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The Biggest Blue Light Letdown…

Jason — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:09:49 +0000

I came home from work today to the soothing glow of the blue light of my Wii.

I had a message! It must be important…new channel…better software update…what was it??

It was a stupid Metroid Prime marketing channel that played videos. Granted the game looks cool, but why'd they have to send a message out for THAT?

I just realized it's kinda sad when the first thing I think to post about what happend during the day was the blue Wii light and a marketing message…but here we are. I was so excited I even took a picture.

You let me down Nintendo…I'm never going to forget this.

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Freedom is Best Served Cold

Jason — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:20:25 +0000

I finally found some of Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream ice cream last night at Wal-Mart! I'm a semi-recent Colbert convert (if you consider a couple months to be "recent") so naturally, I was trying to find it all over the place. Finally struck gold at Wal-Mart last night.

It's quite tasty too. Not as good as Edy's Loaded Cookies & Cream, but still pretty good. Mmm…taste those chunks of freedom.

Fish update time: The water temperature stabalized at 79-80F which means my heater is working fine. Woohoo! It's going to possibly be a few more weeks before I actually stick fish in there though. I've decided I want to cycle it fishless to build up all of the good bacteria stuff without throwing a fish in there. This is assuming my patience continues as it is…

I figure it's not very nice to throw something into a pool full of toxic waste. That and I wouldn't enjoy if my betta kicks the bucket because I was impatient. I can wait a little bit.

In other news, nintendo finished fixing my broken wii remote. It should arrive today. They took it as a warranty repair which was handy because it was right at the end of it's 3 month warranty. I thought I might have had to pay for replacement…

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The Blue Light!!

Jason — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:50:13 +0000

I woke up this morning to the soothing blue light on my Wii that says I have a new message.

Apparently Nintendo added a new channel. A very, very odd channel.

Everybody Votes! Allowing you to answer a question and see how other people answered it. It also allows you to predict how people are going to answer the question.

Its…odd.

Sick = Bad

Jason — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:24:16 +0000

It’s been a little while since I posted, but I’m sick now and I can’t sleep, so I figure now is as good a time as any. But more on that later.

This weekend was busy, as they seem to be these days. I hung out with some friends on Saturday and we worked out the general itinerary for the trip to Washington DC next month.

Sunday was mostly spent doing half of the required reading for my Western Civ class, and then going over to my parents to watch the Super Bowl that night. Not a terrible game, but not a good one either. And the commercials weren’t all that great. It was that night where I started to feel a little weird.

Cut to 3am Monday morning and I woke up with a stuffy nose and a headache. I tried to sleep again, but only managed a couple of hours here and there. I ended up calling in sick to work, which was also probably a good thing because we had a massive lake effect winter storm yesterday too, which may actually still be going on. I can’t tell since it’s dark out at the moment. My temperature kept fluctuating yesterday, between 97 and 101 F, and I slept a whole bunch. The one good thing I can say about yesterday was Nintendo released Super Mario World (the SNES game) on the virtual console, so I was able to get some quality time in while laying down on the couch. Oh, and they canceled night classes yesterday, so the fact that I wasn’t able to finish the homework wasn’t much of a problem.

I woke up at 3 again this morning and haven’t been able to get back to sleep yet. I think I’m going to call in sick again today…

The Wii Report

Jason — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:43:38 +0000

I got my Wii yesterday after much anticipation. It rocks! Although I knew it would by playing with other people’s, but…having it right there is even cooler.

Setup went really well, except for the minor hitch where I plugged in the audio cables into my TVs inputs for AV instead of the ones for the component cables. I need to get a switcher so I can change between the Wii and my PS2.

I played a lot of Rayman last night, trying to unlock games for the Wii gatherings that I’m going to be having coming up here soonish with my family. Those racing minigames are killing me. I also played some Madden 07 which makes really good use of the Wiimote and nunchuck controls. I lost the game, but it was a fun loss. My only complaint about Madden is that the kicking is a little…weird.

After that I played more Zelda. I had a saved game which I had been playing over at my friends house, but I decided to start fresh so I could get better acquainted with the controls. I’m almost back to where I was on my other save right now, and my plan worked…I definitely know where thing’s are located better now.

So, all in all…two thumbs way up on the Wii. I’m really glad I spent the money on it.

This seems to be my pattern too, getting a brand new console right before Christmas. I got my PS2 about this same time last year too.

My friends code would be 5712 9739 8199 4949, for reference

I GOT A WII!

Jason — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:45:39 +0000

Wooohoo!

My bundle order from Toys ‘R Us.com yesterday actually went through! The hunt is finally over and I’ll have my Wii next week. I just got the tracking number a few minutes ago for it.

I’m really glad I don’t have to wait out in the cold for 8+ hours this weekend now.

The Nintendo Wii Shrine

Jason — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:35:44 +0000

The Shrine

Well, I don’t have a Wii yet (Just got the tracking number for my order from Toysrus.com, woot!), but I’ve been picking up hard to find Wii accessories for when I do get one and I’ve made a little Nintendo shrine on top of my TV in anticipation of getting it next week. Gotta store them all somewhere.

Too…Windy…

Jason — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:24:34 +0000

It’s been incredibly windy out today. The power has gone off twice as a result, which is kinda annoying. I got lucky the first time. I was playing some .hack on my PS2 and had just saved the game. 2 seconds later, the power goes out.

Today was the big Toys R Us Wii preorder thing that my friends were camping out for. They were first in line for it, and they got their preorder, after standing a couple hours outside in the freezing cold wind. They also apparently got caught in the crossfire of the people rushing to buy the new Tickle Me Elmo. Just figured I’d mention what happened since I brought it up earlier.

I went over to my parents briefly today as well. My mom was showing me this Hallmark christmas thing she bought that moves and sings some carol or something. I’m just glad I don’t live there anymore because I know my sister would be running by there every 5 minutes and punching the button to make it sing and dance.

Why are they selling christmas stuff already anyway?? It’s October! I swear, the holiday shopping season comes earlier every year.

Mmmmm…Guitar Hero 2 Demo

Jason — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:13:51 +0000

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while but last weekend I picked up the demo of Guitar Hero 2 for the Playstation 2 that’s available on the demo disc of the Official Playstation Magazine this month.

Wooo! Good stuff. Espically YYZ. I’m a big Rush fan and I was really happy to hear they included YYZ. It’s really, really complex, but it’s also fun “playing” a song that I know so well. Makes my hands hurt though after running through it. A friend of mine played it on a lower difficulty setting and said something to the effect that she heard all the notes she wasn’t playing and was scared. The Kiss song, Strutter I think, is also pretty fun to play.

I’m eagerly awaiting the release of the game in November, among other things. Like the Nintendo Wii. I just heard a couple of my friends (the same ones as mentioned above) are going to be camping out at Best Buy waiting for the midnight release. They’re nuts!