Monday morning stuff

[yendi]

1. Amazon's video game deal of the day is WarioWare: Smooth Moves for the Wii for $25! If you've got a Wii and somehow don't have this, jump on it! It's already been marked "sold out" once this morning, but it's come back into stock (with a ship date of next week). ETA: Sold out before 8AM PST. This borders on bait-and-switch, so here's hoping Amazon will do the right thing and offer a few more later in the day.

2. As a Mets fan, I should be happy with the All-Star game lineup, but I'd much rather have see Wright and Beltran not make the starting lineup, thus making it a lot more likely that John Maine would get the spot he deserves. No complaints about Reyes or Wagner, though.

3. Downtown Silver Spring, MD, is now private property? WTF?

4. If you bought A Million Little Pieces before the *gasp* shocking truth about the book came out, you might be entitled to a refund.

5. Turns out that the biology-defying buffoons at the Creation Museum have also fucked with linguistics.

Short linkdump because I've got lots of things to do this morning.

Comments

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

I've been in the new downtown Silver Spring quite a few times. It is very "Truman Show"-esque...very like a shopping mall, except outdoors. This story does not surprise me at all.

[yendi]

*shudder* Remind me never to visit there. That's frightening.

[tablesaw]

Now it's only in stock for $49.99. Is there a special link needed?

[yendi]

Alas, no. It means they've sold out. The VGDOTD does sometimes come back into stock. This is easily the best deal they've had in a while, so I suspect that lots of folks jumped on it. You can always find the link by going to the Video Games section of Amazon, then clicking on the Deal of the Day in the upper right, but it always just goes to the item's regular listing.

[tablesaw]

I hope so. With stock that limited, it's a bit of an unfair advantage to the people whose "day" starts three hours later. Hell, I clicked on the page right after you posted, and I still missed it.

[yendi]

*nod* I mean, it's not even 8AM on their own coast. It borders on bait and switch.

[zhent.livejournal.com]

As a photographer who carries his gear EVERYWHERE, the Silver Spring issue really causes some concern for me. I'm certain that I would get caught in exactly the same thing as the man in the article, I'm not certain that I would have been entirely understanding to the security guard asking me to move along. I would have wanted to talk to an actual cop...

Another place to not visit on my list...

[yendi]

Yeah, it's not that it was ever on my list of places to visit, but this makes it clear that they're not interested in my tourist dollars.

A Million Little Lies?

[hinj.livejournal.com]

Fabulous.

I picked this book up about 2 months ago -- not because of Oprah, but because it looked like a compelling read. Hadn't ever heard of it before. At least now I know it's part (dramatized) fabrication...but that doesn't mean it won't be a good morality tale.

Re: A Million Little Lies?

[yendi]

*nod* It could well be a great story, but presenting it as all true was a huge gambit, and he got caught. Those who got suckered are at least able to get their money back.

[digriz.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the Mets, feeling better after this past week about the NL East?

(I am so glad I had other things to do this weekend than watch the Phillies...)

[yendi]

I do feel a little bit better, although there's still plenty to worry me (from losing Sosa to making yet another rookie look like a wiley vet yesterday). But yeah, Friday alone was enough to let me take a deep breath.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

maybe its me, but i dont think jj hardy deserves to be an all star. then again, milwalkee sucks a lot and is gonna come in second and life is gonna be awesome!

how am i supposed to feel about bonds? he beat out soriano, but soriano didnt really deserve it much either. go griffey?