First of all, it’s 11:11 on 10/11, which means it’s one month until 11/11/11. Yes, I almost posted this at 10:11 a.m. instead of 11:11. But I did not. OK, moving along to the 11:11 a.m. Tuesday Time-Waster.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve heard of Angry Birds. It’s that game that started as a little iPhone app and suddenly became the biggest hit since, well, since something. (I was going to say since Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” tribute to Princess Diana, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with Angry Birds.)
But did you know that you can play it on a browser? Now, you have to jump through a couple hoops to do it, but maybe you’ve already done it and didn’t realize it. First, you have to get a Google+ account. I’m not a fan, but I got one a while ago, let it sit around, and then one day I saw the “Games” link. Lo and behold, there was Angry Birds! The next hoop you may have to jump through is upgrading your browser. It refuses to work in Internet Explorer, so you’ll need either the most current version of Firefox or Google’s Chrome browser.
Once you do that, and after you’ve come up for air and realized that the 11:11 a.m. Tuesday time-waster turned into an all-Tuesday time-waster, you’ll see why I have made two versions of an Angry Birds sign to cheer at races:
This has nothing to do with anything (except for perhaps being a waste of time in and of itself, hence the Tuesday theme), but I JUST REALIZED that my name is on the “Powered by Ramen” sign.
And that makes me very happy!
Aloha! 😉