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I still play Nintendo!

I also had a chance to try out the DS, the d-pad was too small for my thumb.  I was having a hard time playing Mario Kart.

I wanted to write about this for a while now, since I’m doing my laundry and it’s raining outside it makes really want to talk about it.

I have been thinking as I walked home in the rain and looking at the people who do carry an umbrella.  Man it could be one of the worst inventions of all times, here’s why….

Pro(s)

• Somewhat keeps you from getting rained on.  With a gust of wind the lower half of your body still gets wet.

Con(s)

• It has pointy corners that can poke someone’s eye out, in worst case both of them.
  
• It takes up a lot of space.  I see people walking on the sidewalk and get stuck because everyone is trying to battle for umbrella space.
  
• A strong gust of wind can render your umbrella useless.  Your umbrella will be flipped upside down.
  
• Instead of making them better, they decided to make them bigger.
  
• Gust proof umbrellas are pretty damn expensive.
  
• Makes some people dumb.  All they care about is prevent rain from getting on them and they don’t realize they’re running into people with it.

That’s all I can think of right now but as you can see, the cons out weight the pros by a lot.  The shape of the umbrella haven’t changed much, except the materials used have improved.  The umbrella was first used to provide shade from the sun, then later evolved to block rain.  Anyways, umbrella are dangerous and no I don’t use one.

I thought I write a post to test out the new title feature that Joel have been busy working on for weeks.

A few weeks ago Dave and I bought remote controlled helicopters off eBay for less than $100.  It’s the Walkera Dragonfly, it’s electric, small and very jittery to fly.  The first time we tried to fly it we were so nervous, we barely got it off the ground.  Everyone watching was scared to get close to it and probably felt nervous for us.  The key is to just get it off the ground so that it won’t be affected by the ground effect.  After it takes off it’s still pretty hard to control because it uses servos to control the pitch and roll so there is a slight delay, you just have to tap the joysticks.  I’m sure with more practice it’ll become pretty natural to pilot the thing.  It did have flight sims to practice with but it was way too easy and unrealistic.

Right now we’re pretty much grounded because we crashed it so much some parts needs to be replaced before it’s back in service.  Dave ordered some parts so they’ll probably arrive next week.