Praise the Lord.

My hard drive successfully mounted in the G4 tower— the enclosure was bad, not the drive, so my legit backups (roflcopters) of Futurama are fine, along with Family Guy, House, and 24. Yayness. I've also managed to drool more about the MacBook, but the thought of actually ordering one then waiting 3-4 weeks for it to get here makes me sick. I wants it now, damnit. Oh well, just a material thing. Not something worth freaking out about.

The PSP's price has been knocked down to $199, but a cost: 2.61 firmware. That means no homebrew, no emulators, and no downgraders. Stupid Sony— the only thing I use my PSP for is Nintendo emulators, and blocking more homebrew only alienates the community even more. There's no way I'm upgrading past 2.0 now; our friendly neighborhood hackers over at PS2NFO will just find more ways to work around firmware restrictions, and I find myself disgusted because I have to update to 2.5+ to player Daxter, or pirate the thing. So I have no choice— it's a situation I don't like to be in, but oh well. I can't bring myself to upgrade.

Oblivion seems to be the new "it" for Xbox 360, so I'm looking forward to getting my hands that pretty soon, but the idea of Alex and I fighting over it seems to be pretty disconcerting. It's already a big enough problem to share as it is, let alone share a game like Oblivion: it's an obsession. So here we come painful sharing. Let's do this in style.

I have a speech to give tomorrow in Comm. App., it's pretty much going to suck but who cares. That's the only thing I have to worry about right now, and it's a distant way off— almost.