My store has started taking reservations for Duke Nukem Forever (again). That'll make for some amusing "hey, would you like to reserve this?" conversations.

We've had the soundtrack for Twilight: Eclipse in the playbin at work since its DVD release last week. I've even willingly put it in rotation on the sound system a few times. Associated series aside, there are actually some pretty good songs on it.

I can't believe it took me 20+ years and hearing a cover version, but it recently dawned on me that the title music for Super Mario Bros 2 has similarities to the water music from the first one. Then again, it took me at least six years and the discovery of emulation before I noticed that Crash N The Boys and River City Ransom used the same ( Read more... )

It's kind of interesting when, once in a while, I get a customer that saw an ad for a movie that's about to hit theatres and wants to know if we carry it to rent.

We had a tournament tonight for the Halo Reach release, during which I found myself wondering how the tradition of post-frag teabagging got started. I mean, who was the first person to see a prone body, realize his character could crouch, and go, "hey, it might be kinda funny to go sit on my victim's face ( Read more... )

The big project at work this week was the installation of new comic book fixtures so that we can start carrying back issues. While organizing all of our new old comics, the following conversation roughly happened:

"Wow, there was a DragonLance comic. That's nerdy on two levels."
"I can think of one more level. ...HEY! It's a Triple Nerd Score

At work today, we had to completely take down one of the fixtures in the music department and switch it out with a different type of fixture. After getting it broken down, we found some old trash that had been dumped inside it. And I mean oldThe most recent piece found was an empty pack of Tic Tacs that had a 2007 expiration date, so could be ( Read more... )

I had my periodic evaluation at work today. It was a positive review overall, but one thing stuck out. The manager that reviewed me was impressed by the way I seem to know a lot about the new systems even though I don't actually own any of them yet.

I'm an excellent bluffer, apparently.

There is apparently some kind of glitch in the shipping/receiving system at work, and we're winding up stuck with a metric crapload of random things. For some reason, it keeps resending certain orders until we wind up getting twenty copies of the ordered items in question ( Read more... )

In the music department, there is typically a CD playing in the overhead system, so sometimes it's hard to fully understand a customer on the phone over the background noise. This difficulty can be further compounded by a customer that, for example, is not enunciating enough. Thus, one may be asked to repeat something from time to time, just to ( Read more... )