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It’s weird, for some reason parts of Amazon’s site thinks I don’t have Amazon Prime…

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See, you don’t see the Amazon Prime logo at the first tab… I tried to add something to my cart and complete the checkout process and I was able to get the free 2-day shipping… something’s still messed up though… Everywhere I went it asked me to join Amazon Prime… 😉

The new Civic Si

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Went Honda’s site to check out the new Civic, saw some pics of the Si, damn, I like it!! That black one, the second to last one in the gallery, looked SOOO NICE!

Alright, if I move up to the city next year I’d get one as a commuter, save some gas u know… LOL… Don’t think they would have a Hybrid version of the Si though… 😉

TV… decisions decisions…

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So I need a new TV for the condo, I left my old Sony Trinitron in my house in Austin. Well, I need a new TV anyway, it’s been a while. 🙂

I considered getting a plasma monitor, I went to Costco a couple of times to check them out. I usually start my shopping at Costco, mainly because of their excellent return policy (and then I check Amazon next, because of their shipping and return policies, and my Amazon Prime membership, ;))… Anyway, Costco had a Vizio 42″ HDTV plasma for $2k, I found this very long thread about it and sounded like everyone agreed it’s the best deal out there. The thing is though, I kindda need to get HD feeds for an HDTV, and I almost never watch TV live, time-shifting is key, I don’t like watching commercials and I want to watch all the stuff in my own time, usually early weekend mornings… Problem is, there is no HD TiVo yet, and my condo’s patio is not facing the right direction for SAT TV… I can get HD feeds from Comcast but I would have to be there to watch them, which sucks…

So, I’m going to pick up a regular 4:3 TV from Costco, they got this Sharp 32″ flat tube for cheap… When TiVo-HD comes out I guess I’ll consider bring it back to Costco to upgrade to an HD plasma, by that time they should be only around $1.5k, LOL.

And if I do movie nights, I can reserve the 16-seat theater at the clubhouse… I need to check if that costs anything… It really shouldn’t coz there is like a $400 HOA fee… there are 264 condos, that’s $105k a month of HOA fee, which should really more than cover all the fancy stuff they do in the clubhouse and the pools and what not… good thing I’m renting it, that’s a lot of money for HOA fee for a condo. tsk tsk…

Now, I wonder when Sling will have a version for OS X… 😉

Activated my APP

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Fedex delivered my AppleCare Protection Plan (APP) for my PowerBook, I just activated it online. I’m not sure why they actually have to send me a box that contains the number, instead of just giving me the number online, or better yet, ask for my serial number and personal info, and add it to my records when I pay for it. Strange it seems…

This is actually the very first time I bought any kind of extended warranty, I always thought they were waste of money, like those they try to sell to you at Best Buy, and they always made me feel like an idiot for not buying it. Another reason I’ve been buying stuff from Amazon instead. APP is different though, especially for a portable. Sherry bought her dual-USB iBook G3 from eBay and it turned out the it had AppleCare, she had sent it in for repair so many times that it paid for the cost of APP several times. And they even gave her a brand new iBook G4 in the end. Well, she could’ve got one without APP, but she probably wouldn’t have sent it in for the repairs that were not related to the logic board problem.