• Fandango is offering a free movie ticket courtesy of HP. Use the coupon code ticketme for one free ticket valued up to $12.50. Looks like I’m seeing Blood Diamond tomorrow! NO LONGER WORKS 12/9/06 (0)
  • Bill Amend’s FoxTrot comic strip will convert to a Sunday-only publication schedule as of Dec. 31, 2006, announced Universal Press Syndicate today. The last daily will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Reruns of dailies will be available for Web usage. 12/9/06 (0)
  • Costco is selling a Super Bowl XLI package for two for only $9,999. 12/8/06 (0)
  • For those of you who didn’t remember, the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred today in 1941. 12/7/06 (0)
  • Blockbuster is giving NetFlix users free rentals when bringing in the tear-off address flaps from the NetFlix rental envelopes to local Blockbuster stores. 12/6/06 (0)
  • ChaCha is a brand-new search engine that introduces a very interesting new feature- “Search with a Guide.” It’s different in the sense that rather than looking for the most important links yourself when doing a search, a personal guide (which is a real person) will do the search and use human intelligence to scour through the links and list the most relevant ones. 12/6/06 (0)
  • Night Sky

    November 25th, 2006 at 9:56PM EST or 1 year, 7 months ago (around evening time)
    Night Sky

    Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XTi
    Date: 11/24/06 at 11:57:21 PM
    Shutter: 151″ (2 minutes and 31 seconds)
    Aperture: f/3.5
    Focal Length: 18mm
    ISO: 100

    I was hoping to go for a 5 minute exposure to get some nice circulation of the stars, but I got tired and let go of the shutter at two and half minutes. I really need one of these for those long exposure shots.

    Nintendo Wii to be available at Costco.com on Sunday

    November 16th, 2006 at 4:30PM EST or 1 year, 7 months ago (mid-afternoon)

    Nintendo Wii to be available at Costco.com on Saturday

    Just got this email from Costco.com. I was placed on their notify list for the Nintendo Wii, which I why I received this email. If you can’t read the screenshot, this is what it says:

    Dear Costco Member,

    You requested to be notified when the new Nintendo Wii Bundle is available for purchase at Costco Wholesale. This item will be available for purchase on costco.com on Sunday, November 19, 2006 at approximately 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time. The item will be prominently displayed on the homepage of costco.com until it is sold out.

    Due to the extremely limited supply, we can accept orders from current Costco members only on a first come, first served basis, with a limit of one unit per household. Selected Costco warehouses will also have a very limited supply on Sunday, November 19, 2006.

    Orders for the Nintendo Wii Bundle will be shipped via UPS by Tuesday, November 21, 2006. Tracking information will be available on costco.com.

    We hope to receive additional quantities in our warehouses and on costco.com prior to Christmas, but we do not have an estimated arrival date, or approximate quantity at this time. We apologize in advance if you are unable to purchase this item from Costco Wholesale.

    According to the store managers, there will be a bundle including the Wii and two games (Zelda and Excite Truck) for $339.99.

    Edit: Got one! :D It never showed up on the site (link stating the Wii being available was there, but it just led to a page with some Wii games), but I learned through a forum that adding to the cart using the item number would work. I had to reload the place order page a dozen times before it went through (even though not many people could order it was very slow nonetheless). Less than a minute after I successfully placed my order the item finally shows up on the site but it’s out of stock!

  • Bob Barker, 83 in December, will retire from The Price is Right game show in June 2007 after 35 seasons as its first and only host. 11/8/06 (0)
  • The MacBook line, following the footsteps of the recent Macbook Pro upgrade just two weeks ago, has been upgraded to the faster Core 2 Duo processors 11/8/06 (0)
  • Firefox 2.0 has been officially released. It has been on the FTP servers already, but just now has the website been updated to reflect the update. The best changes have to be the new improved tabbed browsing and built-in spell checking. 10/24/06 (0)
  • The long awaited upgrade to the MacBook Pro brings the Core 2 Duo processor to Apple’s professional line of laptops. 10/24/06 (1)
  • My new email address is ryan@rv2.org. I’ve been holding off on using the domain email because of all the spam it receives, but I’ve found that forwarding emails through Gmail helps combat the spam and anything Gmail doesn’t filter, Apple’s Mail will. 10/8/06 (0)
  • Coincidence?

    September 27th, 2006 at 3:31PM EDT or 1 year, 9 months ago (mid-afternoon)

    Google's Eighth Birthday

    Google’s birthday is on September 27th and so is mine!

  • The Apple Store Columbia is opening in The Mall in Columbia this weekend on the 23rd at 10:00 AM. First 1000 gets a free t-shirt! Thanks Mike for the heads up! 9/19/06 (0)
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