Bioshock

Can anybody really argue that Bioshock is the best game ever made? I've played quite a few video games in my time, and nothing has ever played the way Bioshock does.

The graphics are amazing, even borderline beautiful. The game builds real tension, something I think most games try to do and fail. With enemies like Big Daddys stalking through the hallways, and unseen guides trying to manipulate you as you fight through Rapture, this game delivers on every level.

So lets hear it? Best game ever? Or over rated?

Let me know in the comments.

Heights

I realized today that I am quite frankly afraid of heights. It seems that this fear is directly related to my relative height as well. As a young kid, I remember racing my neighbor up the blue spruce in my side yard to see who could get higher. We could both make it up about 20 feet of tree in roughly 3 or 4 minutes. Not bad for 9 year olds.

But now, when I climb a ladder at work, I climb this:

But I feel like I'm climbing this:

I realize this is silly, but today at work, as I was trying to change a light bulb in a ceiling fixture. I started sweating, and I felt like I was about to fall. I almost dropped a fluorescent ligh(apparently a bad thing) and I managed to put in the new lightbulb.

I just wish I knew why this fear started to manifest itself recently. Ahh well, can't win em all.

Why Do I Buy this Random Shit?

So a couple of weeks ago, I bought this:

It was an impulse buy, but one of the guys I work with bought one too. We both set them up, and are now in a heated battle to see who can grow a plant faster. It sounds a lot stupider when you read than when we made the original bet.

The silly thing is, it fascinates me. I have little plants growing in my room, that will someday be able to eat most species of small bugs. And watching them grow is really an odd thing to see. I've never grown a plant from a seed before, so it strikes me as very odd that I can grow these little things, since apparently they are hard to care for.

Anyway, comment away, let me know random shit you buy.