tw1n
Smash Champion
That sounds like fun lol. I wonder where the Brawl Friend Code will be in the game... We can now play eachother without driving 30 f ing minutes (ish)
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Albuquerque Monthlies - April 19th
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Twin_A
Smash Champion
Yay its like Christmas with a twist 
I just hope our internet doesn't crap out on us,,, maybe its time to do some hacking lol
I just hope our internet doesn't crap out on us,,, maybe its time to do some hacking lol
Kashakunaki
Smash Master
Boo hoo. A 30 minute drive is not much at all.
And on the note of signatures, courage is misspelled in yours, Kyle.
And on the note of signatures, courage is misspelled in yours, Kyle.
tw1n
Smash Champion
ha ha awesome notice Kash. And when you are broke and gas is expensive a 30 minute drive is a bit of a ways. Now it will be right in our room :D
Kashakunaki
Smash Master
Yeah, I know. I'm just pokin' fun at you guys because I make the drive all the time. I drove to Rio Rancho Sunday night at 9:30 at night to tuck my girlfriend into bed and do her chores, and then got back home at 12:40 AM.
She was really stressed.
And on the note of Twin games, I've got ya guys down pretty darn well. In real life I'm still trying to work out... it's like a 60% chance I guess which one is which right, but after the initial guess I'm good for the rest of the night *insert some DnD reference*.
Damus 1 = David who uses Samus and is Tw1n
Klink A = Kyle who uses Link and is twin A
She was really stressed.
And on the note of Twin games, I've got ya guys down pretty darn well. In real life I'm still trying to work out... it's like a 60% chance I guess which one is which right, but after the initial guess I'm good for the rest of the night *insert some DnD reference*.
Damus 1 = David who uses Samus and is Tw1n
Klink A = Kyle who uses Link and is twin A
tw1n
Smash Champion
Ha ha awesomeness. But now its Sonic (unless I find someone else I like more...) so you'll have to change it around a bit. But still nice job. Better than most i might add
sync
Smash Apprentice
Aw, poor Cassandra.
And thank you for that, I always get confused. X_X
And thank you for that, I always get confused. X_X
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Hey whats up? Just thought I would say hi, I'm from Albuquerque and thought It might be cool to meet some local smashers. Just wondering was anyone at the wii launch at the game stop on Coors and Paseo?
GoldenGlove
Smash Ace
What's up man, I'm Steven. Welcome to the NM smash scene. All us NM smashers are, as they say, cool cats.
sync
Smash Apprentice
As I said in other thread, I'm Jacob. Welcome aboard the USS NMSC.
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Whats up Steven, Jacob thanks for the welcome. Go ahead and call me Toast! So whats going on in NM?
sync
Smash Apprentice
Not much right now. Preparations for Brawl. ....Well, unless you count the fact that Davis (Kashakunaki) HAS Brawl. I doubt we'll have another monthly until after Brawl comes out.
GoldenGlove
Smash Ace
Well, I know firsthand that Forward and Omar are too good. So yeah, I'll go ahead and say the rest of AZ is too good by proxy.
And your sig is definitely too good.
chefman470
Smash Apprentice
whats up reu, the names chefman or you can call me by my real name Martin, its up to you, welcome to are little gang you can say lol, and i don't think i meet you either vat-zero. its nice meeting new smasher and nice sig, vat-zero, breath taking O.O
chefman470
Smash Apprentice
whats up reu, the names chefman or you can call me by my real name Martin, its up to you, welcome to are little gang you can say lol, and i don't think i meet you either vat-zero. its nice meeting new smasher and nice sig, vat-zero, breath taking O.O and if this double post, sorry smashboards has been really wired. DANG I knew it would post again sorry everyone.
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Hey Martin nice meeting you. So are you guys still having the monthylies at Ninja Monkey?
So I'm not really good at smash right now, but, I hope to change that with brawl. I have been playing smash since the 64 days but I never really took it seriously. I guess if I want to get any better the best way to do it is to play people who are better than you. Hope you guys don't mind a "noob" amongst you in the sense of competitive play.
So I'm not really good at smash right now, but, I hope to change that with brawl. I have been playing smash since the 64 days but I never really took it seriously. I guess if I want to get any better the best way to do it is to play people who are better than you. Hope you guys don't mind a "noob" amongst you in the sense of competitive play.
DuskMarthWater
Dude.
Psshh!! Nobody minds a "noob". We were all considered one at one point, and that is exactly how you get better man. Welcome to the smash scene that is New Mexico. I'm Erich. Yes, I put my real first name as my smash ID. Yea, no more monthlies till Brawl, which is only two weeks away, so why have another Melee one anyways?
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Lol true that, like I said I'm not a noob to the game it self but I'm a noob as far as playing it at a competitive level. Hope to play you guys online and at tournaments soon. Hopefully with your help we will have one more person to represent the ABQ scene
chefman470
Smash Apprentice
Hey I was a nOOb when i first fought these guys, and of course they cream me, but a few wave dash and L-Cancle training i got better, mad 7th place out of 16 or 17 i think, not bad eh, last time I made last.
ZMan
Smash Master
Horray, more NM people
BTW I'm ZMan or Zack, whatever people wanna call me.
BTW I'm ZMan or Zack, whatever people wanna call me.
tw1n
Smash Champion
Oh ya I'm David... Brawl is so freakin close!!! but the closer it gets the more its driving me (and probably more) crazy!!!
Twin_A
Smash Champion
Hey whats up you guys. I'm Kyle aka Twin_A, not to be confused with my other half twin one (Tw1n). I enjoy long walks on the beach, candle lit dinners, and making people laugh... wait wrong website
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
What's up Zack, David and Kyle. Yea I know I can't wait for brawl to come out. Kyle you made me lol
Kashakunaki
Smash Master
You'll find we are a pretty friendly batch of people here. 'Cept Kyle and David... they will torment your mother and haunt your nightmares.
sync
Smash Apprentice
Yes, we are, in fact, a batch of cookies that before every smash match need to be baked at 350 degrees.
But yeah, what the Kash said.
But yeah, what the Kash said.
tw1n
Smash Champion
Hey I'm not that bad Kash. I don't just go for anyones moms... just yours. But she is a really nice lady so I stopped that =D
And hey don't forget the instructions say to bake us at 350 degrees for an hour. I'm so smart I did it on 700 degrees for 30 minutes :D ...anyone who has ever made that mistake should understand the tragedy that is... just that
And hey don't forget the instructions say to bake us at 350 degrees for an hour. I'm so smart I did it on 700 degrees for 30 minutes :D ...anyone who has ever made that mistake should understand the tragedy that is... just that
Twin_A
Smash Champion
I think I'll just eat the cookie dough and avoid any horrible and bound to occur messes
... wait did I just say I'll eat you guys... oh well, throw on chocolate chips and anything tastes good
... wait did I just say I'll eat you guys... oh well, throw on chocolate chips and anything tastes good
sync
Smash Apprentice
...Now...for some reason still unknown to me.....I'm hungry.
Kashakunaki
Smash Master
Something tells me, that unless chocolate chips are a sexual innuedo for something else I'm not catching, eating someone with chocolate chips wouldn't be that great
And I'm with Kyle. Cookie dough is where it is at.
Lol at David. I know they won't cook right... but I'm curious as to what would happen =P
And I'm with Kyle. Cookie dough is where it is at.
Lol at David. I know they won't cook right... but I'm curious as to what would happen =P
Twin_A
Smash Champion
Try it sometime. What happens is that the outside gets cooked or overcooked. But the inside stays raw. It's disgusting.
And no I didn't mean any innuendo of any kind, I just meant choco chips
I think I'm going to eat some cookie dough when I get home :D
And no I didn't mean any innuendo of any kind, I just meant choco chips
I think I'm going to eat some cookie dough when I get home :D
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Man I love cookie Dough! To bad I'm at work now I'm going to be wanting cookie dough all day
tw1n
Smash Champion
That blows lol. And ya Kash its bad... fires can start or else outside = nuked and inside = raw and bad...
ZMan
Smash Master
I just buy Chips Ahoy or something at the store whenever I want some cookies. Or oreos, whatever is cheaper.
And cookie dough is good to, I have some in my freezer.
And cookie dough is good to, I have some in my freezer.
DuskMarthWater
Dude.
Cookie dough is good mates. Eat those raw eggs, NM'ers! It'll make men out of us yet!
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For CBS’s Fall Lineup, Check Inside Your Refrigerator
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By DAVID S. JOACHIM
Published: July 17, 2006
IN September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast.
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Ads for CBS’s shows will be etched on eggs sold at some grocery stores.
Related
Addenda: Coors Chairman Charged With Driving Drunk (July 17, 2006) The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as “egg-vertising,” hinting at the wordplay they have in store. Some of their planned slogans: “CSI” (“Crack the Case on CBS”); “The Amazing Race” (“Scramble to Win on CBS”); and “Shark” (“Hard-Boiled Drama.”). Variations on the ad for its Monday night lineup of comedy shows include “Shelling Out Laughs,” “Funny Side Up” and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”
George Schweitzer, president of the CBS marketing group, said he was hoping to generate some laughter in American kitchens. “We’ve gone through every possible sad takeoff on shelling and scrambling and frying,” he said, adding, “It’s a great way to reach people in an unexpected form.”
Newspapers, magazines and Web sites are so crowded with ads for entertainment programming that CBS was ready to try something different, Mr. Schweitzer said. The best thing about the egg concept was its intrusiveness.
“You can’t avoid it,” he said. He liked the idea so much that he arranged for CBS to be the only advertiser this fall to use the new etching technology. •The CBS ads are the first to use imprinting technology developed by a company called EggFusion, based in Deerfield, Ill. Bradley Parker, who founded the company, wanted to reassure shoppers that egg producers were not placing old eggs in new cartons, so he developed a laser-etching technique to put the expiration date directly on an egg during the washing and grading process.
EggFusion, which was founded in 2001, started production last year with one egg company, Radlo Foods, which has since produced 30 million Born Free brand farm-raised eggs with etching. In May, EggFusion landed its first large grocery chain, A.& P., which will use the imprints on 400,000 America’s Choice conventional eggs sold each day in A.& P., Waldbaum’s, Food Emporium and Super Fresh stores from Connecticut to Maryland. Mr. Parker, whose family runs a chicken farm in North Carolina, knew that the way to get egg producers to cooperate was to make it worth their while. His answer was advertising on eggs.
“It’s unlike any other ad medium in the world, because you are looking at the medium while you are using it,” he says.
Egg producers, distributors and retailers all share in the ad revenue. EggFusion is selling the ads on its own, but plans to enlist the help of advertising agencies, company executives said.
As EggFusion sees it, consumers look at a single egg shells at least a few times: when they open a carton in the store to see if any eggs are cracked, if they transfer them from the carton to the refrigerator, and when they crack them open.
Mr. Parker said the destination of eggs was tracked so precisely that he envisioned being able to offer localized advertising, even aiming at specific ZIP codes, to promote events like local food festivals and concerts. He is setting aside a portion of the ads for charities, too, he said. The imprint is applied in the packaging plant, as the eggs are washed, graded and “candled,” or inspected for flaws, when the eggs are held by calipers and moved along a production line at 225 feet a minute. Right before an egg is packaged, laser light is applied to the shell, giving it the etching. Each imprint takes 34 milliseconds to 73 milliseconds, so the processing of eggs is not appreciably slowed down, Mr. Parker said.
The etching is ultrathin, to a depth of 50 to 90 micrometers, or 5 percent of the shell’s thickness. The imprint cannot be altered without breaking the shell, Mr. Parker said, in contrast to Europe, where ink is used to apply expiration dates on eggs.
“Ink is alcohol dye, so it can be wiped off. And ink splatters,” he said.
•A similar process to EggFusion’s has been used on a limited scale in the United States with fruits and vegetables, but mostly for replacing the price stickers used by grocers to track inventory and ring up an order.
It is not clear how commonly old eggs are placed in new cartons to appear fresher than they are. Repackaging is illegal, said Al Pope, president of the United Egg Producers industry group, and he says he believes it is rarely done. However, “If a consumer feels that having a date on the egg has some value, then it’s up to the consumer,” he said. “We believe in choices.”
Shaun M. Emerson, EggFusion’s chief executive, said: “I’m not sure you could ever know” how often repackaging old eggs occurs.
EggFusion has technicians assigned to each egg plant, and it owns the equipment and the freshness data, to ensure that no tampering occurs, the company’s executives said.
The eggs also carry a code that can be checked on a Web site, www.myfreshegg.com, to find out where the egg originated, the date it left the plant and the names of the distributor and retailer.
Both Radlo and A.& P. pay for the etchings — they will not say how much — but because A.& P.’s eggs will carry the CBS ads, it will also share in the ad revenue. But is egg-vertising an idea with staying power, or will the novelty expire after a few dozen bad puns?
“At this point it’s too early to tell,” Mr. Schweitzer of CBS acknowledges. “I think it’s like you know good ideas when you see them.”
Sign In to E-Mail This Print Reprints Save
By DAVID S. JOACHIM
Published: July 17, 2006
IN September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast.
Skip to next paragraph
Enlarge this Image
CBS
Ads for CBS’s shows will be etched on eggs sold at some grocery stores.
Related
Addenda: Coors Chairman Charged With Driving Drunk (July 17, 2006) The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as “egg-vertising,” hinting at the wordplay they have in store. Some of their planned slogans: “CSI” (“Crack the Case on CBS”); “The Amazing Race” (“Scramble to Win on CBS”); and “Shark” (“Hard-Boiled Drama.”). Variations on the ad for its Monday night lineup of comedy shows include “Shelling Out Laughs,” “Funny Side Up” and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”
George Schweitzer, president of the CBS marketing group, said he was hoping to generate some laughter in American kitchens. “We’ve gone through every possible sad takeoff on shelling and scrambling and frying,” he said, adding, “It’s a great way to reach people in an unexpected form.”
Newspapers, magazines and Web sites are so crowded with ads for entertainment programming that CBS was ready to try something different, Mr. Schweitzer said. The best thing about the egg concept was its intrusiveness.
“You can’t avoid it,” he said. He liked the idea so much that he arranged for CBS to be the only advertiser this fall to use the new etching technology. •The CBS ads are the first to use imprinting technology developed by a company called EggFusion, based in Deerfield, Ill. Bradley Parker, who founded the company, wanted to reassure shoppers that egg producers were not placing old eggs in new cartons, so he developed a laser-etching technique to put the expiration date directly on an egg during the washing and grading process.
EggFusion, which was founded in 2001, started production last year with one egg company, Radlo Foods, which has since produced 30 million Born Free brand farm-raised eggs with etching. In May, EggFusion landed its first large grocery chain, A.& P., which will use the imprints on 400,000 America’s Choice conventional eggs sold each day in A.& P., Waldbaum’s, Food Emporium and Super Fresh stores from Connecticut to Maryland. Mr. Parker, whose family runs a chicken farm in North Carolina, knew that the way to get egg producers to cooperate was to make it worth their while. His answer was advertising on eggs.
“It’s unlike any other ad medium in the world, because you are looking at the medium while you are using it,” he says.
Egg producers, distributors and retailers all share in the ad revenue. EggFusion is selling the ads on its own, but plans to enlist the help of advertising agencies, company executives said.
As EggFusion sees it, consumers look at a single egg shells at least a few times: when they open a carton in the store to see if any eggs are cracked, if they transfer them from the carton to the refrigerator, and when they crack them open.
Mr. Parker said the destination of eggs was tracked so precisely that he envisioned being able to offer localized advertising, even aiming at specific ZIP codes, to promote events like local food festivals and concerts. He is setting aside a portion of the ads for charities, too, he said. The imprint is applied in the packaging plant, as the eggs are washed, graded and “candled,” or inspected for flaws, when the eggs are held by calipers and moved along a production line at 225 feet a minute. Right before an egg is packaged, laser light is applied to the shell, giving it the etching. Each imprint takes 34 milliseconds to 73 milliseconds, so the processing of eggs is not appreciably slowed down, Mr. Parker said.
The etching is ultrathin, to a depth of 50 to 90 micrometers, or 5 percent of the shell’s thickness. The imprint cannot be altered without breaking the shell, Mr. Parker said, in contrast to Europe, where ink is used to apply expiration dates on eggs.
“Ink is alcohol dye, so it can be wiped off. And ink splatters,” he said.
•A similar process to EggFusion’s has been used on a limited scale in the United States with fruits and vegetables, but mostly for replacing the price stickers used by grocers to track inventory and ring up an order.
It is not clear how commonly old eggs are placed in new cartons to appear fresher than they are. Repackaging is illegal, said Al Pope, president of the United Egg Producers industry group, and he says he believes it is rarely done. However, “If a consumer feels that having a date on the egg has some value, then it’s up to the consumer,” he said. “We believe in choices.”
Shaun M. Emerson, EggFusion’s chief executive, said: “I’m not sure you could ever know” how often repackaging old eggs occurs.
EggFusion has technicians assigned to each egg plant, and it owns the equipment and the freshness data, to ensure that no tampering occurs, the company’s executives said.
The eggs also carry a code that can be checked on a Web site, www.myfreshegg.com, to find out where the egg originated, the date it left the plant and the names of the distributor and retailer.
Both Radlo and A.& P. pay for the etchings — they will not say how much — but because A.& P.’s eggs will carry the CBS ads, it will also share in the ad revenue. But is egg-vertising an idea with staying power, or will the novelty expire after a few dozen bad puns?
“At this point it’s too early to tell,” Mr. Schweitzer of CBS acknowledges. “I think it’s like you know good ideas when you see them.”
reu_1303
Smash Apprentice
Lol I guess this is a little OT but...How do the Monthlies usually go down? Price, Time ect...
BTW looks like I'm going to the Paseo and Coors Gamestop for launch after all
BTW looks like I'm going to the Paseo and Coors Gamestop for launch after all
ZMan
Smash Master
Show of hands who is going to the Gamestop at Coors and Paseo
*Raises hand*
*Raises hand*
Alphabravo
Smash Ace
I'll go, but as I said I'm not going to enter. I look forward to meeting you Reu 1303.
chefman470
Smash Apprentice
mmmmmmm cookies..... oh hey i proble not going to go after, I got to go work that day, its going to be the first day, can't call in.