Hotline

A peek at what a suicide hotline might look like if it were run by Apple support.

April Baby

I just got this in an email forward about what kind of person you should be based on the month you were born. Not something I usually do, but some of this should make the folks who know me well laugh. It would also be fun to know how many people think this is true or not.

April
Suave and compromising. Funny and humorous. Stubborn. Very talkative. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal. Does work well with others. Very confidant. Sensitive. Positive Attitude. Thinking generous. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Able to cheer everyone up and/or make them laugh. Able to motivate oneself and others. Understanding. Fun to be around. Outgoing. Hyper. Bubbly personality. Secretive. Boy/girl crazy. Loves sports, music, leisure and traveling. Systematic. Hot but has brains.

Going Dark

I’m out on Catalina Island this weekend. There may be Wi-Fi some day, but not where I’m going. Not yet (unless there’s something they aren’t telling me). Even if there were, I wouldn’t bring the laptop I don’t have. This is my weekend to relax, rest, do some reading, get in some photography of a beautiful place, and maybe recharge a good bit.  In other words, no blogging from me until Sunday or Monday even if I could.
See you on the flip side. Or there. It’s a small world.

$250 Wii in November with Free Online Gameplay?

Engadget has a post about a USA Today article citing that the Nintendo Wii will be released in November for $250.  No big surprise there, but this as close to an actual announcement as we’ve gotten so far.

The nice news (yes, nicer than a possible price) is that Connect24, Nintendo’s answer to Xbox Live, will be free.  For everyone.  Akin to the Xbox Live Silver account, but this will let you play games online as well (can we say Smash Bros.?).

Voice Wii-cognition

Oh yeah! This would be cool.  We’ll see if it’s real.  I’m doubting it, no matter how accurate the source may have been in the past.

It begs the question, though.  Why convert to text when you can just relay the voice to other players?  Better yet, what kind of single-player games might be coming that would require text entry?

It’s just a rumor, though.  We’ll know for sure by year’s end, no doubt.

Superfriends do Office Space

Wonder Woman as a ditsy admin assistant.  Batman is Michael Bolton.  Superman is a depressed office worker.  Simply wonderful.
I’m not putting the actual Google Video bit up here since this is not really safe for work at all.

Day After Disneyland

I had a good time at Disneyland yesterday.  I took a couple of photos with my phone and sent them to my flickr account (more links in the lower end of the sidebar).  I love that I can send photos from my phone to an email account that will suddenly appear on my blog and flickr site in a few minutes.  Pretty damn cool.

Anyway, I got to do some stuff that I hadn’t done before.  Namely taking an unadvertised tour of the second apartment in Disneyland.  One is above the fire house on Main Street that is still used by Walt Disney’s family on occassion and no tours go there.  But there’s another in New Orleans Square above Pirates of the Caribbean.  It’s now the Disney Gallery where you can see lots of concept art for the lands over the last 50 years as well as a good deal of concept art for the ride underneath.  Pretty cool, but the gallery was first intended as an apartment for visiting VIPs to stay.  From that perspective, it’s a bit cooler.

The exciting part was being able to go out on a balcony that’s usually locked and see a crowded Disneyland from a relatively secluded area.  Each night, 20 people are allowed to view Fantasmic from this balcony for $59 a pop.  To sweeten the deal, an all-you-can-eat dessert part is part of the package.  Not too shabby and it really is the best view of Fantasmic you’ll get anywhere in the park.

We also ate lunch/dinner at the Blue Bayou.  I’ve never been there nor had a Monte Cristo sandwich (I still want to say Monte Christu for some reason when I talk about that sandwich).  It was delicious, but the big surprise was (not the check) the dessert.  I had to take a picture of the cookie boat and was a bit surprised that others had as well.

All in all, it was a good day.  I even decided to go on Star Tours at the last minute knowing that I’d be alseep on the ride home just as the migraine was kicking in.  I still felt a little weird, but not nearly as weird/poor as I have the past few times.

End of a Week

My week is over.  Yup, tomorrow I’m heading to Disneyland with some folks to get my weekend off to a good start.  I’ve had a pass to Disneyland for just over a year now, but this will be the first time I go to spend a whole day there.  Lately I’ve been going to ride a couple of rides, meet up with a friend at Downtown Disney, then go home.  In all, about 3-4 hours a pop.

Tomorrow is a full day and I’m excited about that. :)  The only disappointment is that I won’t be going on Star Tours.  Every time I go on that ride lately, I get a migraine a couple of hours later.  That makes me sad, but I honestly don’t know if the others in my group would want to go on that ride anyway.

Good weekends to everyone reading this!  And prayers for friends of mine stuck in Oxford as the airline situation works itself out in the next day or two (hopefully not longer than that).

Diet Coke and Busting Myths

Tonight at 9:00 the Mythbusters will be doing stuff with Diet Coke and Mentos.  I’m not sure what the myth is (it’s pretty well established that you can get a cool effect by combining the two).

Regardless, if you know where I live and want to stop by to watch with me, come on over.  Everyone gets kicked out at 10:30 though.  I need to sleep more.

Evolving Slang

I just found this site listing 1920’s slang. How cool is that?!?!

The strangest, and therefore my favorite, so far has got to be Bearcat. Never heard that one before.