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Doom.
2005-10-22 22:08:51
We went and saw Doom today.
All through the movie I kept getting this feeling that I've seen the same exact movie before; Aliens. The only real difference, was that that movie had people who could actually act. It's a sad, sad day when Bill Paxton can out act anyone in your movie. For those of you that don't know what this movie is about, namely if you have ever felt sunlight on your skin in the last few months, MARS is a reasearch facility. Strangely, research facilities on mars have really sucky lighting and lots of steam pipes that run down the hallways. A group of elite soldiers is sent into rescue some scientists, even though the movie goes to great lengths to point out that there are like 75 cops on the station several times. When a movie goes out of it's way to point out that what it's doing contradicts what it's doing it's either being clever, or well, the opposite of clever, which is what I suspect here.
So anyway, this group of elite soldiers which is naturally comprised of mentally unstable people is sent off to mars via 'special effects'. The movie then slaps us in the face by having actors run around hallways and sewers, and what all for about 30 minutes. Really, we get to watch them go down the hallway, confer, argue and go down another hallway. It's very dramatic. Wait... maybe dramatic isn't quite the word I'm thinking of here.
The movie was like time travel. I was stuck in a place where time and meaning stopped for two hours, then it was over. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to reverse this process.
I'm going to completly spoiler all three of the movies surprises below... read it and save yourself the same pain I experienced
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There you go. Now you know every surprising thing that happens, every twist of the plot that you were not expecting. Every surprising one liner that was clever. I even added in all the character development just to make the spoilers longer.
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riiip, ebay hell, community, and anime stuff.
2005-10-20 01:57:21
So it's a normal day. I get up, think about excercising and hit the snooze button instead. Nothing new here.
Later on, I'm at work, I've got a little coffee pot behind my desk brewing and a cup in hand. I've got all my lessons printed out and so forth. Then it happens... I rip my pants.
RRRrrrrriiiiiiiiippppp!!
This isn't one of those subtle, little in the crotch of your pants rips that you can hide easily. Noooooo, this is a vertical rip right next to the zipper. To top it off, since I'm low on laundry, I'm going commando today. We've already got a couple of teachers out so I can't just go home and get a change (that's like... an hour and a half back and forth). Ok, I'm clever. I give all my lessons from my desk, and just happen to have a jacket over my arm in front of me whenever I'm going someplace. Except the whole day, I keep getting visitors, like parents that stop by to see how I teach, and the director that needs to go over logistics. It's like the world is tryint to trap me into revealing my package.
I've made it though most of the day, and discover that I need to drive some students home. How am I going to drive a bunch of kids home with this gaping hole over my bits? staples thats how. I staple the rent together and drive with a sweater in my lap. It's pouring rain, thunder lightning. The freeways that I need are closed and this being Los Angeles everybody turns into a retard when it rains. Finally I get most of the students dropped off, except there is one that needs to be dropped off for a doctors appt. He can't tell directions for shit. Lets forget that he's been doing this for years now, he is useless. "I think it's this way....." "yeah this store looks right". Finally I call the school and have them mapquest me. the school is like "you're not even on the map. So I get directions. Let me tell you about Eagle Rock and Glendale. It sucks for streets. You get streets that are both parallel AND cross. You can drive down west glendale ave. and hit north glandale ave. at an intersection.
I finally get where I needed to be. Turns out we'd been within two blocks of it before this kids directions turned me the wrong way and I dived into an hour and a half of glendale traffic just to get back where I started.
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I get home, and I have a bunch of e-mail notifications that I owe money on my e-bay purchases. This explains why the bastards haven't sent my games. I ordered a bunch of stuff for my classroom (about 120.00) of new games and I've been waiting. I fuckin' hate losing money like that. Plus, it's not like I'll get paid back by the school for it or anything either.
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I should spend some more time working on my video. It's a 'sort of' Naruto Yaoi. I'm doing it to see what sort of reaction I can get from it, not because I'm into that stuff. Fortunately, I'm secure in my massively manly self so I'm not worried about becoming accidentally hard gay. I'll leave that sort of thing to Godix.
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Anyone ever notice how the sense of community here at the .org changes and fluctuates? I do. It's strange to me. There are some that come and go, and others are like fixtures. One of these days, this (would that be next year) year I'll get to Anime Expo and meet some people. AWA isn't gonna happen, but something local like AX I'm good for. Heck, I'll even wear my bunny ears.
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I just watched Vandread (first and second stage). The third episode of second stage is really sad. Like, tears kind of sad. Maybe it's just me getting all weepy and stuff.
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You know what I like? I like when the main chracters in a romance actually get together. Like in Ah My Goddess, or Ai Yori Aoshi. None of this... "oh, I can't choose because I'll hurt someones feelings" crap for me.
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Wow, I'm really rambly tonight. guess it's been a while since I posted one of these. -
owed ops - smart vs dumb - my studly self... - gay cowboy movies.
2005-09-01 12:51:36
DCdeveloperX
Michelle/Hinatasan
aieli-ileia
Bakadeshi
I owe some ops... I haven't forgotten about you, but just haven't been doing much with opping lately. Maybe I need to focus on shorter ops.
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One of my students asked me a short while ago why they should bother learning all the stuff that I'm trying to teach them, since they feel that the odds on them ever getting a good job are nil.
so I told him: "Smart people can do dumb jobs, but dumb people can't do smart jobs."
Then I went on to explain how, when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, and to put some more tools in their toolbox.
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On a completely selfish and personal note: I found some old pictures of me! It's weird because I had completly forgotten about them. I'll post my studly images up shortly.
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Anybody ever go to see a movie, and there are SOOOOoooo many previews that you forget the movie that you are there to see? That happened to me yesterday. My wife wanted to go see 'the constant gardener'. Since I usually give her what she wants... that means I went to see 'the constant gardener'. Anway, the movie had about 8 previews, plus the usual ads before it started. There was this one that just left me slack jawed with incredulity that anyone would make such a movie. It's called 'brokeback mountain' or something. Essentially, it's the story of some gay (as in homo) cowboys. They get married (to women) have kids, and go on "fishing trips" It was a really long preview, both in terms of time, and torture. The movie?
Oh the movie. It was ok. It's based on a conspiracy theory book, and seems to follow that reasonably well. I didn't really get into it much but my wife liked it. She's got some more refined tastes than I do. Makes me wonder what she saw in a guy like me.
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Cannibals... Paid to make an AMV? GTO- complete.
2005-08-29 14:06:54
No, I'm not talking about the kind that eat your liver with a side of roast leg, and then shrink your head. I'm talking about computer cannibalism.
You see, whenever I need to get rid of or upgrade a new computer at the school I work at I take out anything that might be useful.
I have a whole PILE of CD-rom drives, floppy disk drives, network cards, and ram.
It's the ram that got me thinking about this. I have 15 sticks of ram sitting on my desk right now. 12 64 meg chips and three 256 chips. I'm not even counting the three GIG of ram that I gave away at the beginning of summer. I find myself wondering...
why. Why do I keep all this stuff? Half the time I just use them as disposable lessons ("lets open up this hard drive and see what it looks like class") and the other half the time it just piles up till I get pisses that I have so much crap in my classroom and throw it all away. It's like keeping left-overs in the fridge; it tasted really great so you don't want to just chuck it... but you know you'll probably never really eat it. About the only think I use on a regular basis from the pile is the CD rom drives. Most new computers come with a burner; you have to actually work to NOT get one like that these days. I always take it out since I don't want my students making copies of stuff all day long.
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Anyone ever go in to work, and there is absolutely no reason at all for you to be there? That's me today. It's my vacation actually, but I have to come in all week since I handle the transportation logistics, as well as network management during the downtime. The problem is that the information I need isn't, and probably won't be ready till wednesday. So for two whole days, I'm gonna sit around, download AMVs and play games. Maybe I'll work on a video or something. I always like saying that I get paid to make them....
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GTO.
Ok, so I'm reading the manga right now. Surprisingly, I'm liking it as I go on. It took a little while to get used to it, but now I'm really enjoying the artwork, and the semi-subtle use of chracter expressions and traits. Everyonce in a while I'll find myself laughing out loud, or smiling at a 'tender' moment.
GTO- Manga.
Long. Very, very long. There are actually filler books that are completely skip-worthy, but on the whole it's detailed and takes it's time getting the story laid out so that the characters generally work. It's the normal human stuff that I find most appealing in the series. Plus, a lot of the artwork is quite nice. Oddly enough, the girls are drawn far better than the guys... but hey... target audience and all that.
GTO- Anime.
If there was ever an eclectic style of animation, this is it. The show is really ugly at times (from an artwork standpoint), and terribly crude in it's execution at times. Oddly enough, I still found that I liked a lot of the chracters. In particular, I liked the Tall Girl story, and the Anko Noburu story.
GTO- Live Action.
Definately a switch! The students don't look anything at all like what you expect them to from the manga or the anime. Of course... 16 year olds don't look like gorgeous models with svelte bodies and lucious curves in real life either. (well... most of them) Plus, the show 'combines' a few chracters for simplicity so you see stuff happening to, or by a chraracter that is out of place.. but it all works. In the end, the show focuses well and I wound up watching it till 4:00am one night because I wanted to see the end. -
B-day.
2005-08-17 19:48:52
Happy birthday to me.... happy birthday to me....
A year older, theoretically a year wiser too.
If we are the sum of all the people that we have ever met, then I'm very lucky indeed to have met the people that I have.
Resolutions:
Save up 10K for a downpayment on a car.
Finish some of those videos that I'm working on.
Get a big bronze monkey statue.
I'm sure I'll think of a few more.
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