Apparently, RadioShack® no longer knows what a “radio shack” is supposed to be. Wikipedia lists Radio shacks as ‘a slang term for a room or structure for housing radio equipment.’ RadioShack® doesn’t even carry Radios anymore, Ham or otherwise. I don’t even think you can even get an FM Radio there now days, much less a radio scanner. I’m glad they got rid of the slogan “You got questions, we got answers” as usually for me it is “You got questions, we got blank stares”. It’s hard to find the right resistors lately at their stores. About half the stuff I look for they either no longer carry or are out of stock, and usually don’t refill it. Cell phones are what they push now days.

Best Buy® (or as I call it: BuyMore) sales people haven’t a clue. Or at least most of them. I was looking at Blu-Ray players a while back and a “sales associate” came up asking me if I needed help. I told him I was looking for Blu-Ray players that had wired ethernet, Netflix and hopefully Divx support. I don’t like running things wireless and I couldn’t get thru to him that wireless can be unstable. I was also looking for one with composite outputs so I could run it on my old non-digital CRT TV. He couldn’t fathom that I wanted to hook up a Blu-Ray player to my old TV. I know it won’t show up as HD on a non-HD TV, and I told him that. I want to build up my setup slowly and not jump in with both feet. He then started to try to get me to get a Best Buy credit card… ugh.

I’d never think I’d say there’s too much to do, but, this month is crazy with geeky stuff going on in and around Arkansas.

Weekend of Oct 16

In Arkansas

• pyArkansas
• Central AR Model RR Club Open House
• Central AR Roller Derby Double Header
• Halloween Spookfest

Oct 23

• Burlesque On The Go-Go

Oct 28

• Rifftrax LIVE: House on Haunted Hill

Weekend of Oct 30

In Arkansas

• Conway AR Zombie Walk
• Little Rock Comic Con
• 1st Annual Syndicate Zombie walk

Outside of Arkansas

• Anime Karnival’s Tokyo Shop of Horrors (Memphis, TN)
• Oklacon (OK)
• Oni-Con (TX)

These events don’t count the last couple of weeks, there were many things going on then too.

All these events are from the Arkansas Geek Central event calendar. Make sure you check out the site as it’s constantly having events added.

This is why I build the KwadKades:

Seeing the cabinets being full reminds me why I do this.

I’m also working on a website for another blog. Yes another one. Still using WordPress. WordPress makes it so easy to set up a blog. I can have one setup in a few minutes. Tweaking a theme takes the longest time. Anyway, this is another Arcade themed blog. I’ll have more details in the near future.

Found out that MC Frontalot will be at Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack in Little Rock, AR on Tues April 20, 2010 and in Hot Springs, AR at Maxine’s Pub with Arkansas band The OneUps on Thurs April 22, 2010. I’m of course going to both shows. They’re both going to be in Fayetteville, AR on Fri April 23, 2010, but, I won’t get to go to that show. If you like Nerdcore and Video Game Cover music, you need to attend these shows. We need to show that Arkansas can host great groups like these.

I’m hoping to get some pictures and pick up some T-Shirts & CDs from both Frontalot & The OneUps. I’m pumped to see the shows. If anyone wants to join me for the shows, let me know.