11.30.06

True Horror

Posted in Site News at 11:21 pm

I know that none of my regular readers exist on the West Coast, but I still ought to pass this along: James Kim and his family have been missing for five days. They simply vanished without a trace on Saturday evening. Mr. Kim is a CNET staff member, so it is unlikely that if he was inconvenienced he would not call; put another way, a guy who works for a major tech review site will find a way to call assuming he is physically able to do so. I certainly do not want to speculate at all on the matter, even though the existing evidence does point to something beyond a mere misunderstanding.

Of course, I have hope. After all, the entire world is looking for him now.

Wii Like To Party

Posted in Anime, City of Heroes/Villains, World of Warcraft at 7:08 am

Quick shots before I head into work. I’ve undertaken a minor little side project to get all my music organized, and that means rating each and every one of my 18,000 some songs. Fortunately, I’ve managed to work it out; 1700 songs a day, and I should have it taken care of in no time flat. I bet I could even do better on the weekends, y’know, if I got really bored.

World of Warcraft continues apace. I figured out a system, actually– I play on the weekends, exhausting my character’s rest bar, and then let her sit idle all week. So, yeah, nobody here cares. Gotcha. Oh, and City of Heroes’ Issue 8 did hit on Tuesday. So full of love for that, but I need to play my villain more. I might go ahead and skip that, though, ’cause a lot of the new content is hero-exclusive. The one thing that would really help my villain is the trenchcoat, which is something that a Carmen Sandiego clone really needs to have, y’know?

I got my hands on a Wii. Well, a Wiimote, actually. I saw the EB demo kiosk running Excite Truck, and handed over my (almost empty) wallet to give it a try (the controller was not tethered to the machine, so to prevent theft it was necessary to temporarily trade your ID for the remote). I can honestly say that I’m underwhelmed by Excite Truck. The game uses the remote as an almost-traditional controller, except that steering and jumping are tilt-controlled. Overall it’s not a bad game, just kind of… meh. What did fill me with absolute giddiness was the Mii Channel (yes, I started poking around the system’s menu, what of it?). After taking a few seconds to orient myself with the controller as pointer, I was quickly zipping along. It was a pretty unique experience, making a replica of myself on this machine. While the proprietors weren’t going to change the disc (it was 8:45p by then and he was busy with other, paying customers), I was excited to know that once Wii Sports did make its way into the machine, ‘I’ would show up. Ah well. Maybe next time.

Last thing: I picked up the boxed set of Crest of the Stars last night. However, it was close to 11:00 by the time I got home and finished dinner, so that’s something that will have to wait until the weekend. But rest assured, I will (finally) watch it.