I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid...

      So supposedly its almost Christmas since there are decorations in every store, music on the radio, christmas movies on tv.  If you got the memo that we're skipping Thanksgiving this year and going straight to Christmas, please forward it to me.

    I figured I better get my Christmas list in order quickly because I'm scared that it might take awhile to get to the North Pole because of global warming.  I've decided that toys now are way cooler than toys when I was a kid, so I've decided to highlight some of them for you, so you can be jealous of your 8-year old cousins too.

     Spinmaster Air Hogs Zero Gravity Micro Car - Seriously, Santa is gonna make kids write this 7-word, 42-character toy on their lists?  IT CAN DEFY GRAVITY!  What else do you want in a toy?  Racing cars on the walls sounds like it would be awesome.  It uses "patented vortex technology", whatever that is, I want one.

     This sweet helmet is part of the Playskool Adventure Squad.  Also available as a Police helmet.  I like the racecar one alot better.  Can you imagine driving down the road wearing one of these helmets?  It lights up and makes racing sounds.  I didn't read any place where it discouraged wearing it while operating a real life vehicle, I guess the only problem would be the helmet dimensions, built for a preschooler, 9.75"L x 9.75"W.

     I never had a Furby when I was little, not even a Tamagotchi when they were cool.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get one of these from Santa either, even though they'd be at the very top of my list.  Say hello to Kota and D-Rex.  

     Kota, on the left, is a three foot tall triceratops that comes to "life."  It even comes with a leafy snack!  Good thing triceratops are herbivores.  Can you imagine making a three foot tall velociraptor that children feed?

     D-Rex, although a carnivore, won't eat your children.  However, he will attack on command.  D-Rex is described as a ferocious dinosaur.  I'd be kind of scared to see what that means really.  (Have you seen Chucky??)

     Anyways, I'd suggest the Pleo.  Its a week old baby Camarasaurus that will "grow" and learn from experiences and develop an individual personality.  Pleo eats leafy greens and has a mini-USB port (very important for baby dinosaurs nowadays... we don't want them becoming extinct again, do we?)

Regulating Tweets

Blogger note: Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

1. Don't have conversations on twitter. If you find yourself @'ing the person multiple times to find out where you're meeting for tea, call them, or at the very least direct message.
2. Please watch your alcoholic intake before tweeting. Drunken tweets are confusing for others.
   
3. Keep it within a few hours. @'ing someone 8-hours after they tweeted causes a lot of confusion for other people who have to search back through tweets to find the specific tweet that you are just now referring to.
4. Tweets usually arrive in groups of two or more. This is an unnamed phenomenon.
5. Don't follow hundreds or thousands of random people. Do you really need to know what Sally in Alaska is doing all day if you don't know Sally?
6. Twitter allows 140 characters. Just 140 characters. They provide a nice character counter too. This is 140 characters, do not exceed 140.
7. Really though, all of those rules are unimportant and the biggest rule of all is TWITTER. Not updating is the worst thing you could ever do. Don't be a Twitter Fail Whale.
   

The Mythical Creature - The Fanboy

Wikipedia describes this term as "any individual who is devoted to a single subject in an emotional or fanatical manner, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession." How do you become this obsessed? What responsibilities are required of a "fanboy"?

Just as an example, not to point out any person in particular, lets say we had an Apple fanboy. What would be some characteristics of an Apple fanboy?

Items that would be on the fanboy or within 7 feet at all times:	MacBook (only the newest "metal" one), iPhone (3G), Apple iPod earphones
Lifestyle changes from pre-fanboy:	Constant access to the internet, music, email, instant messaging, and Twitter
Frequented websites of the fanboy:	macrumors, appleinsider, techcrunch
Words commonly used by the fanboy:	zomg, plzkthxbai, probs, maybs, poss, n00b, ijwd (abbreviation for "i just wanna dance"), lolz
Customary activities of the fanboy:	blogging, coding, geeking
Heroes:	Steve Jobs
Favorite Drinks:	Red Bull
Topics they love to talk about:	New Apple technologies (the ambient light sensor, the no button track pad and how it will probably get a firmware upgrade soon, how the metal laptop is lighter and slimmer than the previous versions, the battery that takes a long time to charge, etc...)
Life Goal:	Be a hax0rz