Old School Nintendo – Wii?

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mario.jpgSo you love Wii but miss those Old School greats like Tecmo Bowl or the Super Mario that started it all?  Well now there’s a way!  OK a free way.

Since it’s launch you could “Wii Shop” and purchase old school games for $5-10 each to play on the Wii Emulator.  Tempting for some, too costly for most people.  For a $1/game I’d be all over it – but when I can dust off the old NES in the closet for free… spending $100 grabbing my favorite games (again) is just too much.  It’s the principal of re-buying games mostly.

Enter Homebrew!  The Homebrew (Hack) Channel allows you to install non-Nintendo, open source (free) programs to add functionality to your Wii.   The most popular are the console emulators: NES, Super NES, Sega, Atari, etc.  While Homebrew has been around for a while – it required a certain level of tech savy and hassle that kept it out of the mainstream…  however, the latest brew is fairly straightforward.  Note: if you don’t know what a ROM is you can stop reading now.  The rest of you grab a spare SD card, your ROMs and the freeware below to start brewing…

  1. Upgrade Wii Menu to latest (4.0) version
  2. Format  SD card FAT32
  3. Follow Bannerbomb Homebrew Setup Instructions
  4. Once HB is Setup install Emulators
  5. Add ROMs to the proper Emulator folders
  6. Rock it old school

Shuttle Launch In Person

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So I got the opportunity to go down to Florida and see the May 11th shuttle launch in person.  It was a fun day at the Space Center awaiting the launch and while it was a VERY hot day the launch itself was very cool.  I had expected it to be cool in the whole “I’m witnessing a Space Shuttle launch” way, but it was actually just an awesome sight.  Below are the on site witness video and the official hi-res NASA vid.

Oh and the brightness of the thrust is not captured in either video.  I actually thought to myself as I watched through my 8×40 binos:  I wonder if I should be staring straight at this -shrug- oh well.  :D

Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker

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Is there such a thing as a Pre-Darwin Award?  I mean Biden’s idiocy hasn’t caused his natural selection – yet.  In his latest blunder, the VP blurted out the location of the secure bunker he would be hustled away to in the event of a terrorist or other theat.  Oops.  And in a room full of media, so no keeping a lid on that one.

Anyone else thinking Biden was chosen to reduce the threats to the Pres?  President Biden would be SCARY!

Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite – Your Wallet

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Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield wants to spend $50 MILLION of tax payer money in the fight against -gasp- Bed Bugs!

The Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009 (yes that’s really it’s name) would train health inspectors how to recognize signs of the insects, require public housing agencies to submit bedbug inspection plans to the federal government. It would add bedbugs to a rodent and cockroach program in the Department of Health and Human Services . It also would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research bedbugs’ impact on public mental health.

I guess Congress has to find SOMETHING to spend $3,690,000,000,000.00 on.

Thanks Rob