Over the weekend we finally caved and bought our first Tivo. I was catching way too much crap for taping Lost on VHS every Thursday (and by “way too much crap” I mean one dude at work said “that’s gay”). We were at Target looking for new tapes and all we could find was a ten pack. It was like fifty cents. We decided that fifty cents was too much to spend on new tapes, so we went to Best Buy and picked up the ninety nine dollar Tivo.

A few weeks ago I got my first iPod. It’s eight gigs, black, and almost small enough to fit in my billfold.

Last week I found out that my next work gig will be on a portal project of sorts.

Oh wait - my phone’s ringing. I wonder who “2002″ is, and what the hell he could want?

This is on its way back to the library having served its intended purpose of being subtly displayed in my office for a week in the hopes that my new project manager will be fooled into thinking I’m some kind of intellectual genius.

I did accidentally read the first few chapters on the bus last week when I forgot to pack my copy of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats. From what I understood it sounds like we’re air dropping dollar bills over there for no good tactical, moral, or rational reason. Also, it sounds like if we were to stop doing that people in that part of the world would hate us a lot less. Also, now that Israel is an industrial power they don’t even need it anymore (or at the very least, not as much as they’re getting).

And there were a half dozen other points made that, to a simpleton such as myself, make you think that it would be a really really good idea if we stopped shipping them cash, intelligence, grenades, bullets, cluster bombs, and a laundry list of other things.

Luckily I remembered my copy of Nymphos the next day and was back to vampire porn before I was learned anything.

Overall rating: so-so. We grabbed it for the Wii and it seems glitchy. For example, there’s a half second freeze after completing a song. And certain parts of the audio sound like the speaker is underwater, especially when you fire up the star power. Oh, and the first ten or fifteen songs just weren’t all that exciting.

Then things started to pick up a bit once I got to My Name is Jonas, which was a blast. Cherub Rock was even better, and Cult of Personality rocked my balls off. I’m currently stuck trying get through One, which is a lot like Freebird in GH II in that it starts out ridiculously simple and gets insane at towards the end.

The biggest plus of the whole Guitar Hero series: the soundtracks have a big influence on what the boys listen to, which in my case means less KDWB (courtesy of their little buddies’ influence) and/or country (courtesy of their mom) and more Guns, Stones, and ZZ. The downside to that is that the eight year old’s current favorite song is Talk Dirty to Me, which I find an acceptable alternative to hearing Big and Rich all hours.