- I finally got around to playing Bioshock, and I’m positively embarrassed that it took me this long. Zero Punctuation pretty well nailed it - it’s essentially a steampunk System Shock 2 that’s been dumbed down for the console crowd, but don’t let what it isn’t distract you from what it is. Which is a brilliantly executed FPS-RPG with beautiful graphics, jaw-droppingly brilliant art direction, and a good, well-written, story. I would say that BioShock is an over-hyped disappointment that still succeeds on  some levels and is still worth playing, but while accurate, that really doesn’t do it justice. It’s absolutely amazing, and the fact that it could’ve, and was advertised as being, even more so, shouldn’t distract you from this.

I’m also happy that I sprung for an 8800GT, because it runs this sucker at max settings at 12×10 without aa hint of slowdown. Totally worth having to re-route half my cabling just to fit the stupid thing in my case.

- 8 Diagrams,  the new album from the Wu Tang Clan. I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but on first listen, this is pretty awesome so far. It’s exactly what you’d expect from the Wu Tang Clan, which is not to say that it sounds like a re-hash of 36 Chambers. RZA managed to still sound like the RZA without getting stale. I’ve heard the album is hit and miss overall, but so far there have been 2 “meh” songs - full review pending further listening.

- Finally, and most awesomely, Becki officially graduated college today. Woo hoo! We’re all very happy for her, and I managed to take 25 pictures of her walking across the stage. The whole ceremony yielded exactly 150 shots, so those are going to take a bit of time to sort and toss and flickr.

That’s about it for 2008 so far - 2007 mostly came up Aces for me,  so it’s going to be a hard act to follow.