Happy birthday, shoot me a PO box and I'll get you your present.
It's really easy to jam a HD into a flash-only PS3 - just get a HD caddy-thingy and almost any 2.5" drive slots right in.
Ah I see. Thought you were talking about the 12G, no HDD models. I got one of those and slapped a 750G HD in it, a lot cheaper than a 500G stock HD model. If it's on PSN (and I think it is), you wouldn't need the BDROM for that.
So... ....the PS3 came with my buddy's login to PSN, which means it's got like 4 years of all his games. Which also means if I buy Ico, it comes out of his points. Not that he'd mind. But it seems kind of dickish. I'm pretty sure he's watching my neflix account but it's a long way from even. Nonetheless, I haven't had time to watch more than a Youtube video in a week, let alone fire up the PS3.