That didn't take long, did it?

And I use the pop-up flash on my D90 to act as a commander for my SB600 off camera. (My budget is obviously smaller than yours!) Seriously, Nikon's CLS system is wonderful.

Dammit, I meant to hit Insightful and somehow hit Redundant instead. Apologies, Windbourne.

Looks like someone needs to hug a cuddly puppy.

I did, and I agree. The problem is, I've come to think of my smartphone as a little handheld pc, not an appliance (let alone a phone,) and I'm sure I'll feel the same about a tablet once I buy one (preferably running webOS.)

Of course, I also agree that my opinion won't change much.

"That, Mr. Anderson, is the sound of inevitability."

I didn't like hearing it when Agent Smith said it, and I don't like hearing it when you say it.

The Xbox is a game console. My smartphone is a small handheld computer. I'm ok with the former being a relatively closed platform, but not the latter.

You might say it's almost obligatory.

Here's hoping HP turns as blind an eye to the homebrew community as Palm has.

That's why I bought a Palm Pre. God knows there's no way in hell Palm will be able to bring out an enhanced model any time soon!

Well that's cool and all but where's the pill that will let me eat bacon, eggs and pancakes 3X a day and still lose weight?

You still didn't figure it out. It's "passed ITS prime." No apostrophe.

I have to disagree. I loved Myst way back when, precisely because all those pretty pre-rendered scenes and the slightly eerie background sounds made it so easy to lose myself in the game. And I absolutely adored the way it started by just plonking you right into the middle of a game with no clue what was going on, where you were or what you were supposed to do. Maybe I'm just highly suggestible, but something about playing Myst alone late into the night, staring into the screen where I (almost) never saw another human being represented, felt genuinely other-worldly.

It may not have been a good adventure game strictly speaking, but I can't agree it was overrated.

Of course, the other game I remember playing obsessively late into the night was Quake (somehow I missed Doom, pretty much jumping from Wolfenstein directly to Quake.) How I loved the sound of that nail gun...

I'm 45 years old. I read Watchmen for the first time ever about a week ago and I loved it. But then I'm fairly immature.

Interesting post with a spot-on analysis. If this old fogey had mod points, he'd use 'em.