ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

Wednesday while I was in Baltimore I got an e-mail from Nintendo Power explaining that you can now browse the internet on your Nintendo DS. Without even reading the details about this I knew I had to have it, period.

Since it did not make sense to force my coworker friend to accompany me to a store just so I could buy an internet browser for a tiny handheld device, I managed to stifle my need for it until last night, which is when I dragged my boyfriend to our local Target to buy the thing. Incidentally, this is the same Target where the girl was recently nabbed and murder-raped by the psychopath from Emporia who would have been in my class in high school if he were not in juvy at the time. None of this remotely concerned me for even .5 seconds, because I was on a mission.

Basically, the DS Browser is so worth it. Obviously the unit doesn’t have a keyboard, so blogging and similar pursuits are practically out of the question unless you want to hunt and peck forever on the screen keyboard, but it’s ideal for any internet browsing I could want to do when I don’t want to haul my laptop out at an airport or whatever. Or when I want to be surfing the internet moments before I go to sleep at night. The only downside is that I have to be near some kind of wireless network, but I can accept this in consideration of the fact that it cost me $32 instead of the hundreds of dollars I would have to fork over for a Palm Treo or Blackberry or whatever.

The true beauty of the DS Browser, however, is that it has taken all the hard work out of internet surfing, and by hard work I mean sitting up and supporting the weight of my own head. I’ve never been able to lie completely prone while surfing the internet before, so I’m pretty impressed with how Nintendo has managed to take the already passive activity of browsing the internet and make it even less labor intensive. Bravo!

The only conceivable improvement would be an internet browser that reads your eye movements and doesn’t require you to actually move your arms in any way. We have the technology.