Animal Crossing

So as I wait for a machine I need to use in the lab I'm going to write a short bit about a game -- Animal Crossing. It's a pretty cool game that has you move into a town and basically sell stuff to make money to buy more stuff and renovate your in-game house. Plus there are other townspeople to interact with and you can go online to visit your friends' towns (if you happen to have friends with the game and an internet connection). Anyway, last night there were some northern lights going on, which was pretty cool.

Also, you can make designs to use on clothing or just to put around town. Since I'm a complete and utter video game nerd I used this yesterday to recreate a character from another video game.

(you can see him on the ground there at the bottom)

Apparently people have made some pretty awesome 6 and 8 panel murals using this and sell them for lots of in-game money, so we'll see if I need money enough to put in the amount of time that would take. Well that machine's probably not ready yet, but I should go find something productive to do.