Unrequited Geekdom: Extreme Tech Lust
I got a catalog from the CyberGuys a while ago and have enjoyed poking through it because they really do have a whole different group of product offerings. Sure, they've got standard geek gear but there are plenty of unique items. From the Expansion Bay Boombox to the 1/4in Ccd Color Ir Camera CCD and then up to the top of the mountain for the DLink Wireless 2.4 ghz Internet Camera.

A very cool site with good prices but a couple of gripes. One, they emptied my shopping cart on me. I had loaded it up with some cool stuff but got sidetracked into editing an iMovie last night and forgot about the cart. This morning when I went to go and complete the transaction, they'd cleaned it out. Which means, I'm a helluva lot less likely to go back through and refill it. Stupid. The second complaint is about their stupid search engine. Its got two settings and defaults to the far less useful one where I punched in the actual product name and the results were not found. Hello? Make the search engine stupidly simple, guys!

I will, in all likelihood, go back and try to remake my order with them but I will also note to them that they screwed up and shouldn't be cleaning out shopping carts overnight.

Another Pup Pic
This one is of our little hound but was too good to not post, Pooped Pups. I've got a couple of short vids that I'm editting right now and may post later this week. And there will also be more pics as we are headed down tomorrow night to see our little girl some more. And, in an unexpected twist, we've been asked if we might like to house sit for the folks who have the puppies. Which would be just fine as they have a great spot and we'd get lots of time with our pup.

A Reactionary New Word for the Lexicon
Hiproganda - hip propoganda, using street language and imagery to sell your product. As in Mountain Dew's Code Red commercials showing a hard core game of yard basketball. Check out all of the hubbub at Whats The Download.com for another shining example of hiproganda. This site is all about trying to educate the masses that its uncool to steal music and money from the fat fuck execs at the RIAA. Or maybe its not, its damned near impossible to figure out how's promoting and paying for the site. But its message is that music has to be paid for if you download. And that's totally cool, pay the artists though, don't give eighty percent of your money to people who had nothing to do with creating, they just happen to control the musician like a freakin' puppet on a string.

Anyway, that's hiproganda. And yes, I've tried going with hipropoganda but it just doesn't flow right at all. And flow is very important to getting a potential new word by the Intellectual Poison Board of Directors.