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Props to Circuit City. I have been looking for more Wii-motes for a while now. In stores and online everyone is sold out. but on Circuit City Online it says they have some "Store Pickup Only" meaning you can't order them online and have to go your local store. I drove 35 minutes to mine and disappointingly saw that the aisle was empty :(. A guy that worked there saw me and comes up near me and just waits there looking at me in an inquisitive way. I laugh and say "Online it says you have them..." and I point at the empty rack. He smiles and says "Hey, we do. How many do you want, we have twelve" :shock: I learned later on that apparently since so many people were scalping them on eBay he convinced his boss to hide them, and the Wii's, behind the counter and only sell them to people that mentioned the online site and could prove this was in fact, their closest Circuit City (I had to hand over my Driver's License) Nice to know that they are willing to sacrifice a few sales to be fair to everyone and to help more locals who really want a Wii to be able get one. :) Oh yea, and the guy gave me a high five when I told him I had a Wii. He then proceeded to talk about how much fun Wii Sports is during the entire checkout, and then gave me his Wii Number on a business card. Weirdest thing was he wasn't a teenager... he was over 35 :shock:

Ha, you're funny :P No seriously, the Wii is the very definition of multiplayer. You get so into it when you play with friends. And if you own the system you're house automatically becomes a hot spot for parties :D

Ha, I just started playing it., Its actually pretty intense. ItÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s a 1 player, obviously, so me and my friend were just watching my other friend play. You do cuts, stitches, etc with the Wiimote and the nunchuck is used for switching tools. We got the fantastic idea that the other two people that are watching should play as the nurses. One of them holds the nunchuck and gets the instruments ready the second the surgeon needs them (and then calls them outloud) and the 2nd person keeps watch on vitals and sometimes whispers to the other nurse what they are going to need to get ready next. I mean at first it sounds kinda lame, but its actually really fun. Not to mention you get a group satisfaction after each operation :wink:

*Room-mates Wii arrived 5 hours ago* *does a little dance* I have been playing Wii Sports nonstop... My god the Wii is awesome, it is the best social console I have ever even imagined. My throat is horse from yelling and cheering on my friends in tennis/boxing, and my palm is sore from the countless high fives we exchanged after multiple games of bowling in which we all went nuts after someone got a strike. :D I also have Zelda, and Trauma Center but were having way too much fun with 'Sports to try those, lol. Anyone played Trauma Center? The whole 'do surgery' thing sounds pretty sweet.

The elves magically transform them when I post for the spirit of Christmas. Lol, nice. On a more serious note I doubted love throughout high school. Later on I met a girl who I felt so much towards that I was just happy being near her, as stalker-ish as that sounds. I just really love hanging out with her and will make ridiculous personal sacrifices to do it (ran for and became secretary of a club since she was also an officer and then I could attend the officer meetings with her ). For one reason or another even though she is really cute I simply don't seem that sexually attracted to her. :-k I think that may be for the better though, she has a boyfriend. We're just friends but there is more to it then that...

Kayla

I knew that much already :wink:

Woo-hoo, my name in caps on a thread title, that's a first. I actually did a double take, lol. On a more serious note, hmm, I'll need a little bit to check up on some stuff. Give me 6 hours...

There is no such thing as CTU. The entire agency is total fiction :wall: Yes, and watch James Bond to see a day in the life of a British agent -.- Gah, not to be rude, but wow; you can't be further from the truth. The real CIA is nothing like that, which is unfortunate because my friends always say that sorta occupation is right up my alley :( First off if you want a good, relatively accurate display of what the CIA does, watch some Tom Clancy movies (or much better yet, read the books). I was seriously considering government Intelligence/Poly Sci as my career and I did a good chuck of research into the matter. What the CIA does and does not do, shown in examples (+ is accurate, - means total fantasy): - James Bond - 24 - M.I. Series - The Recruit (movie) + The Company: A Novel of the CIA (essentially non fiction of what they did in the past 50 years) + Red Rabbit (Tom Clancy novel) + The Cardinal and the Kremlin (Tom Clancy novel) + heck even Hunt for the Red October, while a fictional plot, shows how the CIA works - - - - - - Anyway, now back to the actual topic. Does the CIA have a conspiracy theory? Have you seen what state they are in lately? -.- Heck, that's practically why I gave up on that career. I mean for starters every other week they are in the news for messing up something or other. The CIA isn't how it was in the cold war, back then it was so secretive that the people that ran the cafeteria were all legally blind and were told they worked in a mall. Today high schools can go on a field trip and get tours of the building and take pictures in the lobby. Over 25% of its employees are Arabic/Farsi translators and just work in cubicals listening to recorded phone conversations of people in Iraq, with <1% of them getting useful information. All those "secret spy satellite" related things are done at the N.R.O. (national reconnaissance office). Not to mention there can't really be any massive secret illegal black ops because pretty much everything has to be approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee, who decide what to fund. I mean the whole thing really isn't as exciting as you would think, even the "field agents" are just guys that work in embassies and go out and hire local citizens to do the actual spying for them. :? Think about it, if the CIA was even 1/10th as powerful as people seem to assume it is, why didn't they find Osama bin Laden yet? I mean if they caught him before the election Republicans would still have control on the Senate, and they will soon lose the White House due to this mess. Why not bring in the man that would keep these supossibly evil corrupt politicians in power? Oh thats right, because they can't. And if they can't catch a elderly man hiding in an area smaller then Road Island.... do you honestly think they can pull off a conspiracy theory?

Heh, thanks guys. Unfortunately this wasn't fiction, it was a narration so it's not easy to just make up more of them. I'll keep an eye out for the next time something cool happens though :wink:

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? :-s I don't think you can beat dying defending your family and friends from a peoples that want to destroy your country and [assault] all the women you know. Especially if its in your town. Yes, it is sweet and right to die for your country. ...People have outdated ideas about war. Say, if America was assaulted for political reasons, I doubt the US army and airforce would just sit there helplessly, letting ships and airplanes carry the whole army of Iraqi insurgents into a village in central Texas and let them pillage and loot. In a modern war of aggression (unlike Iraq, because they knew they have no nuclear deterrent but used it as a 'reason') necessarily any fight will not even take place. The threat of annihilation is enough. Yea, I realize that. I was referring to maybe if I could have fought in WW2 in Poland or something. However the title of the thread seems to imply how would you die, as to infer that your life and not if you could choose any death in history. So I guess that wouldn't work... I retract my notion of choosing to die in a war. I change my choice to Death by Snoo Snoo!! \ /Futurama ftw //great episode

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? :-s I don't think you can beat dying defending your family and friends from a peoples that want to destroy your country and rape all the women you know. Especially if its in your town. Yes, it is sweet and right to die for your country.

Holy, wow... I wasn't the only one who bought a Wii in the past 24 hours. ] The Wii's numbers just doubled :shock:

Naw, don't give up hope, literally tens of thousands are being restocked everyday. Oh and those Wal-Mart numbers I gave I believe are nation wide. Be sure to call Wal-Mart Wednesday early morning :wink:

yep, that had the all time cliff hanger of any tv show ive seen, cant wait for season 3. Heh, watch 24. By definition every single episode ends abruptly with a cliff hanger.

Lol, alright there are already half a dozen random Wii topics but this one is more of a personal story then a post on the system. Righto, so me and my 3 room mates (who I will refer to as Jon, Ryan, and Nick) have been trying to get a Wii since launch. Unfortunately, we had been out of luck so far. Lately we have been getting desperate and had a whole system worked out. Thanks to Firefox extensions all of our laptops have had Firefox open with a thing that made a new window that shows you a mini image of all your tabs that are open. Then we combined that with a extension meant for eBay auctions that refreshes every page every 5 seconds. For the past 3 days we have had four laptops each with a window that shows 6 online retailer's pages saying the Wii's are "currently out of stock" in that particular store. All these pages (some 15 different stores, we have the big ones like Amazon and Wal-Mart shown on more then one computer) are all auto-refreshing every 5 seconds. Meanwhile our entire college campus has a sort of underground intelligence network bent on acquiring Wiis and a PS3s. It stated when my roommate, "Ryan" checked online to see when shipments are expected. A forum said Gamestop will have them on the 1st of December at 10am. I mentioned this at lunch to a guy I rarely know, "Zack", and he said "Hmmm, I heard that too, I'll confirm it in a bit... I'll keep you notified." The next day I leave a building and see him standing outside. He says to me as he lights a cigarette in a very Jame Bond-esque manner "Word on the street says be at Wal-Mart at 8am on the 6th if your interested in a purchase..." He then flicks his Zippo closed and walks away. The next day at dinner I guy I have never seen before drops off a folded piece of paper on my table as I'm eating dinner with some friends. I open it and scribbled in it is a list of 9 national chains and the dates that the next shipments are rumored to come in. Some have stars next to them and on the bottom it says "stared ones have been personally confirmed and can be trusted. -Zack" I scan the list and it looks like Friday's Gamestop is the best choice followed by WalMart's Wednesday launch. I might have to skip class and follow through with one of those... hmm... Fastforward to 3am this morning. I'm still awake reading a book for a paper I need to write and my roommate "Jon" is still up studying over at his desk. The online sites are still refreshing on my computer, while all the other laptops are in sleep. I lazily look up in between pages every so often. I look up tiredly and stare off into space while looking at the picture of Amazon's site. The screen refreshes and I blink to see "Availability: In Stock." I blinked again and literally dropped the book I was reading and as it rolled off my lap I scream "holy...GUYS!!!!" and I leap out of my chair. Jon snaps to attention as he realizes what that could only mean. He's like "I'm on it!" and snaps open his laptop then and flies over to the others on his swivel chair doing the same. I hear a "You're kidding!" from another room as Nick runs in grabbing his wallet off his desk and frisbee's it over to Jon who was just arriving at my computer. Jon catches it in one hand and with amazing speed and skill flips it open and pulls out a credit card with that hand as the other arm grabs the mouse and goes to work. I run over open the door of the bedroom, and fling it open, as I do I see my friend, Ryan in the top bunk. Okay he literally woke up like 5 seconds ago, but before I can even speak he grabs the railing of his top bunk and just jumps over the railing into a 4 foot drop that goes into a roll. The roll smoothly transitions into him standing up and going strait into a sprint to the next room. I call after him "Wow, I didn't even know you could do that!!" he yells back as he runs "either did I!" lol I run back to the other room and see all the lights on, and Jon typing in his Amazon password at a speed that would make Mavis Becon jealous ;). All the other computer's all up and running displaying a myraid of data that me and Nick pour over. Oddly most of the ones showing Amazon show that they don't have any in stock, however one of them said they had them... We later learned that the mini sale was only shown to like "Amazon Prime" members or whatever. It was less then 20 seconds after I first saw the thing and everything started. Jon had all the forms filled out and slammed his finger down on the enter button. We all held our collective breath and we waited for the next page to load. Finally the screen read "One Wii $249.99 - Purchase complete!!". We all started yelling and someone hit play on a laptop as Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' started blaring. Countless high fives were exchanged and I look to see Ryan in the door frame holding our 4 bottles of non-alcoholic bottles of Champagne that we bought and were planning on saving to celebrate the end of finals week. So picture this, its 3am and about 12 degrees outside. Suddenly the door of our balcony opens up and "Joy to the World pierces the night sky and 4 people come out shaking champagne bottles then popping them open as tops fly off and foam starts gushing out falling 5 stories down to the pavement. It was a good night.

I you!! No, not like that! If you had to quote this to read this, than you are either curious, or didn't know I was just being friendly. Hehe I dont quote people to read tiny text, I copy and paste it into the URL bar

http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/5171/untitled1so1.gif Woo-hoo! *does a little dance* Thanks man. :wink:

Okay, so I thought of "shoe polish" right? Yea, it didn't work out. Its last guess was: Q29. I am guessing that it is a poop (faeces)? Lol, first of I love the "is it a poop?" Sounds like you're talking to a toddler. So anyway with a case of the giggles I clicked "yes" and was taken aback by what they told me I choose wrong. I mean just reading these and contemplating them for a second made me lauph for the longest time. Ah, wow I'm so immature Does it come in a pack? You said Yes, I say No Is it shiny? You said Usually, I say No. Does it bring joy to people? You said no, I say Sometimes -and the last three had me rolling on the floor: Is it flat? You said no, I say Rarely. Can you make sounds with it ? No Do you clean it regularly? No.

Lol, fantastic idea C.E. *gets to work on a few*

Pretty cool exibt, I wonder how textbookly acurate it is. I'm in human anatomy at my college right now, our lab consists of teams of 5 people dissencting an entire human body over 12 weeks. It's pretty wierd making the first cuts but after that you get used to it. Anyway I wonder how it stacks up to these public shows? So your saying that the face is what makes them humans? I think thats one of the targets of the exhibit, to show that this is us, and what we look like. WE are humans. No, its different then that. When disecting cadavers (dead bodies), whether it be in a class or when police do it for forensic studies, the face is covered whenever possbile. Whenever you're working on the legs, chest, or other part of the body, you have the fave covered with a towel. Its an tradition that dates back thousands of years, unless you know the person (i.e. a funeral) you aren't suposed to expose the face. Even my brother, a 3rd year medical student, rarly disects the faces of cadavers. You just don't.

*lol* I can picture you sitting there asking outloud "Does it taste good with butter :-s ... no..." and then it says you're wrong. Lol. That really amuses me for some reason. Anyhoody, yea 20Q is pretty sweet. I showed it to my calculus teacher and it guessed "magic crystal ball" after 17 questions. He just threw up and hands and walked away. :XD:

Aww

I did find it great how he was still an amateur. Getting noticed by the guy he was following, letting the guard see his earpiece, unable to jump after the parkour guy so he rode the maintenance elevator, etc