After a series of increasingly improbable coincidences not entirely unrelated to grogheads, I had to order a new smartphone at roughly 1:30am this morning.
Amazon is delivering a new smartphone for me by 8:00pm today, for $3.99.
I am staggered that it is even possible, let alone financially plausible that there is an apparatus in place that can deliver a fantastically complex device to my doorstep in 18 hours, at a moments notice.
"What a fascinating modern age we live in..." - Jack Aubrey
^LOL
The Jack Aubrey books are some of the most read in my library, I never get tired of them.
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on April 29, 2014, 04:06:01 PM
"What a fascinating modern age we live in..." - Jack Aubrey
+1 and another +1 simply for style.
Dear Mr. Aubrey,
In case you are as fascinated by this as I am, the phone left the seller's facility at 2:33pm pst. I rather imagine I won't get it until 7-8pm, as I am very proximate to a number of local transportation facilities, and am almost certain to be delivered on the way back to their base. That those facilities are on farmland to rival the Willamette Valley is besides the point.
Please give my regards to the French in your usual manner, though I should warn you a bunch of Monty Brits largely improved on it in the late 20th century.
Yours Truly,
splaty
Ordered at 1:25am, delivered at 4:26pm.
The package has a return address of the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Las Vegas. Final delivery was via ontrac. It looks like the 2:33 notification I got was from another carrier's facility (ups is my guess) in south seattle, as Ontrac's website has a data entry, arrival, and out for delivery tag all between 2:37 and 3:24. An hour after that, it arrives.
I fart in Putin's clearly inferior direction.
Something tells me Putin's new smartphone would arrive quickly as well.
Ivan Q. Public's? Not so much...
so wheres the Grogheads angle?
^I traded my old phone for bacon.
Actually, I spilled cleaning product all over my old phone when I turned sharply left to chase down two monitors sold on Craigslist. Which, as you may recall, was suggested to me on another thread. (Not the spilling cleaning product part.)
do I dare ask why you have "cleaning product" on your desk to begin with?
Monitors equals high class female escorts?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 29, 2014, 11:01:41 PM
do I dare ask why you have "cleaning product" on your desk to begin with?
The path to righteousness begins with comfortable footwear and a clean pair of shorts.
Quote from: Gusington on April 30, 2014, 07:38:16 AM
Monitors equals high class female escorts?
Lenovo Elite and LGisha Dinero are my top earners.
HA hawt
Quote from: skeptical.platypus on April 30, 2014, 08:26:38 AMThe path to righteousness begins with comfortable footwear
http://www.snewsnet.com/news/timberland-power-lounger-slip-on/
Quote from: skeptical.platypus on April 30, 2014, 08:26:38 AM
The path to righteousness begins with comfortable footwear and a clean pair of shorts.
That is some eminently quotable shit right there.
It's hard to be righteous when you're chafing.
^Shouldn't that be 'it's hard to be chafing when you're righteous?' Or 'it's chafing to be hard when you're righteous?' Or 'it's righteous to be chafing when you're hard?'
Quote from: Gusington on April 30, 2014, 06:11:37 PM
^Shouldn't that be 'it's hard to be chafing when you're righteous?' Or 'it's chafing to be hard when you're righteous?' Or 'it's righteous to be chafing when you're hard?'
Somehow I think that if you start with 'Hard', then add 'Chafing' you will find that pretty soon 'Hard' will have 'Lefteous' the building.
Only with some bad luck.
what other kind is there?
Bad luck, my kind of luck and good luck.
Quote from: Gusington on April 30, 2014, 06:11:37 PM
^Shouldn't that be 'it's hard to be chafing when you're righteous?' Or 'it's chafing to be hard when you're righteous?' Or 'it's righteous to be chafing when you're hard?'
Yes, only around Olivia Wilde, and I believe that explains cocaine.
Alas, the Timberline Power Lounger article is out of my network.