Halo 3

So, it was Halo 3 launch day yesterday. You may remeber I preordered it in January. There was a little mix-up, in that the monkey who took the order didn’t mark it as “Legendary”, so the manager pulled a few strings to get another one to his store.

We got to the shop just before the opening time of 10pm, yet we were still 8th in the line. They issue raffle tickets to keep it neat, in order of arrival. Midnight rolled around, and we received out package in an orderly fashion.

Opening the box. It was quite a large box.

The helmet on its stand. Niccceee.

Happy Geek!!

Try as I might tho, it just wouldn’t go on.

It’ll just have to sit on the TV, flanked by the Master Chief and The Arbiter

The bonus disc is great. 136 minutes of remastered Halo and Halo 2 cutscenes… with director’s commentaries. All sorts of behind-the-scenes videos, Xbox theme packs, gamer pics, etc.

All-in-all, very nice indeed :)

Don’t skip ahead…

THE Australian Defence Force (ADF) has ordered an immediate ban on the use of the F1 hand grenade in training after a defence employee had his hand blown off.

The 48-year-old Department of Defence employee lost his hand and suffered leg injuries in an explosion at an army training facility in Graytown, north of Melbourne, on Wednesday.

Wait until the instructor is done, then follow the steps.

A Criminal Mind…

I have a head cold. Nothing real bad, but apparently I looked as bad as I felt yesterday cos I got sent home.

I stopped off at the chemist on the way to get some Demazin Repetabs. They’re 6 to a box, 12 hour formula, work out to about $1.15 each.

I needed photo ID.

Me: I neeb some debazid rebedabs
Assistant: Don’t think we have any, I’ll check.
{walks out back, turns in a circle, comes back}
A: Is it for you?
M: Yes id’s for be!
A: Have high blood pressure, heart medication?
M: Doe…
A: I’m gonna need some photo ID
{takes ID, consults pharmacist, the do the look-at-id-mutter-mutter-look-at-me-mutter-mutter-look-down thing a few times}
Comes back, hands over the stuff reeeeal slow-like.

They wrote down my name, presumably in case I start a speed factory using 6 demazin repetabs.

Preciousssss…

Now, is there a PDA with an established OS and open source support that compares? Would it be as easy to buy/store/sync tunes to a PDA? If it had 8gb, would it matter? Is it worth it to have a just a re-invented PDA?