Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
February 20, 2007

Wii-ing makes you lose weight?

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Wii — Kids Burn 40% More Calories Says Research
After this past weekend, when the Territorial Brood set up a temporary annex at Casa de big sis, I bet that big sis would have no problem believing this little factoid of (potentially) junk science.
Now, I don’t put a whole lot of stock [...]


December 31, 2006

A Wii update

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The initial returns show that the Wii is a runaway success, here at Schloß TB.
This isn’t really all that much of a shocker, mind you, as I expected that it would be popular; however, I am actually quite surprised by just how slick it really is. I’ve never been a console gamer — the Wii [...]


December 28, 2006

We have Wii

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Well, it took longer than I had anticipated & hoped, but I was finally able to track down our family Christmas gift - a Nintendo Wii!
w00t!
-ghp


December 12, 2005

20 Years of Tetris

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It doesn’t seem possible — Tetris has turned 20.
It hardly seems possible, but it was almost 17 years ago that the relationship between me & my (soon to be) wife was solidified over some marathon sessions of alternating games of Tetris on my Mac SE (1MB RAM & 20MB HD). Good times.
The game that [...]