A Smashing Deal

April 10th, 2008

If you haven’t purchased Smash Brothers yet, now is your chance.

Pick it for almost 10% off at buy.com. Click the link below for more info:

Super Smash Bros Brawl Super Smash Bros Brawl

Nintendo worlds collide in the fighting game that features a number of characters that have appeared on Nintendo platforms, from Mario to Link to Pikachu…to Solid Snake. As they square off in locales drawn from the history of Nintendo anything can happen. Smash Bros. features limitless customizing options, items and weapons and a wealth of modes. Included is a sprawling adventure mode called The Subspace Emissary that’s a full game in and of itself. Players jump and brawl their way through enemy-packed side-scrolling levels, meeting up with other characters and watching cinematic cut-scenes. Brawl with your friends across the country using WiiConnect24. Going online allows up to four players to brawl, no matter where they are. Engage the rage with Super Smash Bros. Brawl! The third installment of the incredibly successful Super Smash Bros. series is now on the Wii, The roster islonger than ever, but that just means more butt to kick across over a dozen different, graphic-rich stages with original moves, new modified moves, and a brand-new super attack called Final Smash! Old favorites like Mario, Link, Peach and Kirby are now joined by such exciting newcomers as Wario, Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog. With a variety of new modes, an absolutely epic soundtrack and the ability to play with distant friends through online multiplayer, this is a game you’ll have to break your own fingers to put down. What is Super Smash Bros? It’s a brawling, battling, action-packed video game that features a varied roster of characters for four-player simultaneous melees! When you hit an opponent, his or her damage meter builds up. The more damage that builds up, the farther an opponent flies each time he or she gets hit! An opponent with higher damage flies farther. Soon, people are flying around like rockets. And when you fly off the sc


I was helping a Mr. Bartz today find a way to determine if some of his appliances would overload a particular circuit. Besides just adding up the numbers on the various adapters to figure out what the total wattage should be, we stumbled on this nifty little device on Buy.com:

P3 P4400 Kill A Watt Appliance Tester


It’s called a Kill A Watt, and it simply measures the wattage usage going on for a particular outlet. When everyone is “Going Green”, what better way for a Geek prove that their wattage usage is lower than yours, than having a device that can prove it.

Ok, so I just thought it was a cool item.