Drink Rum

... with my new PS3.

If either of those two asian mormons show up on my lawn with a sling shot game stick in hand, I'm releasing the hounds. And based on how the lads (and lady) go beserk with the Chinese delivery dude... the Nintendo mafiosos won't stand a chance.

So saturday was bitter-sweat. There's a lot of that going around, but anyway. I packed up the remains of the kegerator to take back to the most Bestest of Buys. Actually before doing that, I had to figure out what to do with the keg inside... or more importantly the beer inside the keg inside the kegerator inside the kitchen inside the house inside the.... oh, I've gone cross-eyed.

So I did want any normal person would do, I made beer bread. Mmmm... that used up a grand total of 36ozs. The rest was destined for a watery drain death. As it turned out, there wasn't much left in the keg to dispatch. Maybe a gallon, if that. So we killed about 14-15 gallons of beer at the deck party. I should have never under-estimated the drinking power of my circle of friends. Shine on you crazy binge drinkers!

So the people at Best Buy were perplexed with what to do with my returned machine. They wanted someone from Geek Squad to verify that it was in fact broken. The 15 year old that was summoned was clueless as what to do with it. I said they'd need an electronics engineer if they wanted proof because it was a blown thermostat controller. They were still dubious. I said, plug the thing in... if you can press any button and make anything happen, then I'm a liar. They did... and it didn't. Money was handed back to me. I almost wept leaving the body of Keggy behind, but I had to think he was in was in better place. He was probably going to be harvested for parts for all I knew.

As a consulation prize, I bought a PS3. A seperate post on reviews will come later after I've spent some time with it. Initial thoughts:

Blu-Ray vid quality gave me a boner.

I downloaded Mortal Kombat II (old school) and Gauntlet II (oldest school), awesome.

It has better optics for media reading than my old DVD player and eliminated skips and dual-layer change load pause.

It up-converts 480i/p signals to 720p/1080i beautifully. I wasn't even interested in that aspect, but it was really, really amazing.

So far I've been spending more time with it as a Blu-Ray box than a game system... but that'll change.

Oh, also like that I can download (wireless) game demos for free from Sony.