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LodgeNet! (Bored in Atlantic City.)

Happy 4th. There's a new article in town, detailing my experiences bored and alone in an Atlantic City hotel room with only a television pay-per-entertainment interface called "LodgeNet" to entertain me. It's the story of bad movies, porn, video games and hotel guest surveys.

Posted by Matt on 07/04/2005. E-mail me!

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First post? wow so special, whatever.
i always thought it was fun to use the lodgenet super nintendo controller to change the channel on the TV insted of the glued down remote. I can’t tell you how many times i confused the hell out of my brother doing that.

Chestnuts roasted by maticdog @ 07/04/2005 2:54 PM

I knew from the main page that there’d be a picture of a quarter somewhere in this article but I never would’ve quessed where.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 07/04/2005 2:55 PM

Your articles are the best. doesn’t matter how crappy of a day i’m having, you always manage to make me laugh.

thanks man

Chestnuts roasted by Gene @ 07/04/2005 3:02 PM

YEEHAW matt that was some humdiger of an article i sure do appricate it from this here state of texas and im happy to tell you to keep up the good work and keep an truckin

~ byebye boy
love coleslaw

Chestnuts roasted by Coleslaw @ 07/04/2005 3:48 PM

Holy crap those baby ketchups are adorable.

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 07/04/2005 4:07 PM

Sounds like a quality XE adventure. The kind that may have been forgotten in 4 years if not properly chronicled. Still, I don’t know which is worse, living the busted weekend or reading about it…
The saucy part of the article was reminiscent of the time my buddies and I were in the La Quinta Inn in Savannah for St. Patrick’s Day and SOMEBODY hit the "Order Porn" button but never confessed. "Dude, I swear I was trying to adjust the volume." Whatever pervert.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 07/04/2005 4:16 PM

My parents never let me use theese things

Chestnuts roasted by Fetus @ 07/04/2005 4:40 PM

Mario Kart 64 and smash bros. are the shit. Even at $6.95 an hour….

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 07/04/2005 4:43 PM

Happy 4th of July!

Still no baby…

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 07/04/2005 5:07 PM

Barely legal nymphs? Latex housewives?

Like my boss needed another reason to think X-E is a porn site….:)

Chestnuts roasted by Mr mango @ 07/04/2005 5:12 PM

Just shows that quality articles can still come out of the most depressing parts of life.

$7 an hour for n64? My younger brothers got an n64/2 controllers/6 games on ebay for $14 including shipping. Those Atlantic City bastards.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 07/04/2005 5:32 PM

As a service to you and yours, Erik, may I help in my own way? Turn your wife toward te screen…….. *ahem*

HEY! C’MON OUT!! WE’RE WAITING FOR YOU! WE GOT KOOL-AID!!! HELLO! WE’RE ALL YOUR AUNTS AND UNCLES OUT HERE!! WE GOT TOYS!! UNCLE MATT HAS OLD CANDY!! OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE!!! DON’T MAKE ME SEND YOUR DADDY IN THERE TO GET YOU!!

Either the Mini-Majorwitz will come out, or stay in another month.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/04/2005 5:35 PM

I was in A.C. over the weekend too. Matt, you should have come over to the Marina to try and win a 2005 Mustang Convertible. Alas, 4 of the winners were women with "old lady" names (my boyfriend said they had to be old ladies), and the 5th was a guy from my town. Needless to say, no luck. My boyfriend and I awaited the last drawing by going over to Borgata to hang out in an Opus room (suite) that my boyfriend’s cousin had for the weekend. We hung out with his parents and his cousin.

"Super Smash Bros." is a great game. I have "melee" for Game Cube. I’m pretty good at it–Matt, I would challenge you to a duel. Pikachu v. Link. Or it would be more fun w/Pikachu v. Jigglypuff.

That was a strategic place for the quarter. My mom walked by and saw it, and asked what it was. She even thought that was Matt in the picture of the woman’s legs!!!!!! Oh jeez. Hope that brightens your day.

Have a great 4th everyone, and hope your workweek goes good (and fast!!). I’m seeing Jay Leno at Harrah’s on Saturday. Yea!! The week at CBS-3 will go quickly.

Have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 07/04/2005 6:03 PM

Given what my weekend’s been like, Matt, you might be happier being bored. In the last two days on the Five Mile (Wildwood) Islands, we’ve had an all-day shootout that ended with the perpetrator killing himself on the top of a garage in a residential neighborhood, a stabbing in a local nightclub, at least one more shooting that I know of, and several car accidents. Rumors are flying around the Wildwoods faster than the helicopter ride over Morey’s Piers. Yup, it’s summer at the Jersey Shore.

Matt, you might be safer with "Latex Housewives" and Pikachu.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 07/04/2005 6:13 PM

Two thoughts:

1) As much as I like 32-hour workweeks thanks to holidays where stuff gets blown up for public view, I don’t like 32-hour paychecks. I think this is a good working definition of "poor".

2) I’m surprised nobody’s asked yet…but what was the total charged to your room for LodgeNet? That shit looks like it adds up FAST.

Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 07/04/2005 6:58 PM

Good Stuff, Matt!!

I usually try to enjoy such services, but the last time I stayed in a hotel, I officially had the worst night of my life and 3 horrendous days. All awake, btw.
It’s hard to enjoy yourself when you’re worried about the your safety, that of others and your mental health.

The time before that, someone was shot.

I used to have great times in hotels, I swear. It’s just been a bad run. :O

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/04/2005 7:12 PM

$7.00 US to play Super Smash Bros. Melee for one hour? Yikes.

Chestnuts roasted by Al Creed @ 07/04/2005 7:22 PM

I say, yous being the correct. So being so so expsensives!

Chestnuts roasted by Tom No Like @ 07/04/2005 9:34 PM

Always forgive. Never forget.

(Thanks to J for relating this teaching to me)

Sincerest apologies, Tom No Like.
And I’d like to officially acknowledge our newest member: Goob!!

Those pitchers are so poplular and trendy

Chestnuts roasted by Hall Moniter @ 07/04/2005 10:13 PM

I find that people complain too much if you pick Kirby, so I’ve had to beef up my Pikachu skills. Nothing trumps that thundershock.
(speaking of porn, anybody watched HBO’s Cathouse yet?)
I think my favorite part of this article is imagining the tantrum that led to the self-imposed banishment. I like to imagine Matt drop kicking a bucket of nickels or something equally over the top.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/04/2005 10:53 PM

I salute you back.

Chestnuts roasted by LodgeNet @ 07/05/2005 12:07 PM

Nice 4th of July present to us, Matt…another great article.

Yeah, I’ve used those Hotel systems before, and they suck.

I noted the TV had RCA jacks…Next time, just bring your own entertainment! You can hook up whatever you want…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/05/2005 12:32 PM

I finally got a TV back in my room (I deliberately kept it out while I was in college) and had to get a RF converter.

Why in the world do you need to plug those things in? Isn’t it just like a very big, very expensive adapter to switch RCA to Coaxial?

I don’t remember having to plug in the adapters that switch a 3 prong plug to a 2 prong.

I majored in psychology, not Electricianology, can ya tell?

I know how to calculate how powerful an amp you can connect to a given speaker. I’m not a total idiot.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/05/2005 1:25 AM

Hah, this was a great one. I had no idea this kind of system existed, actually….I’ve never been in that fancy a hotel. Until now, if I had waltzed into a room and seen this service, I would have gone absolutely nuts with rapture (has nothing to do with the porn). You just proved that it stunk badly, and thank you for that. Now I don’t ever have to find out the hard way, with my own money.

Downloadable N64 games is the only plus, though they were too cheap to unlock Falcon and Ness for you. It’d also be good if that internet feature played everything on the Homestar website, but I’m guessing it can’t even handle Flash 1.0.

They should have left in the SNES downloads. That stuff rocks. Hey, Nintendo knows–that’s why they’ll be offering that very feature in their next console.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 07/05/2005 2:26 AM

Hey Everybody!

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July! Wife and kids enjoyed the Army’s fireworks show, but I think it would have been better with real ammunition, but I digress.

Thanks kingklash, I wonder if that will work.

Good news here in Deutschland: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is here!!! Yes, the movie I’ve been bitching about for almost two months is finally at my little dumpy theater!

Please, no spoilers! Then again, just my luck, Brett will decide to come out tonight and the theater is only showing it this week. Methinks God hates me if this occurs.

Also, any of you have NCAA 06 Football yet? Doubtful that will arrive here in Germany until Spring Training!

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 07/05/2005 3:01 AM

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