Two things to be upset about

And they both involve local markets... Seattle Sonics and Microsoft

1. "I'd love to find a way to keep the team there," he said, "because if the team moves, there's not going to be another team there, not in any conceivable future plan that I could envision, and that would be too bad." - David Stern, NBA Commissioner

I think Mr Stern has been smoking too much crack lately because he's gotta be crazy to believe that Seattle is not a good market for the NBA. It can't be worse than Oklahoma City, or New Orleans, or Charlotte for that matter. Charlotte has failed twice in the past 5 years too....

This whole Sonics relocation thing is getting more and more absurd by the day. Clay Bennett seems to be a PR nightmare as he doesn't seem to care about anything people offer him, the Seattle city council keeps saying the wrong things as well, and then the NBA itself just flat out bluntly sides with the owner. This that this that this that. ARgh.

I just wished Mr Bennett would take a chill pill on his $500 million arena demand and listen to whats on the table. First, Key Arena doesnt really need to go away, perhaps a smaller scale remodel could work. Its nicely located in the heart of Seattle and has been a fine site for 40 years now. Second, why do we need to spend $500 million on a basketball arena?? Think about it, Qwest Field was $360m and Safeco was just over $500m (because it had cost overruns AND it is a TRANSFORMING stadium for crying outloud - well it has a movable roof, but its sorta the same thing)

Finally, he needs to formally meet the other arena proposal teams, namely the Muckleshoot tribe. He also needs to hear out what the potential investor/buyers have to say... I'm sick of this ignore everything and demand it all attitude.

ARgh.


2. MY XBOX 360 DOES NOT WORK.

It's been working fine for a while now, but today, while playing my brand new game, Call of Duty 4, the color started fading in and out and was totally discolored with random tints of random colors.... Now, the video is completely gone, though sound and controls still work. I can hear the system running!

Yea, but the video is out. I tried VGA (my typical setting), Component, and standard AV settings against my TV and nothing works. It all had the discoloration and now are all blank screens. My original xbox console works fine, DVD player works, and regular TV works fine... so its not the TV and its not the cables... its the hardware. The GPU must be shot. Man....

And of course, the 360 is out of 1 year warranty, and even though Microsoft now has a 3 year warranty, it only covers if the xbox is completely inoperable, by way of red rings of death. Mine's probably 90% there, but it still has sound and something obviously works; i just cant see what I'm doing... so I'm not covered.

Luckily (maybe), the console has a Best Buy warranty attached to it. But... of course there's a BUT... i purchased the 360 on ebay so the warranty's title is under the guy who originally bought the 360 and it was never changed over (mostly due to my laziness). I hope the Best Buy store doesnt care for this and just processes this through... cause I'll be annoyed and sad if it doesnt.

ARGH!