I drove one of these yesterday. Honestly, I haven’t had that much fun driving since I sold the S4 *sniff*. The DSG on it is AMAZING. I spun out the tires on hot asphalt and it really flew. I can see why people are raving about it. This is one AT that traditional stick-shifters can’t thumb their nose at. It kicks ass.
I went up to Tahoe with Kid1 for a weekend with Grandma. We stopped by the Train Museum in Sacramento, and I only had to endure about 3 hours of “can we go for a train ride now?” type of questions.
As the formal IT guy for my parent’s business (which is over 4 hours away), I had to get a new PC for one of their dying 4-year old Todd Tokubo specials. I swang by a Fry’s on the way up to Tahoe and grabbed a GQ (standing for Great Quality) closeout for $200. Now, I haven’t bought a PC in a while, but $200 for a 1.8 GHz processor, 512 MB of DDR2, nVidia 6100 chipset (decent graphics), and an 80 GB HD seems amazing since Windows Vista is over half of the price. I couldn’t believe it. You could easily sink an extra $200 and have one decent computer that may actually play games.