Yeah, see ya!

Dang, maybe I should have waited overnight for a Nintendo Wii. I mean, if I was guaranteed to meet mad crazy gamers like this, it might have been quite entertaining!

Hey, don’t laugh. After going five days without sleep even before you get in line, you’d be just as delirious as him. Come on, who needs sleep? “SCHLEEPS FOR BAAIBIES, GAMERSCH PLAY ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!”

Link via Kotaku

It feels like everyone and their uncle has a Nintendo Wii except for me. I’ve wanted one of these babies since way back when. Now that it’s out, not so much.

It isn’t that I have lost interest in the console. I just think that the extra $300+ could go to something more important right now. We still need a new couch for the living room and I could go with a super comfortable chair in my room. The walls are pretty bare as well and some posters or graphic artworks may be what the doctor has ordered. Has this Self-Proclaimed Rock Star turned from Electric Playground to Trading Spaces?! Maybe till I get my new apartment in order, but not for long.

Besides, I still need to unlock and master several songs on Guitar Hero 2. There is also my new SLI video card set-up that I have to use and abuse. I’m thinking of cranking up all the graphic settings on Oblivion to see what two video cards can do! That is, if I can find the CD for it. *le sigh*

So for now, I’m going to hold off on all the crazy motion sensor fun, and stick with my current gaming set-up. Who knows, if I hold out for another six months I may be able to get my own Wii in a fancy colour!

When washing your whites in the laundry machine, put the bleach in the bleach dispenser first before you add your clothes to the washing machine. That way when you accidentaly spill some bleach into the washing machine it doesn’t splash on your dress shirts, ruining them completely.

[le sigh] There goes my only dress shirt with french cuffs.

So Marmy, what’s happening? Now I know you were talking about the movie Office Space recently and that you’ve been playing World of Warcraft. Did you happen to talk to the advertisement department at Blizzard? Yeaaaah, well, they seemed to have been influenced by you somehow because they came up with the following commercial.

Night Elves are in your blog, stealing your marketing ideas.

Link via Siliconera

Hey David, get your name on toast for charity.

Link via Fosfor Gadgets

The boys at Penny Arcade have started up their Child’s Play Charity campaign again. They are calling on all the gamers out there to help bring a smile to a kid who will be stuck in the hospital during this Holiday Season. Hospitals from around the world have put together Amazon Wish Lists and Child’s Play works with the gaming community to complete the lists for them. You get to help those in need and shows the blowhard Jack Thompsons of the world that gamers are not all about sex and violence.

Last year I asked my friends and family to contribute to Child’s Play instead of buying me a Christmas gift. Of course, being the fabulous people they are, they helped buy several books, toys, and video games for The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. I cannot begin to thank all of you enough. This year, I would appreciate it if you all did the same thing. Instead of spending money on a gift to me, take that cash and spend it on an item on this wish list. The toy will go straight to the hospital and into the arms of a grateful child. On December 25th, just give me a card telling me what you bought and that would be more then enough for me.

I debated on whether to do this again or to accept much needed gifts for my sparse apartment. In the end I realized getting stuck in a hospital during the holidays is far worse then my silly predicament. So do it for the kids, not for me. Thanks.

Oh my Biscuits! Here’s a neat way to multiply two numbers using a line diagram. You take the first number and draw lines running one way corresponding to the digits in that number. Then take the second number and draw a similar set of lines but perpendicular to the first set. Once that is set up, just count the number of intersections and you’re done.

Here, this video does a better job of explaining it.

I understand how this parallels the standard way to multiply two numbers. It is nice to see numbers visualized a different way. Sometimes people get phased by all those numbers rolling around the page. With this method, you barely have anything to worry about aside from drawing a straight line. Bravo!

Link via Neatorama (it really is neat!)