Brent’s Thoughts

this past sat Brent and I braved the extremely rainy weather to venture out to the large town known as Nashville to see a comedian by the name of Rodney Carrington. He is pretty popular, had his own tv show for a while. Brent had purchased the tickets several months ago. We started out by having a nice dinner at Smokey Bones and then got on our way to Nashville. We used the GPS to find our way to TPAC (tennessee performing arts center). Sadly, the GPS program was alittle off so we subsequently got alittle lost in downtown Nashville on a rainy sat night in the middle of what turned out to be a baptist convention (the streets were teaming with people and traffic). After both of us vowed to never live in such a big city, we found a place to park and were subsequently guided to TPAC by a nice man. the show was good, our seats were not too bad, but I still think that I prefer zanies . it is easier to get to, a smaller building so basically all the seats are good and they provide dinner with the show (and its cheaper). Anyways, the act was pretty good. we got outta there at around 9:30 or so and home at around 11:00 I think.

No not really, but Pauline and I decided to give some of the compact fluorescent bulbs from Sam’s Club the other day. We hadn’t really looked much into it, but we had both heard about the pluses to using them in terms of power usage and such.

They aren’t much change really in terms of light and such. We both are happy with them and I found this site that I thought was pretty cool.

http://www.onebillionbulbs.com It is an attempt to get people to change out their bulbs and watch as more and more people change them out.

It also has this saving calculator that I thought was pretty cool.

Well technically it is a girl, but someday I am sure that she will be a lady. J I sent everyone that I had cell phone numbers for a text message this morning when I found out. We called some other people too. Some of the less tech endowed people. J

We also got a video of the ultrasound and there is a lot of information in there that I think people might want to see. Mostly it is of the two arms, two legs variety, but it is neat to see as well. There isn’t much in terms of audio though, so I am currently working on an audio track to go with it, but for right now I am just going to post the video out here for anyone that wants to look at it. It is about 86 megs of video encoded into flash. I decided to youtube style it so that it would work for everyone.

I have spent the last few weeks really messing with HD signal in this area. Apparently I am not the only one, since while I was working on it there have been several channels added by the broadcasting networks here.
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I got a Wii last week and have been playing a lot of the Wii Sports. It is a good time and you would be surprised how much movement you end up doing. If you end up playing it for more than a few minutes you will find that you are sweating and getting pretty hot. Jeff has been coming over and we end up playing it for an hour or two. You are having a good time and getting a little bit of a workout at the same time.

After I got finished playing this morning I had something of an epiphany. What they really need to work on getting out for the Wii is an MMORPG. Everyone always complains about people that are playing them as doing nothing more than sitting around hitting the same button over and over. All they get done is grinding to a level. Well there is no way that you wouldn’t be getting exercise in an MMORPG on the Wii. Every aspect of it could be using the Wiimote and Nunchuck. Fighters would obviously have to use it in battle. Archers can use it too as Zelda shows. Spell casters won’t have as much swinging and stuff, but there is still plenty of movement that could be put in for them. Various designs would have to be drawn on the screen along with specific button presses or directions. Grinding would still be exercise as they would still have to use the Wiimote to perform whatever it is that they are attempting to do. Crafting could utilize the Wiimote as a way to test the person’s real life dexterity instead of just relying on chance and skill levels.

The other thing is that it would also cut down on the people that just spend their whole time in there; because there is no way that you are going to spend six hours jumping around punching and swinging. Even if you did the advantages to you would probably be pretty decent.