We went back down to Mountain View yesterday to drop off blankets to acquire the scent of the litter, get lectured a bit, but most importantly play with puppies and take lots of pictures. Look, she’s alive! (Double click to make it play).
Cameron — 2008-01-14 19:15:33
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
bryan — 2008-01-15 08:29:17
You said it.
Leslie already scooped me on this, but it’s still worth a post. After months of deliberation, we decided to adopt a puppy. In particular, this one:
We just heard yesterday from Pound Puppy Rescue that our favorite puppy from the visit we paid to the 12-dog litter was ours. She comes home a week from Friday. We’re still deliberating about the name. The best idea we’ve had so far is to call her “Sous Chef” because I’m sure she’ll be helping us cook. She would go by just “Sous.” Hee. Please post your awesome name idea in the comments!
Cameron — 2008-01-11 11:30:40
I like Sous. But perhaps…She-Ra? Just think of the name possibilities for the next animals - He-Man, Skeletor, Grayskull, Battle Cat…! Perhaps I’m just channeling Matt on this one. He would probably be thrilled for our next kitty to be Battle Cat.
bryan — 2008-01-13 13:04:00
Its true… I have suggested “Sous, destroyer of worlds” as an alternate.
Cathie McNabb (yo Mama’s and Daddy’s friend) — 2008-01-25 17:34:21
Well, I adore Sous already! We too just got a new pup, but being “older parents” opted for 13 month old rescue. He did come from California, but rescued non the less. He is already started on his training and I am sure to have him untrained shortly. We love the crate training and it was not in vogue 13 years ago when our other lab came along. Susan tells me pup tales and it sounds like yall are doing a wonderful job. All the time and effort you are making now will pay off in the end. Isn’t everything tied to self esteem? We get it young …so good job! Keep up the good work….cathie
As part of the CES insanity, a company is launching “Guitar Wizard,” a recreation of Guitar Hero with a real guitar, giving you real chops:
But you must play this flash game, which is probably the best ever. The developers should hook up with the Portal guys.
You may have heard something of Super Mario Galaxy. It’s the true successor to the last classic Mario platformer, Super Mario 64 (let’s not bring up the aberration that was Super Mario Sunshine). Anyway… I picked it up on the internets a couple of weeks before the release and have playing it in basically all of my free time since then, which has been limited. The game is basically perfect–the controls are sublime, the difficulty ramp finely tuned to gently hone your skills from rank n00b to the point that you are capable of accomplishing outrageous shit like this:
Or this (in both cases the goal is to get 100 purple coins–you die, you start over. No second chances!
Every level you finish nets you a star, the currency of success in the game. Your star count is what it’s all about, and once you’ve got 60 stars, you’re welcome to go kick Bowser’s ass and save Princess Peach (again, yes!). You get a nice movie and the credits roll. But as any fan knows, this isn’t the half of it. There are 60 more stars, some of them diabolically hard to finish (as in the video above). So great! You buckle down, play through the last 60, now you’ve got 120! Must be done, right? No! You’ve just unlocked Luigi, who starts back at the beginning of the game with 0 stars, and you get to do it all over again.
It takes a special kind of person to play a game they just beat (twice) all over again, and I am that kind. Actually, Luigi is subtly different from Mario. He slides around when you try to stop him, which makes most things harder, but he’s also skinny, so he floats further when jumping and flys farther as a bee. He still can’t get the chicks that Mario is landing though, poor guy. So anyway, I write you this now, having just finished 120 stars with Luigi, thus unlocking GRAND FINALE GALAXY where I got to meet all my old friends and recall the joy and sadness and screaming frustration of all 242 stars, and that’s a wrap!
Oh, and… I also finished my last class of my life, and graded final exams for 6 hours, and generally polished of the last annoying tasks of the semester. In a few hours we’ll get on a plane headed for some serious holiday relaxation and shit. And it couldn’t come soon enough.