JamesBenjamin commented on Radiohead: Flooding Forces Fans To Circle Parking Lot For 3 Hours

"@uncleezno: I live 3 miles from the venue, my room mates went and apparently the lawn was pretty much empty."

JamesBenjamin commented on Botched LASIK Eye Surgery Leads To Corneal Transplant

"@satoru: I hate to break it to you, but Tiger Woods got his LASIK in DC, at the doctor I went to..."

JamesBenjamin commented on Comcast Installs Big-Ass Box On Your Lawn

"Wow, a lot of people here don't seem to know what an easement is or how its applied."

JamesBenjamin commented on Comcast Installs Big-Ass Box On Your Lawn

""a "right of way" easement is not the same as placing a permanent structure (like a big ass green box) on a private owner's land." As others have tried to point out, a 'right of way' easement is exactly that."

JamesBenjamin commented on Amazon Offers $50 To HD DVD Refugees

"I posted earlier in the thread that I hadn't gotten my code, and I just wanted to post that it came last night."

JamesBenjamin commented on Amazon Offers $50 To HD DVD Refugees

"Yeah, I didnt get that email and I did buy an HD-DVD player from them..."

JamesBenjamin commented on San Francisco Orders Restaurants To Display Calorie Information, Industry Laughs

"@Shadowfire: I think its also ludicrous that they're funding the inspector by charging each chain restaurant $350 a year."

JamesBenjamin commented on Verizon Erases, Then Restores, Dead Wife's Lost Voice

"Wow, it actually SAYS IN THE STORY that they sent notices out: "Verizon spokesman John Bonomo told the News that notices were mailed out to customers announcing the upgrade and explaining how to handle resetting voicemail messages."

JamesBenjamin commented on Verizon Erases, Then Restores, Dead Wife's Lost Voice

"There is no way this was verizon's fault."

JamesBenjamin commented on Meet Your New $5 Bill

"God forbid they make the money harder to counterfit."

JamesBenjamin commented on Weekend Wii Stock Causes eBay Spike

"I'm willing to bet that the extra Wii's are not from this weeks stock in retailers, but from people who picked one up a few months ago and waited till the week before Christmas to sell it, expecting the highest profits that week. Like I did."

JamesBenjamin commented on Finally, Tetris On A (Fake) Watch

"I used to have a Zelda pocketwatch that I carried for years before the chain snapped and it shattered in a parking lot. I cried."

JamesBenjamin commented on Nintendo Churning Out 1.8 Million Wiis Per Month

"I was at the opening of a new best buy this morning, a few miles from my house in suburban Northern Virginia, and there was a line of about 75 people outside, 5 mins before the opening time."