Aim For The Heart: May 2008

Bioshock is awesome. Still. I'm a little over halfway done and it's still as addictive as hell. If you've been looking for a shooter with a strong storyline and haven't picked this one up yet, I highly recommend it.

Also, on my trip to CostCo today, I picked up an XBox360 and Rock Band. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, because I had chores to do. (What's the definition of an adult? Someone who buys a game console and a game, gets it home, tears into the package, and then sets it aside until she has time to play. Really, this adulthood stuff is highly overrated.)

I actually have a decent DVD player in the living room now. Don't buy $30 DVD players, even if you can't afford to purchase a good one and your last one broke. Utter crap.

OK, short post, because I have a console to dig into. Once I finish Bioshock on the PC and Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, I plan to buy either GTA4 or Mass Effect for the XBox360.

I've been reading Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. It's a fascinating look into the psychology of superstition and why people continue to believe in things like UFOs, psychic phenomena, crystals, astrology, etc. I'm a big fan of logic and reason. Even as a child I couldn't figure out how breaking the chain letter could possibly cause me to get run over by a car, or how a black cat crossing my path could do anything to my luck.

The next book I buy will be
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work... and Why They're More Common Than Ever . I'm going to do a book with scammers as the bad guys.

I'm also thinking of buying Bioshock. I even went so far as to see if Wal-Mart had it when I was shopping today. I'll likely end up ordering it off Steam. (I just checked, and it's $30 there, so I'm almost certain I will.)