So I finally caved in. I don't watch too much television (although I love Friday Night Lights and Lost), but I do watch a fair amount of films (to be fair I mainly go to the theater). Furthermore, when I was young, I was very good at video games. Good enough to be in the top 3 kids under the age of 13 in New YorkState in the Nintendo championships (the main game where you scored points was Tetris). However, I gave up video games and haven't owed a video game system since I was 16.

Despite my love of film, I still had TVs that were almost 10 years old. Here was how my living room set-up used to look:

But for no real reason other than I decided it was time for change I picked up a very nice entertainment center, with all the amenities. I purchased the following:

-46" Sony Bravia XBR(R) LCD flat panel HDTV

-Sony RHT-G800 Home theater stand with integrated surround speakers and twin subwoofers

-Panasonic DMP-BD30K 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player

-A Wii with all the necessary components/cables (I won't play this myself, but it'll be a nice thing for when friends come over)

-Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

- Guitar Hero III (I've heard this is fun)

-Wii Nunchuk controller (apparently this is for boxing)

-Wii Charge Station and 4 Wii controllers

-Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote (crucial)

The end result is just incredible. The TV looks amazing, I watched the Super Bowl on HDTV, and best of all is the blu-ray disc player. Watching a movie on blu-ray, the quality is so crisp and clean that it looks better than being at the theater. You really have to see it to believe it. Below is a picture of the new setup, taken while watching the opening shot of GoodFellas, while Ray Liotta is speaking one of the more memorable opening lines of American film of the past twenty years:

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me...being a gangster was better than being president of the United States."

I'm extremely pleased with the purchase, and I can't wait to enjoy it.

Since I am posting pics of technology, here are a few more.

This is "the moneymaker," as I call it. I paid for all of my graduate and law school education on this laptop, plus a lot more. It is a nice, 17" inch dell, and I can 4-6 table on it easily. It's still my preferred way to play.

Here is my Dell Computer that I got a few months ago, which is an absolute beast of a computer:

And best of all, here is my 30" Dell Monitor and my 23" apple monitor side by side. You can 9-table on the Dell easily (not that I have ever done it, but I may want to at some point).

Haven't been playing much poker lately since I have been incredibly busy at work, but work is going very well and I couldn't be happier. I am so thankful to be able to have the job I do, and to be able to be excited about learning every day. If anyone has any questions about finance/hedge funds in general, feel free to ask.