The Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie

How do you say 'Wii'?

Is it like 'Weeeeee'

or 'Waiiiii'

or do we just scream 'WAEII!'

In my nerdy attempt to see what the kids are thinking about the name, I searched on Google for "Wii."

I find it interesting that despite all the talk about the name being selected, in part, because of its distinctiveness, the first site on the list was the Wildlife Institute of India, followed by the Washington Internship Institute and Wellness Institute International Hawaii, and so on for more pages than I cared to browse. Searching for "Nintendo Wii" (without parentheses) produced a combination of foreign language pages and sites with typos. I looked though a few pages of Google's results and found nothing related to the former Revolution.

Of course, I spent the past few hours playing Suda51's "Killer7" on my Nintendo GameCube, so if we're going to start talking about video games being associated with an odd lexicon, Wii is far from the first peculiarity.

I expect that this will inspire the internet to collectively refer to Nintendo's unique controller as a "Wii-mote".

Until Weyerhaeuser bought them (2002?), WII.COM was the site of Willamette Industries, a lumber and paper company from Portland, OR. Somehow I don't think a lumber company was the image they wanted.

I eagerly await the Nintendo Console Name Generator. We may all wish it had been available before the announcement.

They're saying things like, "I Wiilly can't wait to play MGS with my Wiimote!" After the initial what-the-hell response, people are embracing it on an ironic level-- and as anyone who's heard a thirtysomething describe Scooby-Doo can attest, people hold greater attachments to irony than they do to sincerity.

Wii = Snakes on a Plane. Nintendo really is an unexplainable house of geniuses.

I just don't have anything to say. Not that it matters. Eh. I've just been staying at home doing nothing, but I don't care. That's how it is.

Wii?

Billy: "Hey, Mom, can I go Wii?"

Billy's Mom: "Yes, of course you can, but then get back to your homework."

TWO HOURS LATER

Billy's Mom: "Have you finished your homework?"

Billy: "Still Wii-ing."

THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE INSTITUTE FOR WHY BILLY'S GOING TO FLUNK OUT OF THE 7TH GRADE AND END UP WORKING AT McDONALD'S UNTIL HE HAS A HEART ATTACK AND DIES AT THE AGE OF 55.

Not much on my mind. I don't care. I've just been letting everything happen without me , but shrug. Whatever. I feel like a void.

I just don't have much to say recently. Such is life. I've basically been doing nothing. Basically nothing seems worth bothering with. Oh well.

I've just been staying at home not getting anything done. I guess it doesn't bother me. Shrug. I haven't been up to anything. I haven't gotten much done today.

I haven't been up to much today. I've just been letting everything happen without me. Basically nothing seems worth bothering with. I've just been hanging out doing nothing. I just don't have anything to say right now. More or less nothing happening.

Not much on my mind lately. My life's been completely boring these days. I've just been hanging out not getting anything done. So it goes.