So, I didn’t win the Montana Millionaire grand prize, $100,000 prize, $10,000 prize, or even the consolation slap-in-the-face-fifty-dollar-instant-win prize. Really had my hopes up for that guy. Turns out, I’m still spending 45 hours a week in my cubical, with my dual monitors and hot sauce. I switched from my plastic coffee cup to a glass one (pickle jar) which is nice. Aside from that…it is business as usual. Needless to say, ample day-dreaming time in conjunction with a crack at a cool million got me thinking…what the hell would I actually blow some loot on, if it was there. That has led me to this…pondering getting an emergency loan and doing some awesome stuff with it. Buckle up, because this list is all over the fricking place. 1 ) Trade the Viseo LCD in on a Samsung LED. Embrace the future! LEDs look great and are energy efficient…for the hippies. 2 ) Check out Japan. Sea food and robots…PEWPEWPEW. Tokyo has a giant Gundam statue, for christ-sake. 3 ) Get my ass back into robotics. My last project (solar following flower) did not succeed. Boo. I think I could do better with… 4 ) Arduino…

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

Plus, it is Linux compatable, and you can do sweet stuff like this…DIY GameBoy 5 ) Destination wedding…and 6 ) Honeymoon: Bahamas with Kate. Since the engagement ring wiped out the ol’ savings account, I loan would make for a nice honeymoon. 7 ) Truckload of Advil. Those fruity drinks ^ give me headaches. Pretty sure I’d need a truckload. 8 ) 5+3. I have a problem. I pretty much cannot see a Netbook without wanting to buy it. Same goes for bad-ass notebooks, like the Alienware M17x. So sweet…especially once you wipe the sucker clean and install Linux. FTW! 9 ) Trip to Mesa…might be the last Cubs Spring Ball in Arizona. Spring ball is third, only to fall/summer ball…which leads me to… 10 ) Trip to Wrigley. Especially during October. I also would need a truckload of Advil after Wrigley…they practically give away those Old Styles.

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When will this burger-violence end? I hope no time soon…these idiots are hillarious! Toledo : McNugget freak-out :: Kansas City : Hamburger freakout KCTV has an exclusive video of an unknown idiot-woman losing her shit over a less-than-perfect burger at McDonald’s.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Surveillance video from a Midtown McDonald’s restaurant on Main Street shows a woman experiencing hamburger rage. The incident happened on Dec. 27 and the video clearly shows a woman demanding a refund for what she claimed was an inferior hamburger. After being denied the refund, the video show her throwing a bucket of water over the counter along with other items, including a basket of straws, cookies, a sign and even three of the cash registers.

****Note to McDonald’s patrons: THIS GARBAGE FOOD IS INEDIBLE TO BEGIN WITH…CHILL THE FUCK OUT

Instead of doing one gigantic review, I’m going to tackle a review of my new nerd toy piecemeal…up first: the browser. The good: :) Setup was effortless. No issues getting my wireless connection up and running. :) Speedier than Opera on my Wii. Page loads are fast…no issue with Java. :) Pandora support! Pretty much rules. Sounds great; no lag. The bad: :( Screen navigation clunky. Dual analog controls are definately not ideal, but the zoom and scroll feature leaves much to be desired :( Clumbsy menu structure. Address entry is a chore. The fugly: :x On-screen keyboard is a fucking joke. No excuse for this, whatsoever. :x Multiple browser window function. Audio dies when window is not in the foreground. Why? All-in-all…not a netbook replacement for the couch. Yet. This might be a more viable option with the addition of a wireless keyboard, but until the window configuration is improved, I’ll have my Mini 9 on the davenport. Sony dropped the ball on the browser…seems like a little bit of market research would have made the PS3 a serious alternative to the quickly expanding netbook market. In related news…sources are reporting that a new Zelda game for Wii is on the horizon in 2010. Looks like I’m still a Wii guy.

You rubbed that on your butt? What does that even mean?

I love lasers. I love weapons. I REALLY LOVE LASER WEAPONS! U.S. Military…FTW! The latest addition to the arsenal is that bad boy pictured above. Optimus Prime laser, it is not. It is more closely related to the physics professor laser pointer, but way cooler. Like blind a dude from 2.5 miles cooler. Though it’s intended use is to act as a deterrent, I have money on the blinding thing. It is unlikely that the optical scope’s limitations would allow the user to keep that thing out of the target’s eyes 100%, and with a laser intensity high enough to produce a range like that, blindness would surely ensue. The only thing better than laser-weaponry would be laser-computer-weaponry. Slap a *nix netbook on that sucker…guaranteed I would have one preordered. It would look something like this…

I feel like punching out some windows at McDonalds, because the food is utter garbage…check out this McBizarreness From the Smoking Gun:

JANUARY 4–Meet Melodi Dushane. Angered that Chicken McNuggets were not available at an Ohio McDonald’s, the Toledo woman allegedly put her fist through the eatery’s drive-thru window. The January 1 McNuggets rage incident resulted in Dushane, 24, being arrested for felony vandalism and booked into the Lucas County jail, where the below mug shot was snapped. A Toledo Police Department report does not indicate why the McNuggets were not available Friday for purchase by Dushane, who has been ordered to stay away from the Main Street McDonald’s… …Last March, a Florida woman was arrested after she called 911 three times to complain that a McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets. “This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one,” Latreasa Goodman told a police operator.

Here’s a big Hi-C cheers to Melodi, who’s white-trashy-ass name truly fits her white-trashy-ass crime.

That’s right…we are starting out 2010 with a little tech roundup. Roll Call PS3 Wii Dell Studio 15, running Ubuntu Karmic Koala Dell Mini 9, running Ubuntu Karmic Koala Netbook Remix Game Boy, gen 1 48" Visio 1080p Bresnan HD Cable / DVR Wireless Guitar Hero controllers Not pictured…17" Dell, also running Ubuntu, and my SmackBerry. I love technology.

***Note**** The probability of me enjoying any given movie is inversely proportional to the existance of “P.S.” in said movie’s title.

Toes to the nose…of the USS Enterprise holo-deck. Do you like surfing? Star Trek? This is your product, champ: Let me say off the bat that the only thing I know about surfing comes from multiple viewings of Blue Crush. Awesome movie. “I’m not cha brah”…“these my dah-donk-a-donks”…classic lines. Not really. Let me also say that I’m not uber-knowledgable on the ‘Trek, either. Once Jar-Jar and the kid from The Sixth Sense came into the fray, the series went downhill. And those Tribbles…what was that all about? If you, on the other hand, are into the above things, pick one up.