Another Friday is upon us, so that means it’s time for another post to my Geek Journal!

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First, I would like to give congratulations to Richard and Katy for their marriage to one another this past Saturday. I’m glad I was able to be a part of the craziness that ensued that night.

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It appears that Sony has decided to let the US have access to the 250GB PS3 Slim… I may have to jump at that since I’ve been having so many issues with my 60GB model. Too bad that means I’ll have to give up PS2 support.

There are rumors starting to surface concerning the possibility of Nintendo releasing an HD version of the Wii sometime in the future. They may finally started feeling pressure from their HD-supporting rivals. Of course, who knows (besides Nintendo) if this is true or not?

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Being a computer geek (among other geeky things), I’m always on the lookout for newer things I can use to upgrade my system and then forcing myself to not buy them (so hard to resist at times!). I usually try to do a major system upgrade every three years or so, and this coming May happens to the three year anniversary of when I upgraded my system last. Current plans:

CPU – An Intel Core i7 processor, most likely the 920, as that appears to give the best bang for the buck: It runs at 2.66GHz, but there have been reports of it being overclocked quite high without the need of expensive cooling.

Motherboard – This is still up in the air right now, but I’m hoping to be able to hold out for one that has native support for USB 3.0 and third-gen SATA (eight ports at least).

Memory – Right now, 4GB has been doing quite well for me, but for my next system, I’m planning on pushing that to either 6GB or 12GB.

GPU – I already upgraded my video card from an ATI 1950 to an ATI 4870 1GB, so I’ll probably not worry about changing this anytime soon.

Storage – I’m already good on HDD storage (4.75 TB and counting; someone has to make backups of the Internet ^^), but I’m thinking that I may finally look into getting a Blu-ray drive. Still not sure if I’ll get one that can burn them.

Monitor – Ah, Dell 2405FPW, you have served me well these 4.5 years I have had you, and you currently show no signs of giving up on me. I have thought about getting one of your younger siblings (the 2408), but for now I think I’ll stick with you. Now that I think of it, getting the newer one would be nice, allowing a side-by-side setup… *drool*… Must… resist!

TV – Ok, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Why would he include a TV in a computer upgrade?” Well, right now I’m using my TV as a second monitor (great for multimedia stuff). I did just upgrade it earlier this year, but I figure that it wouldn’t hurt to include what it’d take for me to consider getting a newer one: 3D support (hopefully one standard will prevail out of the multiple that have been mentioned lately by Sony, Panasonic, etc.), and the display itself using OLEDs (awesome contrast ratios, but right now still too small, way too expensive, and the life is not yet good enough) or an LCD back-lit with LEDs (better contrast than cold-cathode lit LCDs due to the ability to locally dim single or groups of LEDs).

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That’s it for this week’s post!

…congratulations to Richard and Katy, the supreme rulers of the Spwugniverse!!!!!

They are the essence of everything that is Spwug.  Without either of them, this site wouldn’t be here to bring you a daily dose of all things geek.

It was an honor and a privilege to witness the joining of these two forces of good.  They are my friends.  They are my family.  I am proud to be the head writer of something they envisioned, and I am proud to be a part of their lives.

My best wishes to both of you, Pocky Rich and Katy.  Here’s to bigger and greater things.  With your powers combined, anything is possible.

Here at Spwug, we have a small, but extremely talented pool of writers and artists. All of them are volunteering their free time and energy to help us become a great blog and magazine.

As we’ve grown over the last year, we’re finally to the point where we’ll be needing more staff to help us continue on our way. We’ll need talent, we’ll need drive, and we’ll need leadership.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to announce that Donnie “The Don” Sturges has accepted the position of Head Writer for Spwug.

Please join me in congratulating Donnie on this new role. We here at Spwug are all looking forward to seeing what other great things he’ll help us accomplish.

Yes, yes, I know the argument is old, but still, based on recent news, I feel we have some new evidence to work from.

Navy S.E.A.L.s recently had to defeat some pirates to save the life of a hostage.

Navy S.E.A.L.s are pretty much ninjas – stealthy, deadly, and all-around bad ass.

So if Navy S.E.A.L. = Ninja, and Navy S.E.A.L.s > Pirates, then Ninjas > Pirates.

Discuss.

Many of our readers are anime fans, so I thought that this article might be interesting for them:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090304f1.html

What price, anime?

http://ninjasmacks.livejournal.com/70346.html

Sometimes, my friends are geniuses.

Quite possibly the coolest explanation of the history of the internet I’ve ever seen:

Complete Animated History of the Internet

Lunch Bag Art

These kids have the coolest lunches I’ve seen in a while.

This game is pretty neat – you have to shift the motion of the ’sound’ using special circles, the size of which can be adjusted.

Give it a try!

Auditorium

First, a Star Trek link: CNN i-Report

And now, a World of Warcraft comedy link: Who’s the Tank?