Have to love living in the strip club capital of the U.S. This sign was spotted outside the library at the University of South Florida. Taken with my cell phone's shitty camera, so quality isn't the best. I was thinking about calling to see what kind of rates she would hook me up with...

Anxiously awaiting some Sony E3 pwnage...

My first blog of this nature. My only two other blogs are basically me bitching about various things that pissed me off (that's the only time I've ever felt like blogging). So, this is a bit of a refreshment for me. Here are my recent pick-ups and how much I paid. Not much in the way of video games, but electronics nonetheless.

• Sony Vaio SR220J/H Laptop - ~$150 (NEW)
• 2nd Dell E248WFP 24" widescreen LCD monitor (on the right) - $160 (REFURBISHED)
• Siren Blood Curse (UK) - $28 (NEW)

• Polk Monitor CS2 center-channel speaker - $110 (NEW)

My surround sound setup is currently in progress. The CS2 is the first speaker I've purchased. Going for 7.1 eventually. A pair of Polk Monitor 60s to be used as mains will probably be my next purchase (as soon as...

So I ordered the Discovery Channel version of the Planet Earth blu-ray from the Discovery Store website on 4/22 (Earth Day). They were having a promotion and selling it at 29.99 in celebration of Earth Day. I had read the reviews about it and most people said that the BBC version was better because it had extra footage as well as a better narrator. Meh... whatever, at 29.99 I couldn't complain and I figured that I would just give the Discovery version to my Dad at some point down the road and pick up the BBC version for myself once I could snag it at a significant discount.

Anyway, when it arrived I let it sit there for a week or so. I just opened it last night and popped it in my PS3. I was not impressed at all with the HD picture quality which was contrary to all of the reviews I had read. So, I went online and did some more research. Come to find out, the Discovery version of this set is only 1080i (the back of the case verifies this)! WTF? I have never heard of a blu-ray...

does anybody else HATE UPS? I ING HATE UPS! i have had more problems with that damn company and the customer support is so goddamn awful i cannot believe the company is still in business. i cant believe companies actually use them to ship things... man, i hate them. i am going to tell you about 3 awful experiences i have had with UPS in the past 3 months. for all you math majors, that's an average of once a month.

1) i ordered two triple cymbal expansion packs for RB2 from madcatz store when they were RARE and going for 80+ on ebay. they came in stock for a couple of hours on gameshark.com and i jumped all over them... ordered 2, 1 for myself and 1 to flip on ebay. guess what, i never got them.

tracking info said there was a problem with my address and they were going to send me a post card so i could correct it. first of all, my address was correct... 100% correct, ive been using it for years. secondly, does it make one ing iota of sense to send someone...