{"id":1332,"date":"2007-01-20T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2007-01-30T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:01:05","slug":"dam-wii-ge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Dam-Wii-ge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiihaveaproblem.com\">www.wiihaveaproblem.com<\/a>, you&#8217;ve laughed. I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiihaveaproblem.com\">wiihaveaproblem.com<\/a>, I laughed. Then karma came around and hit me right back in the face. Maybe it&#8217;s still that <a href=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1322\">avian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1323\">voodoo<\/a> lingering about.<br \/>\nSo I bought Wario Smooth Moves a while ago, but decided only to play it today with my lil&#8217; niece coming by. And we can only assume Wario is the evil brother of Mario (is there a more obvious theory ?), but now you know that at least the evil part is true, because this happened.<\/p>\n<p>During bowling (we didn&#8217;t open the new game yet, we were warming up with Sports), the wiimote slipped from the tiny 9-year old hands, breaking the first version straps (already requested the thicker ones from Nintendo, but still haven&#8217;t received them) and *whoosh* past my 32&#8243; inch LCD-TV (*pfew*) right through the window:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\".\/pics\/damwiige2.jpg\" alt=\"damwiige\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slightly damaged (but mostly still functional) wiimote:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\".\/pics\/damwiige1.jpg\" alt=\"damwiige\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the strap, one layer of thread, reinforced with *gasp* nylon:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\".\/pics\/damwiige4.jpg\" alt=\"damwiige\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as the most respectable citizen in this universe, I had to clean up outside:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\".\/pics\/damwiige3.jpg\" alt=\"damwiige\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the trajectory of the wii-mote. While I still need more real world data to collect (variables being age and game in question during the mishap) I just had the counsel for Applied Mathematics and Physics convene, and they just stated the obvious, &#8220;The safest position to take on a road, is in the middle of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\".\/pics\/trajectory.jpg\" alt=\"trajectory\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Update: Just submitted my story to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiihaveaproblem.com\/show_article.php?id=261\">wiihaveaproblem.com<\/a>, and now IIII&#8217;m getting blamed for this. *snif* The world just isn&#8217;t fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve visited www.wiihaveaproblem.com, you&#8217;ve laughed. I visited wiihaveaproblem.com, I laughed. Then karma came around and hit me right back in the face. Maybe it&#8217;s still that avian voodoo lingering about. So I bought Wario Smooth Moves a while ago, but decided only to play it today with my lil&#8217; niece coming by. And we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}