This is the Way My Mind Works

[oakenguy]

3AM Revelation: "He's Just Not That Into You" is equally valid when the "you" is an artistic project. Just like objects in motion tend to remain in motion, artistic projects in limbo tend to remain in limbo, and at a certain point the healthy thing to do is accept it and move on. Sigh.


3:03AM Revelation The 'Soccer Goalie' game on WiiFit is dangerous!! Through clever balance board technology and point system encouragement, the Wii has been encouraging me to, when I see an object hurtling through the air at me, intercept it with my head.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD SURVIVAL SKILL.

I think there need to be some new Wii games--"Shuriken Thrower", maybe, or "Cranky Old Man With Tennis Balls", where dodging is rewarded.


5:20AM Revelation: I drank MUCH too much caffeine yesterday.

Comments

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

It's a good survival skill if it's a soccer ball -- but even that is highly debatable - i'm trying to imagine anything else that might be small and fuzzy that might be thrown at you - and all I'm getting is cats --- which would clearly be bad.

Though in retrospect - maybe "Girl throwing cats at your face" would be a good game for dodging.

(Please note - no actual cats were harmed during the production of this LJ comment. This comment does not condone or encourage the abuse of small fuzzy animals. This commentator has had an actual cat thrown at her once in accident and is merely basing the comment on past life experience).

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

The odd thing is, I just read a Stephen King short story where a kid got away from a pedophile by throwing a duck at him.

In other words, this might be the Next Big Thing.

[vozeatscake.livejournal.com]

I played this Tony Hawk skateboarding computer game with Aidan once and it was waaay more fun to try to run the pedestrians over with the skateboard than anything else, so we spent a long time doing that. When I got into my CAR to DRIVE on the PUBLIC street I had such an urge to see how far I could knock the Brown student crossing the road.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Hee!

We don't have this excuse with BU students. And yet...

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

when I see an object hurtling through the air at me, intercept it with my head.
Actually Jeff tells me this is one of the basic lessons with sword in Iaido. It gives you incentive to keep the blade from getting there

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

My biggest issue with the Wii Fit Soccer Goalie game is this:

WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING ALL THE DISEMBODIED PANDA HEADS FROM?!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I've wondered this! Maybe there was a big furry convention on the field and they left their outfits behind? A big, very specialized furry convention?

[elkster.livejournal.com]

The soccer goalie game is impossible!!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It's SO hard! All the balance games are just dazzlingly frustrating sometimes. (And then there's the fact that I do it in the living room facing the street, so when I'm doing something like the Marble Maze I make a pretty giant spectacle of myself).

[elkster.livejournal.com]

Don't even bring up the Marble Maze!!!