So I've been spending some quality time with the Wii lately.... damn that sounds bad. Anyway, I've been playing Wii Play (Gold on 8 out of 9), Elebits, and I've been getting old school with Super Mario World and Super Mario 64. I had been going for Pro on all of Wii Sports too, but I haven't played it much lately. I'm Pro on Tennis, Bowling and Boxing right now. I do like Elebits, our newest game, but I've taken a break from it I guess.

I must have been in need of a Mario fix or something because I just got all 120 stars and beat the shit out of Mario 64, and now I'm most of the way through Mario World, but the Star Road/Special courses have been kicking my ass a little bit. These may be old games, but they are GOOD ones!

UPDATE: beat Super Mario World as well, all 96 levels/exits. Crossed that one off the list; on to the next!

Posted by ra in games at 19:54 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

I recently got my first new keyboard in a long time. In the past there have been very few viable options in keyboards for me, because of a lack of industry interest in ergonomic, corded keyboards (the only kind I like to use). I've seen cordless ergo keyboards around but I'm still a little wary of broadcasting my every keystroke through the air. I've experienced problems with wireless keyboards at client offices where different keyboards and receivers crossed signals and I actually saw one that was receiving input from the wrong keyboard 35 ft away, and through multiple walls. Yikes.

So I finally found a nice corded one. It is the Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000. This one is not actually split-style like my old favorites, the Microsoft Natural series, but instead incorporates some stretched and curved keys to give you similar hand position as the old style. It's also black, and looks awesome. I hate the way beige keyboards look over time. Even if you keep them clean, they start to yellow and look like crap. The Comfort Curve feels very good and it's is a big improvement over my old keyboard, which was quite noisy. It uses very short, low profile keys and they are very quiet even with fast and heavy typing. Oh how I love quiet keyboards!

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