Mom wants to go see Harry Potter, what an adventure this turns out to be. The AMC / Star theatres aren't listed anymore, they're two of the closest that I know outside of a suburban downtown (Birmingham) location. So I went to Yahoo Movies and located it at two AMC's and Birmingham Palladium. Then there's pricing!! Warning, I'm cheap and one of ( Read more... )

Good greif!! The news is all about the record gross earnings of the new Star Trek movie. Gee, could it be because ticket prices are at an all time high? Why do these folks think that gross earnings is a reliable measure for anything ( Read more... )

Found out that I have one of the few Dell models that are not backward compatible with Windows XP. So I sent off this letter:

Dear Sirs ( Read more... )

Tech NightmaresCalling Dell to return their defective products they put me on hold for the manager, after about 40 minutes the system hung up on me. At first there was music, which then disappeared to a quiet humming. Probably hoping that I'll go away in frustration and they can keep my money (but I've got two of their paperweights ( Read more... )

I just got my (refurbished) Dell Inspiron 1720 yesterday. It's cool & I like it: Red, 17" screen, and the new Vista operating system. However, In the (approximately) hour and a half that I ran the bloody thing it randomly rebooted on it's own 4 or 5 times. The Sims game I got for christmas (in 06) won't run on it. I'm tyring to get an AOL ( Read more... )