My monitor went bad last week, but at the time of failure, I didn't know if it was my monitor or video card. So, I took my monitor to geek squad because it was the only computer place open at the time. The plan was to have them hook up the monitor to their signal.....if it worked at Best Buy, my video card was toast, and if it was the monitor, it would have the same fault there that I had at home....

After very clearly explaining the plan to the girl (and informing her that if the monitor was bad, I would be buying a new one from them that day), she informed me there would be a $60 dollar diagnostic fee. Yes...to hook it up to a DVI cable running off one of their systems. $60. After I had a brief chat with the GS manager and explained how hooking it up to a computer should not count as a payable "diagnostic," she went ahead and hooked it up gratis. I watched her the entire time and realized that she didn't correctly hook the thing up (I could tell from some of the indicator lights on the monitor). She brought it back and informed me it was a bad monitor, to which I had to insist that she hook it up again, correctly this time. She refused, and again I had to explain to the manager how I knew that she hadn't correctly hooked it up. He did it for her, and voila, things went as they should have and I knew for certain it was a bad monitor.

If GS is employing workers who literally don't know how to hook up a monitor, god help the person going there with a real problem......

What's the deal with the hybrid speaking? I'm not even sure what the native tongue is here (maybe Hindi?), but he falls in to English for random patches. Is this typical?

BS. I am not by a long shot what anyone would consider a texting junkie, and I was able to keep strict pace with the Swype phone. When you use the iPhone's automatic period system (hit space bar twice), it saves a lot of key strokes that they were using in this demo, not to mention an iPhone typer who was deliberately laborious and slow.

I didn't realize this was something missing from the world until I saw this video.

On a side note, like hell I'd trust myself to walk down a flight of steps while wearing this!

This Swiss have nothing on this level of precision.

Me: Improper sleigh bell playing technique!!! Otherwise, a great cover.

You: All right then, how should it be done?

The answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNhc9iPoW4

The over-sized blackberry is called an "mbira," or more colloquially an African Thumb Piano.

Not to nit pick, but Sub Zero was the one would would rip your head off sort of like that. Just sayin....

Those are definitely people legs on the little raptor.

Do you see that crap? Right there at the 5 second mark.....that's our sun that they're using for their ad!

Improper sleigh bell playing technique!!! Otherwise, a great cover.

Now, eat your cereals.

During the 0:40's, Bear sounds a bit like Chewbacca.

I hate to be Mr. Curmudgeon McFarkelson, because the kid is good at what he does, but why do we get blown away when we hear music like this played out of context? What I mean is this: if this video were of a high school orchestra playing the piece (and this piece is very playable by a good high school group, as is the Tchaik 4 in his other video), we wouldn't be moved to cries of "incredible" and "No Way!" After all, we expect as much. However, when we hear an accordion (or theramin, or crystal glasses on a bridge, or a jug band) play music with ANY requisite level of technique and musicianship, we are blown away. We short change our souls by being blown away by Vivaldi on an accordion but not giving the music a second glance when we see it in the expected venue.

And if I haven't already ostracized myself, the very simple fact is that the time needed to achieve artistic proficiency on violin (or viola, cello, etc...) is far greater than is needed for the accordion. If this kid had spent as much time on violin as he has spent on accordion, he would be very run-of-the-mill indeed.

Oh. So that's how they built Stonehenge.