Hello folks! I am extremely tired but also an extremely happy little boy! Why? Because today, I am the proud owner of a brand-new Nintendo Wii, courtesy of my cousin, Tony!
Tony and I woke up real early this morning and headed over to the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center to line up for a chance to snag a Wii at 9AM. Brenda (his wife) drove us to the store and dropped us off at around 5:30AM (we arrived later than expected). We took the lawn chairs out of the trunk and totally just made the place in line our own.
With DS Lite units in hand, Tony and I managed to kill about 4 hours worth of cold-sitting/standing while playing games like Big Brain Academy and Tetris. It was great!
This was the line. We arrived at 5:30AM and stood at about the 34th and 35th place in line. Not too bad, but we got scared at first because we heard they only get about 25 shipments in each day. Then we knocked some sense into ourselves and realized that there were lots of FAMILIES in line and probably not buying a separate Wii for each of their children.
We weren’t very far from the entrance to Nintendo World. The building that ends with the glass windows is where the entrance is. So we were pretty close.
This is how excited (and tired-looking) Tony and I were after we received our official ticket to claim our individual Wii consoles! Yay!!!! SUPER HAPPY!
Right before we were let in, there was a guard at the door making sure no idiots were bum-rushing the place. He also made a great obstacle to cross as we were leaving the place because for some reason, he locked the other door and didn’t want to budge from his position IN FRONT of the other door. Err…but we squeezed passed and so did everybody else (unless they were fat).
My Nintendo Wii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His Wii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also made a pit stop at his office down the block at JP Morgan to use the bathroom. That’s why you’re all of a sudden seeing an office space.
The Wii console package comes with Wii Sports, but since ALL of the accessories were sold out, I just decided to buy two more games instead (Excite Truck & Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2). I have no idea how fun or how good these games are, but the titles were familiar to me, so I went with my gut instinct. Mmm!
FANTASTIC! TIME FOR SOME FUN! COME OVER AND PLAY (AND BRING YOUR EXTRA CONTROLLERS!!!!)
Early tomorrow morning (5AM precisely), I will be on line at Nintendo World in Midtown Manhattan (near Rockefeller Center) to snag me a Nintendo Wii console.
Actually, I will be buying two units plus accessories and games.
If you are awake, do come by and join me in a nice DS Lite game marathon as I wait for the store to open at 9AM. Yes folks, if all goes well, I will be going back home a happy little boy. :)
Here’s to hoping that it’ll work out well! Cheers!
Ok, apparently I can’t seem to curb my updating habits, so here goes another short one before I officially go off to enjoy Christmas festivities elsewhere!
I normally don’t get very excited about faucets, but if there ever was a faucet to get all crazy about, it probably would be this ring faucet. I want a ring faucet!
A photo of Denver International Airport during this week’s snow storm. Awesome. [via]
Enid asked me the other day if I had ever taken a Myers-Briggs test and I told her I had heard of it but had never actually taken it. So she goes online, pulls one from the internet, and tells me to start answering. I had no idea the test was so long, and halfway through I started thinking, “Man, I feel like I’ve answered some of these questions at the beginning!”.
So I took it and it turns out that I am (at that moment, at least) a ESFP (Extroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving). Since I was borderline “sensing” and “perceiving”, Enid says that depending on my mood when I take the test, my results can vary. Well, fellow ESFP’ers, let’s unite. Or is the whole purpose of this test to mix different personalities together? Maybe a group of ALL the same personality types would be a disaster. Yikes.
There’s a really neat group on ThisNext called recycles your decks that lists some really cool furniture and items that can be made (or have been made) with recycled decks, boards, and skis. I absolutely love the stuff that’s there and if I had more decks to throw around, I would totally do this. But alas, I do not have tons of decks to play around and build with. Boo! [via]
A new study finds that people with low self-esteem don’t seem to like it much when a story ends with a twist. In a whodunit, they like the “who” to be the person they suspected all along.
“People whose self-esteem tends to be a little low,” Dr. Knobloch-Westerwick said, “they probably enjoy that little self-esteem boost they apparently get when they say, ‘I knew it all along!’ ”
Heh, I think that’s really funny and I can definitely name a few people off the top of my head right now who I know always end up hating a movie because of a “stupid twist”. Maybe they have low self-esteem…or not. I shall see! WHEE!
I’m gonna be in and out this coming week as I am celebrating Christmas as well as moving the finals remnants of the old apartment into the new apartment.
Since it’s Christmas Eve (man, really? It doesn’t feel like it) I thought I’d post this Christmas Eve poem by Bill Watterson, creator of my absolute favorite comic, Calvin and Hobbes.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a photo series by Daniela Edburg that comments on our secret cravings and over-indulgences — specifically in terms of food — by “killing” off gorgeous, young, beautiful women.
Here’s an excerpt:
For anyone who has eaten the whole box, or bag, or carton the photographs in this series make light of our secret binges. Here, the consequences of indulgence are tabloid or monster movie deaths. Daniela Edburg’s Drop Dead Gorgeous both mocks and satisfies our cravings.
Why do food and beauty products have such a sinister effect on the women in your photographs?
I guess I am pretty compulsive. That which gives me pleasure one minute, causes guilt the next. I am surprised at how much I like the products I consume, but, if you stop for one second to think about it, it’s absurd. Yet, you can’t stop. [The work] is not a criticism it’s just an exaggeration of my own reality.
It’s a fantastic concept that’s really well done I think. Check out the rest of the photos in the article and then read about how she came about her idea for this photo project.
Heart-broken little Asian boy. [via]
Heh, Simon says the little boy in the video reminds him of me because when I was younger I had that same haircut and I used to roll on the floor when I got upset. I never gave flowers and gifts to girls at performances though. Had I known it would have given me this sort of Japanese fame, I probably would have started to though. ;)
Cover album art for Switchfoot’s new album Oh! Gravity. to be released December 26, 2006 (in a couple of days).
I had the opportunity to listen to Switchfoot’s new album Oh! Gravity. (yes, with the period at the end) and here are my initial thoughts:
“Oh! Gravity” and “Head Over Heals (In This Life)” are two catchy tunes.
Heh, track 11, entitled, “4:12″ is precisely 4 minutes and 12 seconds long.
Rocks harder than previous two mainstream albums
Didn’t love it the first time around.
Didn’t love it the second time around.
Didn’t love it the third time around.
I’m gonna give it some more time to sink in — maybe I’ll have my initial thoughts reversed!
I haven’t had to use Google Maps lately so I don’t know exactly when they rolled out the new “add destination” feature to their Google Maps directions, but dang is it cool. You can specify which route you want Google Maps to take now by adding a “mid-point” or “in-between” destination in the middle of your starting and ending points. It’s a very useful (and I’m assuming often looked-over) feature so do check it out.
And is Yahoo! Local Maps trying to kill itself with all of those ads and product/service tie-ins??? And wow, their satellite imagery is THE SUX. One thing that’s good though is that I think their flash interface loads faster than Google’s type of pages. Then again though, Yahoo!’s zooming feature sucks big ones. Like, it’s VERY BAD and dizzying. Bleh.
By now, of course, the walls are a visual riot; most pieces have been crossed out, some multiple times. This is not the collaboration that usually marks streetart– this is hardcore crossing-out, which is graffiti’s version of rape.
Why doesn’t this stuff happen to all graffiti walls? Simple: there are costs assigned to using the walls. First, there is the obvious danger of getting caught, and arrested. A very real cost that prevents most people from going up. Second, there is the time involved– you’ve got to come out late at night, and that discourages still more people. Finally, because everyone recognizes these costs, people don’t disrespect work as much. They understand that each piece has a lot of value– that each piece was created at real cost to the artist. None of that was true here– and that’s why you’re looking at this mess.
I seriously thought about this when I first saw the 11 Spring St. project with my own eyes. I used to walk and pass by the building on 11 Spring Street all the time before the project took place and I always recalled that the walls were never empty. They were always full of artists’ work (both good and bad) and the walls’ larger works were like permanent staples on that corner. The smaller works and “newer” artists were subject to vandalism by other groups (for whatever reason).
Anyway, when I first saw the 11 Spring St project unfold, I immediately thought, “What about the artists who had taken their time to put stuff up there first? Would they just be covered up by this project and de-faced in front of the entire NYC?” I couldn’t believe that something like this was happening. Don’t get me wrong, I was extremely excited for the 11 Spring St project to go live because of the artists and the work I’d be seeing personally, but I couldn’t help but think that it’d be a great disrespect for the people who already “owned” the outside of the building with their work. It was as if other artists were being commissioned and asked to take another artist’s work down (so to speak).
I think Jake says it and explains it much better than I do, so be sure to read his opinion on it. Well said, Jake.
Oh yeah, and I totally forgot to post the new FULL trailer to the upcoming Transformers movie. With Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg on board, this movie should be a pretty decent action flick. I just hope they don’t F it up. The film comes out July 4, 2007. WHY THE HELL ARE THE “BAD” ROBOTS MAKING ALIEN NOISES?!?! WTF! THAT’S SO STUPID!!!!!
I don’t know why anybody would even bother installing AIM anymore. Meebo does everything AIM does and much, much more. Along with its sleek and streamlined look, Meebo offers logged chats, cross-platform functionality, cross-network capabilities (Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, GTalk), and not to mention a host of other neat little features such as saved away messages, buddy icons, and settings — all available to you from wherever you can get an internet connection.
I really love how the Meebo team is always developing their client. It’s awesome!
I love Gmail. In the past week, I’ve used Gmail more than any other service I subscribe to. I don’t know why I’m writing this sentence.
I accumulated a lot of miscellaneous links last week. Here are some of them that made it through final pickings.
NowPublic now has some stiff competition coming from a big source: Yahoo! News has launched You Witness News, another site for social reporting by YOU. You contribute photos (and videos) and articles about news that you deem worthy, and the rest of the internet “votes” on what story is important. You basically get to participate in what MSM might label as “true citizen-driven media”, and that my friends, is neat!
Assuming that NYC does nothing with its transportation system from here on out, NYC will have all-day rush hour by 2030. Of course, no city, not even NYC, is going to leave its transportation and housing untouched so this report is sorta dumb. If anything, this article is simply saying what could happen if NYC doesn’t look to the future. Uh…duh?
To everybody that says I play too much and don’t ever put any time into my work, well, suck on this. Because this Fall 2006 semester was one of the hardest semesters that I’ve had so far in my entire college career (both at Rutgers and Parsons), and I still managed to get decent grades and have lots of fun. There were weeks where I spent all day at the printing labs, but I always made sure that I made up time studying/preparing with time having fun. I think it all comes down to knowing that you can be good at something without having a dumb letter of the alphabet tell you otherwise. Grades have nothing on me. Suck it, school. :)
