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The first Intersect

The first Intersect was less successful than subsequent generations.  This handheld supercomputer was capable of identifying anyobject in the world (except for “pancakes’ and “biscuits” – which is what I was having for breakfast the Christmas I got this) in no fewer than 20 questions.  Yeah, impressive right?

“I’m getting a flash!”

“Animal? Vegetable? Mineral? or Unknown?”

Awesome.

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Five Things I Hate, Part II

Week 2 of my serial hate-itude towards different things.

1. Jack-in-the-Box drive-thrus who make you pull around before you get your food.
You’re not fooling anyone.  I know you’re trying to put up some artificial drive-thru stats. What would you do if my response to the “Can you pull around?” query was “No, I won’t.”  I’m guessing you’d give me some tacos with some extra saliva.

2. Alltel Chad ads.
Yeah, I get it Alltel.  You think every other cell phone provider is a Dungeon’s & Dragons geek.  That’s great.  But guess what?  You’re hardly a company anymore since Verizon bought you.  So stop advertising and put some energy into getting the freakin’ iPhone.

3. Limited Flash support on the Wii
Really? I think the first thing I’d have said when developing the browser for the Wii would be “I’ll bet people are gonna want to watch Hulu on this thing.”  And I get the whole “Flash SDK not being available for non-computer browsers” thing, but really, Opera and/or Nintendo couldn’t persuade Adobe to release a modified SDK for them?  They’re freakin’ NINTENDO.  The largest software entertainment company EVER.  I’m thinking they didn’t even try.  Which brings me to my next complaint…

4. Limited Flash support for the iPhone
I don’t even own an iPhone and this problem irks me. *shakes fist at Apple*

5. When Twitter loses my tweets
I realize Twitter is a free service.  But it’s awesome.  And I demand perfection from my free, awesome web services.

The Wii update of Wii updates

Well, Nintendo finally fixed the horrendous “512MB of Wii storage space” problem last night.  With the release of the Wii System Menu 4.0, it is now possible to both use SD cards greater than 2GB (up to 32GB) and to store and launch downloaded games directly from the SD card.  This is great news since I’m down to about 90 or so blocks of internal storage.

To make this post less boring for most of you, I’ll try to get some pictures of the enhancements later since I didn’t think to snap any.

Google Image Search… you have failed me for the last time.

About me

Erik Lopez is a 29 year old Web Developer living in Phoenix, AZ.

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