Fraggle Rock!

Well, I guess the 'update once a week' plan didn't happen like I wanted. The past couple of weeks have been so jam-packed with things, but after this weekend things should slow down. I have had time to go surfing around the internet for some nice links both here and for my fireshaper.com blog.

I came across a GREAT link on CNN's website the other day and other 80's kids will love it as much as me: there will be a Fraggle Rock movie! According to the report, it's going to be "full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the classic characters", so that means it will include all the original Jim Henson puppets. Apparently in the movie the Fraggles will be interacting more with the human world, a plot line that wasn't really touched on in the series. No ETA on the movie yet, but I'll keep updates on here as I hear about them.

I just bought an iPod Nano (2G) and I must say that I can see why this is one of the highest purchased MP3 players on the market. For all you MP3 downloaders, did you know that you can use Google to search for MP3s out there on the internet? Of course you should have known, Google is the best web search... or is it?

The last topic that I'm gonna hit is something that I've seen everwhere -- Ruby! A guy put a Ruby prompt on his website so you can try it online. If you've been wanting to try it out for a while, then give it a try. type 'help' for a tutorial.

Wiiiiiiiiii!

I've already decided that I want to get a Wii when it comes out. When I heard they were going to let you download games from prior Nintendo consoles to play on the Wii, I fell in love. To be able to play Chrono Trigger over and over again? That's priceless (actually, I think it's priced at about $8 on the Virtual Console Channel). And what about Goldeneye 007? Oh yeah.

There are a couple of really cool things that I've run across in my scourging the internet... Amazon has already put up a page showing they will sell Wii Points Cards. For now, you can only get an alert sent to you, but I can see how these will come in very helpful when you are just dying to get that last thousand points to get a game. Also, Opera, who already announced that they were supplying the browser for the Wii, has released, with Nintendo, that they will be GIVING the browser away to Wii owners until June 2007. What a great idea!

If anyone is feeling generous, I'll be taking up money from now until I have enough to buy a Wii. You can send money to ... hehe. No, really. If you want to give me money, send me a message. I won't care and I won't ask you for more, I promise.

Will you throw me my PDA?

Today, I waited and waited for my GPS Receiver (Seikio G4850) to come in and when I came home and saw the little brown box on my doorstep I was so elated! I think I even danced a little jig after I closed the door. At first the box seemed a little small. 'No worries,' I thought. 'Must be smaller than I thought.'

So I opened the box and there was everything, all in a plastic bag. 'Surely there's more than this.' But no, everything actually fit in a bag the size of my hand.

So I got it all out, making sure Tab A was put into Slot B and so on and so forth. When I got around to installing my Map software (iGuidance 3.0) I hit a small bump in the road -- I would pick the maps to install and then it wouldn't do anything. Stupid me didn't read the text that was cleverly hiding, camouflaged, in the map of the US that took up 92% of the app's window. So I finally pressed the right button and it installed maps for Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, all the maps I chose. After all this installing I just HAD to go outside and try it out.

So there it is, mounted on my windshield and resting on my dash. I took my sister to Borders and used the GPS to see if it would take me the way I normally go. It worked for most of the way, until we got to the road to turn on and it wanted to go further than it was supposed to. I'm not sure if the maps are up-to-date really as the Shopping Points of Interest don't include any of the stores in the target shopping center.

I'm pretty gangster myself

For a while now, I've only had a tech blog on my site (fireshaper.com). Recently, I decided to do a personal blog as well and, not wanting to code all the stuff for my page, decided to use the Blogger account that I already had made but never did anything with.

I really don't know why I'm doing this, I never have anything to write about, that's why I do a tech blog. I've always thought personal blogs to be a waste of time, that is until I started noticing that people actually READ these things. It's weird. You wonder, who would be interested in my life and then you go look at a woman's blog about how she was picked to have Nintendo come to her house and throw a Wii party just by reading her blog.

And then I think, it would be nice to write about things I wouldn't actually put on my other blog, like new software I got for my Axim, or about a game I'm playing on my PSP. I wouldn't take up the space on my tech blog to write about that, so I guess this is better.So maybe I do have something more to put on here than just "[blank] sucks", "I hate [blank]", "My life is [blank]", and the best of all "I got nothing to say really" (ala MySpace).

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So I do have something to put in this post, something with some substance besides my going off on tangents. My fiancee found this shirt and thinks it would be cool if I wore it.


Now, I know for sure that if I wore it around here I would get shot, or worse. It is a cool shirt though... maybe.... if it were given to me as a present :)