 6000
Last Order time: 12:30 AM Central Time
Woot Member to blame: eVil
Order Pace: 0m 0.300s
Woot Wage: $11,966.87 an hour.
sweet.
i tried to email this to you susan, but knowing you, you're probably online anyways. just kidding, i forgot your email address. 0:)
2 Comments:
hope u got everything u wanted and enjoying the break. that's funny about the bag'o'crap and ur line about susan at the end.
By 
, at
12:06 AM
shhh, there's no connection b/t susan and a bag of crap. ;)
