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Further to my rant about how HP printers suck, I finally got round to giving them a call and seeing what they'd say about the new printer's dodgy scanner. To my amazement, not only did they offer to outright replace it but they told me they'd be sending it to me first - i.e. not making me send ours then wait forever for them to check it over / repair it / whatever before sending me one back. After my ordeal with Microsoft and the 360, HP have re-ignited my faith in big brand companies....well, their company at least ;) Microsoft could learn a lot from HP in this department!

Thanks HP! You printers may be dodgy but at least you have a decent warranty service to back it up :D

I've you've never read some of the quotes of IRC conversations on Bash.org, you're missing out...big time...

<Locke|Away> I found a note in one of my old word .docs that said Note to self: Get revenge on Valvados.
<Locke|Away> Except I couldn't remember what I was supposed to get revenge for.
<Locke|Away> But I trusted my own judgment, so I went with it.
<Valvados> ...
<Valvados> o.o
<Valvados> hmm
<Valvados> i dunno what you were supposed to get revenge for, either
<Locke|Away> I can only assume you got what was coming to you.  Not 100 percent sure, though.
<Valvados> well, whatever i did, i guess i deserved it
<Locke|Away> Let that possibly be a lesson to you.

<Meph|st0> Complaint : BOUGTH IT FOR MY COUSIN WHO HAD CANCER, ITEM NEVER ARRIVED AND MY COUSIN DIED
<Meph|st0> thats the greatest ebay feedback i have ever seen

<blazemore> omg i love this song
<blazemore> Now playing: Unknown Artist - Track 2 @ 128 Kbps. (0:47/3:24)
<Javi> blazemore:  yeah, that's a bad ass song

<ikkenai> i don't have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers

< Alkivar> we're on our way back from partying in NYC over the weekend ... it was like sunday afternoon we're headed back west
< Alkivar> we're cruisin... maybe 130-140mph
< Alkivar> flew past a trooper on the side of the road
< Alkivar> trooper lights up ... siren blasting ... chasing us down the highway
< Alkivar> we're both like should we stop ... there's no way he can catch up to us
< Alkivar> we decided to be good and stop
< Alkivar> cop catches up to us ... comes out gun drawn ... pissed as hell
< Alkivar> walks up to the side of the car and goes
< Alkivar> "SON CAN I SEE YOUR PILOT'S LICENSE"
< Alkivar> Jason pulls out his fucking pilot's license
< Alkivar> cop's jaw hits the fucking ground
< Alkivar> most stunned face I've ever fucking seen
< Alkivar> in this practically a whimper goes "get the fuck out of here"
< Alkivar> no ticket... too embarassed apparently
< Alkivar> I'll never forget that day long as I live
< Alkivar> I was sure we were goin to jail

<Alanna> Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders

<drmason> there was this one time I was wanking to porn...
<drmason> ... I kept a javascript tutorial open in another window so my parents didn't start wondering why I was always on the desktop with no windows showing
<drmason> so I'm just about to splurge when I suddenly hear my dad coming up the stairs
<drmason> alt-tabbed to the other window and tried to pull my boxers up... computer stalled JUST THEN as my dad was opening the door
<drmason> I just stood up and was like "fuck... dad this honestly isn't what it looks like"
<drmason> and he glanced at the screen and said "I sure hope so because it looks like you're masturbating to a fucking javascript tutorial"

* Spoon casts Wall of Silence
*** Spoon sets mode: +m
<Goku> why?
<Spoon> Because exo went insane
<Goku> no, he just brought his insanity up to another level
* Sentinel checks..
*** Sentinel sets mode: -m
<exogen> THERE'S BUTTER ON MY FACE!
*** Sentinel sets mode: +m

Depending on your sense of humor, those may or may not amuse you but there's a lot of funny shit on that site. Check out the Bash.org top 100 for starters ;)

Earlier this month, we bought a new printer to replace our old HP Officejet 7110 that had died. We needed a replacement that could do everything it could and for the money, the only option was the Officejet 7310. The 7110 had constant scanner issues and eventually stopped being able to scan at all. Now this new 7310 is doing the same thing! The issue is the scan quality....it's shit. It will scan but only for the first ten minutes it's switched on...then it give the all too familiar "scanner failure" error. At which point, you have to switch it off and on again...which is ghey. As you'll see in the below picture, it looks like its out of alignment or something as the left side is ok, not great but ok and the right side is totally fucked up.

One of my Xbox Live friends "gifted" me an awesome Enzo Ferrari with a crazy M&M's paint job. Not that it wasn't cool, just wasn't my cup of tea so I decided to give my new Enzo some carbon flava ;)