The Haiku
Planets have been found
They need to be more famous
Is Wii Fit in stock?
Three Earth-ish planets have been found. Should be big news. But then Billy Ray Cyrus was on the Today show talking about a photo of his daughter. My daughter wouldn’t let me change the channel so I sat through it. No big deal, right? But now crazy bloggers are calling him an unfit dad because he won’t throw a fit.
fit…Fit…
The Wiis are sold out, again. No worries for me since I have one, but my brother-in-law (Rockstar 2.0, not Rockstar 3.0 beta) was promised one from his wife for Father’s Day. I’m helping him out (thus the Twitters from 4:30am in a Wal-Mart) but I’m trying to get a hold of Wii Fit. While staring at a Wii ad waiting for someone to respond to our cries for help in the electronics section, I became quite familiar with Wii Fit’s features.
How long did we wait at Wal-Mart the first night? Well, we saw the Journey concert series HD ad loops on the TVs five times.
I guess people are buying up entire shipments of Wii Fit and going crazy on eBay. There was one story where two guys walked into a Gamestop and bought 80 copies of WiiFit. Paid cash. Craziness.
It can be determined that Wal-Mart workers still have no clue when video game stuff comes in.
On the topic of 3.0, I did get Firefox 3.0 (see, there are some things you can get, even if there’s a huge line…and it didn’t take forever to download).
I dig the huge back button because, yes, users do actually miss it when they try and click. Users who have been teaching for 30+ years and I have to teach them how to attach documents to an e-mail.
I also like the “Awesome Bar”, giving headlines from your recently visited sites. Pretty cool stuff.
Want in on the fun?
Semi-related posts:
I’m still uncertain on Firefox 3. I don’t know if I like the way typing in the address bar brings up old history- I mean, I’m okay with it in theory. My sister’s website and the address start with different letters, and I don’t always remember the address, so it’s nice that I can just start typing in the title. But, on the other hand, type in a single w and, at the moment, Booyor’s Bloggh is first on the list, because it’s got a www at the start, and a w in the address. That doesn’t help when I’m used to typing in w and going to the first address down for whedonesque.com.
I am curious about how tags for bookmarks work, though- I imagine that I could, hypothetically, tag each of my comic links with a tag of the day of the week they update, and then only bring up those tags on the day in question. But I haven’t checked yet to see if that is how it works.
Update: That, as far as I can tell, is *precisely* what the tags do. That is pretty awesome, as I see it. So, that’s one major point in favor of the new version, though I’ll be spending far too long adding tags to my bookmarks now.
Unrelated: we went and saw The Incredible Hulk today. Pretty entertaining, and they lay some minor groundwork that won’t pay off for non-geeks until Captain America comes out, including one line by Tony Stark that made me laugh. I also suspect that, in the Marvel-verse, .01% of the population as a whole looks exactly like Stan Lee. It’s the only way to explain it.
Was the line something like,”Hey! Let’s go AVENGE stuff!”?
I use a mega amount of folders in my browsers (how else do I find stuff like this?) but what’s cool with tags is that Penny Arcade can be a Monday, Wednesday, Friday tag, but it can also be a Video Games tag. I think I’m starting to get the coolness over folders.
Not all people who share Mr. Lee’s likeness share the same work ethic.
The crazy old cab passenger cheered on Peter Parker, but Reed Richards takes flak from his doorman.
Wasn’t he also a mailman for one of them, too?
Stark makes some comment to the effect of “There was a reason the super-soldier program was put on ice.” I laughed.
The more I think about tags, the more useful it could be. My next experiment is to organize my Baseball bookmarks folder, so I can set things up by blogs, stat pages, news, etc.
Regarding Stan Lee, yes. Since he was on Heroes, as well, I wonder if anyone’s ever created an equation to correlate the appearance of super-powers with the percentage of your planet’s population that looks like Stan Lee. Maybe cloning him would lead to people learning such powers in our world? It might be the other way around, though- do superpowers mean more people look like Stan Lee? The world may never know.
Super soldiers…on ice…because they were! That’s actually kinda funny.
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