Normal America

Been pretty busy lately. Got an interview or two set up for the podcast but, whether or not it'll be workable is an entirely different situation. Scheduling keeps coming up as an issue and there is just so much stuff going on this month. Between people's weddings, birthdays, interviews and all the other stuff, things are kinda hectic. Forget even having time to work on websites. I don't mind keeping busy but, I'd like one or two weekends in a row where I just don't have anything and can have a little time to myself. Oh well, maybe next weekend.

On a side note, Good Well-Wishes to my Cousin Sara as she gets married this Saturday. I'll be there. Especially looking forward to the grub afterwards, hear it's gonna be goood. :)

So, last night we did a podcast wherein we interviewed Peter David, how freaking cool is THAT. Most who read this blog probably went. Who is Peter David? The short & simple, he's a really good comic book writer (X-Factor, a couple of issues of Spider-Man: The Other, Fallen Angel, etc). The overall podcast seemed to go well, though as usual I was beat after it. Finally have gotten around to reading last week's stash of books, so far nothing really annoying...well 52 did tick me off to an extent but, I have already ranted about it on Aboutheroes.com forum. As soon as Friday comes around I'll be glad, short of another podcast Saturday morning, my weekend is gonna be free which means I don't have to do jack. Been trying to get one of the other .com's set up this week, hosting is working out the issues on the server I am on, it looks like they are getting things resolved pretty quickly, I'll probably know when I can start on the other .com sometime today or tomorrow. Really that's all, gotta clean up the apartment, maybe start reading more of this Web Design Garage book, which isn't that bad. The book seems to be going into the design/aesthetics of web sites more which, is what I want to really learn about. I can code webpages easily it's just making it look nice, organized, and purposeful, where I have problems. Well I guess I should get back to the grindstone. Later.

Details have been released from various sources, Gamespot, The New York Times, etc. Here are the finer points:

-250 dollar price tag in the US, ouch, can't you all make it just 50 bucks less, geeze.

-Release date of the Wii console will be Nov. 19th, which is two or three days after the PS3's supposed release and also on a Sunday? Yeah I don't know why Sunday either.

-Supplied with console (only color is white before you ask), and it comes with the nunchaku and Wiimote controllers

-25 game launch line-up, Zelda: Twilight Princess being on the list.

and the main info I wanted to hear about. Old NES/SNES/and N64 games. So the online component of the wii is gonna be set up similar to XBOX 360s' point system, so many points will get you so many things. Pretty much each dollar equates to 100 points.

NES game download = 500 points = 5 bucks
SNES game download = 800 points = 8 bucks
N64 game download = 100 points = 10 bucks

Eh, 5 bucks for an NES game....3 bucks maybe but, five is a little steep. That's the big news, for now anyway. Supposedly you'll be able to pick up 20 dollar Wii point cards. Some memory is already built into the Wii console but it looks like yes, you'll have to get some memory cards.

Ignore this last part it's just a reminder list of games I need to download whenever the wii comes out and I actually will buy it.

NES
-Mario Brothers 1,2,3
-Zelda 1,2
-Donkey Kong
-Metroid
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1,2,3
-X-Men Arcade Game
-Simpsons : Space Mutants Game
-Mega Man
-Castlevania
-Startropics 1,2
-Contra
-Duck Hunt
-Dr. Mario
-Joust
-Ghosts & Goblins

SNES
-Mario Bros Games
-Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Donkey Kong 1
-Super Metroid

N64
-Starfox