Buy 2, Get 3 Free?

Was making a late night stop at Safeway yesterday and wanted to pick up a Diet Coke Plus 12 pack and then I saw this. "Buy 2 Get 3 Free"

I was first irritated that it's misleading the customers to think they'll get 3 free if they buy 2. They should type out "Buy 2, get 3rd Free" Kept grumbling in my own mind thinking.. how can they get away with this.

Longer I stared at this.. I started to scratch my head. It does say "SAVE $16.47 on 5" and 3 of these packs are equal to $16.47.. do you really get 3 for free?! I mean, isn't this strange?

I got super excited and loaded up my cart with 60 cans of soda and went to the cash register.. yes you get 3 of them free. Meaning, I got 5 - 12 packs of Diet Coke Plus for ~$10! Not bad!

What kind of car would you buy if you had all the money in the world?

Today, as I was riding my bike up to Google campus, I see a shiny new Lexus LS600hL in front of the campus. It's like the most luxurious environment friendly car. This car is over $100,000 so my eyes got big wondering what the face of a person that buys this sort of car looks like. No one was in the car.

Later that day, when I was heading out of campus, I saw the Google founder sitting in it. My guess is that Lexus brought it over to campus for him to test drive.

Evangelion

Totally off topic. As an ex-employee of a Japanese toy shop, I had so many customers crazy about Evangelion.

I tried watching the anime at that time to see what the hype was about, but lost interest after the first 3-4 episodes. I mean, it was like another superhero show like the sentai series (power rangers)...

After 10 years later, someone brought this anime up to me again and I decided to give it another try. It gets really deep. At some points I thought I had do drugs to understand what is being said.. but I think I understand now and I liked the ending, but feels like they tossed the entire story line at the end.

Kaspersky Internet Security

Free is too good to be true, but if someone offers you $5 to take something for free.. it's too great to be true... but that fantasy becomes reality with this deal.

http://www.spoofee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61148

I probably won't ever use this, but always useful in case Norton ever comes out with a "free after rebate for upgraders" type of deal.

and yes.. that is a bad banana in the background. My parents gave it to me and I just can't throw it away, I promise myself I'll eat it this morning just like I did yesterday morning.

Noo~ not the right time

Today's been somewhat eventful. Got to work, had a meeting, had like 4 people waiting on me for something and then I got a call from a partner to troubleshoot something.. and then this happens.. My computer stops responding and I reboot and it just halts.

Arg!! Not the right time!... so since there's so much to do, I decided to take a picture and blog about it. =P

36 - 8oz of Organic Milk for $24 Shipped

I ordered milk from Amazon. 36 reduced fat 8oz horizon milk for $24 shipped. Makes it roughly $0.67/each.

I was first worried how they were going to package the milk and would it be bad by the time I got it, but it turns out these milks are packaged in a way that they don't need to be refrigerated unless opened!

I threw a few in the fridge and had them later that night. It's.... the best milk I have ever drank. It's so good!

I just tried to go on Amazon to order more, but they are already sold out :(

Google Offsite Event

Had an off site event for work at Google. Our group went off to Half Moon Bay, CA to do team building exercises and training, etc. Sounds like fun huh?

Most of it was like this. Listening to team updates and listening to VPs, directors, important people talking. It's kind of like a slow brainwash.

The co-founder of Youtube spoke to us for like 30 minutes which is really all I remember from the morning session. Really seemed like someone that could be your neighbor.

(picture by Robert S)
The team I'm in at Google grew to about double the size in 1 year. I've been in the team for almost 2 years, but still feels like I'm new because most of the faces are unfamiliar

I heard how dangerous the freeway was on the way to Half Moon Bay. I saw a bad car accident but no one seemed to be hurt.

View from Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay, very beautiful. It's really a wedding environment.

I was surprised with the transportation the hotel provided us to go to our rooms. They could've had some golf cart and I would've been happy.

This is the only rant I have about this off site event. They put two of us per room, but how come one bed! I'm glad I got to pick someone I know, but must be awkward for those that were randomly paired... well actually it was awkward either way. The room's nice, but I wouldn't say $400/night nice.

(Picture by Robert S)
The highlight was that they brought Matt Harding (the guy that made wherethehellismatt.com).
Key takeaway from this off site was learning how to dance like Matt Harding

Avenue Q in SF!

Avenue Q was in San Francisco and a guy at work was selling two tickets for $80/each when they were normally $90/each so being a deal crazy guy, I bought them

Later on, I was a bit bummed thinking $80 for a puppet show...

It turned out to be great! Some parts I didn't find it funny as others did, but enjoyed the musical all the way through. It was definitely worth $80. I also got suckered into paying $20 for parking :( Went into somewhere that had a big "PARKING" sign and when I went in there was a sign that said "$20 parking".. I could not back up because of the traffic on the back..

This is a picture I snapped before the usher yelled at me.

Gambling Problem

Starting to think I have a gambling problem.

One of my new years resolution was to not go to Vegas. What I should've wrote is no gambling this year.

When I heard Superbowl, I had no idea who is playing or even some basic rules of Football, but my friend said that he'll give me $230 for every $100 I bet, if Chicago Bears win.

Well as we know.. my $100 became my friend's.

Superbowl is a lot more fun when money is on the line though!!.. no.. I must stop. must stop...

Photography Section

New photography section! We'll be moving images in the next few days from the old photography section to the new one. :)

It turns out the server issues we've had through 10/06 ~ 12/06 was caused by bad code in the older version of the photography section.

Great Deals and Wiiiii!

It's been a while, I guess I've been too busy playing the Wii and also my wallet is shrinking from all the great deals lately. The Google Checkout is soooo hot! :)

Wii Sports, Zelda are great. Controls, graphics, very happy.

Red Steel was a bit disappointing. I thought the sword fights would be so fun and it is, but the controls are very very difficult. After playing a hour, I still can't get use to it.



Look what we got from Costco!

Please remove the Playstation 3 ad for Costco. Sold out and too many people are still trying to buy despite that which is causing Costco's site to fail and not load. People are coming to spoofee for the information and spoofee is a great site for good deals and info but now this ad is causing too many problems for our website. Thanks.

Costco Customer Representive
Steve

We're glad we have so many users that Costco has to email us! =)

Wii / PS3 Craze

I'm at Toys R Us right now in the cold waiting to get a Wii pre-order. Freezing, lonely, and dark. Let me think back to how I got myself into this mess.

Wii and the PS3 is releasing in a week.

Today..rrr yesterday, I stopped by Toys R Us to buy Guitar Hero 2 for PS2 and for the heck of it asked if they are planning to open at 12am on 11/19 for Wii, and the worker told me they will be taking 20 pre-orders tomorrow, but advised lining up early.

First I thought, ok 7am, then 6am to be safe.. and then I read articles where people were waiting 1pm the day before.. so I came here at 3am.

I think I forgot what the Wii was for me. I think the demand made me want it more. I just know everyone wants it.. so I want it.

I remember lining up like this for Furby several years back.

Bungee rockets have arrived!

Click here to find out how to get one!

Thank you cierrablue!

I was just browsing youtube and found this! Thank you so much!

Traffic Ticket

So I got a ticket like 2 months ago for driving in the carpool lane + expired registration sticker, and I finally took care of it.

I read on ticketassassin.com how it's good to always request a trial by written declaration. This is because the police officer does not get paid to write a report against you and if the police officer does not respond, you automatically win the case.

Side Note : If you request a in-person trial, police officers do usually get paid for this, so there is a good chance they would show up.



So today I marched to the clerk and requested for a trial by written dection (yes that's how I said it).. I think I just had that line in my head for a long time, when I actually said it, I got nervous.

She told me how, if I do a trial and I lose (if the police officer responds), I will not have the option to go to traffic school and there will be a point on my record making my insurance rate higher.

SO... I called my insurance company to find out how much more insurance would be, if it's worth gambling, etc.

these were my options.

If I just paid the ticket
- I pay $399 + $15(fix it ticket) + $30(traffic school) + traffic school = $444

If I had a trial and won (I win if police office doesn't respond)
- I pay $15(fix it ticket) = $15

If I had a trial and lost (I would lose if police officer responded)
- I pay $399 + $15(fix it ticket) + $100 extra/year for insurance = $714

It was a difficult choice. I was not sure if my police officer would be lazy. I asked the clerk if police officers usually respond and she said.. 'It's probably 50/50'.. and I debated if I want to gamble $270... My police officer seemed pretty sharp and I thought he would actually respond so I just took the damage of $444. :(

That's like a nice digital camera. That's like a Xbox 360.. :(

I have to move on... :(

Spoofee Bungee Rockets Coming Soon...

I'm not sure what we're going to use these for, but just ordered 1000 bungee rockets.

Youtube on Forums

We had to remove html posting capabilities from our forums, but we brought a new [youtube] button so people can continue to post videos

Link to Instructions

Congratulations to ChoochooJr and Babuska

Choochoojr has been a long time member of Spoofee and met Babuska.

Look what it led up to!

Truly happy for these two.

I also wish Blogger had a spellchecker.

Spoofee Hack Attempts

Looks like some people have nothing to do during the Labor Day Weekend other than to find vulnerabilities and hack sites.

There were multiple attempts and the main 2 issues are fixed.

Thank you everyone for the notification and thanks Choochoojr/Kage_ for paging me :)

Security holes were caused vBulletin mods (FlashChat / Top X ).
Both have been disabled and we'll keep an eye on vBulletin.com to see if any other vulnerabilities are found.

Tell a Friend Button

Minor little addition to the deals page.

There is now a "tell a friend" button so you can let your peers know about a hot deal.
I also gave it a minor look & feel change, but I'm not sure whether it's easier to see. Needs a lot of work.