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In order to celebrate the release of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 I've decided to dictate my next couple of Blogger entries. Although I realize that at the moment my voice file is a little bit rough, it's still kind of fun to just sit back, relax, and actually watch the words appear as I speak to myself. Anyone who's spent any length of time with me knows that this is pretty much my preferred method of operation, I do so love to hear the sound of my own voice.
Yesterday a couple friends and I decided to go to West Edmonton Mall and just hang out for a little while, and then watch Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. While the movie was pretty cool, the thing that really stole the show yesterday with the Nintendo booth that was set up in the mall. There, in all its glory, was the new Nintendo DS. Like greedy children we all snapped one up, all of us except for Lisa, when it comes to new technology, chivalry really is dead. We then spent a few minutes experimenting with the picture chat feature. Immediately after that we all jumped in for a couple rounds of Metroid.
I began to feel the shakes, here it was right in my hands, how had this wonderful device managed to sneak up on me? One of the people working in the Nintendo booth approached us and asked which one of us thought we were a Nintendo expert. Everyone immediately looked at me. Of course, this is when the posturing started, I stuck out my chest, straightened my back just a little bit, looked him dead in the eye and said, "I guess that's me". 20 seconds later, the posturing stopped. The first question that he asked me was, "what is Mario's last name?" And with that question, I dropped a little Koopa in my pants.
At this point I'd like to point out that I don't actually believe that I know everything. In fact I'm fairly certain that there are at least four things that I don't know. It just so happened, however, that this was one of those four things. Immediately behind me some guy piped up, "Mario Mario." I turned to him and laughed, as if he'd made some gigantic joke. Apparently the joke was on me. Mario does in fact have a last name, and it is in fact Mario. Whoops, there I go bumped down another notch.
In the end, I did manage to score myself one of the T-shirts that were available as prizes. At that point, though, it was really more of a pity question than anything. I'd missed my big shot, now I think he just wanted to give me a T-shirt sought to dictate get me out of his hair.
Today had a quick look at the Nintendo DS web site. I also had a quick look at the EB Games web site. From what I can tell all of the games that I really wanna play for the Nintendo DS are still quite some time off. Although that might not prevent me from breaking down and purchasing in the next couple of months, it should hold me offer at least a week.
Well, I must say that it's actually gone pretty well using Dragon to create my post today. I have to confess the thing that I love is that it's really easy on my hands, and I am getting to that age where I'm going to have to decide which I prefer, typing or playing video games. If you're reading this post, you probably know how that decision's going to turn out.
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