Nerd Alert
I somehow (mysteriously) found some brand new Nintendo DS Lites at a local store. Technically, they’re not supposed to be selling these yet since June 11 is the official release date.
With that said, I stumbled up to the counter and picked one two up. One’s for a “friend”. :)
Being the true nerd that I am, I had to document the “unboxing” experience and contribute to Josh’s new unboxing.com site.
You can see the full set of pictures taken by me over at Flickr.
(fyi, Liz, this is an early birthday gift to myself…) :)


May 31st, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Congrats! Thanks for sharing the photos - I’ve updated the post on unboxing.com to include a link here. :-)
Have fun with your new toy!
June 1st, 2006 at 11:19 am
[...] Update: Seems there were some other Unboxing readers that got lucky today, and scored a DS Lite. Mike “marusin” scored one two, and tells us about it on his blog. Here’s a nice artistic shot of his DS “phat”, DS Lite, and Powerbook: [...]
June 5th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
[...] marusin.com « Nerd Alert | [...]
July 21st, 2006 at 9:34 am
[...] - Big Brain Academy for the DS has been getting most of my attention lately. With all of these brain games I’ve been playing lately, you’d think I would be uber-smart? :) Now that we have two DS’s in the house, I’m finding that it’s really fun to play head-to-head against Liz. What’s great about the DS is that with the majority of games that I have, you can play against someone but only need one copy of the game. I’m sure we’ll be making a drinking game out of head-to-head Big Brain Academy while up in Wisconsin (although, that kind of seems counter-intuitive?). :) [...]