{"id":251,"date":"2007-07-19T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/pax-and-ds-madness\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T12:53:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:53:43","slug":"pax-and-ds-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/pax-and-ds-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX and DS madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. Dan and I are going to PAX<\/a>! 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. <\/p>\n

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<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

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… <\/p>\n

…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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. Dan and I are going to PAX! That alone makes me (and KEEPS me) giddy as a schoolgirl. 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