A New Year

Once again a giant chunk of time has passed since my last post. It's been about 2 months since posted anything here. Nothing to interesting has happened in this time. Mostly I was just busy with schoolwork which is probably not to interesting for others to read about.

So what exciting things have happened in the last couple weeks since break started? I backed my car into a tree causing about $1000 in damages to it. So my car has been at a body shop since the 26th. Apparently, a broken tail light and some small damage to the rear left quarter panel add up quickly. It also appears that the body shop may have broken a door lock while doing their repairs. I'll find out more about that when I pickup my car tomorrow.

In addition to breaking my car, I played some video games (no WoW!) with my family, did some homework, and picked up a 60 GB PS 3 from a local EB Games store the Wed after Christmas. I'll probably put up a review of the PS 3 later. So far I like most of the interface but they do need to add some more features before its media capabilities catch up to that of my hacked Xbox. I also might take a stab of setting up linux on it once I get back to school and can play with it on my 24" LCD monitor.

The one accessory I still need to pick up is a component video cable as they didn't include one in the box. The official Sony one is only about $20 and other offbrands can be had for about the same price. My local Best Buy only carries a $62.99 PsyCable super monster component cable which is way over priced. They also had a $99.99 HDMI cable for the PS 3 which is the same as a $5 cable available online. Since no sanely priced cables were available in my area I need to pick one up in Madison or online.