OMG.

I must have one of these. Must. Have.

[squee!]

It’s been a loooooong time coming.

I’ve been waiting for years for Google to do something with GrandCentral, which was an awesome idea way ahead of its time when they bought it in 2007. Well, here it is 2009 and Google has FINALLY brought it out of “secret Beta” mode, renamed it as Google Voice and made it even more drool-worthy by adding features that make the service even more compelling. Having one phone number for people to call that will automagically ring all your phones, or any one of your phones based on criteria you chose like the time of day or the person who is calling, was always pure genius. But now the other cool features, like call screening, caller ID, call blocking, conference calling, etc. make the service so awesome I can’t believe none of the “big” phone companies offer anything like it. But I bet this will wake some of them up soon. I mean, Google even has free voicemail transcription services so that all your voice messages are transcribed and searchable via your phone or the web!

And did I mention that this is all free?

The only real problem now is, of course, Google Voice is still in Beta and unavailable to the general public. I hope I can get on it soon because I really, REALLY want to try it out. I’ve been beating my head against the wall for years now, wondering why in this modern time people can’t be reached via one phone number for all their contact needs. Voice, texting, whatever. If I want to call you why do I need 5 different numbers to try, home, office, cell, etc.? Does it really matter to me where you are when I call you? I mean, why can’t our phones route incoming calls to whatever phone we want to receive calls on? Well, soon enough, when Google Voice goes public, I’ll sign up and finally be able to give out a single phone number from which I will always be reachable. Unless I block you because I don’t want to talk to you. Because I don’t like you. Because you never actually talk. And you kinda creep me out with all that heavy breathing and fwap-fwap sounds.

Seriously, stop calling me. Freak.

Nothing good will come of this.

I’ve been playing Bioshock on my XBox 360 and to tell the truth, I’m not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. Oh sure, the visuals look great and the story is pretty good, but to me it feels lacking. What it’s missing isn’t cool concepts or awesome stuff, which it has plenty of with the Little Sisters, Big Daddy’s, Adam, Eve, plasmids, hacking, weapons, and a giant, sprawling underwater city in decay. It also has a certain ‘wow’ factor when you first see it and begin to explore. However, after playing it for almost a week, even though I do like it enough to finish the game, I’ve found myself bored with it. I’ve gone back and looked at some of the games that I like to play and I can’t figure out why Bioshock isn’t a game I like as much as everyone else on the planet.

It’s driving me a little crazy.

I mean, it’s got all the right pieces to make me happy, it’s even fun in a semi-repetitive way. But maybe I’m finding it boring for the simple reason that I’m bored with first-person-shooters. No, that can’t be true because I just played through Half-Life 2 and, even though I hated the control system, I enjoyed playing the game itself. I’m not sure what the reason is, but Bioshock just isn’t doing “it” for me and that’s making me sad. And, as everyone knows, there’s only one thing I can do chase the sadness away.

That’s right. I’m going to play all 3 Halo games… AGAIN.

My daughter is going to have the coolest room ever.

Last week we bought some Blik Wall Decals and over the weekend I put them up on my daughter’s walls. Now her room looks like a giant homage to Donkey Kong, complete with flaming barrels, a Princess in Distress and even DK himself. I’m having a blast putting them up and reliving my youth when I could finish the entire arcade game on a single quarter.

OMG. I’m Geeking out over this.