8 posts tagged “wii”
And if Serena can't beat him, she don't want none of this.
After a morning of present opening, discussions of The Godfather of Soul, breakfast and dinner cooking, bread making and game playing with my sister, I left my parents' home in the afternoon with them using the opera browser on the internet channel of the Wii via their wireless connection watching James Brown videos via youtube.
We'd just finished making their Miis. They'd already cracked up at my sister and I playing tennis like fools and my sister's kick boxing style of Wii boxing. My mom had provided tips on how to better cast my fishing rod on The Legend of Zelda but at 1:30 in the afternoon, we were mesmerized. James Brown was performing Sex Machine (a late 70s James Brown) in full screen on their large screen television.
We had a discussion about Youtube and why they aren't the new Napster. We talked about how this relates directly to what I do at work every day in practical terms that they actually got. It was one of the few times that I actually got to have a conversation that was really about what I do and not just what my company does.
Merry Christmas, Nintendo. I *heart* you.
vs.
One controller is shaped like a sleek television remote (sometimes called the Wii-mote); the other plugs into the remote with a short wire, creating a vague resemblance to the two-handled martial-arts weapon it is named for, the nunchuk.
And beneath the controllers’ white plastic shells are an array of time-tested digital technologies working together in new ways.
- At the Heart of the Wii, Micron-Size Machines by Michel Marriott. The New York Times, 12.21.06
Now if only stores actually had wii-motes and nunchuks in stock...
Right next to each other in my neighborhood this morning:
Eloise's Doh (about the Wii).
Cecily's D'Oh (about car towing).
My Wii is supposed to be in the mail I think and they only charge $50 for a tow in Canada?
I'm moving north.
Bonus Neighborhood note: Hopluv's rabbit picture is nuts.
