In revenge, we can receive emails from him.

On Wednesday my ability to restrain myself was put to the ultimate test, a test that I passed by not screaming “Son of a bitch!” at the top of my lungs in Best Buy after walking in and seeing my TV on display, on sale for almost $200 less than what I paid for it.
As soon as I spotted the display I told myself not to look at the price because I knew it would be bad – though not that bad – but I was unable to avoid the temptation.
Despite this, by the time I left I did so with an HD DVD player in hand.
If you’d asked me a couple of months ago, I would have told you that Blu Ray was going to come out on top in the HD format wars, but things have changed since then, and now it looks like HD DVD has the edge.
Still, somewhere along the line I’m going to buy a nice new Media Center PC to hook up to my TV, and I’ll be getting one that has a Blu Ray burner, thus giving me access to both formats.
I was on the fence about buying the HD DVD player. Shortly after I moved into the new place I got one of those “welcome to the neighborhood” packets from the post office, along with the confirmation that my change of address had been accepted. In the packet was a coupon for 10% off at Circuit City.
So it was my intention to use that and buy an HD DVD player from Circuit City. Of course, well after I left home and was on my way to Circuit City I realized that I’d forgotten to bring the coupon.
With the trip to Circuit City cancelled, I had time to kill (I was going to be meeting Scott at the comic shop and didn’t want to go home and then head back out again), so it was for that purpose that I actually stopped at Best Buy.
The reason I decided to buy the HD DVD player at Best Buy was that it had a nice feature set, was a known brand (Toshiba), there only appeared to be one left, and it included two HD DVD movies in the box, one of which was 300.
(The other was the Bourne Identity, which, yeah, okay, I can stand to have.)
Unbeknownst to me at the time, but beknownst to me after I paid for it, it also came with a rebate for five free HD DVDs. I had a list to choose from, and most of them were decent, for the most part. Nothing really great, but, especially given that they’re free, nothing to really complain about either.
I have no idea which ones I chose; Wednesday was far too long ago for me to remember. I know I picked Swordfish over Full Metal Jacket, even though Full Metal Jacket is vastly superior as a movie (Well, the first half is. The second half not so much.), simply because Swordfish has something that Kubrick’s movie does not: Halle Berry’s boobs in high definition.
That trumps Vincent D’Onofrio’s brains splattered on the wall any day.
Oh, right, spoiler alert. In Full Metal Jacket Vincent D’Onofrio’s character blows his brains out.
In any case, it’s taken all day to write this, so I suppose I should post it and get it over with.
Oh, and the post title comes from a wonderfully bizarre translation from French (I guess) to English in a spam e-mail I received that was going on about some nonsense about not being able to send e-mails to one of our customers.