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Last night I dreamt that one of jethrien's bridesmaids had talked me into donating tissue right before I went to Disney World to support my sister in her cheerleading championships. I only discovered that someone had actually gone right ahead and taken brain tissue when I went to put my hair up and the entire top half of my scalp looked like the stitching on a football.

My complaint? I was going to get sunburnt on my head in Florida because I'd never be able to find a hat big enough for my head. (Hey, I have that problem in real life, too!)

The Format Wars and the Neutral Zone

This took too fucking long to come about. And dual Blu-Ray/HD-DVD players still cost too fucking much. But at least someone got started on one. Let's not kid ourselves, though: this isn't a step forward for high-def DVD production and consumption, it's more a side-step. It's a way around the stupidity of major manufacturers drawing lines in sand technologically.

This is like the crap with DRM over mp3s: people don't like being told what format they can/can't buy their shit in. If I want AAC, I want AAC, and I want the right to convert it to mp3 if I paid for the damn song. I want to play it on what machine I want to play it on, etc. With high-def DVD, it's more "I want to watch the movies I want to watch and I don't want to have to my choices limited by which format specific studios support." Then again, I might be premature in worrying about collections being predicated on the formats here, as the offerings on both sides of the aisle seem a tad lacking period. Miami Vice or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Are you fucking kidding me? I know for a fact there're about twenty billion better movies in Fox Studios' archive alone than LXG. And Miami Vice makes sense 'cause it's new, but that didn't even do that well in theaters, and you expect people to pay--what, $30, $40 for the HD-DVD (when they can get a used copy from Blockbuster or Netflix or even a new one for half that)? Bitches, please.

In other news, is it too soon to be getting wet over this? A 32-GB hard drive isn't all that special, but the idea of a longer lasting, lighter laptop with a flash drive hard drive is worth a little excitement. The pricetag makes me swoon a bit, but wouldn't it be worth it? If you could take a laptop with you on a trip and have it last, say, twice as long with a flash drive? Then you wouldn't have to make long-lasting laptops so frickin' tiny. A little more battery power to the screen! Woo!