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I’m home sick which gives me easy time to post a thought or three…

We saw the Samsung LED tv over the weekend. See it here. This has got to be the best looking tv I’ve ever seen. Very bright colors and incredibly thin at just over an inch thick. I think if they get more affordable closer to the holidays this may be the tv we aim to get.

Since I’m home I get to watch the Nintendo press conference at the new old E3. I have to say I’m really disappointed in Nintendo. They have the number one selling console and they continue to fail to make exciting games for it. They showed a new Super Mario Bros game that didn’t interest me in any way. The Wii Sports Resort looks like it’s decent fun but not “gotta get it” exciting. At this point I guess we can just consider the Wii more of a home entertainment device than a gaming console. The DS is their true gaming console as it gets all the interesting projects. A game to create new games and they put it on the DS? What? The Wii is perfect for something like that. I guess I’ll need to get a DS to play fun Nintendo games.

Wii Vitality Sensor? Huh? What’s next? Wii CPR Training?

Okay, at least there’s another Mario game but it’s Super Mario Galaxy 2. From the video they showed it’s more of the same but at least it’s something.

The Conduit, bah, it’s a shooter. I’ll stick to PC for my shooters thank you very much.

Another Resident Evil game? Yawn. With the number of Resident Evil games you would think the zombies had destroyed the world three times over by now.

Dead Space, another shooter.

Not really interested in the big third party titles announced but at least their games.

Ah, another Metroid game. Answering to the fans finally. They’ve recently announced the Gamecube versions will be moved to the Wii with the new controls so I may have to give it a chance. I’m not a big fan of the first person shooter direction they’ve taken with the series but it is Metroid.

End of the conference. Not impressed. Due to the lack of enthusiasm in the crowd I’d say I’m not alone.

If I code for myself a desktop widget that’s a clock with a 36 hour day… would that count in the real-world?

Haven’t posted in a while so I figure some random thoughts might be a good thing…

More rain. It just won’t stop raining. My grass needs mowing badly but if I try I’ll probably drown halfway through the effort. I can swim just fine, it’s just that I’m sure if the lawn mower goes it will take me with it.

We went to the zoo on one of the few nice days we’ve had recently. Apparently everyone else in the area had the same idea as it was packed. But fun was had by all and worth the hassle of the crowds.

I haven’t done much Flash work lately which bums me a bit. I’m getting more and more into Javascript and PHP but it’s not as satisfying to me for some reason. I may have to make myself sit down and do a Flash project later on once I get past doing a few websites for friends. A game project I’m sure.

I can’t wait for the Star Trek movie and I’m sure it will cause me to break my movie review silence. I’m thinking I may start doing them again for movies I really like or the ones I really like to hate. The mediocre ones just aren’t worth the time.

Arwen is almost at the stage of starting to be more fun than work. Although Allison does most of the work so I don’t know what I could be complaining about.

There’s a site I visit that relates to work and I recently got into a small dispute with one of the bloggers about a web design subject. I was not the only one in the comments that disagreed with her but I was the most vocal. She decided to use our dispute as the inspiration for her next article. After a few days no one has bothered to comment on this article. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Is it vindication for my position because no one wishes to comment or is the subject just that boring?

Anya will soon start her swimming lessons to join the lucky and privileged group of people who will avoid drowning in my front yard. Did I mention it’s nonstop rain around here?