This is a post from the Wii!

 
Sup, dudes!
As you can see, or at least infer, I am writing this from the Wii!
Pretty awesome, no?
A useless function to be sure, but it sure does make me feel special!

Happy New Year! See you all in '07.

Real Quick, Guys

Here's a real fast update from your embedded reporter out here in the great state of Indiana.

Right now, I feel like a zepplin in hot pants. All the eating that has ensued over the past couple of days has swelled my mid section. One would have thought - or rather, ardently hoped that tall the Wii-ing would have counter-acted this situation.
Sadly, this is not the case. I think I am going to have to do some push-ups, or something, as soon as I get back to Ann Arbor.

The Wii is pretty fantastic, I will be honest. I have mostly been playing Wii-sports, but the Zelda game is also great and I cannot wait to explore the other possibilities. Im with my cousin Phil, the P-Man himself, and his homie Brain along with Phil's main squeeze Susie-poo. I mention this because we were in the Midst of a Wii-party, until me and Suse left for food and the guys tried to connect the Wii to the internet.
This was a mistake. The Wii has been doing some kind of software update for the better part of two hours.
Another note about the Wii. It has the ability to bring people who are completely un-interested in gaming into a video game. My cousin Paul, and his brother Matthew (who is also my cousin) played a great amount of Wii themselves in the past few days. This is surprising to say the least. Kudos, Nintendo!

Im trucking back to MI tomorrow. Hopefully, on the early side of the day.

Lots more to say, but it will all become a non-sensical babble.
Oh! We passed 100 posts to this blog not long ago! Hoo-ray! I did not think that I would maintain a continued interest in this whole blogging thing when I began all this!

Merry XMas, Kids.

Here's a short poem from all of us here in CHRISTMAS LAND.

Guess who got a Wii?
It was not you!
But it was me!

Merry Christmas to Mii.


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Things are well here in the house of Eddy. Me and the Geschwesters are all having a blast on our various electronic entertainment devices. Hope the holidays are treating everyone well!
Tomorrow we begin the journey southward to the great state of Indiana - which is as much a state of the union as it is a state of being. Bucephalus will accompany me on this trip, and I will be retunring no later than the 29th.
If you are in the Ann Arbor area come that time, look mii up for some GOOD NINTENDO TIMES.

(Oh man, the new Black Keys album is awesome)

In the Spirit of the Season

Im doing this for two reasons:

1. There was some interest in my Zoroastrianism paper. Some people did, in fact, want to read it! Those poor deluded fools.

2. I want to try out some of the new features of google, and blogger's integration with said features.

In the spirit of giving:

Yezers and Mainyus

The Reports Are In - I am Still Fantastic

I don't care if I was going around being all "oh man oh man I am going to fail oh man goodbye gradschool, hello panhandling oh man oh man," I knew I was gravy. I was just trying to throw off the odds so I could make a tremendous profit with my bookie. Here's the breakdown:

ACABS 393 - Zoroastrianism - A
I guess my 10-page paper turned out alright!

ENG 223 - Creative Writing - A
Oh man, maybe I am not a totally terrible writer!

ENG 305 - Intro to Modern English - B
DO YOU SEE THIS? THIS IS THE UP-SET OF THE CENTURY. I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO FAIL THIS CLASS.

ENG 383 - Jew Lit - ???
Im a little nervous here. I did very well on the first exam and alright on the first paper. The second exam was very stressful, but the second paper was alright. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how I did here.

HIST 318 - Europe 1870 - 1945 - P
P for PASS because I AM AMAZING. It was as very good class, and I did very (very) well on both exams, so I feel like a fool for taking it pass/fail.

Here's to hoping I get the classes I want for next semester!

Im Done!

Here's what I am learning from having sat on this couch and watched the SPIKE channel for 5 hours.

1. Star Trek Voyager is a very over-wrought show. The characters are one-dimensional, the plots are predictable, and the actors go about their job with the same subtlety of a man on fire wielding a sledgehammer.

2. Star Trek Voyager is a very entertaining show. I would say second only to DS9, which I remember fondly, though it was probably pretty terrible.

3. CSI is good for exactly 10 minutes. Possibly 15 minutes. However long it takes them to locate, dig up, and do the lab work on the corpse - that is exactly how long the entertainment of CSI lasts for. The rest is complete crap.

4. The music in CSI is trying so hard to be hip, and with it.

5. I want to kill the sound-track editor on CSI.

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I finished all my exams yesterday. Today, I turned in my Zoroastrianism paper. I don't know how the tests went, I don't know what to think about my paper. I'm hopeful, that is for sure!

I've been enjoying the blogs of the internet as of late, and I figure that I should try to get more regular with my updates. We'll just see how that goes.

See? I am getting better!

Free Audio Book!

iTunes required for download. It's the full 6-hour abridged version of John Hodgman's book, "The Areas of my Expertiese."

John Hodgman sound familiar? Here, we can do some priming to get the correct response out of you.

"Hi, I'm a Mac."

"And I'm a __________"

(John Hodgman, portrayer of the PC on Television, noted author, humorist and blogger)

HEY!

You'll notice that some things are missing from the blog site, namely the cool stuff that I added to the sidebar. That was done in the old Blogger. The old blogger is dead, long live the new blogger.

I'm trying out the new interface that blogger has. Looks good so far. I really like the ease of editing, and what appears to be some kind of tagging system. I'd like to see more integration with Journler - my blogging app of choice, though I suppose that is up to the developer.

It's also interesting that Blogger is still resisting the Social Networking thang. If I want to read a blogger blog regularly, I have to go to it often or check it in my RSS FeedReeder (NetNewsWire Lite (I am cheap)). It's probably a good move on their part, as it does differentiate them from 'the pack,' as it were, and give Blogger a some kind of "legitimacy" which LiveJournal lacks.

He's Still Not Done?

Max! Max! Are you back to normal yet?

What? No. Leave me alone, Im writing about ancient Jews.

But it's Christmas!

Is it? Crap. Well, I still have to finish writing about these 3000 year old Iranians.

I thought you said they were Jews.

Look, 2006 Year-End Resolution #14 was "Stop talking to myself so much." So take a hike, jack.

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Things are almost done. Really, almost. I finished two exams today (two hours each, solid block from 1:30 - 6), and the paper is now due tomorrow (thank God!), so I'm really, really, almost there.

I'll be glad when this semester is over.

Anyway, here's some things that I have been meaning to blog about for a while now. Since I am taking a short break before going back to looking up things in the Encyclopedia Judaica.

The Uncle Tuepelo Shop - This is basically for Mike, I guess.

And here's a video that was completely un-like the movies I saw at this years Lightworks - the student film festival, in that this movie is not awful.

WILL IT BLEND!?

That is the question!

Will-it-blend-dot-com

Things are generally improving. The semester is officially over, but I have two more exams and one very long paper yet to do. And the Gargoyle - can't ever forget the Gargoyle.

More updates as soon as I don't feel guilty about not working on school-related things.

Hello Hello Hello!

Well, here's what happened. I got pretty dang sick when I got back from Indiana - this really set me back in my school work. I've been trying to catch up for somet time, and I am just starting to get back on top of things.

Re: XMAS: Please, someone buy me This
Re: PRIZES: They'll be sent out soon! Hopefully, before the Holidays!
Re: GARGOYLE: The 2nd issue is done, and the third issue should be finished up by early January.

Hopefully I'll be able to start making more regular posts.

In the meantime, enjoy this awesome video that my main man KEITH made while driving back to DC.