Well, what’s been going on… I finally got my GTX260 Core 216s SLI’ed and working correctly. The improvement over my old 8800GT SLI setup is incredible. Especially considering that one GTX260 had slightly better performance than the 8800GT SLI setup. They run a bit on the warm side and didn’t fit in my old mid-tower by mere centimeters, but I’m glad I finally upgraded from cards that are running almost 4 years old now. The new cards have taken anything I’ve thrown at it with everything cranked running at 1900×1200 absolutely wonderfully.

I started playing Dragon Quest 9 on the Nintendo DS. I haven’t played a Dragon Warrior game since 3 on the NES but the soul is still there. I feel like I’m playing 3 all over again but with a different story and an improved render engine. The basic core sounds, the JRPG soul, the dialogue, is all Dragon Warrior. I’m not very far in to it yet but I’m quite enjoying what I’ve been playing so far.

I nuked my Facebook account, finally. I had been pondering the decision since Facebook’s most recent privacy policy change since I did not agree with it. The countless pornography and spam friend requests finally pushed me over the edge. I was getting at least two or three an hour which is ridiculous. And I had all my privacy settings set insanely restrictive so I’m not even sure how they found me. Well, the deed’s been done and I don’t have to worry about that any more.

I feel like I had a lot more to post about but all this overtime is really frying my brain. I surge in between a raging fire and a tiny fizzle that’s really tired and wants to go to bed at 8 o’clock.

I think The Last Airbender might get the worst score of all time over on Rotten Tomatoes. As of this post, it has a 6% rating which is the absolute worst I’ve ever seen a movie get on that site. The really bad part? My taste is generally dead on with the scores that films get over there and I was interested in The Last Airbender…

Better post coming soon, promise.

Since it’s bed time for me, here’s two last things.

First, the song I’ve had stuck in my head for the past week:

And second, the reason I’m not a fan of press kits via mailbag on Giantbomb (some cussing):  http://www.giantbomb.com/giant-bomb-mailbag-meat-murder-edition/17-2604/ Seriously, a USB key of an already released trailer packaged in raw meat?  Regardless, I’m looking forward to Bulletstorm but what a waste…

I got a deal on a Sharp Aquos LC46LE700UN 46″ LED 120Hz that I just couldn’t pass up.  This means I’m going to donate my “old” Sony Bravia KDL-40V4100 to my brother and his wife with almost immaculate timing as he’s going to do a lot of sitting around in-between surgeries and can’t do much.  Plus, the TVs they’ve been given are pretty old and most of them have burned out leaving them with a little 25″ or so.  And trying to play video games on that just doesn’t fly.  Now, I just need a way to get it over there once my TV comes…

There’s no doubt you’ve heard about the iPhone 4 coverage at the WWDC and that AT&T is offering some customers early upgrade prices.  I think I’m one of these people but my account was setup as a Microsoft business account and, as such, I’m taken to a special Microsoft page whenever I click on the upgrade eligibility thing which only offers Windows Mobile phones (like the Samsung Jack or iPaq).  Despite others experiences, I’ve had an extremely positive experience with AT&T and very negative ones with both Verizon and Sprint but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the HTC Evo 4G and HTC HD2 (Hey, look!  T-Mobile finally got something worthwhile!) didn’t look awesome.  Not to mention, Android is making some real leaps and bounds lately.  I think I’m going to see if I’m eligible for the iphone 4 come the 15th and, if I am, pre-order it.

Overtime’s really taking it’s toll on me lately and the worst hasn’t begun. I’m still on 9 hour days for the rest of this week before dumping back in to 10 hour days and 8 hour days on the weekend. So, if I’m tired and easily irritable, I’m sorry. Work’s been really hectic and stressful.

Still looking for a place to house neowulf. I want to keep it local but prices here are kind of steep when compared to Denver, Chicago, and various places throughout the Midwest. I still want to add some more ram and need to buy rails so I’ve got some more time to keep looking and hunting for the best deal.

But seriously, this has been met with such ferocity.  People are so incredibly angry about losing their “unlimited” plans.  Give it a rest.  Seriously.  I’d really like to see what the huge deal is.  So far the only two arguments I’ve gotten are “I stream all my podcasts live” and “I use it for tethering to my laptop”.  In regards to the podcasts, just have your computer download them and sync them to your device.  With hard drive space being ~$1 for 10gb, there’s no real excuse to that unless you’re using one of those silly 16gb solid state drives as a primary drive for some unknown reason.  I don’t have much on the tethering issue (mostly because I don’t do it myself) other than “learn to be patient” or look up whatever you wanted to know with your phone.  Remember when going on vacation usually meant no phone or computer usage?  Would that really kill you?  Besides, it’s nice to “go off the grid” every now and then and get a chance to relax.  But really, people make way too big of a deal about tethering (most people don’t even use it) or any change whatsoever.

TLDR: People whine about the most trivial things that most of them don’t even come close to taking full advantage of and it wouldn’t affect them in any negative way.  In most cases, it would reduce their monthly bill by up to $15 a month.

I’m still trying to figure out this iPad hysteria thing.  Gizmodo posted that the iPad has now hit the 2 million sales mark.  That’s a lot of iPads being sold and bought.  Really, looking at the specs and everything, it’s just a big iPod Touch with a better screen resolution and nothing more.  While I haven’t used one yet, it looks like an absolute nightmare to type on both in that the keys would be awkwardly big and spaced and keeping the device at an acceptable typing angle.  But seriously, I don’t get what it can do over my netbook (HP Mini 10.1″); in fact, it seems way more restrictive.  I do own an iPhone 3G and while I like it, I can’t imagine having another device, that’s bigger, and completely void of the phone aspect.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  I like iPhone OS despite its quirks and strange frustrations sometimes, I just can’t imagine using it on a device I don’t really see the purpose of it existing in the first place…

Also, this is absolutely ridiculous.  My Zune constantly doesn’t charge or thinks it’s on a USB 1.0 port instead of 2.0 and it gets no love.  But really, just plug your iPad in to the freaking wall…