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XBox 360 - Geekiest Moment

I'm a geek. My wife is not. There are times when I'm relating stuff to her and I see the eyes glaze over and I realize I am geeking her out.

Here's a little story. I have been wanting an XBox 360 since launch and you can read about it here and here. So, I wanted one and kept checking the various web-based locaters on the web and found the $1,000.00 prices discouraging. I mean, hey, I wanted one but not at price-gouging rates. I am at a sufficient age now that I can wait. When I was younger, even in my mid-20's I may have crumbled.

Then I found this awesome, and I mean awesome, little desktop app (coded in C# to boot). It sits in the taskbar tray and polls Best Buy and Circuit City inventories for XBox 360's. You put your Zip/Postal code in and it does its work. I had my doubts and it ran for about a week with no hits at all. Then one day, I was coding away and I heard this strange sound from my PC screaming "Finally!!!!". I quickly realized it was the the XBox 360 In-store Inventory Tracker notifying me that the near-by Best Buy had Xbox 360's in stock. Whoah!

I promptly jumped into my car and drove to Best Buy, the whole time wondering if this could actually be true. Well, it was. I walked into Best Buy, spoke to a sales rep and asked if they had any in stock and was informed that, "Yes sir, they are. Which one do you want, the Core or the Premium?". My dumb-founded response was the Premium. I walked out of there with my XBox 360, a play-and-recharge kit for the controller, Call of Duty 2 and NBA Live 2006. Amazing it worked.

I told my wife this story and she could not stop laughing. She told me that she can't believe she married such a geek. I proudly replied, yes...yes you did :) I think this is a great example of how software and the Internet can come together and work for someone, even if it's absolutely the extreme geek thing to do.

Tags XBox XBox 360 Video Gaming

posted by John Walker @ 2/26/2006 1:56:00 AM

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Thanks for trying out my app. I'm glad it worked for you!

posted @ 3/15/2006 5:32:00 AM by untitled

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