If I had a Nintendo DS Lite

During this cold and drab Saturday afternoon, I wasted a good two hours of my life, voluntarily confined to my brother's desk, surfing the Internet and copying/pasting URL's. What for, you wonder? (or more like, why am I reading this blog, I wonder?) Drum role please ...

MY ULTIMATE NINTENDO DS WISHLIST

I don't have my own DS, but my brother and cousins do. So talk about feeling left out when 2 and 4 player games are being organized in the living room and finding myself peering over my six-year-old cousin's shoulder. At least I can say that I'd rather spend the money on something else. (... right)



GAMES
Ninjatown
Guitar Hero: World Tour
My Chinese Coach
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Dr. Mario Online Rx
Tetris Party
Unsolved Crimes
Simcity Creator
NHL 2K9
Trauma Center: Under the Kife 2
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Spelling Challenges
Drawn to Life
The New York Times Crosswords
Brain Age
Bust-a-Move
Mario Kart

ACCESSORIES _{... Mwuahaha}
Stitch Cover or Alumor Metal Case
SD Card adapter
Screen protectors
Lightsaber Styluses
Retractable AC/DC Retractable Charger

Latin music is bomb

There are many things I can't go through a week without. Two of them are my camera and music, and I have been recently listening to indie and Latin music. Here's a playlist I put together that consists of songs originally composed in English that were reproduced in Spanish by the original singers. (So you should be able to recognize at least A FEW of these songs).

Headlines Quiz

I have a quiz on headlines today. Surprisingly, there is a lot of stuff that goes into assigning an article's headline: capitalization (proper nouns and decks), punctuation (quotation marks, semicolon or en dash?), accuracy (Live Dinosaur Captured! A gecko was caught on camera by Hawaii tourist Joe the Plumber. Boooooo), abbreviations, splits, ... etc.

Which reminds me ...
Early in the semester, Professor Stoll (prefers to be called by his first name, Michael) once mentioned one of the front pages of the San Fransisco Examiner. It was their Sept. 12, 2001 paper -- the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; It was one the most memorable of all the other national newspapers for that day. They kept the front page simple yet armed with a strong one-line hed and picture. With a vertical image of the skyscraper engulfed in flames and smoke, the headline above read "Bastards!" in bold, capitalized letters.

Here's an image archive of newspapers' front pages that were published in Sept. 12, 2001.

Have fun. Or not. OK back to work/school/studyingbleh