T I T A N F A L L

Getting little buddy packed tight in anticipation I'll get the RMA from MadCatz. Poor little guy is only 18-months old (and has doubled in price since I bought him). Fortunately, I have three of these in a variety of styles, so hauled out my oldest one (a menacing, almost stealthy matte black - back when they were still branded, `Cyborg`) to run in its stead. I know you all are eager to hear of his adventures, so will keep you posted on his journey!

Identical

I made the mistake of telling the kids I was getting them the exact same thing for their birthdays this year. Bad move on my part, because now I can't give one their gift without altering the other (their birthdays are four months apart). Admitting my mistake to them, we worked out a plan to give them their birthday presents at the same time, one child two months early, and the other child, two months late. The date will be April 1st. In addition, I promised them one (and only one) hint: "While the tangible, non-cash gifts are identical, you will each use them differently." I've promised them they will love the gift (I usually suck at gift-giving), but one thinks I'm overstating and the other remains cautiously optimistic.

The Art of Flowdown

When I built my new desktop, I parted out my previous desktop and turned it into a headless fileserver in the server room. My daughter got the video card and GF got the RAM. I don't need 16GB of RAM and fancy graphics in a headless fileserver. Pulled all the drives except the 7200rpm 1TB boot drive and put the 10k in my new desktop as Photoshop scratch space - figure it will do pretty well at that.