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Today I learned how to sync a Wiimote, and some other things about setting up a Wii. We got our Wii at work last week and today various people were scheduled to go out in the meeting room and play with it, to get used to how it works. Well I was not one of those people, but I had a free hour so I invited myself out there. I helped get it set up for the first time and demonstrated for some people how to play Wii sports and Wii Play. I felt kind of smart. I know it's not hard, but still. Also, who gets paid to play video games for an hour? It was pretty sweet. I made miis of myself and one other guy I work with, and then other staff members proceeded to make the two of us box for the next hour. I thought it was hilarious.

Eighty one

Today I was farting around on Wikipedia and I read the article on three-card Monte. It's late though and I don't really feel like going into it. You can read it for yourself, if you want.

Forty eight

Today I learned how to set up PS2s, DDR, Guitar Hero, the controllers and the projector, and get the games started. And by "learned" I mean, "just did it." It wasn't as hard as I feared, even the projector. Setting up the screen was actually the hardest part...that thing is ghetto. And also I didn't know it existed, which makes everything harder.

Forty

Today I learned how to throw a frisbee, like...underhand? Backhand? I dunno. The opposite of how you normally do it. And I'm not very good at it but at least I know how to do it and can make it work.

I'm not as bad at throwing the frisbee as I thought I was. I can usually make it go to the person I want it to (TODD!). I did break a nail though.......

Thirty four

Today I learned the rules to a game called "Eat Poop You Cat." Basically you take a piece of paper, and the first person writes a sentence on it...then, the next person takes the paper and draws a picture that represents the sentence. Then the sentence gets covered up and you pass it on to the third person, so the third person just sees the picture, and they have to write a sentence that is a caption for the picture...cover up the picture and repeat as needed. It's basically like a game of telephone but with pictures and sentences alternating. In the end you get to look at the whole mess and see how everybody interpreted everything. It sounds like it could be pretty fun...and also extremely dirty, if I know my friends.

I learn about games a lot. I like games.

Thirty two, Thirty three

Grr, I'm tired. Sometimes I really wish I didn't have this blog.

Wednesday:

I learned that recycling is a waste. Apparently it is not efficient, creates a lot of pollution, costs a lot of money, etc. Also, our landfills are not running out of room and we won't be in trouble with landfills for many years. This is based on a paragraph off the back of Penn and Teller's Bullshit, but hey, I trust them. That's kind of a bummer because I'm usually pretty good about recycling stuff. Good to know I was wasting my time!

Today:

The term Frisbee comes from the Frisbie baking company that used to sell pies in pie tins that would later be thrown around for fun, mostly by college students. When Wham-O "invented" the Frisbee years later, they decided to go with that name for their product. More at Wikipedia under Frisbee.

Thirty one

Gah, is it Tuesday already? Today I learned how to play Wii Play. It is pointless and awesome. I can ride a cow, bitches!

Twenty

Remember that episode of The Office when they all went to a bar and played some drinking game about hiding a quarter? I thought they were saying "up chickens" and "down chickens," because I am an idiot, which seriously hindered my finding out what the actual rules of this game are. But thanks to some dumb luck and my generally overly-enthusiastic Office fandom, I finally came across this:

http://www.childrenparty.com/partygames/printversion/upjenkins.html

Jenkins, chickens...whatever. Also please note that the link is to a site called childrenparty.com. Haha. I guess Up Jenkins doesn't always have to be a drinking game. It sounds like it could be fun though.

Thirteen

Today I learned how to play Uno Attack! Good times ;).