Looking at Astro Gaming...

Astro Gaming has pretty slick looking products that come in pretty slick looking packaging, all black-on-black, glossy-on-matte, lined with chrome, coated in comfortable rubberized coatings and bristling with features and included accessories.

They first caught my attention with a snazzy Flash banner ad somewhere, but they had a high-tech gamer/DJ feel about their products, so I was thrilled when I received the Astro A30 gaming headset, the MixAmp and some assorted accessories in for review.

I'm currently working on reviewing these products, and they're great, so far... with the reviews to be posted later tonight. I found an interesting website that Google is funding, called English Central, and used the A30 Headset with that to practice my English on trailer video clips from Resident Evil and commercials and such. Too Fun.

However, I need to try them out in some online gameplay on my consoles and with the final episode of lost coming on tonight, I don't have access to my television until after it's over... and they're might not be many people online anywhere in the world to play against.

Hmm... that actually might give me a chance to get a "king of the hill" achievement online... Might have to use it with that. I guess I could run over to J.R. Nip's and give it a try.

At any rate, busy, busy, busy... and watch for the reviews soon!

CSI gets a "Dexter" injection by "Professor Morpheus"

So, I was looking around the net for something or other when I saw a story posted somewhere (CNN?maybe?) about Laurence Fishburne joining the cast of CSI. As a fan of CSI (the original - Las Vegas only), this was big news. I figured that, since we will eventually be reviewing the DVD of the upcoming season, it's germane to what we do and of interest to our readers. So, I found the original press release to write my story.

I couldn't have been more surprised when I found out that there was going to be a conference call a little over an hour from the time I found the press release. I waited, then took a thirty minute lunch break during the conference call, so I could listen in.

I didn't get a chance to ask any questions, personally, but that's good, because after I indicated that I had a question and before the call was over, other people asked the questions I was going to ask, anyway. It would have been really embarassing to get to ask a question and basically say, "Laurence Fishburne, Do you like toast too? As do I. It is warm and crispy, and a perfect place for jelly to lay... Now get away from me, I've got nothing to say to you!" - to paraphrase Mitch Hedberg.

At any rate, I think the news story about Laurence Fishburne joining CSI came out pretty good, when I weaved in the quotes from Mr. Fishburne and the CSI producers. Some of the quotes were pretty cool, especially to hear Laurence Fishburne say, "Hey, this will work!" excitedly after seeing how dark and moody CSI can be.