

There is a newcomer among my collection of geek toys. Thankfully, it also has many uses besides just being a toy for men who extend their childhood until their late years. It's a celphone that also tries to be a digital camera/MP3 player/video playback device. Multiple personalitites? Maybe... but it does the job well. Behold, the Motorola V600. 
Sure, the camera might not be the best in the world, and it only has 5 MB of memory for storing MP3's, but both are nice features to have. The best feature, though, is by far the Bluetooth wireless connection. With it I can download MP3 files, MIDI files, JPG/GIF files, Java games and lots of other stuff from my PC to the phone (and vice versa). The phone easily and effortlessly joins your Bluetooth wireless network before you can even say the word 'bluetooh'. And yes, the phone runs Java ME. For most of you this might be meaningless, but the fact that I can create and deploy Java applications and games for my phone kicks some serious ass!
In other news, I've been having lots of fun at the PRJO workshops with my current project - the Warg Attack Two Towers diorama. The miniatures are done, and I have been working on the terrain - creating mountains, rock formations, and grass clumps - and it's coming along nicely. I simply love doing this and learning a new thing or two every time from Jaime.
I've been taking pictures through the whole process, so expect a link to a Photo Gallery soon.
And last but not least, yesterday I finally received the Gamecube Component Cable in the mail. As expected, I did not wait too long to plug it in to my new TV and take a look at it. Only one word can describe what I saw: WOW.
There are two levels of WOWness, actually. Regular GC games look more crisp when hooked up with the Digital Video Out connection. Symphonia looks as if Kosuke Fujishima himself had drawn the characters and the game world right there on the glass of my TV screen. WOW. However, games that support the Progressive Scan mode look even better. I played Metroid Prime for a little while, and the high resolution wide-screen world looks absolutely beautiful, and it does wonders to improve the feeling that you are actually walking along those dark, dank corridors blasting aliens and getting alien goo sprayed all over your visor. DOUBLEWOW. Of course, to Nana everything just looks the same, but to a videophile junkie like me, I was in geek heaven. Now, even more than before, I just can't wait until Metroid Prime: Echoes gets here. 