Just a Memo

Man… this guy is awesome–”Tron Guy”^[1]. Funny for the outfit, but admirable for his guts wearing it.

1. Also known as Jay Maynard. [↩]

It seems that Microsoft finally released its first video ad starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. It’s called Shoe Circus.

After a minute and 30 seconds, I just felt that there’s “nothing special”. I did have some type of high expectation when Seinfeld walked through the mall only to see Bill Gates trying on shoes at a Payless-type of shoe store. But that was about it.

It just didn’t work for me. It was just a wiggle that signaled that there is more to come from Microsoft in the future. I guess its only the first, but so much for first impressions right?

Meanwhile, as I was discussing this with Mike, he reminded me about another video that was about Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. Now that is funny:

Quite an addicting flash game. I, myself, got a personal best of 62.864m 114.734m. Try it, and let me know your best!

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Happy Turkey Day! It’s been one hectic day already. I don’t know if you have heard about Amazon.com’s new gig, Customers Vote, but I heard it first from Ryan earlier this week. He noted it because of the Xbox 360 deal for only a low-down-and-dirty $100 (core system). That’s about a $200+ saving from its MSRP.

Anyways, it was one exciting and disappointing morning at the same time. Not only was the deal advertised on Amazon.com’s homepage, but it was everywhere! I mean everywhere as in: radio, vlogs, blogs and maybe even on TV. There were only 1,000 units for the deal, and that ain’t a lot. In terms of internet-store for a deal this great, that’s less than a second or two in terms of the deal’s lifetime.

Anyways, enough of my stats talk. I guess the reason why I was so upset in not getting one (other than I can make a quick $200 or more on ebay if I sell it) is that I got a new toy. I was hoping to use the money from the Xbox to feed this new crack, or at least make it free for me so I wouldn’t feel bad about spending some money on “nonsense” items. Then again, it is from Costco.

Oh man, I forgot I wrote this this past December 14 after hearing great news on 37signals’ new product, Campfire. Sweetness! =p

Speaking of predictions and the new year, I wonder how new products such as Microsoft’s Expression, Kaboodle and Krugle do. It’s only February and new start-ups are popping out everywhere. I guess we’ll just have to see and find out. Don’t we?

PS. The “firewood” is in there somewhere…