2 posts tagged “caffeine”

I was sitting on the couch before I arrived at my current caffeinated state and wondering why do we celebrate the New Year. I watched a slurred, sad Dick Clark count down the numbers and watched an overhyped and frigid New York celebration. Soon the "exciting" bit was over and I felt a little underwhelmed. Somewhere between the living room and my bedroom, fireworks started shooting and I thought about all those people celebrating.

And for what, I thought?

Then I came up with it. We're celebrating this because it's something that represents what goodness there is in human nature. The fact that we do get chances to try again, opportunities to regenerate and we become part of the idea that no matter what's happened and how often we've screwed things up, a New Year will always come, unchanging and unbiased towards our behavior.

So now I'm in my caffeine induced state and it really makes a lot of sense to me. We're celebrating not the coming of a new year as a physical change of calendar or even as a marker for the end of an old calendar. We're celebrating that we can still keep flipping that calendar and that with it comes a whole new calendar's worth of opportunity.

Just when you're about to get overwhelmed by consumerism and popular culture, it's important to remember that we can still all celebrate the idea of a whole year of new opportunity and the ceaselessness of that coming of that opportunity.

And that's a great feeling. So let's celebrate that!

So, I'm in a much better mood sort of thing tonight. There's music playing, I'm doing homework (Easy stuff, so I can do it an blog at the same time. Plus I'm not nearly as ADD as people usually are at fourteen.) (Or maybe I just don't let it bother me as much as them. Take it and run with it.) Thanks for all the nice people that commented on my last blog post, (Which was yesterday, believe it or not.) and, although we're all missing Katsy, mom did manage to get some pretty good pictures of her under the Christmas tree. So at least we can still see her...

At the suggestion of fellow blogger cedarwaxwing, I'm now going to go on a caffeine fueled rave of the Nintendo Wii.

Firstly, the Wii is the first video game thing I've been excited about in a very long time. (Long enough ago that the first one was the Playstation, and to a lesser extent, the DS a couple years ago was pretty exciting too.) And since I got my Mac, I hadn't felt so strongly about any electronic doohicky. Playing the Wii is pretty darn amazing. It reaches some sort of Mac level in the way everything works and fits together. Everything works together so well (As far as the Wiimote, nunchuck, and games work together.) you hardly realize that you aren't playing a traditional system. The motion sensitive controller isn't going to kill any couch potatoes (like me!) with all the arm movement, but it definitely adds to the game experience and actually makes it much more believable.

Speaking of believable, the graphics of the Wii get trashed a lot. They are not Xbox 360 or PS3 quality. But they are better than the graphics on the original Xbox. Which reminds me of something else. Gameplay on the Wii is very slick. Slick as in... Again, something very Mac-ish. Wii Sports is not the prettiest game of all time, although it may just be one of the most fun games of that type of all time. And bowling is fantastic. (Just thought I would put that in there, for good measure.)

By the way, the Wii browser is most definitely very niccccce Very nicccccccccce indeed, Batman.

The only real bad thing I can think of, is that it does not have a hard drive like the PS3 or Xbox360. Everything is saved onto a an SD flash card. Which can be good. Or bad, depending on how you look at it. It also has very good support for digital cameras, with an image viewer built right in. Don't really know why it's there, but it's pretty cool.

And the Wiimote feels really nice when you hold it in your hands.

Thus ends my rave of the Nintendo Wii.

Have a good day/night!