Watermelon Dome

Eliot and I got a chance to hang out today. After going for a run with his sister Ars and her dog, Ruby (it was more of a swim for Ruby, who played catch in the pond) we got the necessary cables to hook up the Nintendo Wii and the IMac. This configuration takes full advantage of the IMac’s 24 inch screen; the Wii looks great. I bought a new game to celebrate… Bonsai Barber, perhaps the world’s first barber game. Its a first person groomer. In this game, you give haircuts to plants.

Every day five new plants come to the barbershop for a haircut. On the first day, our customers included the Reg Wedge (an extreme carrot, self-described “veg on the edge”) and the Cherry Twins. The twins got the best haircut of the day, for sure. They had come in requesting a shape called the “dome,” and with deft scissors and some paint, Eliot and I crafted the Cherry Twins an exquisite watermelon dome. The cut earned us our first five star rating.

To end a haircut in Bonsai Barber, one player must bang the gong. Sad to say, just after the photo was taken, I swung the Wii-mote to bang the gong, and Eliot did the same. But his Wii-mote was acting as the blowout comb, and it ruffled the haircut irreparably. We lost three of our five stars. No worries. In Bonsai Barber, there is always tomorrow’s promise of five more shaggy-leafed customers.