Oh, man, Rock Band is fun. I played about a million hours the other day at Jud's 10th (40th) birthday party.

Some of you may be old enough to remember Jaminator - a guitar-shaped toy invented by Steve Capps, Ray DuFlon and Ed Bogas, and sold, for a time, by Worlds of Wonder. It turned ordinary humans into guitar gods.

Rock Band (and its cousin, Guitar Hero) takes Jaminator, introduces it to Tetris, and holds the two up inside an XBox 360 for a long weekend of drugs, sex and rock 'n roll.

Completely addicting.

As a side note, I worked with Ray DuFlon for a while. He was a mad scientist. I suspect he would like Rock Band quite a bit.