PlayStation 3 is Mine!!!

Everyone needs their diversions. Mine now comes in the form of the PlayStation 3. :)

My local Best Buy had an invitation-only Reward Zone event last night. I won a t-shirt for beating my friend at American Idol karaoke and free ear buds for being among the first 100 in the door.

They were also giving 250 bonus point for every $100 spent... and I had a lot of gift card money to burn. So, I picked up the 60 GB model, an extra controller, the memory card adapter, Blazing Angels, and Resistance: Fall of Man.

Thus far, I am very happy with my purchase. The machine itself runs beautifully and was easy as pie to set up. It uses the same multi-out port as the PS2, so I didn't have to buy new component cables or ante up for an HDMI cable to get good picture quality.

I've been playing Blazing Angels this morning and loving it. The graphics are great, the gameplay is fun, the planes are awesome, and Ubisoft seems to have learned from Heroes of the Pacific in that the controls are much more user-friendly. Shooting down Stukas over the Thames has never been so fun!

I can't wait to take a shot at Resistance...

Woot!

I finally heard back from the guy at Jacobs. Turns out that he was on travel longer than expected and was unable to contact me until this week. He still wants to bring me in some time over the next week and is going to let me know when soon. So, I'm thinking positive once again. :)

Throttling Down

My contact at NASA Ames emailed me to let me know that my project has been put on indefinite hold as a result of "programmatics" (read: bureaucratic) issues. I haven't been able to get a hold of the guy from Jacobs that I talked to last week. I'm feeling a little bummed out right now, especially after getting so excited after the Career Fair.