Well, I finally got a Nintendo Wii, the latest in gaming crazes. The cool thing about the Wii is the remote controller. You can stand in the middle of your living room and move it around and the game will detect all of your movements. I started getting good at playing tennis. You move the stick just like a tennis racket. The one problem I had when I first got the Wii was that I was supposed to position this "sensor strip" above or below my television so that it can triangulate my position. The problem is because I have a projector the Wii is in the back of the room and screen is in the front of the room and the cord is not long enough to place their sensor strip in front of it. Now comes the weird solution from the internet. Apparently the only thing that the sensor strip does is emit 2 Infrared light beams, so that the remote can get its location by reading these light sources. The only thing the wire does is send in power to the strip. Well, someone had the bright idea of replacing the strip with 2 candles. Apparently candles give off infrared light. So as I was installing it I figured I would give it a shot and put 2 candles underneath my projection screen. When I turned it on it detected it! Yea for the internet. Another person was telling me of this other science experiment with two candles. You take 2 nails and rub a magnet on each of them and place them in the candles. Then you take 2 wires and run them to a light bulb thing. Then you light the candles and the light bulb lights up. If you blow out a candle the light bulb goes off. Weird. Kind of reminds me of the other science experiment I learned when I was a kid about making a clock that runs off of potatoes. I think I just invented a new generator. We'll call it the Potato Candle Generator. It will be a bucket of potatoes with candles placed in them. Then a bunch of magnetized nails in them. Then the wires will go to a power outlet, thus saving the world. Nah, it won't work cause potatoes aren't in season, but at least it will run my Wii!

Thought
"What if I forget to blow out the candles??"