GOOOOOOOOO also no present this christmas please

Not much to report, I am a little obsessed with this game World of Goo that Steven gave me, but I have to report I found this Youtube video of someone completing chapter 2 (which I will not watch all the way through because I am only on the windmill level) and this person is going way faster then I do. See:

Slow that way down and you've got my style of gameplay. I know I don't usually play games so part of it is my lame-ass motor skills, but I think the best part of World of Goo is that part of the point of the physics is that the reactions of the various genres of gooballs work at different speeds depending on what you are doing with them. So like on the level where the object is to pick up the wheel of black goo and move it using three balloons as floaters/pulleys, you can make that baby hover for as long as you need to while you figure out what next steps to take. As long as you balance it evenly under three balloons. Once you pull off a balloon you have to work fast but when it's hovering you've got time to think.

What is with speed game people, I know once you've mastered the game there is this need to continue by racing the clock, but I keep going super slow trying to find out if there is a smarter/better/more nifty way to solve the problem. My Zaidie was an engineer and I am sure he'd be going as slow as he wanted to as well, were he around to play World of Goo.

Speaking of speed, this year I will not be buying anyone presents nor do I wish to receive any. Evan actually started this by suggesting that as a family we skip presents this year, but now in honor of the Walmart employee who was trampled to death on the opening day of "Christmas Shopping Season" by stampeding bargain hunters I am renouncing any desire to participate in seasonal giving.

It's sickening, people running over and thus killing another human being, just to get closer to Walmart's red ticket items. For shame.