Acneboy
2001-09-07 3:17 p.m.
tech poop
It's snowing!!!11 Look at all the pretty flakes! They look good enough to eat... Mmmm they melt in your mouth!

[stops brushing dandruff out of hair. kicks "snow" pile under desk].

Hey! Hi! I havn't done much lately, aside from a few visits to the local public library, also known as Borders. I paid a visit to Sears as well, also known as The Idiot Factory (i've just segued into a technical rant so here's a link that will help non-geeks to understand) Example: All their standard (4:3 aspect ratio) TVs are playing wide screen format DVDs, but "OMFG!!!11" (actual sales associate quote) they simply can't stand those black bars above and below the widescreen image, so their solution is to stretch the image to fit the entire screen. Oh yes, now that brad pitt's forehead is twice as big as it should be we can all be complacent.

A better solution would be to demo the TVs using a full screen DVD (formatted to fit tv screen, no black bars). I know they have one of these full screen DVDs in their shop. how do i know you ask? YOU PONTIFICATING PRICK*, because they are demoing their WIDE SCREEN (16x9 aspect ratio) HDTVs using the fullscreen DVD!!!11 Brilliant!!1 Of course this means that instead of having black bars above and below the image the black bars are instead on the side. Their solution is of course to stretch the image sideways to fill the whole screen. Oh yes, now that brad pitt is a tubby midget we can all be complacent. But I digress...

* insult provided by fishjizz