12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 12

[pyramid2000]

I am on page 1, post # 6!

Yes, you have been here since this threads wee beginnings!

 

[tynkerbell]

We had quite the time with tolls. We do not have such things here, and wound up looking for pennies at the last one! OY, caused a little bit of a back up, but we had a rental car with Georgia plates so we were at least relieved that we were not giving Oregonians a bad name!

I've never in my life dealt with tolls so I'm not real sure what to expect myself.

 

[Jhalkias]

People are just nuts! LOL. DGS works at the store (Fred Meyers) where he got his. There were about 45 people in line already, so his boss let him off a little early to wait in line. He was number 69 and there were 75 units for sale, only one per person allowed. So he and his friend each got one. They were playig it tonight and it looks like a lot of fun. I think it is a better deal than PS3. That one has too many restrictions and the games cost too much. phooey, although I am not a real gamer. Wii has boxing baseball etc, too, which is interactive with motion. I can't wait to try the boxing. I love it. I whip the arcade boxers quite a few times. LOL. Even at my age. I don't know if I still have the stamina though. It's good exercise.

One post before I leave to take Sophia to CiCi's for dinner . . .

Here is what I saw on an email tech newsletter that I get . . .

No Wii for you, Ralphie; you'll put your eye out: The final entrant in this holiday season's game console war, Nintendo's Wii, launched over the weekend with the requisite campers rushing the shelves, though thankfully without any of the bloodshed that marred the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 last week (and may lead to Sony getting a bill from the city of Boston). Early reports were that the Wii, priced at about half the cost of the PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, was moving briskly and selling out at some locations -- a pleasant surpise for Nintendo because while PS3 shortages were expected, there were plenty of Wiis in the pipeline.

The lack of any reported felonies among Wii fans did not mean that the launch was without casualties, however. The Wii's unique controller is motion-sensitive, letting users interact physically with a game, like slashing with a sword or swinging a bat ... or rolling a bowling ball, which was what one new user and his buddy were doing when the friend uncorked a throw vigorous enough to snap the safety wrist strap and send the controller flying out of his slippery hand smack into the screen of a 60" TV, leaving an impressive crack. Count on it -- with the Wii turning couch potatoes into jumping beans, this will be the first of many stories involving property damage and physical injury to users and bystanders. Then the feds will start making kids wear helmets when they play, and it'll all go to hell.



John1

 

[Jhalkias]

LOL re the Chester image. I'm glad you were able to walk it off - those are painful.

It's 2:55A here - I need to crash. Night!

OK, one more . . .

Who other than Carla, Dennis, and I remember Chester from Gunsmoke?

How about Hop Sing from Bonanza?
(or was it Bananas?)

John1

 

[87Heel]

OK, one more . . .

Who other than Carla, Dennis, and I remember Chester from Gunsmoke?

How about Hop Sing from Bonanza?
(or was it Bananas?)

John1

I remember Chester & Hop Sing... but mostly I remember that anyone limping around at my house growing up was subjected to "Chester" jokes.

 

[87Heel]

Most of the East Coast has toll experts.... but then again, most of us have now switched to EZPass or the equivalent and don't have to stop and pay!

 

[pyramid2000]

One post before I leave to take Sophia to CiCi's for dinner . . .

Here is what I saw on an email tech newsletter that I get . . .

No Wii for you, Ralphie; you'll put your eye out: The final entrant in this holiday season's game console war, Nintendo's Wii, launched over the weekend with the requisite campers rushing the shelves, though thankfully without any of the bloodshed that marred the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 last week (and may lead to Sony getting a bill from the city of Boston). Early reports were that the Wii, priced at about half the cost of the PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, was moving briskly and selling out at some locations -- a pleasant surpise for Nintendo because while PS3 shortages were expected, there were plenty of Wiis in the pipeline.

The lack of any reported felonies among Wii fans did not mean that the launch was without casualties, however. The Wii's unique controller is motion-sensitive, letting users interact physically with a game, like slashing with a sword or swinging a bat ... or rolling a bowling ball, which was what one new user and his buddy were doing when the friend uncorked a throw vigorous enough to snap the safety wrist strap and send the controller flying out of his slippery hand smack into the screen of a 60" TV, leaving an impressive crack. Count on it -- with the Wii turning couch potatoes into jumping beans, this will be the first of many stories involving property damage and physical injury to users and bystanders. Then the feds will start making kids wear helmets when they play, and it'll all go to hell.



John1

I'll tell you what really got me here:

(and may lead to Sony getting a bill from the city of Boston)

How outageous!

 

[pyramid2000]

Most of the East Coast has toll experts.... but then again, most of us have now switched to EZPass or the equivalent and don't have to stop and pay!

Don't get me started on EZPass...

 

[lbgraves]

DH is starting to get it here too. He was asking when we were getting back. One of his employees is leaving for Arizona on the 14th. So????

That's nice! I guess that he wanted to take a jet home from Cozumel? We need to teach that man what a vacation is!

 

[brack]

What a day ..... now we are off to dinner at a staff members house.

 

[brack]

Can't complain too much though .... I just had an accidental nap (with JoJo) in the recliner

 

[brack]

as a matter of fact JoJo is still napping .... wish I could join him.

 

[brack]

I have to washing some of our things and laying out the suit cases tomorrow

 

[lbgraves]

A pharmacy won't fit in a quart ziplock baggie. ROTFLOL!

LOL! I guess that is going in one of the boxes you are shipping ahead of you?

 

[brack]

I can't get too far behind the rest of you guys

 

[brack]

I thought that I was the only one around but there are people out there .....

 

[Bella2000]

We're pros at tolls here in NJ.

and MA.

 

[becka]

AARRGG!

Oops...too early. That is what you call a premature !!!

 

[brack]

My DW just called and she is on her way here to pick me up for dinner. Is there a smilie for "shoot me"


Let me add a

 

[brack]

We're pros at tolls here in NJ.

I loved the tolls in Oklahoma. We could drive through them at 75 mph! Here it is 10 or 15 mph ..... how wimpy is that?