Having grown up on your humor (I was born right when your first 'baby books' started to hit the shelves and I went through everything when Rob did), I have always looked forward to Sundays, and of course new book releases. I hope I have read everything at this point; most probably many many times. I have far too many of your columns memorized! But anyway, having spent so much time reading all of your fantastic material, from the hilarious to the serious, I have to ask a question. I recently read Tricky Business, and I liked it, although not nearly as much as Big Trouble (I read it 3 times the first day I got it and grabbed the movie the minute it was released on DVD). My question is, why did you feel the need to write something that's so sordid compared to what we usually see? I refer here particularly to the scene with all the puking in it... I'm just curious if it has something to do with an antidote to all the 'gentler' stuff you write for family newspapers, or if your computer, bored (as you've said) with the task of sitting and waiting for you to come up with good descriptive terms, maybe up and wrote it all on its own, for fun.:)
Not only does half of this make no real sense (other than to use the biggest words possibly, whether they exist or not), but someone needs a grammar lesson:
"Even myself however would by my current knowledge still dare to publish sometime composed music pieces by me on the internet".
I certainly don't claim to have perfect grammar, but if someone could explain to me what the heck that sentence means I'd appreciate it.:)
This is a very interesting idea. I don't believe that this person has really done any serious research, however. Or, if s/he has, they lack the skills to present such research in a comprehensible manner. Either way, none of the 'scientific' stuff actually holds water. In doubt of the sense of the paper, I showed it to my roommate, who has a sound recording degree. His response? "This is a pile of crap! Interesting thought, though..."
We don't attach anything you don't need, and prices are usually the same or lower when the bigger item is on sale. What she said is very true; most stuff is under our cost when the sales are big, and we need to make SOME money. After all, they gotta pay us something, right?:) But NO, accessories should NOT cost more, and if you see they do anywhere, I'd get angry. Not at my store, tho!:)
I work at good ol' Circuit City, and I worked from 6AM to 6PM with 20 minutes for lunch. People were waiting outside at 5:30 when I actually got there and the first things they went for were the cheap stuff that was free post rebate- CD label kit, 20 dollar binoculars, cd player cases, etc. I mean, none of this stuff was worth more than 20 bucks to start off with, but people felt the need to sit in the FREEZING cold for almost 2 hours to get it. Probably JUST because it's free. Weird, huh? I honestly can't see getting up at 4 in the morning to get a free CD label kit. Can you? (BTW, employees of course were not allowed access to the free stuff. I've heard a lot of other stores allow the employees to grab stuff first. That's probably why '18 minimum per store' actually ends up being more like 6. We had at least 60 of each free item, over a hundred of most, and over a hundred of each sale item less than $300, and that's just my {low volume} store. That's because Circuit City RULES!:)
One of the reasons I quit being a composer was because I was sick of listening to people brag about how they 'created "music"' (I use double quotes because those are doubly sarcastic:) ) by plugging in notes to algorithms, shapes, graphs, and the like. All it is is people trying to be 'unique' (just like the thousands exactly like them) by filling in notes instead of actually sitting down and writing music. It was an interesting concept like 50 years ago when people started messing with it (notice I still don't call it music); now it's just tired and cheap. Ahhhh... I've been waiting to whine about this for YEARS.:)
A) Toys 'R Us is a KID'S store, not marketing to horny teenage males.
B) Why isn't this game rated 'Adults Only', seeing as how it contains full nudity?
C) Aren't the people who want to play it going to find it even if major retailers don't carry it? I mean, how often do you guys actually go to a real-world store, anyway? And most of them have different content online anyway. If I were heading a major retail chain, I would keep it out of the store to make parents happy, and put it online so that I could actually sell it. Or sell and edited and a regular version. Something tricky like that.:)
D) Why aren't there ever naked GUYS in games? Girls play games too, and I know that some of us are straight!:) Not that I would buy a naked-guy game; that's just wrong.;)
I don't know about other retailers, but those of you who have bought the ps2 or the xbox from Circuit City in the past 30 days get to take advantage of the new Price Match Plus, which means they guarantee their prices for 30 days or 110% of the difference back. So you not only get back that $100, but an extra ten bucks back. Thought I'd inform all of you about that... I work there and got several calls yesterday from worried customers who were assured that yes, this applies to the console drops...:)
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Having grown up on your humor (I was born right when your first 'baby books' started to hit the shelves and I went through everything when Rob did), I have always looked forward to Sundays, and of course new book releases. I hope I have read everything at this point; most probably many many times. I have far too many of your columns memorized! But anyway, having spent so much time reading all of your fantastic material, from the hilarious to the serious, I have to ask a question. I recently read Tricky Business, and I liked it, although not nearly as much as Big Trouble (I read it 3 times the first day I got it and grabbed the movie the minute it was released on DVD). My question is, why did you feel the need to write something that's so sordid compared to what we usually see? I refer here particularly to the scene with all the puking in it... I'm just curious if it has something to do with an antidote to all the 'gentler' stuff you write for family newspapers, or if your computer, bored (as you've said) with the task of sitting and waiting for you to come up with good descriptive terms, maybe up and wrote it all on its own, for fun. :)
Not only does half of this make no real sense (other than to use the biggest words possibly, whether they exist or not), but someone needs a grammar lesson: "Even myself however would by my current knowledge still dare to publish sometime composed music pieces by me on the internet". I certainly don't claim to have perfect grammar, but if someone could explain to me what the heck that sentence means I'd appreciate it. :)
This is a very interesting idea. I don't believe that this person has really done any serious research, however. Or, if s/he has, they lack the skills to present such research in a comprehensible manner. Either way, none of the 'scientific' stuff actually holds water. In doubt of the sense of the paper, I showed it to my roommate, who has a sound recording degree. His response? "This is a pile of crap! Interesting thought, though..."
We don't attach anything you don't need, and prices are usually the same or lower when the bigger item is on sale. What she said is very true; most stuff is under our cost when the sales are big, and we need to make SOME money. After all, they gotta pay us something, right? :) But NO, accessories should NOT cost more, and if you see they do anywhere, I'd get angry. Not at my store, tho! :)
I work at good ol' Circuit City, and I worked from 6AM to 6PM with 20 minutes for lunch. People were waiting outside at 5:30 when I actually got there and the first things they went for were the cheap stuff that was free post rebate- CD label kit, 20 dollar binoculars, cd player cases, etc. I mean, none of this stuff was worth more than 20 bucks to start off with, but people felt the need to sit in the FREEZING cold for almost 2 hours to get it. Probably JUST because it's free. Weird, huh? I honestly can't see getting up at 4 in the morning to get a free CD label kit. Can you? :)
(BTW, employees of course were not allowed access to the free stuff. I've heard a lot of other stores allow the employees to grab stuff first. That's probably why '18 minimum per store' actually ends up being more like 6. We had at least 60 of each free item, over a hundred of most, and over a hundred of each sale item less than $300, and that's just my {low volume} store. That's because Circuit City RULES!
One of the reasons I quit being a composer was because I was sick of listening to people brag about how they 'created "music"' (I use double quotes because those are doubly sarcastic :) ) by plugging in notes to algorithms, shapes, graphs, and the like. All it is is people trying to be 'unique' (just like the thousands exactly like them) by filling in notes instead of actually sitting down and writing music. It was an interesting concept like 50 years ago when people started messing with it (notice I still don't call it music); now it's just tired and cheap. Ahhhh... I've been waiting to whine about this for YEARS. :)
A) Toys 'R Us is a KID'S store, not marketing to horny teenage males. B) Why isn't this game rated 'Adults Only', seeing as how it contains full nudity? C) Aren't the people who want to play it going to find it even if major retailers don't carry it? I mean, how often do you guys actually go to a real-world store, anyway? And most of them have different content online anyway. If I were heading a major retail chain, I would keep it out of the store to make parents happy, and put it online so that I could actually sell it. Or sell and edited and a regular version. Something tricky like that. :)
D) Why aren't there ever naked GUYS in games? Girls play games too, and I know that some of us are straight! :) Not that I would buy a naked-guy game; that's just wrong. ;)
I don't know about other retailers, but those of you who have bought the ps2 or the xbox from Circuit City in the past 30 days get to take advantage of the new Price Match Plus, which means they guarantee their prices for 30 days or 110% of the difference back. So you not only get back that $100, but an extra ten bucks back. Thought I'd inform all of you about that... I work there and got several calls yesterday from worried customers who were assured that yes, this applies to the console drops... :)