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It’s a bit criminal for Best Buy to sell an HDMI cable for so much cash, but they get away with it preying upon one of the fallacies of consumerism (“you get what you pay for”) and the many customers who think the name brand is king. And this is an easy trap to set, because most consumers buying electronics and gadgets are lulled into these mindless purchases by the justification of the major cash they are usually forking out at the time – say, for a flat-screen tv with components. When you’re spending $2,000, what’s another $200? Additionally, many are simply seeing the high cost as an insurance plan for said tv/components … I mean, what could it hurt?

at Best Buy, you’ll pay $1.04 a linear inch for a Monster Cable HDMI.

at MonoPrice.com, you’ll pay $.03 a linear inch for an  HDMI cable.

But HDMI technology is simply DIGITAL signal transmission. It’s binary data: 1s and 0s being sent across a wire. You will find no difference between a Gucci HDMI (or Monster) and a Radio Shack cord. Really. Get over it.

Educate yourself here, folks.

And you can donate that $144 savings to me. Just let me know how you want to pay by clicking here.

Okay, Dad did help just a little …

Really. She had a Spanish Notary sign off on the deal.

Now you know who to sue when you get a sun-burn.

Thank me later.

RIP, Leslie –

And here is his appearance on the show …

Read it all here.

If you missed this game, you missed one of the best games in history.

A Florida family left their home for New York state last week. When they returned, thousands of dollars worth of TVs, jewelry, and cameras were gone.

A result of their updating their Facebook status whilst on vacation.

Brilliant.

Looks like Steve Jobs will announce that Apple has finally ‘conquested’ the Beatles portfolio for I-Tunes on Tuesday.

Um, I realized how little I would care when I perused my own music library. I don’t have any of the Beatles.

Congrats, Steve, on finally getting The Beatles after a decade long quest! But they’ve always been available (and free) on Pirate Bay.

Click Here!

So this posting on Reddit appeared today, and within four hours, lo and behold, this was found by a reader …

The internet (and reddit) are amazing things …

So I arrived in Elizabethtown KY tonight for a week-long project. When I checked in at the front desk at the hotel, the guy said …

“You’ll really like this room. It has 3 queen sized beds.”

Really?

“Would you like a wake-up call?” he asked.

“Sure” I said … “Call me every hour, on the hour, so I can switch beds.”

I walked in, and he was right about the beds, but wrong about my enjoyment of said room …

Frankly, being away from Tina and the kids like this hurts.

Oh Well.

Took this from plane leaving Chicago tonight … you can see Sears Tower in the background.

Good to be home again.

After flying home for the weekend (I’m on “special assignment” at work in the southeast US), I saw this on my office door. Cute.