Sunday, November 26, 2006

Superman

In central Minnesota, there is this guy who always stands outside in a Superman costume. He always has an American flag and all he does is just stand there. Every once in a while he will try to make money by selling pictures with him. He used to stand outside a local Dairy Queen until he got a restraining order. I have also been told that he has been kicked out of at least seven malls in Minnesota.


Recently some people made a movie. They dressed up as Darth Vader and stood next to him. See what happens when Darth Vader steals the flag:

(oh ya, he doesn't always wear the big puffy suit that he wore in the top pictre)

It's been a while since I've seen him last, but dispite the restraining order, I can assure you that he will be back at Dairy Queen next summer.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Wii

The Nintendo Wii was released on Sunday. On Saturday, I decided to go and wait in line for it. I got in line at about 9:00 a.m. and waited 15 hours and 1 min (it released at 12:01) for it.

For those of you who don't know what a Nintendo Wii is, it is a new video game console in which the controllers have motion sensors and Bluetooth (so they're wireless).

I have to say, I'm impressed. Nintendo did well. Some features I like:

-Bluetooth controller relives the gamer from the cord
-Motion sensing makes the player feel like he/she is in the game
-Infrared allows a user to point at specific parts of the screen
-Nunchuck attachment (comes with one in package) makes the game even more realistic
-Wii Connect24 keeps the Wii always connected to the internet via WiFi. This allows you to receive "Wii-Mails" and play online games
-Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube games and accessories allowing me to play all my games on one system
-The Wii looks good
-And not last nor least, Wii Sports comes with
-And much, much more

Nintendo really did good. I am proud to say that I was the fourth person to get a Nintendo Wii in my town and that it ROCKS!

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Weird Titles on Digg

digg is pretty cool. However it can get some pretty weird stories. Here are some titles of stories I found:

Faith Hill is a Sore Loser
Bananas, an Athiest's "Nightmare"
Whale-dolfin hybrid has baby wholphin
The Spammers Strike Back
Vaccum Tubes Alive and Well
Grand Theft Mario
The Democrats best Slogan: "Bush lost the war"
Cassette Tape Wallet
Popsicle Licking Twins
Dumb Parents are Robbing Kids of Fun
Microsoft's Gates Looks to Energy
Every Tool Known to Man
Windows 3.11 is Still Alive and Ready to Beat Vista at Anything!
Microsoft not Allowing Red Octane to Produce Wireless Guitar
Fainting Goats
The largest model railroad in the world!
Walmart Apologizes for Selling Nazi Tshirts
The war is over and Linux won
What is a good temper tantrum if no one is around to see it?
Get Lost!
How Alphabet Evolved
Robot mistakes human flesh for bacon.
Is this the stupidest man alive?
Arrested for a Rubber Band Ball
The Coming Internet Traffic Jam
Gates “dares anybody” to exploit Vista
Man gives away free iPods because it makes him feel good
Your face is your password
This billboard will cause some traffic!!!!
Apple and The Beatles kiss and make up
Photograph of a lightbulb burning out
8 Reasons Why Idiot Masses Love Lists
I hate Macs
Bill Gates Won't Buy an iPhone.
God as Computer Programmer
Programmers don't like to code
Software is Hard
Japan's Super Sink Can Do It All… Well, Almost

Still more yet to come...

Monday, November 06, 2006

Digg

Wow! I never knew digg was so powerful. I had heard about digg shutting down sites due to bandwith, but I never realized how many people it took to do that. Last night my blog got on the homepage of digg. By this time today it has over 950 diggs and 30,000 unique visitors. Now I know why webpages with little bandwith get shut down within minutes of debutting on the homepage of digg.

So if you liked the post about geek/nerd tests then

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Internet Explorer 7

Today I was reading digg. There was a post that obviously promoted IE7. It gave Add-Ons for it. 2 posts down was a post that obviously demoted IE7. It gave the bug list for it. I then realized that these were posted by the same person. They were even on the same site. Weird.

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Commodore File Copying

Still have an old Commodore 64/128? Check this out.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Your Nerdiness/Geekiness

A few days ago, my dad sent me a link to a website with a bunch of tests to see how nerdy you are. I took some tests and here's what I got:

I am nerdier than 64% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

I love money more than 39% of people


I am going to die at 78. When are you? Click here to find out!


NerdTests.com User Test: The Randometer Test.

Click here to play Make-A-Word word game, and TRY to score better!


My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!

I even took this test twice on two different computers to make sure it was right. Wow!

What are your scores?

http://www.geektests.com