Woot! - One Day, One Deal

Wandering through the gaming area at CES is a disquieting walk through the teenage male suburban id. Pac-Man doesn't live here anymore. I found myself wondering which says "electronic gaming fun" better: the mushroom cloud, or the mountain of skulls?

Whatever happened to that Q-Bert? He seemed like such a nice boy.

Be sure to check out the rest of our CES 2009 coverage before the bombs start dropping.

My excuse for being really, really bad at Guitar Hero has always been that I'm practiced on actual, life-sized instruments, so the feel of the runty guitar controller throws me off. (My excuse for being pretty bad at playing actual, life-sized guitars has always been that I can't do it while people are watching.)

Now, finally, there's a guitar controller sufficiently teeny enough to handicap every gamer equally! The Riff-Rocker is a USB controller for PCs, and it costs about what it would cost you to look at a full-size guitar controller.

Not only is the Riff-Rocker small enough to play fairly inconspicuously under your desk at work, it's also small enough for your favorite fuzzy pals to take their turns.

Carry on with our wayward sons on our CES 2009 page.

The nice part about being at CES is that we get to see old friends we haven’t seen in a while. But on the way there, we get to see a few other things as well. For example, a table dance beside a Donny & Marie sign.

After we yelled at that guy for getting in the way of our shot, we had to run. A nearby tiki bar was a good place to hide.

After that, we were going to give up. But, honest to God, we passed a band playing “Eye Of The Tiger” right after we passed a truck playing “Eye Of The Tiger”. We decided that was a sign. So we kept going, just a little harder.

And what did we find at the end of our trip? Why, only the King of CES himself, Joel Johnson and his team of Merry Men! Squeeeeel!

John Brownlee is known as the prickliest of the prickly Boing Boing Gadgets bloggers, but the battlements of his cynicism were no match for the new Vaio P. Here he is gazing rapturously upon it like it's the suitcase from Pulp Fiction.

Sadly, the king decreed the rest of his party would be at his place, so we can’t say any more about it ourselves. But there was a discussion about the minibar’s Ethernet connection and if we could hack our way to gettiing the nefarious $8 Reese’s Pieces. As God is our witness, we are going to beat this thing.

In the meantime, go laugh at Joel for forgetting about our Day One Challenge. Not up to the challenge, big guy? We didn’t think so!

CES 2009 rolls on! All kinds of rolls! Yeast, wheat, pumpernickel - we mean to take a bite of each and every one!

The nice thing about Las Vegas is that when you want to go out to dinner, it isn’t a choice between The Olive Garden or Pizza Hut. It’s a choice between a giant pirate ship battle or a big replica of NYC. But we were already in The Palazzo to see Stevie Wonder so we just figured we’d eat there.

The Palazzo isn’t really a replica of Venice, it’s a replica of the storybook Venice, minus the pickpockets and the stench of bilge. Thanks to a mix of lighting technology and paint, it’s always just a little bit before sunset. And this really gets creepy after about ten or twenty minutes.

To distract you from the Gallifreian time lock, the Palazzo has a canal, yes, an entire canal running the length of the shops and restaurants. Happy singing gondoliers offer rides to tourists and the occasional staff member when things get slow. This part is really nice.

However it was on our way back from one of these lunches…

... that we ran into a garden. Or maybe we should say, it ran into us.

Very slowly and gracefully, two women on stilts, about eight feet high and covered in leaves, walked out of nowhere and began to pose for our cameras.

The pair almost immediately attracted a crowd, and rightly so. It’s not every day the trees come to life.

The tree ladies moved surprisingly quick when they wanted to be somewhere else, and they were obviously having a great deal of fun with their characters. So far, this is high on our list of “most interesting things we’ve had happen to us when all we wanted was a burrito and maybe a beer”.

Our CES 2009 coverage just keeps going! How long can we go without sleep before we die? You may find out!

Naysayers be damned! Thundering polo-and-khaki'd herds in the thousands still stampeded to the first day of CES, lanyards dangling proudly from their necks, if it's possible to dangle proudly. Amid all their furious efforts to justify their company-paid Vegas trips, we had some justifyin' of our own to do.

While the elbow-throwing scrum of years past still broke out here and there, us CES volk enjoyed a lot more lebensraum than we're used to.

I grappled with the Jeopardy! pre-test at the Sony booth: nine questions of easy-to-moderate trivia and one question like "Which company makes the hi-def home-theater surround-sound blah blah blah?" I guessed Sony.

Samsung must really be hurting in this recession: they arranged their obligatory CES edifice of TVs to try to signal Batman.

Little did this unsuspecting Woot fan know that his visit to the Woot booth would culminate in the infamy of appearing on the Woot blog. He got his picture taken with two of our wholesale hotshots, Pat Skelly and Jay Johnson, then fled the area before us writers showed up. Can't say we blame him.

Say what you will about Jay's vibrant orange shirt, but he'll never get run over crossing the street, or be accidentally shot by a deer hunter. Who knows what marvelous wonders and wondrous marvels CES will hold for us tomorrow? Well, we've got a pretty good idea, but we're hoping we're wrong.

We're going to add more and more and more CES coverage to our CES 2009 page, and there's not a damn thing you can do to stop us. Possible exception: bribery.

Stanley supposed he was happy, for someone who lived such a grey, humdrum life. His job processing car-insurance applications wasn’t exciting, but it was steady work. His two-bedroom ranch house wasn’t exciting, but it was a roof over his head. His wife Janice (or was it Janet?) wasn’t exciting, but she was someone to come home to. Stanley supposed he was happy, though he wasn’t sure what “happy” meant.

Then one day he saw something at a hardware store. Nothing special, to most people. Just a Stanley 20-Piece 1/4” Socket Set. Useful enough when you need that sort of thing. But its gleaming silver parts, lined up in smart military order, turned a screw somewhere deep inside Stanley. It was…exciting.

It was all he could think about, all he wanted to be. His every moment ached for the life of that 20-piece ratchet set. His whole heart yearned to to be a six-point drive socket that met all ANSI standards. He couldn’t concentrate on work, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat. Janet (or was it Jeanette?) never noticed a thing.

In his darker moments, shadowed by the certainty that he would never be a ratchet set and would always go on being an insurance application processor, he even considered suicide.

Then, one morning, Jeanette (or was it Janice?) woke up in bed alone. Stanley was gone. The only clue to his disappearance was a Stanley 20-Piece 1/4” Socket Set on the pillow next to her. And while she wouldn’t have said it this way, the socket set seemed, somehow, happy.

Warranty: Lifetime Stanley

Features:

• Meets all ANSI standards
• 6 Point Drive Socket
• 1/4” Drive
• 1/4” MaxDrive™ Sockets
• 1/4” Extension bar, 3”
• 1/4” Ratchet Arm
• Blow Molded Case

In the box:

• 1/4” Drive Round Ratchet
• 1/4” Drive 3” Extension
• 1/4” Drive Socket 6 Point
• SAE: 5/32, 3/16, 7/32, 1/4, 9/32, 5/16, 11/32, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2
• MM: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Rest easy, Woot Nation! The Strange Case of the Deflated Yellow Whatsit is solved! You'll remember this head-scratcher of a mystery from our exclusive behind-the-scenes CES preshow setup coverage -- and it's probably kept you from sleeping soundly since.

Like many long-unsolved cases, once this one finally broke, the solution seemed totally obvious: It's a giant Lenovo light bulb.

We were really hoping it'd turn out to be something cooler, like a Tweety Bird, or a plate of scrambled eggs, or a plate of scrambled Tweety Bird eggs. But it's reassuring to know all the same, isn't it? It gives you that same feeling of closure you get at the end of COLD CASE. This one hadn't gotten that cold yet, though. Sort of a ROOM-TEMP CASE.

If some undiagnosed emotional disorder makes you crave more of this kind of thing, you'll want to get familiar with our CES 2009 page and our Flickr photostream.

What are you missing on the floor of CES 2009? Stuff like this!

Some of the signs are a little bit… zen.

Some of the demo footage is a little bit… graphic.

Some of the requirements can be hard to follow.

And after some searching we found where they store the booth babes.

We may not have a stable wireless connection, but we’re still doing our best! Keep following along with our CES Adventure for as long as you can stand it!

We'll admit that we haven;t memorized every nuance of President-Elect Obama's policy positions. But we don't recall him ever taking a stand on the issue of extended warranties for refurbished electronics. Either he needs to be a little more choosy in his endorsement decisions, or he needs to call his lawyers.

There's enough CES coverage to gag a horse on our CES 2009 page and our Flickr photostream. Just don't expect any actual news.

On the first morning of CES, we find ourselves awakening in unaccustomed splendor. Word is that CES is a little undervisited this year. The economy, the uncertain future, a really good episode of South Park? We’ll let the experts worry about the reasons why. All we’re gonna do is enjoy these sweet rooms while no one else is using them.

We’re staying at the brand new Encore, right on the Vegas strip. It’s top to bottom fantastic and we very much want to stay here forever. Suites like this are why people turn to crime. We’re not kidding. Give us your wallet! We’re never going back, you hear us? Never!

After we played with the automatic curtain opener and tried out the complimentary giant shoehorn, the first thing we decided to take was a look around. Right off the bat we found the Ferrari dealership, nestled happily right in the hotel.

A short walk and we were in front of a lovely little tea room beside a man-made waterfall. And we think the waiters were full-blooded elves.

If we get bored, we can always catch a show.

Honestly, it’s a shame we have so much to do at CES because we’d love to just hang out in the rooms all day, pretending to be classy and thinking about those $8 Reese’s Pieces.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot to do in Vegas, so the only time we really have in these rooms is the few minutes at the end of the day. But at least we can enjoy the view.

Our patented no-facts, all-smack CES 2009 coverage continues today and all weekend long. And you can keep an eye on our Flickr photostream for your low-quality iPhone photo needs.

After a heavy-handed, baffling entry process that Erich Honecker would have appreciated, Microsoft fans and students of human oddity crammed into a remote ballroom earlier tonight to see how Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would embarrass himself (we'll let you decide which category we belong in). After a not-at-all pathetic introduction that stressed his 800 score on the math SATs, Ballmer swanned onstage to kick the hardcore knowledge in his trademark Matt Foleyesque style.

Alas, his presentation was light on the insanity and heavy on the video images of smiling hipsters, senior citizens, and Third World children in raptures of ecstasy over their uber-connected Microsoft lifestyles. It's hard to imagine a context in which this kind of 1998-vintage multi-culti montagery is anything but a source of shame to all involved, but we're sure the creatives sleep well at night. On fancy sheets, probably.

When the huge video screens weren't showing us how Windows Live will bring the world together despite the fact that nobody uses it, the huge screens featured Steve Ballmer evangelizing in swooping tracking shots reminiscent of a Duran Duran concert video. Steve's really intent on making your phone and your TV the same device, so start deciding now whether you'd rather have a 60" phone or a 2" TV. But hey, at least combining phones and TV will excite anyone who's always wanted to ring up Dobie Gillis.

Then came a woman who can't possibly be as annoying in real life as she was onstage. She showed us her excruciatingly cutesy video avatars (see recreation below) and all kinds of other Windows 7 features that you'll want to turn off immediately. People applauded uproariously when she tiled two windows side-by-side, the way you might make a big deal about your 2-year-old successfully using a fork.

A musical-comedy interlude was provided by Aussie-sounding acoustic trio Tripod, who lifted their shtick from Flight of the Conchords the way Windows has lifted a lot of its shtick from Apple. We give MS points for hiring an act whose name includes the letters "ipod".

Next up, Windows Entertainment exec Rob Somebody came out to tell us about how Zune had a great 2008 - all 365 days of it. He also touted the richly textured world of Halo, where you can connect with your friends by severing their virtual spines. The average Halo player plays the game over 150 hours per day, no kidding.

Despite the economic clouds hanging over the proceedings, the whole presentation was either optimistic or delusional, depending on whether Microsoft writes your paycheck. But signs of belt-tightening were evident. Last year, Microsoft had G'n'R guitarist Slash as their special keynote guest; this year, they told us all about how they had Slash last year.

The special guest this time was a 12-year-old girl named Sparrow, who was easily the most likable person on the stage. She showed us a game she designed using Microsoft's new game-designing app, called Kudo or Nujo or Hubo or something like that. More information can be found on the Internet. She kicked Rob Somebody's butt up and down the hall when the two faced off in the game. Ever-gracious, Rob blamed his controller.

To send us into the artificial Vegas night, Tripod returned for an encore. This one was a faintly chuckle-worthy ditty about partying down on Wednesday night, a cry from deep within the long shadow of the Conchords. You seem like nice enough fellows, Tripod, so we'll offer some free unsolicited career advice: hitch yourselves to Sparrow's star. That kid's got it.

For more detailed, factual, boring coverage of Ballmer's keynote, we recommend the Washington Post liveblog, which featured up-to-the second updates like "Ballmer is wearing brown or dark grey slacks and a burgundy sweater over a button-down shirt." Although we too are unclear about the color, we can confirm that he was indeed wearing pants - unfortunately for students of human oddity.

Don't forget: there's plenty more garbage where this came from on our CES 2009 page.

So yesterday, while you were reading about their first night in Las Vegas, we sent our two little lambs off into the cruel world of construction workers and security guards with only one standing order: show us a sneak preview of CES. Sadly, neither of them were arrested. Happily, they brought back some ultrasound photos of baby CES in utero.

Lots of people were hard at work getting the hall ready for the big show! We half expected to see those little animated stick-figure “under construction” pickaxing guys.

What wondrous thing might this be, once inflated? Charlie Brown’s head? A light bulb? Spongebob? Not knowing is the hardest part.

Just think! Ballmer’s sweaty flanks might dampen one of these very chairs!

Imagine the sort of beautiful babes that will be standing here tomorrow, sighing disinterestedly and wishing there weren’t so many brochures to hand out.

We checked the literature, and were relieved to find they spelled our name right. We were really nervous we’d have a repeat of the “Wort.com” incident from our New York Times engagement announcement.

This is so cute: The heavy machinery has to put house slippers on to come indoors.

The load-in area is abuzz with activity! Truck drivers were navigating giant rigs with impressive precision, considering they had to avoid us gawking. Note to trucker d00dz: We’ll be out of your way in a minute. Blasting your horn does NOT help us take our photos any faster.

Is it ironic that the Human Resources hut is right next to the rear entrance? Or is that onomotapeia? We really need to get our Strunk & White out of the attic.

So there you go. An inside look at pre-CES. Doesn’t it make you want to get tickets right now? Well, too bad, buddy, you gotta get in line.

Remember to keep track of our CES channel all week long as we explore the places other websites do not dare to go. Wait, that was a typo. We meant to say care.

“I was just sitting there minding my own business in the privacy of my own home, watching a movie – it was that Tropical Lightning one – when I heard it, clear as day, during a battle scene. Gunfire, coming from somewhere to my left. Pop! Pop! Pop-pop pop! I thought it was the movie, but then I realized there wasn’t no speaker over there. Soon as the movie ended, me and my husband both up and ran out of the house. We ain’t been back since. Ghosts maybe I can handle, but ghosts with guns? No thank you.”

That’s the voice of Andi Hughes of Cincinnati, Arizona. Her and her husband are but two of the growing number of Americans who claim to have experienced phantom surround sound, or PSS, a paranormal phenomenon in which two speakers appear to produce home theater surround-sound. This often occurs in tandem with an event known as a near-HD experience, or NHDE, when normal-definition DVDs appear to display in HD to the untrained eye.

The scientific establishment holds that such phenomena are impossible, blaming hallucinations, mass hysteria, and kitchen gas. But Frank Baconham of Granite Mountain, Florida tells another story.

“Our family watches Timecop every Christmas, so I’ve seen it at least a dozen times. But this year, after I hooked up my new Philips HTS6600 DVD Home Theatre System, everything was different. The colors were brighter. The action seemed sharper. The jokes even seemed funnier, and that’s saying something. It wasn’t just me who felt it, it was the whole family. The whole experience was heightened, I guess you’d say. We were just sort of lifted off of our couches to…somewhere else. It’s like we were looking down on these people who looked just like us, and they were watching Timecop like they were seeing it for the first time. I can’t explain it.”

Contacted for comment, Philips says there’s nothing supernatural about it. They claim that the Philips HTS6600 uses “psychoacoustic” engineering and precise driver positioning to replicate 5.1 surround sound. And the sharper picture, according to them, is merely a result of the player’s DVD upconverting capabilities.

But Hughes isn’t so sure.

“I thought maybe I was imagining things until we got to the credits. When I saw the name ‘Robert Downey Jr.’ come up, I knew there was something paranormal going on. Through the whole movie, he looked like he was black.”

Warranty: 90 Day Philips

Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty

Features:

• Ambisound technology produces truly embracing multi-channel surround sound from fewer speakers. It delivers an immersive 5.1 sound experience without the constraints of sitting position, room shape or size, and without the clutter of multiple speakers and cables. Through the combined effect of psychoacoustic phenomena, array processing and precisely angled driver positioning, Ambisound delivers more sound from fewer speakers
• 1080i HDMI, direct digital connection that can carry digital HD video as well as digital multichannel audio. By eliminating the conversion to analog signals it delivers perfect picture and sound quality, completely free from noise. HDMI is fully backward-compatible with DVI (Digital Video Interface)
• Connect your iPod. This unique connection allows you to hook up the Philips dock to the home theater system for media playback from your iPod. With Extended User Interface, you can also enjoy the convenience of direct access and viewing of your iPod content on your TV screen
• USB Direct. Simply plug your device into the USB port on your Philips DVD system. Your digital music and photos will be played directly from the device. Now you can share your favorite moments with family and friends
• Smart Surround, Enjoy the best possible listening experience without having to make surround setting changes every time you change a disc or switch between movies and music. Unlike normal 5.1 systems that feature default multi-channel surround settings, Smart Surround automatically changes the surround settings to suit your music encoded in stereo or your movie with multi-channel content
• DoubleBASS, DoubleBASS ensures you hear even the deepest bass tones from compact-sized subwoofers. It captures low frequencies and recreates them in the audible range of the subwoofer – delivering sound with more boom and panache, and ensuring you a full, uncompromised listening experience

Specifications:

Picture/Display:

• Picture enhancement: High Def (720p, 1080i), Video upscaling, Progressive Scan

Sound:

• Sound System: Ambisound, Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Prologic II, Stereo
• Sound Enhancement: Smart Surround, DoubleBass, Treble and Bass Control
• Equalizer settings: Action, Rock, Concert, Classic, Drama, Jazz, MTV, RnB, Gaming, Party, Cartoon, Lounge, Sports, News

Loudspeakers:

• Loudspeaker types: 2x Vertical Speakers
• Speaker Drivers: 8×2” Full Range woofers
• Speaker Impedance: 6 ohm
• Subwoofer type: Active
• Subwoofer driver: 1×6.5” Long Throw woofer
• Subwoofer impedance: 4 ohm
• Subwoofer freq range: 30-120 Hz

Video Playback:

• Compression formats: DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, DivX 6.0, DivX Ultra, MPEG1, MPEG2
• Playback Media: DVD-Video, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, Video CD/SVCD, CD-R/CD-RW
• Video disc playback system: NTSC, PAL

Audio Playback:

• Compression format: MP3, WMA
• Playback Media: Audio CD, CD-R/RW, USB flash drive
• MP3 bit rates: 32-256 kbps and VBR

Still Picture Playback:

• Picture compression format: JPEG
• Playback Media: CD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW, USB flash drive
• Picture enhancement: Slideshow with music playback, Rotate, Zoom

Tuner/Reception/Transmission:

• Tuner Bands: AM, FM

Connectivity:

• Front / Side connections: Dock connector, MP3 Line-in, USB
• Rear Connections: HDMI output, Component Video output, Composite video (CVBS) output, TV in (audio, cinch), Interconnect (to Power Box)
• Subwoofer (Power Box): Coaxial Digital input, AUX In (cinch, 2 pairs), FM Antenna, AM/MW Antenna, Easy Fit Speaker connectors, Interconnect (to Main Unit)

Dimensions:

• Set dimensions with stand (W x H x D): 370×242 x 180 mm
• Set weight (with stand): 3.5 kg
• Speaker width (with stand): 180 mm
• Speaker height (with stand): 420.5 mm
• Speaker depth (with stand): 180 mm
• Speaker weight (with stand): 2.32 kg
• Subwoofer dimensions (W x H x D): 295×443 x 295 mm
• Subwoofer Weight: 9.1 kg
• Packaging dimensions (W x H x D): 841×359 x 527 mm
• Weight incl. Packaging: 22.5 kg

Power:

• Power supply: 120V, 60Hz
• Standby power consumption: <1 W

In the box:

• Philips HTS6600/37B
• Quick Start Guide
• User Manual
• Dock for iPod
• Remote Control
• Batteries for Remote Control
• HDMI Cable
• CVBS Video Cable
• MP3 Line-in Cable
• AM antenna
• FM antenna
• Interconnect Cable
• Speaker Cables
• Power cord
• Wall Mounting Bracket
• Product Registration Card

Does it seem a little empty on the site today? That could be due to Woot’s advance team already being in Las Vegas! Last night the first wave of our crack CES Reporting Team arrived in style…

We found these beers at a bus station

...and now we immediately set to crawling through the city, hoping to find a hooker with a heart of gold who would give us a place to sleep. Our rooms won’t be ready until Wednesday, you see.

world’s largest hooker heart

When that didn’t work, we decided to check out the more neglected side of Vegas, the scenic Fremont area. It’s down a bit from the more famous casinos, but it certainly is charming.

such a fancy McDonalds

Nestled between the hotels like some budget Shangri-La, the “Fremont Experience” is a nice way to spend a night. But we have to be honest: if the Vegas Strip is like a grown-up’s Disneyland, Fremont is like a grown-up’s state fair.

we looked but did not find a petting zoo

But don’t take that as an insult, Fremont. We had fun! And can we compliment your groundbreaking outdoor roof?

get out of the way, lady, we want to see the roof

This mini-strip is covered by a roof of lights that makes it afternoon all day. There’s also an exciting light show where the roof comes alive! Sadly that happened while we were still on the plane so we didn’t get to see it.

Call us boring if you like, but the highlight for us was the never-ending cascade of neon signs.

That’s classic Vegas there, baby. And. naturally, we had to throw some money away on the slots before we went to bed. Scott lost two bucks. Matthew won five cents!

To see my pilot face to face/when i have lost the bar

We’ll be out here getting ready for CES for the next day or two, then plunging shank-deep into the madness and glory come Thursday so you don't have to.

For the least informative CES coverage anywhere on the Web, keep your eye on our CES 2009 channel.

At some point in the not-too-distant past, we asked you to show us a mythologized version of a scene from Woot's history. Legend has it that Wootbot visits all the good little Wooters the day prior to a Woot-Off and sprinkles energy powder on their last meals of the day. You'll know if you were visited or not if you had to prop your eyelids open with toothpicks at any point during the last Woot-Off. What? You fell asleep? Then you must not have been a good little Wooter and you probably missed that one item you would have bought if you had seen it in time. Or maybe you did do something right, because Wootbot has chosen to bestow the three cash winners with double-sized prizes just this once, in honor of the 200th contest. Maybe you can use it to invest in coal.

First Place - $200
cicada - Brave Ride in a Flying Chair
"They were heard to splat loudly."


Second Place - $100
majit - Don Quixote
This must be where the phrase "when the stick hits the fan" comes from.


Third Place - $40
taylormorgan - AOL chat
Just think, if it weren't for AOL, Woot wouldn't be here.


Honorable Mentions:
lockeroom - The One Commandment
Yep, that's one per day you have to follow. Today, don't covet your neighbor's InFocus projector and Sima inflatable widescreen. Click for embiggenation.



z144man - Toon's Tees
Will these be the next shirt.woot offerings?


yarisyokus - Big Banjo of Consternation
"If this boat starts sinking, one of you rowers will have to go."


joedeedee - Tomb Raider
We see what you did with Elvis there.


fyrefall - Detour #1
The Great Detour of 1929 is still used as an example today of how low Woot's marketing will go.


easy1 - Trojan Pig
Oh, boy, was it hot inside that thing. I'm still disturbed by that mysterious smell of peanut butter and raspberry jam. And all those moderators and writers - they fought like cats and dogs in that pig. It's a wonder we didn't get caught.


toby8915 - Warehouse Opening
Welcome to Woot, here is your complimentary Roomba.


Monkey Prize
GluonConcerto - Fun with Word Filters
Ovaltina you fat lard, come get some dinner!



Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, please email your shipping address to jtoon@woot.com. Maybe you should slip a twenty in with that email. Oh it won't fit in the envelope? Hmmm well you're on your own then to wait like the rest of the poor, monkeyless monkey winners. Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS for free shipping on a future order. Until next time remember: Don't try to catch a glimpse of WootBot. He only shows up when you're in the bathroom.