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Halo 3 Excitement

So today Bungie announced that there will be 4 player online or system-link coop in Halo 3. IMO the 2 player coop was one of the best features of my current favorite 360 game, Gears of War.

So with that announcement, /me pre-orders Halo 3.

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New Laptop — Dell Vostro 1500?

I’m looking at getting a new laptop that doesn’t suck at gaming (like my 700m).

I’ve been looking at the Apple Macbook Pros, Dell Inspirons and most recently the Dell Vostro. The Vostro 1700 has a keypad on its keyboard, which I find a really bad decision. So, I’m looking at the Vostro 1500 right now. Decked out to specs that I’d be happy to use, it’s ~$1175 shipped including tax.

Now, to get the wife’s approval :).

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Baby Birds

In the front of our house, we have two hanging baskets:

One of which is now the home to several baby birds:

It’s pretty cool to see.

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TV Lamp burned out …already?

So after ~6 months with my DLP HDTV, while watching Hell’s Kitchen on my HTPC, after an hour of playing Gears of War on 360, I heard a popping noise, then beeping, then the picture on my TV went blank. I turned it off for a few minutes, then turned it back on, seemingly no problems.

I wonder if that means that the lamp is going dead. 6 months is pretty fast, I heard it takes at least 2 years for the lamp to go out. Then again, I have the TV on for probably an average of 4-5 hours a day, probably more than the average TV user.

So I’m going to call Samsung, to see what the problem could have been. Amazon says

Warranty
It’s backed by a 1-year warrant on parts (including lamp) and laboe [sic], with in-home service backed by Samsung toll-free support.

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WOOT-OFF

In true style, I was wearing my Woot! t-shirt today. Then I come to find out that they start a Woot-Off. Coincidence? I think not.

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