Any blockbuster video users here? I've been a netflix user for the last 3 years and have been overall satisfied. I have the 1 bluray/streaming plan which I think is fairly priced, although netflix is adding $6 to that plan next month. However I just noticed blockbuster basically offers the same thing, but I can get 2 movies at a time for even cheaper.
Honestly I dont use the netflix streaming that much. I have a bluray player with netflix built in, but netflix's library still blows and the only movies I actually want to see come on disc only. Plus streaming HD doesnt hold a candle to actual bluray, so I could care less about this feature. All I really watch are the disc's.
So does anyone use blockbuster? How is their library? Do they have as many bluray editions of movies as netflix does? Or do you get sent a dvd or something lame because "sorry we're currently out of bluray's for the movie you selected"? How is their stock in general? When Harry Potter comes out and 100 million people rent it, netflix can usually deliver without delay. Can blockbuster say the same? Or do you go on 3 month waiting periods because they only have 1000 copies of said disc?
So I'll be starting my new job next week and need to get my own cell phone since my current employer pays for mine. I went to a verizon store to get a feel for their offerings and noticed something strange, every single phone except the iphone was practically unusable. I was only looking at high end android devices by HTC/Samsung/LG, phones I have played with before outside of verizon's store and was quite perplexed at how utterly FUBAR these phones were behaving. Choppy frame rates, shitty scrolling, super laggy on input, homescreens a complete mess, every single possible widget running at the same time. I know customers fuck with phones all day but when compared to the iphone it seemed like they went out of their way to make non Apple devices look as crappy as possible in comparison. Has anyone else ever observed this?
Anyway gonna buy a new HTC Sensation 4G this week as soon as it's released on Tmobile. Little nervous about the ATT acquisition, but I figure by the time they begin dismantling Tmo's 4G network that I'll be due for an upgrade anyway and can safely migrate to the new network standard without wrecking my 4G functionality. The big concern for everyone is that since 4G phones have to have special receivers to operate on that part of the wireless spectrum, that ATT will change everything and basically turn every non ATT phone into a brick requiring you to renew/upgrade to get a working phone again.
Got a new job jigga's. Pay raise, stability, new environment, tons of future potential, many doors opened, best thing to happen in a long time. Which quickly followed the worst thing to happen in a long time, and that was having a PREVIOUS job offer snatched away from me!
I applied for an IT gig at a local hospital, one which was offering a 50% pay increase, slam dunked the interview process, and was made an offer. Then they found out that I had technically lied about my employment history, stating I had worked at my previous company for 8 years when I had really only been there for 7.5. So they disqualified me, after I had already been offered the position and given a start date! Over a 6 month discrepancy in my employment! WTF! I explained it as me simply "rounding up" and that surely 6 months couldnt matter when we're talking about YEARS of employment here, but nope, they were stern and said that was grounds of dismissal. I got fired before I even started. I asked just who the hell was making this decision, because no way was it the actual person hiring me or my future boss's. Nope, just some cock sucker in a suit who I would never see in my life responsible for signing the paychecks. Talk about having the wind knocked out of you, I was pretty depressed. By the way this actually happened on Friday the 13th too lol.
So I applied for another job at a university doing basically the same thing although paying a little less, and got it! And this time no bullshit about failure to qualify or whatever, it's a done deal now. Sucks I wont be making as much, but it's only like a 15% difference which I'm fine with, and I'd rather work for higher education than the healthcare industry anyway.
So life is looking good again for once. Be able to get back into some live pokerz, do more shit on the weekends, go on some vacations, pay off some credit cards, basically whatever. Oh yeah, also bought an ipad last week, lovin in. And am moving into a new condo with cheaper rent, free water, better electricity bills, and a fireplace as an upgrade, so now I'll be making money while I make money. Now all I have to do is not die in a fiery car crash between now and then.... or the next 60 years preferably.
Since all I do is get sucked out on in poker, maybe I can have a little rungood at life this week. After being threatened at work I've been looking for another job, and have my final interview with a company next week paying A LOT more than I make right now. If I get it, I'd be making more money then I could probably ever make at poker so I could finally quit this faggoty fucking game and just enjoy life, having all my finances back on track again with money to spare.
Almost. An employee looked like he was going to take a swing at me the other day after we got into an argument, so I filed a complaint with HR. Big mistake I guess, because he's best friends with the president of the company. President just called me into his office and chewed me out, saying if I complain or take it any further I'm fired, and that he shoulda let me go 6 months ago (not sure why he didnt then). I wanted to get into it with him but was pretty sure he would have fired me on the spot so I decided to bow out and just stand there getting yelled at. Pretty embarassing since I'm sure some employee's heard it, and office gossip will surely spread it around.
So back to the job hunt for me. At least I'm still employed, but obviously thats just borrowed time. He knows firing me within days/weeks of complaining about another employee would be an instant lawsuit so I figure I have anywhere between 1-6 months before he can get away with it.
Extra sucks that going poker pro is not yet an option for me. Lost 20 BI's in the last 2 days half stacking NL5, not even the worlds biggest heater could save me financially at these limits.
Oh lawd... I'm not going to put much effort into this rant just b/c all of you will know where I'm going with it.. just a very tilting email one of our obese employees sent out this morning. Her husband had a brain tumor, had it removed, and the doctors said they found no traces of cancer. Apparently this is special, and living in the bible belt the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that it is a miracle by god. Nevermind the fact that you got the tumor in the first place & his bitch ass would be fucking dead if it weren't for medical science, prayers are the reason there is no cancer. But what really grinded my gears was the *very next* sentence which goes on to say that he will need continued checkup's & treatment to make sure no cancer develops for the NEXT 3 YEARS. But what the fuck, I thought god was the reason he has no cancer in the first place. So why the hell do you need future checkups? Why not just pray mother fucker? I mean I can understand being so diluted as to attribute any positive outcome to an invisible sky man, but if you are going to preemptively pray away the development of cancer, then there should be no need to visit doctors ever again. Obviously they didnt do shit so why waste the time and money?
You may have noticed earlier I emphasized the point of this person being obese. Given her size I am certain she qualifies as morbidly obese, but thats beside the point. The point was that a recent study was released conducted over 20 years that directly linked religiousness to obesity. Again, not too hard for you to fathom, but I'll spell it out anyway; Those found to attend religious functions at least once a week and who classified themselves as religious ended up obese in later years. I think it was something like a 90% correlation. These were people originally of healthy weight, who virtually all became obese 20 years later. Conversely, those who did not identify themselves with religious beliefs, nor attended religious functions with any regularity, were almost all within normal guidelines for physical health.
Point? Meh, I dunno. I just see her dumb fat fucking ass with her dumb fucking religion and think "how fitting of you".
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