MarioKart and Wii-Fit

Been getting a few new toys for the wii - we got MarioKart and an additional wheel. Pretty damn fun game if I say so. I haven't had much time to play with the motorcycles yet... My wife, as usual, is better at this than I am. I've beaten the Mushroom cup and that's about it - she's already working thru the Special Cup races. I haven't had much time to play since work has been real busy.




Also - just got the Wii-Fit - this thing is pretty damn cool! While I don't think it will make me a buff body builder it will,
however, get me to get off my butt and start to work out more. So far the Ski-Jump game is my favorite. The yoga poses are damn hard for me, I have no sense of balance at all.

While the workouts they make you do are simple and could be done without shelling out the $90.00 for it, the way it tracks and motivates you to continue to improve, in my opinion is a selling point of the device / software.

New Laptop Stand

TUAW recently reviewed the Ergotron Neo-Flex Combo Lift Stand. I've been looking for a laptop stand since I usually rock the dual screen laptop and external monitor when I am working in my home office. The current setup I had wasn't cutting it - a simple laptop cooler stand that raised the laptop only a few inches and the monitor stand would not go low enough to make the two screens line up.

I checked the unit out at the site and it looked like it was the answer to all my problems. Luckily I found it on Amazon and it arrived today. I was fairly easy to set up, and the whole thing is very sturdy. The only gripe I have is that both the laptop holder and the monitor holder are set at an angle so that they angle in towards each other, it's very slight and it's something I would naturally do but the mounts are permanently at this angle, other that that all other ranges of motion are adjustable and the laptop plate is very sturdy. Here are some pics.

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