The GoYin Store: Buy GoYin Wholesale

Well, it is officially the time of year when the days become shorter and darker. Naturally, we turn to the warm glow of the malls which are airtight as not to let in any natural air made from plants, and without a single window, so as to disallow any natural luminescence to enter those souless confines. And we buy nifty gifties (nifty gifties!) which are offerings to the deity Sol Invictus. Since I am well aquainted with my readership and happen to know that I only have one loyal reader that is pagan, (and ex-pagan at that… hi lena) I can guess that most of you don’t know that the festival to commemorate the winter solstice starts on Dec. 17, so start buying enough gifts to fill the days.

Playstation 3 camp Summary

…Which leads me to talk about the most sought after holiday store-item and the sacrifices made by brave Americans at Playstation 3 Camp. You can read about Playstation 3 camp if you go several posts down.

As you know I visited these fearless crusaders of the American dream several times and gave them my card with my blog address so they can come comment on my posts which were bearish about their plans to sell their new Playstation 3s on ebay for a projected gross revenue of north of $3K (most were talking low $5Ks). That would be a rough gross profit of $2,400 with the most conservative projections, not taking into account the real and immeasurable costs of lost jobs, failed exams, freezing camping, and the opportunity costs of what could be done during the week. It might still be worth it though, and that’s why I gave them all business cards so they could remember afterwards gloat about how smart they were and how worth it it really was. But I haven’t gotten any comments yet.

I cruised by in my sweet Jeep Commander (which I have for a couple days while they repair the door on my car) at around 5:20 this evening through Playstation 3 Camp and took these two photos (so sorry so blurry. I am part Asian too you know, so I was driving while Asian, and using a camera phone).

Anyway, Nothing much different at Best Buy, Orem, Utah. Same people. Not any more really. The weather is just colder. Much colder.

Here’s a photo of what appeared to be a brewing dispute. Two big guys getting in each other’s faces. So much for world peace rallies….

This editing is quite amazing, please click on: Amateur.

Oh yeah, and have you heard Beck’s new album “The Information”? Well, ok its not that new, but its excellent.

So I revisited the scene of the great PS3 rush of 2006 at the Best Buy of Orem, Utah (a small town adjacent to the booming metropolis of Provo). Our brave pioneers from day one could not be found. My only thought is that they were consumed by these hungry Donner-looking pilgrims pictured above. Those pictured above claim that the original campers were kicked off by “the Landlords” whatever that’s supposed to mean. I think its some strange vernacular from some sort of alternative society that has obviously begun to form here.

I spoke to some and every single one of these missing-link types claim that they will be selling their Playstation 3 for $3000 on ebay when Friday comes around. They claim that 200K will be released and 1,000K will want them. I’m not an economist, but for the price of a product to increase 500% because there are 1,000K kids who might know what a PS3 is and feel some desire to own one in the next 6 months (6 months is probably even a pipe dream in their little minds) with the supply weighing in at 200K units, is incredible if true. If I had to wager, it ain’t happening. So, if you are one of these people in the crowd, you’d better get back to McDonald’s before someone takes your old job cleaning toilets.

The Yellow Subterfuge Challenge

That was harsh. In all honesty, if you like to camp on freezing cold pavement in 20F weather and wouldn’t mind making some money doing it, please, by all means. You just aren’t walking away with a gross revenue of $3000 from your troubles. If you were one of the campers and you have successfully sold a PS3 for a profit sometime after 8 am on Friday the 17th, please comment on this blog and say how much you made, and please leave a link of your ebay auction for proof. I don’t trust your scrappy pragmatism.

Well, I’ve camped in some pretty crappy weather for boy scout camp, but never for Playstation 3 camp. These are pictures of 4 individuals I interviewed outside of the Best Buy in Orem, Utah. It was 3 guys around the age of 22 and a girl age 17. I tried, but couldn’t get a statutory confession.

So, yes, that’s them in front of a tent on Monday night, even though the system doesn’t come out until Friday. And yes, these kids have jobs for the most part. Fortunately they all seem to work at the same place and have each other’s shifts covered or something.

Dedication

Although they show dedication and discipline to camp out in freezing weather for 4 nights, it is discipline and dedication towards hedonism. These kids will probably finally buy their game console (with the money most kids use to score some mouth watering sticky bud, or to make their car into a rice-rocket-wet-dream) and go home in their big 1988 Dodge Van and submerse their soft and impressionable brains in liquid violence (while they smoke some mouth watering sticky bud). So, no, lets not applaud or celebrate such dedication to oblivion… but let us working class slobs sigh in silent desperation.

So I asked them if they thought there would be a lot of competition to buy the PS3 (in 4 days). They assured me that there would be tons of competition for the very limited number of breadcrumbs falling from Sony’s lap. So in this harsh video gaming climate of limited supply for an always growing demand, ants will be forced to line up before the crumbs are even spilt.

That was Monday… I’ll pass buy Best Buy again tonight to see how they are faring. Make sure to check back soon to find out if they have new competition! We might see rioting with hundreds of angry mob-mentalites tearing at the doors of Best Buy with fingernails flying in different directions, or we might find that the hundreds have gathered to sing hymns for world peace as they take advantage of their already lazy and peaceful dispositions (and some wicked bud as before mentioned already). Or, we might find our 4 campers alone still.

So I have been experiencing some insomnia. I will sometimes wake up at around 5:00 am and not be able to fall asleep. I usually take advantage of the early hour and take my dog on a walk and still make it into work at around 7am.

Anyway, Sunday morning traced new life into the dead purgatoriesque crater that is called Provo and I found myself with my eyelids sandless. I took a shower and put page in the car and decided to head up to the Sundance area to check out the year’s first snow. I was out on the highway going up the canyon when I noticed I had no traction. I started slipping around, and slowed down when I came up on this dude flagging people down. Just 50 yards further was an upside down car. I new I was only going to be in the way, I turned around immediately and started heading back to Provo. Cops and Paramedics followed soon after.

Anyway I’m just glad that dude was out there flagging people down, he might have saved more lives.

And now, pictures of Page, my dog, and partial reason of my insomnia (she sleeps in my bed and doesn’t let me sleep if she’s restless)…

Dan Garfield’s blog entitled Today Was Awesome is worth checking out. I found the articles humorous and spontaneously splifferific. That is all.

I have a non-functional 4G iPod that I’m selling right now on ebay. I started the bidding at $20, but its worth much more than that. I think it might be the battery, but worst case scenario its the hard drive. The parts are still worth more than $20. Anyway, check it out.