Today was pretty quiet, as summer days tend to be. At work I actually got caught up on one of the categories of things I scan, which hasn’t happened in at least three months. Otherwise, meh.

After work Marin and I snuck into Costco (though they check that you have a Costco card at the door, they don’t check that the Costco card belongs to you) so she could collect information about what PS2 games they carry. I counted 44 copies of some boxing game, and exactly one copy of Britney’s Dance Beat. Britney’s worth 3 1/2 stars at Amazon; because I went to the trouble of learning that, I also learned that there are only five songs in the game—that’s only $8 a song!—and ten dance patterns to learn. [By way of comparison, the PS2 Dance Dance Revolution has 60 songs, and has the same MSRP.]

Amazon’s product description totally smooths over the game’s minimal playlist, noting that “Britney’s Dance Beat includes your favorite Britney songs, such as ‘Oops…I Did It Again,’ ‘…Baby One More Time,’ ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and others.”

I totally wish I had picked up that copy.

After infiltrating the compound and sabotaging the enemy’s nuclear laser visiting Costco, Marin and I watched the third disc in the Real Bout High School tetralogy. The series continues to be rather entertaining, once you understand that “plot” is simply a four-letter word that is to be used and discarded at whim. It, so far, really doesn’t deserve the bum reputation it has; I’ve watched other shows that treated their plots similarly, and yet were an absolute bore to watch. Anybody remember Garzy’s Wing? I didn’t think so.

Post-RBHS, I decided to implement some CSS techniques I learned creating the //Links page on this ‘ere //Blog page. Successfully doing so meant that I worked around a rendering bug introduced in Safari’s 1.0 release (i.e. I could enjoy the way my blog looks), and that an annoying horizontal scrollbar would no longer appear in IE:mac (thereby making the page more friendly for at least a third of my original readership). Making the change was rather trivial…except that windows IE wouldn’t play along. At all. I fought it for hours, and it’s the only reason I’m up so damn late tonight. (Again! This late-night thing is killing me.) I did succeed in the end, I think.

I so should have been practicing my moves on “…Baby One More Time” instead.