Last night
lady-curmudgeon and I went to the store to get some supplies so we could bake up a batch of the 'mudgeon's delicious chocolate chip cookie bars. While I was in the pharmacy getting a new bottle of Naproxen for my poor, poor wrists (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a bitch, my friends) I also acted on the advice of a friend and picked up some
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The height of their hubris was two events, one in which they dismissed the Wii as an impulse buy, and the second in which one of their execs said they'd give $1200 to anyone who found a PS3 in a store.
If that was honored, I could pay cash for a house. All the stores around here have PS3s sitting on the shelves, but a Wii is a "grab it as they come in!" mob scene as soon as they get a shipment. I was lucky enough to be in a Target when three came in. I got one, the others were gone in ten seconds.
And it's LOTS OF FUN TO PLAY. Plus Nintendo wisely launched Zelda as the flagship single-player title, and it came with fun party sports games.
Sony's launch titles were...um...er...
Right.
I'm not quite sure how execs can be more broken off from reality and prone to hubris than the Japanese commanders before the Battle of Midway were, but they've done it.
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