Red Dwarf series 3 and 4 will be out on Feb 3!!! I'm excited. I still watch my series 1 and 2 DVD's quite a bit.

Ahh yeah! I think I figured out everything I need to build a nice small emulation console for my entertainment stand. It will basically be a small form factor (shouldn't be much bigger than a Neo-Geo, if that), and have connections for two Playstation controllers and a powerswitch. It'll have S-Video output to TV, and probably a couple USB inputs if you need them, as well as a wireless connection to update the info on the Hard Drive, and of course it'll have an AC adaptor for power.

When you boot it up it'll have its own frontend, where you use the controller to select the system you want to play, which will then give you a list of the games it supports. You use the controller to pick your game, and press start to play it. The game loads, and you play it normally on your TV with your controller via the emulator. You do a special button combo on your controller to quit the game if you're done. This takes you back to the frontend where you can select a new game.

I'm pretty sure I have all of this figured out so that if I had all the parts I need, I could build it. So now it's just a question of doing that, which means $$$. I'm pretty hyped. In essence this would be a console that could play about 20,000 games if one wanted to. Should be fun.

My new hero, Rieko Kodama. I never knew she did the artwork for Phantasy Star. She also happened to be the producer on Skies of Arcadia, so obivously I'd have to put her in high regard, those being my two favorite games ever.

The interview is quite interesting, and has lots of info about PS that I never knew. I didn't even realize Yuji Naka (who created Sonic) was the lead programmer on it. Man, that game was so ahead of its time. In some ways it still is.

Man, I'm a bit miffed. My batteries ran out on my calculator a few weeks ago, and I just now replaced them. It's a TI-85, IMHO the best calculator ever made and the sole reason I got through college. I had a ton of programs I wrote for it stored in its memory. It has a seperate battery to save the memory, but alas, when I put in new batteries, the memory cleared, it hadn't saved the old programs. I've always been meaning to try and transfer them to my computer someday, but I never owned a PC and didn't have the right cable. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to remember them fondly.

What's more amazing though is that they were the original batteries I put in when I got it, in 1994. Guess I should be able to get another 10 years out of this set.

Heh, Dave should like this.

I thought democrats were the ones that spent all the money? ;)