Wow, I didn’t have much time for entertainment this month… Books: 22: The Wizard of Karres: a sequel to an old Schmitz book. Written by the Shadow of the Lion folks (Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer) Games: 22: Uncharted 3. Finished this on Hard. Oddly, it’s almost more fun than Uncharted 2. UC2 I quit after finishing once, UC3 I immediately started replaying on Crushing. Videos: 87: Pixar Short Films Collection Vol1.

I just had a thought while I was fiddling with Emusic and looking to download my monthly allotment of music… There’s a ton of bands I listen to where I lose track of them and find myself 1-2 discs behind. Bowling for Soup I missed their 2009 release entirely and only picked it up in 2011. I don’t have time to check up on all of the bands I listen to and see if they’ve released new stuff.

Google Reader recently was stripped of much of its useful functionality. This makes it a bit hard to get the word out on new locations for some of the information I used to share there. Hopefully some of the people who I knew on google reader will have this blog marked, and the rest probably have Google+. There are two new RSS feeds that you can add. One should be added to a “Comments” folder to replicate the old recent comments functionality, the other should go into a “Shared” folder that would replace the shared items from the old system.

Books 21. Slanted Jack. Sequel to the book I finished last month. I really should pick it up and try to get more than 24 books in this year. Games 21. Disgaea 4. Spent all month working on this one. It’s addictive. Videos 75-80. Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll, The Armageddon Factor. This is really one very, very long series of all interconnected stories.

I keep checking PSN video and comparing it to other ways that I could rent/buy movies and tv shows, and I must say, it’s horribly overpriced. Take House. I missed some episodes in the middle of season 5, but I’m not 100% certain where I stopped watching. It’d be $48 to buy all of season 5 on PSN or another one of these video streaming sites at $2 an episode.

Books. 20. One Jump Ahead. Mark L Van Name. Quite interesting, showing a mercenary sort of character’s thought processes as he works through a way to swindle a government and two mega corporations to get what he wants and rescue a girl… Games: 19. Resistance 3. Pretty good, better than 2. I think I like the pseudo-regeneration in 1 better than the pure medkit style of 3. Story is derivative, but fits with the universe.

The splitting of Netflix’s DVD and Streaming service has me thinking. The way that we say what media we want to view and keep track of it is outdated and very walled-garden like. This adds another layer of maintenance tasks that I need to do by hand because of a lack of a unified agent for all of these sites that I use to accomplish the same task. That task… is acquiring media of various forms.

I noticed I had 1700 spam messages in my box so I thought I’d do a quick sift through them like I do randomly. As usual, filtering out a handful of addresses I no longer use killed 2/3rds of it, and much of the remainder was addresses that have never existed. Maybe 60 messages were things that weren’t spam. During the sift, I found two more companies that either lost track of my email address, or sold it though.

Books: Just one, 19: Bolos - Last Stand. Pretty good collection of Bolo stories. I’ve barely read the series and now I want to go find more. Games: Too busy this month for games. :( Videos: 56. Children of Dune. I’ve never been much into this series, but it wasn’t terrible. 57. Kamichu!. Very cute, though awfully cargo-cultish when it comes to the Poverty god. 58. Negima!. Interesting… Odd ending.

Every once in awhile I get excited to hear about one of my old PS2 games getting re-released for another system. Just recently, Persona 4 was announced for PSVita. I always get briefly excited for a decrease in the number of games I need to finish before I get rid of my old, obsolete PS2 system and its clunky memory cards. Then I look at the mountain of games still incomplete for the system and despair.