What’s worse than a week of doom? The little week after the week of doom that pretends to be friendly and cute, and then when you get through the week of doom, the cute little friendly week turns into a flesh-tearing manifestation of Cthulhu and has its way with you.

I had my appointment with the speech pathologist today. It involved stuttering in front of a camera, in hopes that naive students can learn from my misfortune (consent form signed to that effect). Then, followed by a short term memory test, reflex and rhythm test, hearing test, and some specialized personality tests. (The results that I have received on the spot were all normal — I’m NOT going deaf.)

I received $10.00 for my troubles, which I wasted on a Pita (from the pit), and Programming M&M’s (and a chocolate croissant, with chocolate milk, but that’s a secret).

Now that my profile has been acquired, the next step is to get my fMRI, which wont be until after January (or possibly February). Looking forward to it.

So, what happened this week? XBox 360 has been released!
Interesting points about it:

• XBox being sold for phat lewt on eBay.
  Current prices range from $750-1050 USD.
• Microsoft is losing money again? ¹ (Remember how Microsoft lost a few billion in the underpriced original XBox, including game profits?)
  
  Microsoft is gaining money for a change?
  No one knows.

  ^{1. These estimates aren’t really accurate, since they take retail prices of each component into account, and not bulk contracts, like it’s actually done.}

Alright, I reached my Microsoft-talk quota for the month. We’ll be resuming our regular programming (Google-related chatter) in our next installment of shazow’s blog.