Don't say I didn't warn you.

Don’t you just hate things that are made partially or entirely of cheap plastic? Well I do… except little plastic toys from Japan that make noises, those are awesome!.

It’s unavoidable, every time I see something made out of plastic I tell to myself “It’s going to break in the hands of the poor sap who’s going to buy it.” or “It’s probably already broken and they put a box over it just to hide what they did.” and in some few cases “Well, since they don’t sell nothing else but plastic.” but in most cases I just go with ”Good grief!” ( Thank you Charlie Brown ).

I wanted an automatic drip coffee machine that would be entirely made out of stainless steel, chrome plated or something similar but had to settle for a cheap plastic machine instead. I payed over $60 for it too because a high price obviously means high quality but I was not seeking quality in plastic so that was the least expensive of them all. Why pay more when you know you’re not going to feel the difference.

From the moment I set eyes on it, I knew it was going to break despite the fact that the only clue I had was the plastic that was used to create it; The cheap kind of plastic. What I didn’t know was “how” and “when” this marvel would give up on me… Presenting the Black & Decker DCM3200B.

It was working fine for 6 months straight ( making it the best coffee maker I have ever purchased so far) but  today, it decided it was a good idea to releases some of it’s liquids while brewing my coffee. I know what you’re thinking but I won’t do it… Seriously guys, diaper on a coffee machine. If it starts crapping coffee beans on my kitchen counter I will just get rid of it… just don’t tell our robot overlord after he’s done enslaving the human race.

Edit: It’s been a while since I made this post ( May 2009… 1 year and 5 months ) but i’m glad to be back online again and ready to rant again. I have some shameful revelation for you about the Black & Decker DCM3200B, turns out it was just a tube that was accidentally disconnected from inside and all I needed to do was plug it back in like they showed me at the store and I have to say i’m amazed how my opinion of a product can change. Despite this little bump at the beginning this coffee machine is still working properly. Guess I should not judge those poor products too fast in the future. Hope you guys forgive me for this BAD rant.

Hurr hurr!

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So I bought a new cell phone yesterday. Was supposed to cost me 250$ but instead it almost cost me 400$ because I took the kit with the fake leather case and the 256 MB memory card… long story short I almost payed 50$ in taxes and im still wondering where the money go?

This phone had some serious review on the internet but I have to say, probably because i’m easily disapointed, that this phone is far from perfect.

My old mobile phone was perfect ( Beside the fact that it’s dead after 6 years of service ). No blinding screen, good battery that could last over 6 hours, easy access to the dial up buttons and decent size. It was a practical phone and I miss it already.

Of course, it would be odd to buy a cell phone like this today because the newer phones offer so much more… like games… music… ringtones… pictures and videos…

All the cell phone games suck. I had one free game with my cell phone and I was bored playing with that 3D feed the snake game exactly 60 seconds after I started playing it. So I purchased some other games… most of them dont even have music while you play. Why can’t they do games like Bible fight, Grow RPG, Winterbells or Python?

http://www.adultswim.com/games/biblefight/

http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2005/07/grow_rpg.html#monster

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

http://www.markfennell.com/flash/snake/

( Sure, they can’t do games exactly like those but they can make good games instead of those abomination. )

My cell phone provider, Telus, is great when it comes to making calls… but their online web browsing is “Fucking dog shit” ( Pardon my James Rolfeness ). I tried to purchase a song to test the device and I can’t even find the songs I love when I enter the name of the song in the search engine. All they have is a list of preselected songs that I never heard of or dont want to listen to.

Ringtones are annoying. Need I say more?

Pictures and videos are great, probably the only real reason why I went for a mobile phone like this instead of some older model. You can easily take pictures and make videos with these new handheld… but you need proper lightning or else your pictures and videos wont even be viewable… and even with a good light source everything just look grainy. If you buy a cell phone thinking that it will replace all your cameras and fulfill all your visual needs… yeah, you’re wrong.

Actually I do like this phone… because I can impress everyone around me with some trivial stuff.

By the way, it’s raining in shanghai.

Edit: Not even 1 year after I purchased this cell phone and it’s the second time it breaks. I try to turn it on but the loading screen just never load… No, I never dropped it, never mistreated it and I even tried making peace with it ( Downloaded the cell phone game “Frogger Evolution” and had a blast going through all the 8 levels ) but this is the last draw for me.