so i ordered a 1GB memory stick for my psp for my trip this sat and the midway arcade treasures: extended play and amazon so kindly included a new degree deodorant for men as a free sample in my shipment. i just started laughing when i saw it.

wow, talk about over-segmentation or demographic over-profiling of your customers. cracks me up. see? this industry NEEDS more people like me *^_^*

i stayed in today, because the snow has piled up 8-12 inches outside and there's really no reason for me to go out. i did go out last night though, to jingle's not-quite-30 bday party downtown. it was nice to get out, even if it meant getting home during the start of the snow storm in a skidding cab. i met some nice strangers last night, having made the effort not to socialize only within the cbs circle that attended - boys especially. but none that seem to have potential, unfortunately. they were all very nice though. and i made an effort to look nice, so i guess that always helps.

i think there must be bad karma coming my way though, because it seems like everyone else is getting hurt somehow and my turn should be coming soon. charlito with his bullet wounds, fong with his crashed bike, tony with his inability to walk, my grandma... is my turn coming?

in a totally different tune, i tried a few games this weekend. gauntlet: seven sorrows was completely boring within 30 minutes of playing it. your basic hack and slash game, that's about all there was to it. i tried only the wizard, and to say the least, i was completely frustrated with abilities/"powers". even from the start, at the easiest level, it was already pretty damn hard to get through the hordes of enemies that kept coming at you. it was a lot of endless meaningless button mashing. needless to say, i was completely bored and moved on to the next game, splinter cell chaos theory. this game was excellent fun and took me through the next 5 hours without blinking. i am an avid fan of coop play, and this was perhaps one of the best coop experiences i've ever had. while i need to improve my shooting abilities, the level of excitement didn't die once through the experience, no matter how many times i had to retry the level with my teammate. it was the perfect kind of game for me - no just running in guns ablazing, but sneak around and take things out stealthily. plus, while i hone my skills, my teammate covers my ass and teaches me how to BE a good teammate in return. apparently, the coop levels are completely different from the single play levels, and the second coop level even takes place in korea! the signs are in korean and the bad guys walking around speak engrish with a korean accent, no less, which makes for a highly entertaining experience personally. this is a game that i can't wait to get back to playing.

meanwhile, i play xmen legends ii on the psp whenever i have the free time to pull it out (MUCH more convenient than getting my ass over to my friend's to play his xbox), and i must say that i haven't enjoyed the game play as much as on the xbox, since it's got less buttons to help me out. it's a new experience for me to play the same game across platforms, in that i'm so used to the configuration on the xbox that my fingers almost refuse to get it right on the psp. but i'm still impressed with the graphic quality and the gameplay experience is similar enough, even though load times are definitely longer - again, not surprising. i'm happy enough with it, and it'll keep me occupied on my long-ass flight to korea and back.

finally, i can't seem to get back into CoH since my desktop is now in about a hundred pieces. tried upgrading my desktop to XP and it completely failed on me and is now stuck in an ugly rebooting loop. so much for CoH for the next few weeks.

so the hearts are a bit much on the snow girl theme, but i like the colors and the snow girl graphic itself. take out the hearts, replace it with... i dunno... snowflakes? i think it'd be cooler. that said, i'm also not that girly girl anymore, so i'm prolly the wrong target audience.

i had a sucky weekend. i made too big of a sacrifice. while riding a cab up from chinatown, i took out my very favorite digital cam to take a picture (3 actually) of the coolest billboard i've seen in a while - a billboard-size psp with a working screen that showed various games and ads for the psp. it was gi-normous.

of course this stupid girl forgets to put fav cam back in purse and leaves cam in cab once exiting said cab. i'm devastated. what a supremely dumb sacrifice in the name of a psp billboard. @_@ Later i asked different cab drivers if it's possible to find what was lost. they said with the (lack thereof) honesty in this city, it's about a 5% chance of getting it back if it wasn't a cell phone (much more likely). isn't that just sad?!?

luckily, i bounce back pretty damn quickly. the eternal optimist that i am, i took this as an opportunity to get a cooler camera, because my camera IS an integral part of stepping out the door - wallet, keys, phone, camera. i needed a smaller one, as my lost one was still a bit bulky. so here's the lucky replacement.

isn't it hella cute? ka-wa-ii!!!

the san jose tech museum is having a game industry exhibit! you MUST go there for me and let me know how cool it is. pictures would be highly welcome.

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/game_on/

oh, and by the way, how come san francisco gets all the goods?!?? so lucky. i must return someday soon, and for good too.