Whoa man. That was ugly. A half-hearted congratulations to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their first-ever Super Bowl championship. I'm not even going to say the name of the team they played. They barely showed up, so why mention them? Really, giving attitude all week then looking hardly interested, let alone excited, during the game ... this is why the rest of the country hates the _______. I guess this was not the Bay Area's year for sports. The San Francisco Giants made it to the seventh game of the World Series but were ultimately bested, the embarassing flub in the Super Bowl of the _______, and the seasons of the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland A's cut short during the playoffs. But let's not talk about sports anymore, it just depresses me.

I finished Splinter Cell on Saturday. Excellent, excellent game. Graphics are amazing, good storyline, and wonderful play mechanics. I'll have to run through this one again. Well ... I realized while playing Metroid Prime, or FIFA 2003, or Hitman 2, that I play too many video games. I'm toying with the idea of giving them up for a month. Just to see if I can change the way I fit them into my life. But let's not talk about video games anymore, it just depresses me.

An update to either my operating system (Windows XP) or my graphics adapter drivers (nVidia GEForce) has caused my computer to no longer run OpenGL applications. On both my laptop and my desktop. Simultaneously. I've tried reinstalling more or less everything (short of completely reinstalling the OS), to no avail. The only success I've had is removing the last two Windows XP updates from my desktop and using a display driver from 2001. But let's not talk about computers anymore, it just depresses me.

Let's just not talk anymore.