stay in the shallow end

After reading Michael’s post at Jagermeta regarding overhearing a conversation about Mario Kart at a bar, I had a brilliant idea: Now that Mario Kart DS is out, I could actually play Mario Kart in a bar!

A few words about MKDS. Nintendo basically released a “best of” Mario Kart for it’s dual screened handheld, the DS. It’s everything you’ve loved about all the past Karts, minus the stuff that sucked (*cough* Double Dash *cough*). In addition to all this goodness, you get free play over the internets via the Nintendo WiFi Connection. Needless to say this is the greatest thing ever, and my friends and I have geeked out playing Mario Kart while being conferenced via Skype for many hours now.

Anyway, Monday was my last final, and I’d decided that Tuesday night I was going to park myself on a couch at South Street and just drink and chill. After reading Michael’s post, it became obvious what chilling would entail. I grabbed my DS and headed out to South Street all by my lonesome. I got comfy on a couch, drank beer, ate nachos, and Karted out.

Since it was Tuesday night, a crowd started to develop, and some anthropologists asked if they could sit in the couch area with me. Since it was just me, I didn’t really have a problem with it. They had friends coming, and soon it was me on the couch playing Nintendo surrounded by 15 anthropologists who’d just finished grading papers.

I was there for three hours, and I can honestly say that I haven’t had so much fun alone in a bar in my life. It’s definitely becoming a regular event.