Wow. Dan and I are going to PAX! That alone makes me (and KEEPS me) giddy as a schoolgirl. But right now I’m doubled up on happy sauce – to prepare for the big adult-kidfest, I just picked up a DS lite.
I didn’t know much about it, except it was “hot” and there would be tons of multi-player action available at PAX. To put this in perspective, and to show my age, this is the first thing close to a console that I’ve had since the Atari 2600. This is not one of the many exaggerations to which I am prone. I’m a PC zealot. But the PAX draw was too strong – there will be lots of long lines filled with people searching for DS multi-player fun. And Dan is going to have one, thanks to Bailey, who agreed to loan hers to him. Did I mention Dan is going to have one? Enough said. With Andrea kindly prompting me to indulge, I couldn’t resist.
What I did NOT realize is that I don’t have to wait for PAX to drink up the multi-player joyousness. The lone game I have, MarioKart DS, is “WiFi-enabled”. My understanding was that if I bought some form of WiFi hardware addon, somewhere down the road I would be able to play at selected locations like McDonald’s (gag), but I wouldn’t have enough change left for fries. Boy was I wrong. The DS is ready to roll off the shelf! All you have to do is configure it to connect to your wireless router. SWEET! I grabbed the MAC address, added it to my router’s MAC filter list, stuffed a WEP key in it, and set up the IP. Minutes later I had three other thugs kicking my tail all over the track. OK, with a little muscling I moved up to 2nd place. How do you spin your tires on the starting line?! Wow. I was not prepared for this…
…and I promised Andrea I wouldn’t let it interfere any more with “real life”, from which I’ve already abandonded her far too often to hang with my computer mistress… uh-oh…
you’re back–oh happy day!!!
Any guy with his own tech blog needs to some a little splainin’ when his server is GONE for days on end :-)
PAX sounds neato!
yeah, sorry ’bout that.. i kinda blew things up… :P
http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/MP3Tracks/Falungong6.mp3
Oh yes. Lots more tracks there too… go Mick!
http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/MP3Tracks/Buckethead12.mp3
Eat purple stuff… thought you might find today’s report interesting… when are you going to update the site?
BOSTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — The compounds that give color to most red, purple and blue produce — anthocyanins — may slow the growth of colon cancer cells, a U.S. study showed.
Lead author Monica Giusti of Ohio State University tested the anti-cancer effects of anthocyanin-rich extracts from a variety of fruits and vegetables including grapes, radishes, purple corn, chokeberries, bilberries, purple carrots and elderberries.
The researchers found that the amount of anthocyanin extract needed to reduce cancer cell growth by 50 percent varied among the plants — extract derived from purple corn was the most potent, while chokeberry and bilberry extracts were nearly as potent as purple corn.
Radish, the least potent, took nine times as much of the compound to cut cell growth by 50 percent.
“All fruits and vegetables that are rich in anthocyanins have compounds that can slow down the growth of colon cancer cells, whether in experiments in laboratory dishes or inside the body,” Giusti said in a statement.
Giusti and colleagues presented the findings at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
Hey, are you and Dan off to Seattle today? Thought of you guys when the GenCon gamers blitzed Indy this month… have fun and drop all your rowdy friends an update sometimes soon!