So I’m sitting here trying to get the Xbox 360 at Amazon.com for $100. It’s like some kind of special Thanksgiving deal. Amazon started being unresponsive at around 11:55, and now it’s totally dead. I figured I’d blog about it, since I have a lot of free time waiting for the page to load.
I think the main mechanics of who will get the Xbox will work like this:
People who are “lucky” will actually get the page served to them. The chances of this happening are pretty slim, since there’s like a billion people frantically reloading at this point. Once you are “lucky” and get a page served to you, you must get “lucky” a few more times since you’ll have to check out and everything. I guess it would have been a good idea to set up that one click checkout thing at Amazon.com prior to this event. Anyway, people will slowly start getting the available boxes until they are all gone.
Of course, the site will still be unresponsive long after all of the Xboxes are taken. This is because the continued unavailability of the site will cause people to think the deal is still on. And plus they can’t access the site since everyone is still frantically reloading.
So who knows, maybe all the Xboxes are taken, and I’m just wasting time reloading and sitting here blogging about reloading…
Update: they’re all gone. Well that was a waste of time…
So while looking through my akismet spam filter entries for false positives (usually I don’t really care, but I thought, what the heck), I found this post from one George Lukas:
Apparently, when he’s not destroying Star Wars or wearing flannel, he’s trying to sell hair loss cures. Thanks, but no thanks, Georgie.
Over at Best Buy, there’s usually some random numbers that are displayed on the wall without any kind of explanation. Someone actually went to the trouble of interrogating the workers at Best Buy until they exposed the secrets of the numbers!
The answers are over at Cabel’s Blog LOL:
Seeking meaning, I started occasionally asking “so, uh, what are those numbers, anyway?” when I checked out. Usually, I got the shrug-and-sigh double-punch. But sometimes, I got an interesting answer. And, eventually, it came together, helped tremendously by a conveniently annotated store — as well as some serious Googling.
I always thought they were something like the McDonalds signs that said “Over 1000 billion served” that just counted the number of customers. Apparently they’re more evil than that. And by evil, I mean crazy replacement plan evil!
So I was perusing digg.com, and I came across a post about consumating.com. It’s sort of this social networking thing for people who are nerds. Okay, maybe a better word to use would be geeks. Not geeks in the carnival chicken head-biter sense, but in the geek chic kinda sense. I joined, because it seemed ‘aight. I know most of my readers are not nerds, but I have a feeling that this site will probably take over myspace and facebook as my personal #1 time waster. Check out my profile, and tag me as hot or something, will ya!?
http://blogsoftheday.com/ seems to be down right now. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a sort of popularity contest in the field of blogging. You install a plugin, and whenever one of your blog pages is loaded, it pings the blogsoftheday service, and counts as a “vote” for your blog.
The pinging system needs a bit of work, as now every webpage that uses this service is extemely slow to load. I think it’s an issue with waiting for the ping time out so the page can finally finish loading. I’ve disabled the plugin on my blogs, because I’d rather not alienate my readers.
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