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StrawberryAttack
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Birthday: 9/8/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Radiohead, Sigur Ros, The Beta Band, Mogwai, Bjork, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Air, Beck, Interpol, Yo La Tengo, Massive Attack, The Shins, Elliott Smith, Deltron, The Gorillaz, Sufjan Stevens, The Pixies, Faust, The Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Pavement, The Flaming Lips, The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Sonic Youth, Starflyer 59, Stereolab, Tom Waits, The Wrens, Four Tet, Aphex Twin, Portishead, The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand, Tricky, Cursive, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Z Plan
Expertise: i'm pretty good with a bo staff
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  JustTieMeToATree
Member Since:
12/6/2004
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Planet of the Apes
By Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Robert Gunner, Lou Wagner, Woodrow Parfrey, Jeff Burton, Buck Kartalian, Norman Burton, Wright King, Paul Lambert, Steve Merjanian, James Bacon, Felix Silla, Dianne Stanley, Irvin 'Zabo' Koszewski
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Since I've been almost completely neglecting my xanga for the past, oh...year or so, I got an idea: turn this site into a music/gaming blog! yeah! Hopefully every now and then I'll just post about what I'm playing/listening to, and if you, the reader, should be playing/listening to it.
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| 5 more days left for break...is it really 2007?
new years party was fun, i'd have to say that the highlight was the curry rice brought by the adhikizuma's and the low point was when i choked down some nasty champagne that amy brought because i didn't want to waste it after i poured my glass. other highlights were adam's performance of chopin's first ballade for the piano forte, doubles ping pong, and as always, noah creech.
Christmas countdown: 356 days
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| Tony Hawk's Project 8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk's_Project_8#Soundtrack
Looks like this installment will have the best soundtrack yet. The Cure, Gnarls Barkley, The Hold Steady, Joy Division, Mogwai, Primus, Sonic Youth, and The Walkmen are all on it. They finally decided to get rid of all the rap.
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| You think John was busy at school, at least he had time to make some Xanga postings.
Anyways, lately I've gotten to the point where I consider myself an expert bargain hunter. Not just someone that randomly happens upon a good deal now and then, but someone who can hunt down prime deals at just about any given time. Recently, I've been doing some research online on K-Mart. They have a wide selection of video games on clearance for ridiculously low prices (like 2 or 3 bucks for some games). They problem is, the prices on these games are never marked on the actual game. So you can look in the glass case at a K-Mart and see some games marked at $34.99 and it will really only ring up as $3.50 at the register. However, there are a few problems.
One is that if you don't know what games are on clearance, it will be a total pain to go through the case and ask the cashier to scan each one you're interested in to see if it's cheaper. To get around this, I browsed a gaming message board where people reported what games they had found on clearance at K-Mart for really cheap. A list was compiled of all the clearance games available there. But this led to another problem: K-Mart is a very unorganized store, and the computer systems for each of them aren't in sync, and many are behind the times and don't have updated prices. So while some of the clearance games might have their correct super cheap prices, some of them might not. This could lead to you getting a bunch of games out of the case that are supposed to be on clearance, but when they are rung up at the register, they are 5 times as much. This leads to you apologizing to the cashier for thinking that they would be cheaper, and them being mad at you for going through all that trouble for nothing.
But there is a way to bypass this problem as well. All K-Mart stores have price scanners throughout the stores, so all you have to do is scan the UPCs to find out the price (and it will be the price for THAT specific K-Mart, because the price scanners are linked directly to the store's computer system, it's the same as if the cashier were ringing it up except it just displays the price). But, since all of the video games are behind cases that need to be unlocked, what are you supposed to do? Ask the cashier to unlock them and take a bunch of games over to the scanner?
Well, there's a way around this as well. All you have to do is, on your home computer, print out the UPCs for the games you want to check. You can find UPCs for just about everything at www.upcdatabase.com. Thankfully, someone at the gaming message board mentioned above compiled a list of UPCs for all of the games on clearance at K-Mart, so the best thing to do is print it out and take it down to K-Mart and scan the UPCs right from the printed sheets of paper. After looking through the cases to see what games they actually have available in the store, and scanning the UPCs of the games they have to make sure that they have their discounted prices, all you have to do is get the cashier to open up the right cases, grab your games, pay, and leave. Congradulations, you are now an expert bargain hunter.
Using these tactics, I was able to nab 7 games for myself, which if I bought them at their original prices it would've costed $200, but together those 7 games only cost me $26.50.
Christmas count down: 8 days
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| Back from Cherokee.
Went to VA beach.
Back from VA beach.
Went to Yellowstone
Back from Yellowstone.
Leaving for school now.
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