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WiiFit Time

nintendo-wii-fit-usAfter 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 tacticsthe 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.

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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!

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Happy Cinco De Mayo – and My New Twitter Use

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.

rex-dixon-on-twitterWhat 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!

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Monkees Literal

March 29th, 2009 Rex Dixon Comments

Another great find on the blog that never sleeps.

Technically Speaking, if you remember watching the Monkees in first run on television – you’re old! Even if you watched them in first or second re-run, you might be a bit up there!

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FAIL Whale is BACK!

March 10th, 2009 Rex Dixon Comments

Woo hoo! The lovely FAIL whale is back! I just received this moments ago on twitter. Must be a busy morning of tweeters out there. With members of congress on board, such as Missouri’s own Claire McCaskill (an active tweeter!), as well as the mayor of San Francisco – twitter isn’t the quiet new kid on the block any longer. Also nice to know that Claire actually does her own tweeting!

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Technically Speaking, the whale is cool, the owl creeps me out! btw, be sure to check out my latest siliconANGLE post – I think that needs a good comment thread started!

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