Tax Return
Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
It’s that time of the year again – TAX RETURN! and for us – it means very busy because everyone is getting extra money and is spending some to indulge themselves or their kids. No need for credit reports to get your tax rebate – just your T4s from you boss by the [...]
Read More..>>Movie Night Deals
Posted on January 16, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, sale | Leave a Comment
We have a couple of Movie Night deals going on right now where you can rent some movies and get some snacks and save a couple bucks in the process. The first is 2 new release DVDs, 2 cans of pop and a large bag of chips for $10, the second is 3 new [...]
Read More..>>We Are Proud Of You Too
Posted on January 12, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment
We were out looking for some office furniture at one of our local store and met one of our customer & his family there, when he stopped to chat with us. He mentioned that we should be very proud of ourselves since we are one of the 2 renting places left in business now. [...]
Read More..>>Homer Rocking @ Gator Byte
Posted on November 27, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town, building | Leave a Comment
Have you seen Homer rocking on our windows lately? This year we are very pleased that we got our xmas decoration up this early. Our friend who was into motorhome towing came to help with his kids and our kid and their kid had so much fun putting up the Christmas lights and [...]
Read More..>>We Know These Guys
Posted on September 11, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business, computers, programming | Leave a Comment
Congrats to Jason and Matthew ! yes ! we know these guys.. not as well as we know our key man life insurance guy.. but it’s worth a celebration .. that’s for sure! I personally think that these guys are a pair of geniuses. We got talking about his internet provider.. and [...]
Read More..>>Oblivious
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, This Town | Leave a Comment
We love this town, we are passionate about downtown and we also love our customers although some can really make you wonder where they come from. As you all know we are a computer store right? Yes, Gator Byte Computers and Entertainment. I had one customer come in and ask me [...]
Read More..>>The Sign is Literal
Posted on May 22, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business | Leave a Comment
I stuck a box of candles on the counter recently with a little sign stuck to the front of it. The sign has been a good source of amusement for several customers already as they read the sign, then look inside the box. I haven’t sold any of the candles, but that’s ok, [...]
Read More..>>Spring is here!
Posted on March 22, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Life, Weather | Leave a Comment
Overall this winter wasn’t too bad. It was weird, keeping with the recent trend from the last few years. Freezing cold one day, almost warm the next.. rain, snow, ice from the sky.. is it just me or has the weather changed a lot in the last 25 years. I could [...]
Read More..>>Somebody Hates Us!
Posted on March 3, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business | 4 Comments
All I can say is wow, these are quite the interesting comments I’ve been getting on this blog lately from an individual too chicken to leave his real name & contact info. Known to us simply as jon@hotmail.com he loves to slam our business and extol the virtues of our new competitor, GameStop. [...]
Read More..>>Demand Versus Supply
Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Ranting | Leave a Comment
Many years ago, when we first started this business, we tried to please every customer. If someone asked if we had tv stands for sale, we would source out a supplier and get some in. Little did we know that we can’t please everyone because even those that swear by their first born, [...]
Read More..>>Game Awards that Rock
Posted on January 8, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment
Now here’s an Awards show I could stand to spend a couple hours watching, too bad this one is only 6 minutes long! Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation rounds up the best (worst?) games of 2008 and continues his trend of ripping them to shreds. Good stuff.
Read More..>>Coke Zero’s Dance Hero
Posted on December 16, 2008 - Filed Under Amused, Entertainment, Internet, gaming | Leave a Comment
Ok I don’t watch a lot of TV these days and that became quite apparent today when I heard about this free Dance Hero game from iCoke. It’s a pretty basic online game with only 2 contestants, 2 songs and 3 stages to choose from. The contestants are new Coke Zero mascots, a [...]
Read More..>>Insane Virus Infection
Posted on December 8, 2008 - Filed Under Amused, Software, computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
I just finished cleaning out a badly infected hard drive, the final count for infected files? 32,914. Yeah, that definitely takes the cake as the worse infection I’ve ever had to deal with. I don’t know what they were doing with that computer, but part of the problem is that they were [...]
Read More..>>Decorating Time
Posted on November 20, 2008 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Holidays | Leave a Comment
Kate & Chloe are busy getting the front window ready for Christmas. Today Chloe’s class walked down to Town Hall to put their hand-made decorations on the big tree which will be lit up tomorrow evening at 6:30. Then on Saturday is the Santa Claus parade, also starting around 6:30. So with [...]
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