I was just contemplating how much our lives will change over the course of the next 40 years or so. First there was the Industrial Revolution, then the great Technological Revolution, and I believe we are soon to enter the next large revolution — a Biotech Revolution. Essentially Nanotechnology and Biology are going to change the ways in which we function and live, as well as expand our life expectancies exponentially. Don’t believe me? Shop around a bit for yourself! Check out the “Futures in Biotech” podcast with my buddy Leo Laporte over at Twit.tv. Or do some googleing on the subject. It’s fascinating stuff that’ going to be the next big thing to impact our world.

On a much lighter note, and gave in and picked up a new HD DvD drive! But wait! HD DVD is dead! What are you thinking? Well, here’s a great deal for anyone who fits the criteria.

1. I didn’t have a next-gen drive yet; Blue-Ray or HD

2. I had an HDTV (720p) and an XBox 360

3. I was bored.

So, I went and picked up the HD add-on drive from my 360. Now I realize that HD discs aren’t being produced anymore, but hear me out on this. I can buy movies on clearance for dirt cheap right now, and I’ll pick up a handful of films that I enjoy enough to watch on multiple occasions. But more importantly, this drive (when connected via HDMI) is an upscaling DVD player. And here’s the best part: it now costs only $49.99. And that comes with a free film. That’s a steal. So I highly recommend picking one up if you’re in the market.

Well, it looks as if the weather is going to be piss-poor tonight, which really puts a damper on my evening plans, which mainly consisted of sitting around and playing Burnout Paradise. I guess I should have tried to relegate my 360 time to the day so I could focus on family tonight….but it felt SO nice to sleep while everyone was gone. I tried to read a little, but I just kept dozing off. More on the novel to come, it’s really stellar and highly recommended reading.

Anywho, my point is this: Burnout Paradise is freakin’ amazing. I don’t even enjoy racing games yet I can’t seem to pull myself away from that damned Xbox. The game is just so engrossing – it’s much less like a racing game and a lot more like a whole world I exist in outside of this one. I guess it was quixotic of me to think I wouldn’t spend too much time playing video games, but hey…it’s worth it. Now just as long as I don’t get the dreaded Red Rings of Death…

So, here it is a nice, quiet peaceful afternoon in Alabama. A nice 77 degrees outside (although it will be below freezing tonight!) and lo and behold, I sit in front of my trusty CPU setting up a blog…again…for the third or fourth time. If I give any thought to why blogging never works out for me I become very depressed. So I don’t But if I were to contemplate such an issue…

Could it be that I’m just too busy? The life of a chemical analyst just takes too much from me. Or is it that I’m just terribly boring and have nothing to say? That’s possible also. Although my better-half might argue that I never shut-up. A fairly valid point.

With all that said I have decided that I’m just going to write about the things I find interesting — mainly tech talk, but I might throw in some life, love, marriage and kids, strange Southern Culture and about anything else I want to.

So I thought I would start by sharing this nice little graphic I found on Digg by a very funny user that goes by the name of boyshaped box. This is particularly special for any children of the 80′s. Take a sec, raise your Crystal-Clear Pepsi (wait, wasn’t that in the 90′s?), put down the Garbage Pail Kids cards and pay homage to the man…. Rick Astley

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