ZP Reviews Wii Sports Resort

Augmented Reality Video Demo

Too bad we'll have to wait until September to see this type of app on iPhone 3.1.

Bike Karma or Just Another Idiot?

I seem to be stuck in a bad bike experience rut. First the injury out at Wilderness, then the profanity spewing redneck jerkwad and now tonight my first physical contact with a moving vehicle.

Seth and I were cruising downhill on the trail that goes on the side of Old Cheney when a minivan pulled into the intersection and blocked the path. This isn't abnormal and it's something that I watch for (of course) but the good part of this was that I hit the brakes and came to a stop with my front tire just out into the street a bit. The lady didn't look right when she turned and she cut the corner so tightly that she actually hit my tire with the already-caved-in side of her frickin' minivan!

As near as I can tell she didn't do any damage but seriously... What the f**k lady? I'm beginning to think that I must have done some bad cycling stuff earlier this summer. It's got to be either Bike Karma or... Well, or just more ignorant drivers. Or both.

Either way I'm considering taking Chris's advice and riding with a pocket full of "attention getters" like lug nuts or old batteries...

Dr. Strangebike (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shoulder)

I decided to take a different route on my bike ride tonight (I'm "taking it easy" remember?) so I rode down 14th Street over to Highway 77 then back into town over by Culvers and down to the SouthPointe trail. It was a 15 mile ride that I managed to make feel like it was 30+ miles (I'm good at that when I ride alone.) Of course the rain may have had something to do with it...

To those 4 wheelers that changed lanes so as not to drench me in spray and make me even more damp than I already was I say, "Thank you."

To the 4 wheeler that seemed to go out of his way to get close to me - to the point of having both right side tires on the white line I say another two word phrase that ends in "you."

And to the dude that blocked the cross walk on the trail then pulled out without even looking my direction who I admonished and waved at - the dude that chased me down and yelled he was going to "beat the f**k out of...[me]" and "kick...[my]....f**king ass" I say this:

The worst punishment any individual, government or deity could possibly visit on your person is that every morning you have to wake up and be YOU. That sucks, I almost feel bad for you.

Seriously Microsoft - I mean really?

Am I the only one that seems to not be able to figure out the new Microsoft commercials where they say "If you can find feature X in a laptop for under $Y we'll give it to you" thing?

Matt: "Sure dude, I want a laptop that aaahh.... has a screen, yeah. Oh, I have to get it for under $1,000? Ok."

Matt goes to Best Buy, finds laptop for $999, buys it, takes cash, lists stupid Windows based machine on eBay before it contracts whatever the latest worm/virus/whatever is and pockets the cash.

What the f**k, over?