The Wii U

Well, there is a new gaming console coming out on the 18th of November called the Wii U.  It is basically a Wii, but they wanted to try to encorporate tablets into the gaming system, so they took a Wii remote and stuck a screen in the middle of it.  However, there is only one of these tablet remotes per Wii U console, so everybody else that wants to play has to use normal Wii remotes and nunchucks.  I watched a presentation on it by the President of Nintendo America, and frankly I was kinda disappointed.  I really like the Nintendo brand, but they do have one flaw, which is they don't make processing power or graphics a focus in their systems.  So the only difference between this new $300-350 console and the old Wii, is this one controller with a touch-screen (uses a stylus), that is entirely too big!  It's about three times as thick as an iPad! Some people may be excited for it because it represents the new wave of next generation gaming consoles, and I understand that Nintendo focuses mainly on games for smaller kids, but I do wish that they would have done a little bit more to make this console more superior to the Wii.  I think that it will probably take off during the Holiday season, because everything does.  But we will see just how good people think it is a few months after the initial Holiday rush.

Midnight showings

Okay, so this week my wife and I got The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray, and it reminded me of when my wife and I went to go see it.  We had this "fun" idea to go and see the midnight showing, because I had never been to a midnight showing.  Well, I don't know if it would have been more fun with more people or something, but I was just too tired to really enjoy the movie.  I didn't realize just how much until we watched it again at home and I felt like I hadn't seen have the movie.  I don't think I will ever go to another midnight showing.  It just kinda ruined the movie theatre experience for me.

Friends

So this past week I was watching en episode of Friends with my wife, and it was one of the episodes from the second season, and I realized that this was almost twenty years old! The show was aired in 1993, and I just remember thinking that it is kinda normal to hear jokes and things about gays and lesbians on TV nowadays, but back in 1993 it was really pushing the envelope.  That made me think more about how the media world has really degraded in the last twenty or so years, because things that used to be totally sketchy back then are practically common place now.  I sure hope that this pattern doesn't continue.  If it does, I'm afraid there won't be anything for me to watch!

The Zombie Song!

Hey so I know this second post is basically right after my other one, but I had to show everyone my cousin's music video!  Her name is Stephanie Mabey.  Just click the link to see the video on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNqub966Tw

Hey, so the "poems" in my first post were just a test to make sure that my blog was working.  They have nothing to do with media.  My blog will be directed toward media and will share various ways that the media has influenced me.  Speaking of which, the first media event for this week occured while I was watching the last two Harry Potter movies with my siblings.  We started discussing how Voldemort didn't have a nose.  We eventually concluded that it must have been a symbol for the fact that he was kinda like a Slitherin House junkie, and so his nose evovled into a snake nose during one of his soul splits or something.  We actually looked up the actor who portrayed him on IMDB just to make sure that HE had a nose!  lol.  Well I guess sometimes we let the media and "Hollywood Magic" trick us quite a bit, and sometimes we just don't know when something is real or fake anymore.  Just something to think about...

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Purple butterflies.            

                           

Purple butterflies should never be allowed to form their own badminton teams.

Badminton teams are typically great at sky diving over salt water lakes.

Salt water lakes can't be used for bottle openers during the month of may.

The month of may is the best time for yodeling and bike riding.

Yodeling and bike riding should not be done while eating peanut butter.

Eating peanut butter can cause warts.

Warts never grow on carrier pigeons.

Carrier pigeons can be very deadly when they are allowed to drive golf carts.

Golf carts require rigorous amounts of paper.

Paper is extremely valuable on Mars.

Mars depends greatly upon the misuse of hair gel.

Hair gel is largely made from crushed dandelions.

Crushed dandelions can't survive unless eaten by an armadillo.

An armadillo will only attack someone if it hasn't had arthritis.

Arthritis leads to faulty barbecue lids.

Faulty barbecue lids can only be fixed by purple butterflies.

A Grey Back Gorilla.

A grey back gorilla always gives generously to charity.

Charity is a characteristic best demonstrated by anteaters.

Anteaters cause two thirds of the worlds earthquakes and tornadoes.

Earthquakes and tornadoes only hold tea parties on Tuesday the fifteenth.

Tuesday the fifteenth is the only day of the year that it rains in both Fiji and Morocco.

Both Fiji and Morocco supply the world with most of the albino caterpillars.

Albino caterpillars can't lay eggs unless they are exactly three feet off the ground.

Three feet off the ground is the regulatory height for zebras that play Rugby.

Rugby causes more deaths a year than curtain rods.

Curtain rods are the most unused part of brown condos in Maryland.

Maryland became a state on the same day that China banned golf caddies.

Golf caddies can only ride a unicycle during a full moon.

A full moon usually creates great stress in the beams under the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Golden Gate Bridge will be painted turquoise in the future.

In the future every household will have a grey back gorilla.