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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Interwebz Challenged
I'm in Gainesville over the weekend, as usual. However, this week, I got here extra early! It turns out that, since we did not get Good Friday off earlier this year, my company extended our paid days off for Independence Day. As a result, not only did we get Friday, July 3rd off on observance of Independence Day, we also got Thursday, July 2nd, off! You know you're jealous, admit it!
What that means is I've been in Gainesville since Wednesday night. However, it hasn't been the awesome vacation you might have expected it to be. You see, due to Cherry and my academic pursuits, both of us had boatloads of schoolwork to do. That brought me to my next complication. Most of my readers know that I'm currently pursuing my MBA by way of UF's fairly prestigious Internet MBA program (which I have raved about before). This, naturally, access to the Internet is quite valuable to me (among many, many other reasons, such as YouTube, Facebook, forum surfing, to name a few Internet activities that I regularly partake in).
Herein lies the problem. For whatever reason, the wickedly awesome Dell XPS laptop supplied to me by the aforementioned UF Internet MBA program doesn't get along well with the wi-fi router at Cherry's apartment. And not in the same way my DS and Wii don't get along with it either. My DS and Wii merely don't recognize the router and won't go online. My laptop, however, will go online for a few minutes before deciding that it has had enough abuse and completely kills the router, rendering it impossible for any device to connect to the Internet until the router is power-cycled! Ordinarily, this would be possible when Anna is around, since we could ask her to reset the router, which is in her room, but alas, she is away all semester on summer vacation!
A second alternative that we have employed in the past to satisfy our Internet needs is to go to Library West at school, where Internet is free and plentiful. In fact, some of you may recall that I have actually blogger from Library West on several occasions. However, as might be expected, this option was unavailable to us this weekend, for the same reason that I was in town so early. Yes, the library was closed for most of the weekend!
Fortunately, as you can see, I found one last avenue for recourse. My trusty iPod Touch, also supplied by my UF Internet MBA program, possibly to serve as a remedy for exactly this type of ailment, has found no issue with the wi-fi router, and so, this entire post was painstakingly crafted with just my index finger!
What that means is I've been in Gainesville since Wednesday night. However, it hasn't been the awesome vacation you might have expected it to be. You see, due to Cherry and my academic pursuits, both of us had boatloads of schoolwork to do. That brought me to my next complication. Most of my readers know that I'm currently pursuing my MBA by way of UF's fairly prestigious Internet MBA program (which I have raved about before). This, naturally, access to the Internet is quite valuable to me (among many, many other reasons, such as YouTube, Facebook, forum surfing, to name a few Internet activities that I regularly partake in).
Herein lies the problem. For whatever reason, the wickedly awesome Dell XPS laptop supplied to me by the aforementioned UF Internet MBA program doesn't get along well with the wi-fi router at Cherry's apartment. And not in the same way my DS and Wii don't get along with it either. My DS and Wii merely don't recognize the router and won't go online. My laptop, however, will go online for a few minutes before deciding that it has had enough abuse and completely kills the router, rendering it impossible for any device to connect to the Internet until the router is power-cycled! Ordinarily, this would be possible when Anna is around, since we could ask her to reset the router, which is in her room, but alas, she is away all semester on summer vacation!
A second alternative that we have employed in the past to satisfy our Internet needs is to go to Library West at school, where Internet is free and plentiful. In fact, some of you may recall that I have actually blogger from Library West on several occasions. However, as might be expected, this option was unavailable to us this weekend, for the same reason that I was in town so early. Yes, the library was closed for most of the weekend!
Fortunately, as you can see, I found one last avenue for recourse. My trusty iPod Touch, also supplied by my UF Internet MBA program, possibly to serve as a remedy for exactly this type of ailment, has found no issue with the wi-fi router, and so, this entire post was painstakingly crafted with just my index finger!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Return of the Koopalings!
This just in! Bowser's seven children, collectively known as the Koopalings, were first introduced in 1989's mega-hit, Super Mario Bros. 3.
They made a few appearances after that, in Super Mario World and some spin-off games, but were largely replaced by the much more boring "chibi" style clone Bowser Jr. in later games such as the Mario Party series, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy.
However, IGN reports that the Koopalings will make a grand return to prominence in the upcoming New Super Mario Bros. Wii (which looks ridiculously awesome in its own right).
The video below is actual footage of a Larry Koopa sighting!
This incredible news makes it very hard for me to resist putting this game in the "must have" category. Sigh, always so many games, so little money/time!
They made a few appearances after that, in Super Mario World and some spin-off games, but were largely replaced by the much more boring "chibi" style clone Bowser Jr. in later games such as the Mario Party series, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy.
However, IGN reports that the Koopalings will make a grand return to prominence in the upcoming New Super Mario Bros. Wii (which looks ridiculously awesome in its own right).
The video below is actual footage of a Larry Koopa sighting!
This incredible news makes it very hard for me to resist putting this game in the "must have" category. Sigh, always so many games, so little money/time!
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