Monthly Archive for October, 2009

To whom it may concern regarding FYE:

Published on October 19, 2009 in Rants and Uncategorized. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

To whom it may concern regarding FYE:

My name is Clinton. I visited FYE store branch #1029 in Lenox Square Mall on September 14th, 2009, to pre-order 4 Blu-ray films (Wizard of Oz, Snow White, How I Met Your Mother Season 4, and Transformers 2) and renew my soon-to-expire FYE Backstage Pass card. I visited again on September 29th, 2009, to pick up my copies of Wizard of Oz and How I Met Your Mother. No problems so far.

I returned exactly ONE week later, on October 6th, 2009, to pick up my reserved copy (read: I placed money on this movie at this specific location, FYE #1029), to find an empty storefront, missing signs, and no lights whatsoever. FYE #1029 has completely disappeared without any warning whatsoever. There was no posted contact information. I still, at this point, had $10 in reservations on Snow White and Transformers 2 at this location, and now a useless Backstage Pass membership, as I refuse to travel outside the city for over an hour in one direction to use your shady company’s card.

I’ll repeat myself. I now am missing $10 in reservations at this location for reservations that cannot be fulfilled. I HAVE BEEN ROBBED. This is entirely unacceptable, and furthermore, completely ILLEGAL. I have attempted to contact the company via the phone number provided on my receipt, and it is disconnected. I have attempted to call the 1(800)-818-1941, and, to no avail, have left messages with contact information to a generic machine recording. There was no option to talk to a real person here.

It is here that I extend my efforts before I bring this to the Better Business Bureau. I demand that my money be returned to me, and I also demand that my money be refunded for a now defunct Backstage Pass card #466715671599, as this ordeal is, again, entirely unacceptable. In addition to the card refund, I also demand my personal information deleted from your systems.

I anticipate a response to this email that is not a generic, computer-generated response.

Signed,
Clinton

a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better

Published on October 2, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

…Pay no mind to the title, simply a lyric from Placebo’s “Pure Morning” from their debut album “Without You I’m Nothing”. Picked it up last night from iTunes, and I’m enjoying it so far.

A number of times I load my blog and contemplate what to say. A number less I close it with far more work ahead of me. These past few weeks have been exactly that. What with Tricia moving in, fraternal obligations, but mostly class and project obligations… I’m been a busy fish. Working on a sonification project for Interactive Narrative/Fiction, our UI Design project, and just finished our Shakespeare Star Wars mashup, which I’d like to share here.

And opinions are more than welcome, either commented here or on the actual YouTube. :) I’m pleased with the outcome, especially Yoda’s bits and the Viceroy’s bits. :P

So I’m now sitting in UI Design and my weekend plans have been canceled. I’m okay with it – I understand why. I think I’ll end up sleeping when I get back to the apartment, but I’m unsure. I don’t know what else I can do – I’m actually more interested in doing nothing this weekend. :P

And suddenly it smells strongly of cut grass in here. Not the good kind of smell either, though I’ve never been a fan of the scent, but the sweaty gardener cut grass smell, and I’m getting a headache from this crap. I’ve actually been paying attention in this class now, but there’s only 10 minutes left. Maybe my next paragraph will be for the next class, but I feel like wrapping this up sooner than later.

I want, badly, some money. More and more often I find myself pining after something I can’t have, even though I would really like it. Even though I have the money for it, too, I can’t bring myself to buy it… like that Canon T1i. So… an alumnus emailed the fraternity with a job opening for a data entry specialist, and I emailed back my resume. 15 hours a week at $10 an hour? I hope they are okay with me. I’d love some spending money. I would buy that Canon T1i so fast. And… save for lenses. Like a Telephoto Zoom lense… or a tilt-shift lense. I had never seen or heard of tilt-shift before seeing this video last night. I am now fascinated with this, as this video is beautiful and perplexing at the same time.

This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Yes. The actual thing. The lense changes perspective so strongly you think you’re looking at a miniature model. I. Want. To. Do. This. x.x Also, the music is so soothing.

Not to mention a plethora of other little doodads I could use, like an external harddrive or a new router. I just ordered a new thumbdrive from Amazon that’s the same size and shape as a key, so it will fit with my keychain a lot easier. Y’know, stuff like that. >.>

Let’s see where things go, right?