Davidology

Modern Warfare 2 - Missing a head

2009-11-10T23:39:58Z

I picked up my Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 promptly at midnight last night. It was pretty crazy: Infinity Ward had a tank, a humvee, and a line that wrapped around the block. After freezing my ass off for an hour, I got my precious—which I played on Veteran until 5 in the morning when I thought it might be good to get 3 hours sleep before work.

The game is simply fraking AWESOME. I didn't know if Infinity Ward could outdo Call of Duty 4, but this is as good or better.

I was so stoked to be playing, it was totally lost on me that there was something wrong with my prestige edition. I thought I was the only one unlucky enough to end up without a complete Soap head. , but I've seen a couple things online suggesting a few other people may have had that problem. In my case, I had two left halves of Soap's head and was missing the right half.

I brought mine back to Best Buy the moment they opened this morning, but not before I'd already emailed and called Jakks (the company that made the bust and night vision goggles for Activision) to ask what to do, since I wasn't sure if Best Buy would have a replacement (the prestige editions are sold out, from what I understand).

Anyway, Best Buy took care of my problem, but the folks at Jakks were super friendly. The lady on the phone promptly called me back, and I've already gotten a response from them via email:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige TWO LEFT HEADS!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:53:38 -0800
From: Carlos ** **** <*******@jakks.net>
To: <david@>

Thank you for contacting Consumer Relations

We are in the process of ordering the face halves, but we will be able to send you the parts that you need. If you can please verify which half you need, as if you were the mannequin, ie if you were looking at the back of it’s head. Also please forward me your mailing address, and a contact phone number. We will contact you as soon as we receive and send out the replacements.

Thank you,
Carlos ** ****
Consumer Relations
21749 Baker Parkway Industry CA 91789
P:877.875.2557

The email address I wrote to them was at consumer (at) jakks.net, in case any of you had the same problem.

bacon!

2009-07-03T03:02:18Z

i think we just had a great idea (i'm x-posting)

hard shell taco shells made of bacon... it's brilliant!

pretty pony!

2009-06-04T01:47:45Z

is it just me or is tidus totally getting kinda hot with all that scruff going on?

ProTip

2009-04-20T19:07:09Z

ProTip,

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( ! )

2009-03-21T01:24:58Z

Either my car is mooning me or trying to tell me my tires are low.

Really? is this the best symbol they could come up with for low tire pressure? they should really consult with the internets before doing things like this.

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Webinars / teleconferences

2009-03-11T17:38:00Z

Protip: Don't leave your phone on vibrate on your desk while you're mic's live. To everyone on the call, it makes it sound like you just farted.

Birth Announcement!

2009-02-27T05:45:24Z

davidology

is pleased to announce

the birth of a bouncing baby MacBook Pro,

on February 20, 2009, at 9:33,

in Santa Monica, California,

weighing in at 5 pounds, 5 ounces, 2.4GHz

Okay, I totally lag.

I have to say with my MacBook, I never fully understood the koolaid drinkers. Clearly, I needed to start with a MacBook Pro. This puppy is much better built, sooo much more responsive, usable screen (resolution-wise), and just an all-around nice package. It's a little on the heavy side, but me likie.

Her network name is "Galactica".

- - -

Meanwhile, my old black MacBook had very suddenly developed the bulging battery problem (I believe it expanded when I removed the battery). A few weeks before that, a tiny sliver piece of plastic on the MacBook case suddenly fell off!

Well, I made an appointment at the Apple Store to get my battery replacement. From what I was reading, Apple's response to the case plague depended was mixed.

I don't buy extended warranties, so I don't have AppleCare. Because of the pseudo-recall, the tech exchanged my old battery (which still was at 100% anyway) with a new one; and told me there was a replacement policy for the top (free). He sent it in the back for a "new top". I was surprised when it came back to see it had a new keyboard and trackpad too (it's all one piece)!

Yay for defects, I guess! Because of them, for $0, I have a like-new BlackBook to sell! (Well, once I'm sure I have all my data off.)

Menus make me think

2009-02-24T06:58:51Z

Do you think there's a shelter for battered shrimp?

Queue

2009-02-17T23:45:38Z

Been in position #2 for 30 minutes.

Only sure fire way to move up in the queue is to try to make it to the bathroom and back.

Time-Warner Cable kinda blows

2009-02-13T03:48:33Z

I think I'm missing an internet or two.

T-minus 9 hours

2009-01-20T08:01:53Z

Change.

NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!

2009-01-15T22:47:50Z

WHY GOD WHY?!?!

103.1 was the better than KROQ... and better than, well, everything on XM.

gah.

everything was fine this morning. Then I get this email:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Troubadour News (Vol. 09/Issue 02)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:22:53 -0800
From: Angele Dayer
To:

My Dearest Friends,

It is with my greatest sadness to inform you that Indie 103.1 has gone off the air--if you haven't heard already. For more info you can read the blog here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/01/indie-1031-is-o.html

I am so shocked and appalled...I feel like someone just died. Indie 103.1 has made such a big impact on music in general helping to get the word out on amazing up-and-coming independent artists. Indie 103.1 was a staple in my daily music listening and it will be sincerely missed. Indie 103.1 will continue to broadcast online and I plan to listen as much as possible.

BYE INDIE, HELLO DIGITAL INDIE !!

This is an important message for the Indie 103.1 Radio Audience -

Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game.

We have decided not to play that game any longer. Rather than changing the sound, spirit, and soul of what has made Indie 103.1 great Indie 103.1 will bid farewell to the terrestrial airwaves and take an alternative course.

This could only be done on the Internet, a place where rules do not apply and where new music thrives; be it grunge, punk, or alternative � simply put, only the best music.

For those of you with a computer at home or at work, log on to www.indie1031.com and listen to the new Indie 103.1 - which is really the old Indie 103.1, not the version of Indie 103.1 we are removing from the broadcast airwaves.

We thank our listeners and advertisers for their support of the greatest radio station ever conceived, and look forward to continuing to deliver the famed Indie 103.1 music and spirit over the Internet to passionate music listeners around the world.

No more new music. No more Barely Legal on Fridays?!

This is worse than when they took away Groove 103.1.

Boo. I WANT MY INDIE BACK.

Now I have to find something replace that preset in my car.

2009 Google Holiday Doodle Defacing: The Fountain of Youth

2008-12-28T03:35:49Z

Yes, I lag.

The original doodle, in case you missed it..

and now for the alternate ending. I call it "The Fountain of Youth".

The evolution of holiday greetings

2008-12-25T19:01:56Z

Holiday Cards snail mail (forever ago)

e-greetings/virtual cards (1999)

Bulk Text Message to your contact list (2004)

Updating your Facebook Status (2008)

I'll turn in my Gay Card now

2008-12-18T01:18:05Z

You know, I might ~~like~~ be able to tolerate musicals a lot more if they didn't sing so damned much.

Oh for fuck's sake: Obama's ipodgate

2008-12-08T23:44:32Z

That's it. I'm starting a new "column": Oh, For Fuck's Sake. This will probably be the only one. I'm sick of reading about Obama using a Zune... days later... still. gah!

Actually, I'm more sick of the reporters and the "bloggers" who say things like "geeks are outraged" or "the technorati are..."

Let's get one thing straight: using an iPod does not make you a geek anymore than using a Fisher Price My First Record Player makes you a DJ.

Any idiot can use an ipod or an iphone. That's the point and the absolute brilliance of it. My dad uses an ipod and wears his shorts up to his belly button with his t-shirt tucked into them, k? So get down off your iHorse.

Unless you're one of the ones running cron jobs or a web/email server on your jailbroken iphone, however, it is not... I repeat, NOT a measure of your geekiness nor give you the right to speak for all geeks, nerds, etc!

Running an unhacked iPhone != geek.

It perhaps speaks to how utterly white you are, but has nothing to do with your geek quotient any more than my getting turned on by guys in wet suits makes me a surfer, k?

So from those of us who were actually picked last in gym class: quit pretending to speak for us just because you can operate an iPod Touch and reached the technical sophistication required to sign up for a Blogger account. These asshats were probably introduced to the internet via AOL, so for the love of the gods, stop it already!

Thank you, and good night.

We now return you to your regular RSS feeds, already in progress.

So it is written...

2008-12-03T02:41:04Z

ln -f bird word ; chmod a+r bird

Just in case anyone doesn't know

2008-11-24T23:05:39Z

My fries let me show you them

2008-11-19T23:27:23Z

I was up anyway

2008-11-19T10:12:24Z

Brown sky is brown

2008-11-18T00:46:37Z

my sinuses have been swollen all day. I just blew my nose, and a pet poodle and half a mobile home park came out.

need. sinus medicine. now.

JoinTheImpact

2008-11-15T20:39:56Z

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Join the Impact

2008-11-15T00:34:10Z

Most of you have probably received these ad nauseum on your facebooks, LJs, etc., so let me add one more spam to make sure you know about it!

There is going to be another, very large, this time nationwide protest for gay rights, tomorrow (Saturday) starting at the unholy hour of 10:30 am. For Angelenos, our location is downtown Los Angeles City Hall (200 N Spring St). If you hate driving and parking downtown like I do, remember the subway is an option (check metro.net for route information).

If you're not in L.A., there is likely a demonstration going on in your area as well. Please checkout JoinTheImpact.com for more information.

We need to keep up the visibility on this issue and make sure people know we're not going away... not this time, and second class citizenship is no longer acceptable.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

at least it didn't end in fire this time

2008-11-13T05:15:51Z

My Dearest Trader Ming:

While I enjoyed your Shrimp Gyoza, I believe you may have left out a step in the directions.

I heated the oil in the wok on high and began pan frying the gyoza, flat side down, just as your directions indicated. It was, however, after those 4 minutes when you instructed me to "add 4 tablespoons of water to pan" that things went horribly, horribly wrong.

You seemed to have neglected to include the part where the gyoza would immediately go supernova. While the loud eruption ~~startled~~ scared the living fuck out of me, it was the geyser of oily, searing hot pain that rained down immediately after, causing me to slip while trying to exit what I believed at the time be an exploding kitchen, that I will remember most.

I can only assume that this was meant as payback for Hiroshima. We're even, okay? Please don't try to kill me again with your delicious frozen food treats.

Answerla.org

2008-11-09T02:14:38Z

Answerla.org,

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