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Echo-Location
About a month ago I wrote a post about my test driving a Toyota Echo. Well, I'm happy to say that I am now the happy owner of an '02 blue Echo. I say, it drives like a go-kart, at least compared to the beast of a Sequoia my mom drives.
I'm planning on purchasing a leopard steering wheel cover, just so you know. And some dice, too.
Playing With the DS Lite
Well, I went out at midnight to buy the DS Lite at WalMart - yes, I'm that obsessive compulsive. I have three games total as of now: New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, and Animal Crossing. I've played the first two a lot but haven't quite figured out Animal Crossing.
The system is really well-designed - I couldn't stand the design of the DS dark (haha, David made a funny). The clear plastic on top of white plastic is so MacBook/iBooky, it's great. Buy this thing! So we can play Mario Kart! I played against this guy from the Netherlands in a random wi-fi match and lost - bad. Anyone else out there own one of these babies?
Myspacing It
I finally gave into peer pressure and created a Myspace. It's pretty sparse with information as of now, but that'll change soon enough. Drop a comment down below or on my Myspace (the double word use there is great).
Diet Coke + Mentos
If you've already done the experiment at home, you know these are an extremely explosive combination, as proven by this like-titled video I took earlier today in my front yard. My dad got shot in the face with a highly volatile stream of Diet Coke, with all its aspartame-y goodness.
Hamletastic
I finished reading Hamlet last night; it wasn't bad. The body count was a lot higher than Romeo and Juliet, but it seemed to fit in with Shakespeare's tendency of bumping off all the main characters at the end of the play. I guess that's why they call it a tragedy.
So now I get to start on the book I've been waiting the entire year to read: The Oedipus Cycle! Greek tragedy (probably a little different than Shakespearean tragedy). Well, it can't be worse than - oh wait.
Summer Reading
I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday to buy my summer reading list for PHUHS. It's not too bad; a hair longer than my one book I had to read for last year (To Kill a Mockingbird). Here it is if anyone's interested.
There's also Lord of the Flies, which we read in English last year. Of course, I got the Sparknote for all five books, and the No Fear Shakespeare for Hamlet. This'll be easy as pie.
MacBook!
I've waited so long for them to come out, but they look great. The new things are the Intel Core Duo processors, 13.3'' glossy widescreen, iSight, keyboard, MagSafe, and FrontRow. The big dissapointment here are the integrated graphics, and only 64mb of them. Evidently I won't be doing as much gaming as I thought I would. Bummer.
My favorite improvement, (besides the processor, of course) is the keyboard. The keys are slightly recessed and are better spaced and are rounded quadrilaterals (my favorite shape).
I found a few shots meandering about the internet; a good close-up shot of the redesigned keyboard, a shot of the screen, and one of the entire computer. There are also a few good shots of the black one (it comes in black, at a price) here.
I'm probably gonna end up getting the white $1299 one, with a 1GB RAM and 80GB hard drive upgrade.