Aaron M

Hoo - got in under the wire :D

Uh, 2 faux impressionist paintings of a european bistro, and a lovely abstract sculpture I believe is called "Light Switch #2"

For some reason I got a huge kick out of seeing Gnomeland Security

If i win a wing i can not have to get the oldest, crappiest, quadruple hand-me-down blackberry from this company!

"Wing" is a Chinese name meaning "the arm of a bird"...

the scene that isn't in front a green screen

actually, every scene is now comedy gold if you grab Mike Nelson's new RiffTrax 300 riff =D

replacing a plastic batman watch from 1989. My wrist is very green.

Our hammers will block out the sun!

Anyone know if one of the hidden features is support for QFX files? This is the dealbreaker for me - I want to use the app, but I am not going to pre-convery my bank's QFX files into QIF just to use it.

Oh man... screw TeamXbox and everyone that looks like TeamXbox. That is the worst repair story award? They had to send it back a second time, for free, and got a free game out of it. Their biggest tribulation was that they didnt get overnight shipping on the second unit.

I am with MS support, so when I called for my dead box I hoped I could get some special treatment - don't judge me :) I gotta take crap from Vista users all day, so I know pain.

So anyway - me with a dead xbox 360, calls support, they send out the free box/coffin with prepaid shipping. Box takes a week, replacement xbox comes back 2 weeks after that - by this point I am resorting to reading books for entertainment.

Second xbox - DOA, although a different error this time so at least there is entertainment value in that - diversify my suffering a bit. Call up support after using my super-secret support tools to dig up the troubleshooting script they will eventually use so I can spend as little time on the phone as possible. But wait! Between my last box dying and them shipping me this anchor (cause it isnt an xbox - those play games, this is just heavy) they have changed their policy: no free shipping in Canada. So I must now pay to ship them back the anchor they shipped me for free. Joy! And if the next one is dead, I can pay for that one, too! Thanks for calling Microsoft, the box is on its way.

Three weeks later, next replacement arrives. Only this time it's Schroedinger's Xbox360 - you never know if what's inside is alive or dead til you open it and look. Reads games half the time, and half the time helpfully tells me that I must insert this disc into an Xbox360 to play it - like some sort of strange one-hand-clapping zen riddle.

Now warranty is up. And the BEST PART is getting to read all the notes the employees are entering about the "belligerent customer unreasonably demanding free shipping" in my support case's notes, since as a support tech I have access to the same tools.

THAT is a best of the worst award, baby. Although total sympathy to the other stories I read here - this kind of thing makes all ms support look bad and that pisses me off that people get treated like this.

How is that 2nd last sentence supposed to read?

... when facing the simple truth that many players have been moved on to World of Warcraft.

I can't figure out why "been" is italicized. Is it just me? Not sure what the emphasis is there, or even if that's a real sentence. Maybe it's just too early for me.

dammit i wish i thought of that. My box died while the free round trip shipping was still offered. Then the replaecement box arrived and it was dead too - and I was informed I would have to pay to ship their dead box back to them.

Complaints did no good (and I work for another support group - its great being lied to while you are reading the notes they put in your case, really :). So I was out shipping to fix their mistake.

DAMMIT i wish I had thought of this. And if MS fast tracks him a new box, i want one too (the #3 replacement they sent only works about half the time now and they say warranty is up), and the shipping i paid to fix their fugups