Shopping in Cyberspace
I've been shopping online recently for Christmas presents. I had an interesting experience getting (and not getting) Quake III Team Arena, only to realize that I needed Quake III Arena for it to work. I bought Relentless Little Big Adventure for mikrasov from a small company through Amazon. When I received the package it instead included a sealed version of Jeopardy. I sent an email to the company and they replied promptly with a very sincere apology. They were afraid that it was not human error which would mean that their automatic databasing system had become corrupted.
The company told me I could keep Jeopardy and they shipped me another package with the game I had ordered and some "bonus" CDs. The packaged included Relentless Little Big Adventure, NHL 2000, Nuclear Somethingorother, Somethingorother Crimes, a blank-looking unlabled CD-R which contained the instructions for the game I ordered, and some racing game. I threw in 4 techno CDs and called it a Christmas present. Only one of the techno CDs was illegally pirated because the others were legally free music by Strojovna on MagnaTune.
I have to give William Gibson credit for coining the term "cyberspace" which I noticed is used on the Road Runner manuel that I threw away a few days ago. Read Neuromancer to find out where half of the plotline and terms used in The Matrix came from
The company told me I could keep Jeopardy and they shipped me another package with the game I had ordered and some "bonus" CDs. The packaged included Relentless Little Big Adventure, NHL 2000, Nuclear Somethingorother, Somethingorother Crimes, a blank-looking unlabled CD-R which contained the instructions for the game I ordered, and some racing game. I threw in 4 techno CDs and called it a Christmas present. Only one of the techno CDs was illegally pirated because the others were legally free music by Strojovna on MagnaTune.
I have to give William Gibson credit for coining the term "cyberspace" which I noticed is used on the Road Runner manuel that I threw away a few days ago. Read Neuromancer to find out where half of the plotline and terms used in The Matrix came from
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Damn my new server is fast.
To Mr. Potato Head the St4lk3r: "I'm getting you Prince's mother and a nice place for you to be stalked anonymously for Christmas."
Remember, my %20 is better than your _
That is all. Everyone but the afore mentioned may ignore the former and worship the latter if they so choose.
By T-Ray, at 6:20 PM
I just realized I posted my address online... at least its in image form. Hopefully junk mailers don't actually google image search for jeopardy looking for addresses in images. Also hopefully the readers of Will Hayworth, The Hallway, and whatever other blogs link to me don't enjoy mailing random people junk.
By T-Ray, at 6:22 PM
I would hope that I could vouch for my readers in that regard!
By the way, Trey, I wouldn't worry about the Jeopardy image as much a bigger concern like the WHOIS database.
By Will, at 3:39 PM
That is a good point. I guess my address could be found in many places on the net.
By T-Ray, at 4:16 PM
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