OK, time to throw a bunch of stuff on here.

Wife's OK. Woohoo!
Mom's in the hospital still. Heart catheter coming up today. Ick. Good luck, Mom. You rock...

I've got to push a few sites here that I really like.
First: http://www.megatokyo.com. Awesome webmanga. Or, if you prefer, l337 comic. ph34r the m4ng4. (God, I hate typing like that... but if you read the manga, you'll understand why.)
Second: http://www.9thelsewhere.com. Short, reasonably new, undeniably cute, strong, and touching.

I'm getting quite a collection to check out. Hey, they're free... if I ever start working, these guys (and a few others, like Sluggy and Userfriendly) are getting some donations. Then I'm buying a collection of Inuyasha, Trigun, and more...

Last - Microsoft, Pseudo-bungie, you suck.

Yeah, HALO's coming out on PC (FINALLY) and Mac (Soon.) Yet, they tossed all the work the REAL, pre-buyout Bungie did down the crapper so they could have an "XBox Exclusive, please buy our wannabe console, please please please" title - gutted from what HALO was supposed to be. Then they farmed out a PORT to TWO different companies (one PC, one Mac.)

Think it'll be as good as the REAL HALO from the ORIGINAL BUNGIE would have been? Doubt it... *sigh* That after selling off the Myth franchise.

Doubt I'll buy it... if I do, it'll be either used, or massively discounted. We'll see. 'Til then, I'll find my old Mac copies of Pathways, and Marathon, Marathon II: Durandel, and Marathon: Infinity, fire up one of the old Macs (anyone have an eMac to send me?) and play real Bungie goodness....