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Archive for February, 2007
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I’m going to make an effort to write at least something about most of the media I consume this year. This is part of an ongoing effort to overburden myself with enough small projects that I won’t see any of them to completion. If I do, however, it will result in a nice little recap of my year.
Wii, Liberace-style
While I’m not one to scoff about running a ton of exposed wiring around my living room, the Wii’s presence underneath my projector screen when I had moved all my other electronics across the room irked me. It bothered me so much that I stopped playing it (it helped that I had to start all my games over from scratch and the 360 was currently occupying my time) and left it disconnected over with the other electronics.
Well, a couple of things changed that. First, I bought Wario Ware when it was released and it’s been sitting unopened, begging me to play. Second, the Geek from the Weekly Geek podcast owned up to using candles to replace his sensor bar.
Allow me to nerd out and explain: The sensor bar does not receive any information from the remote nor does it send any information back to the Wii. All it’s comprised of is a bunch of IR transmitters on either side of the bar that the Wiimote uses to position itself in relation to the screen. The wire that connects it to the Wii serves only to power the bar. Therefore, you can replace your sensor bar with any two sources of IR light which just so happens to be pretty much any light source. Such as candles.
So no, I’m not on a date with my Wii. The candles serve a purpose other than making the room that much more romantic.
Although I did get a little too into Wario Ware.
February 1, 2007 1:55 PM - A Natural Pose
Where I Am: In my finally-finished kitchen
What I’m Doing: Assuming the camera is pointing somewhere it isn’t, looking like a hunched-over douche as a result
Well, the kitchen is finished. For now. That’s the new sink I’m posing next to.
We’ve got the appliances and cookware from the bridal shower (which happened back in…April? May?) out of the closet and on the counter or stored away. The only things left to do is install a backsplash and buy new appliances, both of which are a long way off. I feel like I’ve typed this before. If I ran out of things to talk about in a month, I should just quit.
January 31st, 2007 8:32 PM - Superchunk
Where I Am: In my Living Room
What I’m Doing: Standing in front of a television show so unfamiliar it’s bordering on disturbing
It’s been a month since I started this project and I haven’t learned all that many lessons for all the mistakes I’ve made. You would think I would take several photos over the course of a day to prevent a true depiction of my fatness being forced upon the world.
It’s not just the camera though. I’ve gone from cheating on my diet to completely neglecting it. I could give a million excuses, some of them valid (I had a non-functioning kitchen for a month), some of them flights of fancy (for every pound I lose, an angel dies) but it really just boils down to this: food is delicious.
This Friday I’m heading to Walt Disney World and returning again the following weekend. This is the event that Lisa and I have been pointing to as the last hurrah of our porky indulgence.
We’ll see.
January 30, 2007 8:02 PM - What A Difference A Photo Makes
Where I Am: My Office
What I’m Doing: Living in a world of filth
That patch of filth has been on my office wall for as long as I can remember. It’s never really bothered me until I took a picture of it. I mean, I’m looking at it as I type this. It’s just a couple of scuff marks where someone leaned on the wall and put their shoe against it. It’s really nothing.
Look at the photo, though. It’s so distracting. It looks as if I’m just surrounded by filth and squallor. Which isn’t really that much of an exaggeration, it’s just more uncomfortable when put into words and photographed.
