Tag: wii

Save your cables.

I’ve been spending the last two or three hours trying to set up the Wii so that it runs on a dedicated computer monitor.  Two shopping trips, three calls to various vendors, multiple consultations of the Internet, and a good amount of swearing later, a magnificent kludge was constructed… with one exception.  No way to plug in the speakers.

So I turn to my wife.  “Honey,” I ask her, “Have you ever seen this kind of connection before?”

And then she went unto the Box of Cables And Cords That We Have Accumulated Over The Days of Our Lives that she maintains, rummaged through – and lo! There was the cable I needed.

Save your cables.

Wii/PC monitor bleg.

So, I have a Wii.  I also have a Hannspree HF-207HPB – LCD display – TFT – 20.  What the heck do I need to connect the one with the other without mucking up my 1600 x 900 screen resolution? – Which screen resolution I am happy with, because it does not make me nauseous.

The goal here, by the way, is to use the Wii to access Netflix so that I can watch movies directly on my monitor.  And, you know, maybe use the damn Wii more.  Or at all.

So I’ve got everything I need to survive a blizzard…

…except, well, an actual blizzard.  Although I’m told that it will supposedly show up later.

Moving along, and not unrelatedly: while I have yet to really play the two games that I’ve so far bought for the Wii, I should ask what I absolutely, positively, we’re-not-fooling-about this pick up for that console.  My criteria are:

  • Nothing insanely expensive.
  • Stuff Blows Up.
  • Melee weapons a plus.
  • I have young, impressionable kids who I don’t particularly want to psychically scar.

So I’m at the Target, and looking at the Wii stuff…

…and I’m specifically looking at Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which looks just like the reason why people like me would have a Wii, and I’m thinking If only I had a Wii…

Oh.  Right.

So all I have to do is wait until everybody’s asleep so that I can hook up the blessed thing in peace and quiet… then it’s going to be time for some Dark Side, baby.  Or Mario Kart.

Heh. Star Wars Mario…

Update on the Wish List.

Thanks to the kindness of my readers, I now have the Olympus Digital Voice Recorder (VN 6200PC) – which means I’ll be actually able to record interviews away from the computer and be able to download them directly. Most cool.

Alas, no Democratic party operatives have taken the hint and bought me a Wii to destroy my productivity. Cheap at twice the price, folks. Cheap at twice the price.

Actually, a Modern Art game for the Wii would be pretty cool.

Obviously, you couldn’t really do Adobe Photoshop on the Wii, but some kind of paint splatter game would be entertaining, assuming that it doesn’t already exist.

In related news, here’s an interview with the guy doing Epic Mickey.  Sounds like it’s going to be fun.

The cops should have split long before that, of course.

I’m putting up this theblogprof link to this video of cops interrupting their drug raid to go – well, go look for yourself – because I’m just that nice of a guy.  Suffice it to say that the pun in the title will become obvious once you do go look.

Also, the reason for this link.

Crossposted to RedState.

I am forced to admit that I signed up for this…

…but not because of Civony’s/Evony’s salacious advertising images (which have, indeed, become hysterically salacious in the last few weeks).  I actually like the Civilization series – so much so that I haven’t bought Civilization IV, because if I do, I don’t have a life for three months* – so the idea of a RT knockoff of it sounded cool.

Results? Meh.

Moe Lane

*This is also why I do not own a Wii. Alas, I do not have sufficient mojo in the blogosphere that buying me one (and thus wrecking my blogging for months) would be a smart move for my political opponents.