Month: February 2003

Dell Dude In Pot Bust
Hey, dude, you’re getting a cell! Benjamin Curtis, the 22-year old actor who portrays the Dell Guy in those bothersome computer commercials, was arrested late last night (2/9) on a marijuana possession charge, The Smoking Gun has learned. According to cops, Curtis was holding a “small bag of marijuana” when he was popped on Manhattan’s Lower East Side (at Ludlow and Rivington for you Gothamites). Curtis is currently being held in Central Booking and is scheduled to be arraigned later today in Manhattan Criminal Court. Curtis, who lives in lower Manhattan, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Bonnie Shumofsky, the actor’s agent, said she was unaware of her client’s bust when contacted this morning by TSG.

I’ve heard on occasion that Konami ripped off Dance Aerobics for the NES to come up with DDR. I’d have to say that’s wrong – Konami ripped off Dance Aerobics to come up with Aerobics Revolution.
Just announced today and shipping on March 13th for the Japanese PS2, the game uses a DDR dance pad to lead the user through what would appear to be some aerobic exercises. It appears to be 6-panel rather than 4-panel with DDR. Rather than DDR, which just has the diet mode tacked on, this appears to be fully devoted to tracking your progress and calorie burn.
Translating the broken engrish that babelfish gives me, my understanding is that the 8 songs (at least, I’m pretty sure it’s only 8) are 3-4 minutes long each, as opposed to the 90 seconds that DDR sticks to. You can pick which of 5 regions of the body you’d like to work on, there is a lesson mode for beginners, and there’s a DDR mode as well just for the sake of having a DDR mode.
Also amusingly, apparently there is a multi-function odometer “e-walkeylife” that will be sold separately this summer that will be connectable to the game and allow you to “manage the motion record of every day that it was adopted” – thus tracking nearly all aerobic activity you do.
The game comes on 1 CD-ROM and will cost 5800 Yen (about $48 at the current exchange rate). Screen shots are available on the page linked above.

While walking in Collegetown this evening, the rather icy sidewalk gave me a spill and I landed on my wrist, elbow, and ankle. Rather painfully.
I then hobbled to the car to get what I needed, hobbled into Play, and proceeded to play two rounds of DDR Extreme.
Playing hurt? Baby, that don’t PHASE me. I don’t got TIME for pain. The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don’t know what time it is.
In any case, my arm is now swelling nicely, and while typing isn’t painful, I may be difficult to get a hold of tomorrow due to a need to take it easy. (GET IT?!)