Technically Speaking

While it’s been brought up today in two different posts, one by Steven Hodson over on the Inquisitr which I saw earlier, and now it’s been re-plugged on SiliconANGLE by Rizzn, I really don’t see the sameness that both guys are pushing. Leo Laporte’s claim on Twit is just that. Twitter is a totally different entity entirely. I never have gotten the two confused.

I’ve always liked what Leo has done for the older generation of geeks, but come on now – Twit and Twitter? Not even close to the same. Never have I confused the two products or brands. Plus I don’t believe either one has been referred to as the other. I don’t think anyone has thought Twitter had anything to do with Leo’s show/brand called Twit. At least people with a little common sense and knowledge have never thought that.

If there is in fact any type of case to be brought up, its should be the case of day late dollar short. That’s right. If Leo wanted to make claims to Twit, his registered trademarked brand name, why in the heck does he wait until 2009 when Twitter the totally unrelated brand and never referred to the Leo brand Twit, to make a public gripe about it on his FriendFeed? Can you say stir the pot, and jump on the twitter money train?

What money though? I guess when you have the momentum, Hollywood can think of turning anything into a reality show. Now that Twit has realized that they missed the moment of opportunity, and just let Twitter slide by unopposed, they jump in with this idea that somehow their trademark and brand is now infringed. I think they are stretching for an easy revshare pay day, and the courts might grant it, even though they’d be totally wrong to do so.

Technically Speaking, Twitter and Twit – never have confused one over the other in my mind. Vote in my twtpoll if you want too:

Because Jones’ Big ASS Truck Rental and Storage is funny:

And if that’s not good enough, here is commercial # 2:

Technically Speaking, because it’s funny! btw, he is from Chicago and not the #STL as I was just told via AIM!

After a year of it being on the market, I happen to be in Target last night looking for a $10 DVD cleaner and ended up walking out with (Nintendo smart marketing tactics – the price hasn’t dropped in over a year!) $89.99 WiiFit. They are not that hard to find nowadays, as I saw 5 of them at a BestBuy a few weeks back. Last evening at Target there was exactly ONE. I summoned the electronics person to unlock the case.

Last night I plugged it in to get my initial body test, and yeah, I could have told you I was overweight and out of shape! Didn’t need the board to tell me that. I figured I’d start the actual exercise part tomorrow (today).

Today, I figured it was time to get in some sort of routine and give it a go. Did I look like the below pictures? Somewhat. I went through each exercise one time to give me a full WiiFit run through. The nice thing, I was able to unlock extra exercises and games. That was cool, so more for tomorrow to try.

Technically Speaking, we’ll see how this works or even motivates me to do other things, such as play some corkball if it ever stops raining!

First off – Happy Cinco De Mayo! Kind of cool that it falls on a Tuesday this year. >:-? If you didn’t know, a little while back a twitter friend of mine said something to the effect of “I guess my sarcasm didn’t come through on twitter?” It didn’t. So I stated, “You should have an emoticon that depicts sarcasm!” That is when I came up with >:-? for her. I now use it all the time when I’m being sarcastic.

What is this new twitter use? For quite a bit now, I have had a contact form on this blog’s contact page. I have also had it on another page which I call Advertise. Both have been great annoying harbors of stupid ridiculous spammers. I tried another form this morning, which just had more spammers hit it almost immediately. That is when the tweet-god went off in my head. “Why not just tell people to connect with me via an @ or DM on twitter?

Technically Speaking, the above isn’t a ground breaking twitter use idea, but for me – at least with twitter I have more control over who follows, who I follow, who I can outright block, and who I converse with via @ or DM. While not ground breaking, twitter just solved a spam problem for me. Feel free to share this idea with others!