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.