Yay games!

I sold my older Kodak digital camera for about $100, which tipped the scales enough for me to get my DS Lite (so now I can stop whining about it). Also picked up an accessory kit, Brain Age, Cooking Mama, Meteos (display copy) and Need for Speed Most Wanted (used, for Matt). Meteos and NFSMW are going back, though. Not too interesting. I found it's almost more effective in Meteos to just repeatedly, rapidly scribble the stylus back and forth across the screen and just forget about strategy. Lost interest real fast. Matt prefers his digital crack on the computer (bigger screen, better control for him).

I was a little dismayed to receive an initial brain age of 50. FIFTY!! Yegads. The trouble I'm encountering with the game is it has trouble recognizing some of my numbers (hurting me in the calculation exercises: I'll get the answer right, but it reads it wrong), and it can't read my "k"s. I spent most of the time in the word memorization trying to get it to recognize "punk". But I'll learn to create letters it can recognize.

Cooking Mama is cute, but I have some trouble controlling the speed/whatever of the stylus. Peeling carrots is tough; I haven't gotten the whole way through a practice session yet!

Battlestar's love letter to the shippers

Holy cow. Last Friday's Battlestar was...well, raw. It had Kara/Lee, it had Adama/Roslin, it had boxing interspersed with sex scenes set to a classical-sounding score, backflashes and present day grudges....I just sort of sat there in awe during the opening teaser. And it was all human drama. There were no Cylons present at all.

Everything in this episode was made to thrill a fangirl/shipper's soul. And the ending. I was almost in tears.

There needs to be more out there like this.