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Hi all,

My office recently moved locations so we now have an abundance of hardware that either was briefly used or was ordered and wasn't what we needed and is now sitting in storage collecting dust.

My boss has asked me to try and sell it all, and besides posting on Craigslist and Amazon (and reluctantly ebay) I don't know where else to post. I haven't gotten any bites on the aforementioned sites, so if anybody knows another forum or place to post my items for sale that is perhaps more attuned to the tech community reply and let me know!!

Thanks in advance to all who give suggestions

Even though I am only 21, my biological clock has been ticking in my ear very loudly. My beau won't even begin to consider having children until I am 24, so giving in is not even close to an option.

When I see women with babies, immediately I feel intense jealously. Do any of you have the same problem?

I work in a nice office, a corporate environment, in fact, the space we're in was just built. 95% of the women in my office dress very well, extremely feminine yet business appropriate. Despite this, when I take a trip to the ladies room to "powder my nose" most of the toilets are disgusting. The toilets are not disgusting because no one cleans them, I would say they're cleaned at least twice a day.

Are your offices like that? Also, what's with the secret life of women going nuts in the bathroom (peeing on seats and not flushing effectively)? It's not like we are using a public restroom, it's for our office only.

Considering you're leaving DNA around, wouldn't you wanna clean up after yourself?

Every once in a while someone asks me about Geek Squad. Or more generally, should I take my computer to Geek Squad? Or can your techie boyfriend fix it?

I've had a few experiences with Geek Squad, all of which could be written into award-winning sitcom episodes.

I must say the ONLY reason I use them is because I have one of those Best Buy PSP things so they fix my laptop for free.

For humors sake I'll bring up the first main experience...

About 2 years ago I brought my laptop to a Geek Squad that's located in a Best Buy very close to where I live. They couldn't fix it in-house so they sent it out to replace some parts.

Only a week or so later I got my laptop back in the mail, with one added bonus. There was a burned cd-r professionally packaged to the top of my laptop. Thinking they had saved some of my documents I popped it in the drive and saw that it was in fact, porn. Girls Gone Wild and some Playboy stuff to be exact.

I tried calling customer support for Best Buy, but they didn't care and laughed it off.

Now, fast-forward 2 years and my poor 4 year old laptop needs some work done again. I somewhat reluctantly take my laptop in and they tell me that they will run some tests on it and call me in 24 - 48 hours. 1 week passes. I call THEM back and they say "Oh we were just about to call you". I highly doubt it. Long story short, my laptop had failed some stress test and needed to be sent in for work, but it could only be sent in with my permission. I asked when they had ran these determining tests and they told me TODAY! Not 4-5 days ago when they had said they would.

What I am wondering is:

Is this specific geek squad location terrible or are all of them this bad?
I question this because the Best Buy in which it is located is terrible. They people who work there are usually incredibly rude and unprofessional and don't know much about their products.

The past semester I took a course in which everyone in the class had to keep a blog. Each person was supposed to write a post each week on a given topic.

The first week I read everyone's posts I knew immediately which people used IE and which used Firefox. IE blogs were full of blatant spelling errors.

And I'm not just talking writing their instead of there. I'm talking about teh and taht type stuff.

With all computers and the internet has to offer why, oh why, would anyone allow that to happen???

Without going too much into a rant I have two reasons why I cannot believe people let this happen.

1. Unless you delete your blog or posts your junk writing will be available to almost all forever

2. I just dislike IE and Firefox is so much cooler looking and has better features. Why not get instant spell-checking on everything you do?

In the last year or so the big TV networks have been offering their most popular television shows on their own websites for free (just watch commercials) or pay a buck and download it from iTunes.

My theory is that in 10 years or so TV is going to be ala carte, meaning that a viewer will pay per TV show or series they pick. Perhaps we'll "thumbs up" it with our TiVo remotes?

How plausible does this sound to you all?

One of my not-so-guilty pleasures is watching Dr. Phil. This is despite how conservative and antiquated his beliefs are; because all in all you still get to see some drama and people whose lives are worse than your own.

Today's topic was "Shocking Teen Trends". The two trends mentioned were street racing and MMORPG's (mostly Second Life type 'games').

As someone who used to play World of Warcraft and probably would keep playing it if I had some extra money every month to spend I was deeply offended at the parallel he drew between driving on public roads in excess of 120 mph and sitting at your computer playing SL or any of the other similar products.

What do you all think?
-Are these trends really shocking or new to this generation?
-Is it fair at all to compare the two activities?
-Is the level of personal responsibility equal in those two situations?