| Ahhh.. MUNI

The love hate relationship that us SF commuters have for MUNI is palpable. It's quite frustrating too when you know they are facing another year of massive budget shortfalls. This will be the fifth year in a row. You can't run a budget that lean and not run into critical preventative maintenance issues. This leads to too many marginally running buses and trains in the system. That and a lot of the drivers seem to think work attendance is optional.

Rude: I think jr0n is right. Trying to kill a couple vices at a time is brutal.

When I was living in LA, one guy at our office was finishing up his thesis for his masters in architecture. This guy was a major smoker and for some off the wall reason decided to quit smoking during the final two weeks before his thesis was due. He came by the office to visit, a total wreck and proceeded to bum cigarettes off one of the other smokers in the office. Never mind the fact that he was already wearing two nicotine patches. Needless to say, it didn't pan out for him. Morale of the story? Timing is everything.

The special lady friend and I have been playing Castle Crashers from time to time. Its a fun little button masher that we can both get into. I could imagine that one would be fun to play as a group.

I don't think the PS3 is coming down in price soon. Sony is bleeding horridly from their gaming division. After all this time, the PS3 still costs more to produce than the sales price. Originally, the production cost (does not include shipping costs) was something on the order of $805/unit. The recent estimate based on new internal components is about $448/unit in manufacturing costs. With Sony in as much trouble as it is, I think it is going to hold the cost for a while. Including the Blu ray drive in the PlayStation has really been a double edged sword for them. On the one hand it very likely played a role in Blu ray coming out on top as the next gen DVD, but on the other hand, it cost them dearly on their balance sheet.

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