OMG. I Touched A Wii.

So, in honor of my current gimpiness, a friend offered to let me park in her driveway (which is across the street from my departmental building and much closer than the student parking lot).

When I went back at the end of the day to retrieve my car, I found that it had been blocked in... by about six other cars.

I gimped up to the porch and rang the doorbell.

When my friend opened the door, I saw why there were so many people crowded into the living room.

She had just bought a Wii.

There was mutual squealing and screaming.

And, as everyone else was taking turns passing around the Wiimote, I was very kindly worked into the rotation.

What is it like to touch a Wii?

Pure fantasticness. The future of gaming is here, my friends.

Now I want one. Like, super really. The only thing that would be cooler than having a Wii would be having a Wii with a WiiHelmet that you could wear over your eyes (remember? like that short-lived "virtual reality" craze in the early-1990s, which Piers Anthony, among others, chronicled in the novel Killobyte?) so it looked like you were actually inside the game, 'cause that's pretty much what it's like.

Why is there no WiiHelmet?

Meh. There is still the Wii, and it is cool.