Friday, May 9, 2008
Iron Man…wow. If you have not seen this movie, quit reading this and go see it. Best movie ever, and I just don’t say that about any movie. Marvel Studios completely nailed this movie. Completely. Make sure you stay until the credits are over. The credits are long, but it’s completely worth it. There was also a trailer for
The Incredible Hulk (not to be confused with
Hulk), and I think it’s worth giving a chance. Partially because Edward Norton is in it, and he is awesome. You know what else is awesome? Telling people in a crowded theater that the open seat next to you is taken. I don’t feel bad about it. There were open seats elsewhere, and even though the one next to me was better, it’s really their fault for being late. I practically had to spell it out for one guy. “The seat next to me is saved. You can’t sit here. I’m saving it for someone else. You can’t sit here. Go away.” was approximately what I told him. I wasn’t lying, the seat was saved for someone else…okay, so it wasn’t. I was lying. See, I bet you were thinking I was going to say “It was saved for a pretty lady!” No. That’s stupid and horrendously illogical. There’s no benefit in that. It makes no sense to do things for someone because they’re female and attractive. I’m officially almost done with the semester. This means I get to sit around and do nothing. I think I shall watch Chocolate this weekend (assuming I find a decent sub), which will likely be a far superior experience than One Missed Call 2 was. That was a bit underwhelming. So was
Yesterday. It didn’t make very much sense. Chocolate won’t need to make sense, because awesome violence is awesome. I actually want to buy the
new NIN CD, but I’ll have to settle for downloading it for free until I have the opprotunity to buy it. I’m pleased that the CS department will continue to pay me well next semester. I’m shocked that they’re having me teach an actual lecture class. There’s only one section, so it’s all me. I even get a grader, and I’m going to work her to the bone. They’re putting me in a position of power, and I will abuse said power. It only makes sense. I will miss teaching programming labs, since they require so little thought on my part. I won’t, however, miss hearing “I’m not a comp sci!” as if that’s going to make me say “That’s fine, the answer is…” I hope teaching a lecture class will require less patience on my part, because I want to choke people sometimes. I think I will go download demos off the Nintendo Channel.
“I need your discipline”
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Harold and Kumar escaped from Guantanamo Bay. The Harold and Kumar movies are an oddity for me, for they’re the only movies I don’t mind ending happily. In fact, I want them to end happily. Harold and Kumar deserve to be happy. But yes, see the movie, for it’s funner than toddlers getting flash kicked in the jaw. Mario Kart Wii can be describe in one word: OH YEAH! Okay, that’s two words, but tell that to the Kool-Aid man. The online is awesome. It’s what Brawl should have been, but oh well. The Wii Wheel works well for me, and bikes are quite awesome. I want a bike for the sole purpose of popping wheelies and getting a boost in speed…that’s how it works, right? Mario Kart Wii has reminded me of one painful fact of life: you’re far more likely to get pegged by one item, then by another as soon as you recover, when you’re in 1st place and are about to make the last turn of the last lap. After that, 8 players will pass you. It this point, I’m tempted to throw my Wii Wheel at the ground and not be at all shocked when my Wii Wheel and Wiimote don’t break at all; Nintendo makes durable things. I’m terribly sick of people adding social networking to everything like it’s the bee’s knees! I do not need a web browser with social networking. I do not need a media player with social networking. What’s next? A BitTorrent client with social networking? Oh,
wait. I should make something with antisocial networking. That would be relevant to my interests. I’ve recently came into possession of a mic, so I thought I should try micing my amp when recording instead of just plugging my amp directly into my computer. Then I found out that my guitar sounds very metal-ly…which is awesome, but not what I wanted. So after learning that I’m listening to my amp in a completely dumb way when messing with the settings, I’m much happier with my sound, but micing my amp still doesn’t seem to be the superior option. Maybe I just have a cheap mic. For one of my classes, we have to give presentations at the end of the semester, and the two best presentations get to present their stuff at a departmental colloquium. Of course, I wanted my presentation to be awesome (I want that A), but not too awesome. I thought I achieved that, but I found out how wrong I was today. Boy, I was really wrong. Apparently, I was just too awesome, because now I have to give my presentation in front of the department. My advisor said I should be excited, but that’s not the word I would use. I though I was done for the semester, as in I had a predictable workload. A predictable workload means I can play Mario Kart Wii because I know how long things take, thus I’m technically not procrastinating. I’m simply just waiting till the last minute to do things. However, preparing the presentation for the entire department, making sure I don’t make an idiot out of myself, and panicking…not fun. You know what is fun? Mario Kart Wii, but if you don’t have that, try Trackmania Nations Forever. The online multiplayer is awesome and a half. It will consume your free time. I need to call my brother about his birthday and the game I got him. Away!
“Those crocodile tears wont work”
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - "Things that make me sigh"
I’ve compiled a list of things that make me sigh:
Straight Edge
Bands with names like “As I Lay Dying”, or “Over My Dead Body”
People who listen to the aforementioned bands
Nerdcore. Please get over yourselves.
4chan, or any site that ends in “chan”
People who always expect you to put their needs before your’s
MySpace profiles. To be more accurate, any social networking profile that allows the user to have control over how the page looks. Lame people have lame web design skills, and there are numerous lame people. You don’t have to be a computer scientist to know that moving backgrounds makes things not readable. And yes, I’m 99% confident that your MySpace page is an abomination.
Emo pictures, i.e., black and white pictures taken at odd angles. Learn to take photos or accept the fact that you’re unattractive from all other angles.
AMVs. Let’s face it, if you aren’t going for funny, then it’s almost guaranteed to suck. If you’re going for funny, then it’s almost guaranteed to suck because YOU AREN’T FUNNY.
The fact that no one ever leaves comments
Trolls and the people who feed them. If no one fed trolls, they would die from starvation.
The lack of a Backyard Burger within 20 miles of my home.
The tendency of anime to go into ridiculous filler instead of going on hiatus. Naruto, I’m looking directly at you. 2 years of filler? This is why you’re out of the pizza club.
People who think that the noble, Scientology-fighting Anonymous is the norm, while forgetting about the other, far less noble Anonymous. Remember, none of us are as cruel as all of us.
When bands I love drastically change their sound and start sounding like bands I don’t love.
Being interrupted while in the middle of watching anime.
Being interrupted while in the middle of watching anime by drunks.
Drunks.
People who take pictures of themselves in compromising situations, and then are stupid enough to post them online. Even if you make them “private”, you’re relying on the security of the website, and
that’s dumb. Assuming the website is 100% unhackable (ha!), your pictures are about as safe as your password is strong. One should just assume that anything posted online is now public.
Anything that involves eating while wearing a suit/tuxedo.
Wearing a suit/tuxedo.
Jerks who want to take pictures of me wearing a suit/tuxedo.
Jerks who want to take pictures of me.
Jerk-faced jerks.
People who don’t bathe daily. I just can’t condone that in any way, shape, or form.
Friend-whores on Facebook (or pick your favorite social network).
That’s all. What makes you sigh?
“You’ve been targeted in the night by violent mercenaries”
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
There Will Be Blood has a surprising lack of blood. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t see it, because it’s so awesome, it made me want to consume milkshakes. In fact, it makes me want to drink YOUR milkshake. I will drink it up. You know what else is surprisingly good? The Forbidden Kingdom is surprisingly good. I didn’t expect much from it, but it was quite enjoyable. And the fight scenes? Oh yeah! Casey is lucky she didn’t get punched (or maybe I’m lucky I didn’t punch her). I want a staff to work people over with. I just finished recording a
cover of Chocolate Rain, just like I said I would. Yay for actually finishing things. I do not like it when students cheat. I also don’t like it when students tell me “But I’m not a Comp. Sci.!” Next time I get an invitation to a fancy banquet, I will turn it down no matter who tells me it’s a good idea if I went. I flat out refuse. I do not like being out of my element. I also don’t mingle well. I have a DS; there’s no reason for me to ever have to talk to others for entertainment. Without my DS, however, all there’s left for me to do is eat crackers and think about drum tracks. I find myself using Windows very, very little. However, there is one thing I miss about windows: Winamp. Sweet, sweet winamp. It’s not that there aren’t quality MP3 players for Linux, it’s the fact that none of them happily talk to my iPod like Winamp + ml_iPod does (at least not yet). And forget using Wine + Winamp, it works fairly crappily (unlike Wine + uTorrent). I find myself booting Windows only to sync my iPod. I like my iPod. I don’t think I’ll by an iPod new ever again. My $80 used iPod has been working far more reliably than my new $360 iPod AND the replacement one they sent me. I didn’t know I was suppose to have felt the earth quake until my Dad told me that they felt it in Kansas. So maybe I really slept through it? Who knows. I don’t remember that far back. I’m done.
“Space Lord, mother mother”
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
I was looking to my Apache logs for the first time since using E-Rice and found out a wealth of things. The Googlebot seems to do a lot of searches on my blog. The googlebot wants to know who I have a crush on. Weird. I’ve spent this weekend doing very little, which is good and bad. I feel as though I should doing something awesome, but lounging about is fun. I went to the GH3 tournament, and wow, that took forever. They had 3 TVs and 3 XBox 360s, but they only had enough guitars for 1 setup. It was double elimination, but the sloth-like pace of the tournament made many people leave early when losing, myself included. It’s no surprise that Kyle was the one who defeated me, and Kyle is a Cliffs-Of-Dover-choosing jerk, but I expected no less from him. There were far less noobs at the GH3 tournament than would be present at a Smash tournament. Also, they started picking the downloadable XBox 360 songs, which is completely not fair at all. I think I could have run the tournament better. At least I would make sure to have at least two setups going.
Embarrassingly parallel processes are embarrassingly parallel.
Into the Mirror was quite enjoyable, no wonder Hollywood plans on making a crappy remake. Speaking of things that shouldn’t be remade by hollywood,
The Machine Girl (which might possibly be a cinematic masterpiece) comes out in June, and I will own it. Ninja Yakuza Family? Yes. I don’t see how this can be anything other than head-explodingly awesome. Honestly, they would have to try really hard to mess that up. Really, really hard. It’s not impossible, e.g.,
Stacy. Way to fail with such an awesome premise. I’ve been making a site for my musics, but I won’t post the link until I have at least two songs. Don’t bother guessing URLs, because you will fail. Speaking of such things, I spent a large chunk of time covering Chocolate Rain yesterday. I have the actual vocal track, I HAVE to do this. I got nominated for some leadership award, and I am not happy about it. When have I EVER been a leader? Never. I make it a point to not lead others, and I get nominated for an award for the exact opposite of what I’ve been doing? I call shenanigans. Let’s get the brooms. I want to find whoever nominated me and beat them until they reach a skittles-like consistency.
“Everybody to the limit”
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Can the French make a good action film? YES.
District 13 taught me that. My, that was a high quality action film. I did not know the French had it in them. I think I might enjoy this summer of doing very little, because that’s what it seems like I’ll be doing. EMPLOYMENT FAIL. Oh well. I found out recently that my brother listens to System of a Down, and it was the proudest moment of my life. I failed my sister, but I’m glad I didn’t fail my brother. Lately, I’m constantly being reminded of why I enjoy source control so much. I haven’t been smashing enough as much as I should lately. It’s probably detrimental to my health. It took me an hour to record a 57 second song. Is there something wrong with that? I used star power for the solo. A lot of star power. I’ve been thinking about making a game. I have a couple of ideas in my head. I want to make an RPG where the goal isn’t saving the world. Too bad I can’t do art, among other things. Yes, I know there are games where people have made up for their inability to do art by making the graphics simple, yet stylish. However, I suck at anything that involves style or creativity. Speaking of sucking, Max 300 sucks. However, I shall beat it one day. I’ll beat its jerkface in. It will be epic. After a week of no free time, I though I’d have more free time this week. Boy, was I wrong. I have a rough rough draft of a paper due Tuesday, and a smoother rough draft due Thursday. Papers will be the death of me, and I’m writing a thesis. THESIS! What was I thinking? Theses are not short. I wonder if people fail their thesis defense. I’d rather not fail my thesis defense. I got organized today and made a to-do list. That was one of the best ideas I’ve had in a long time. I got so much stuff done today. Everyone should make a to-do list and do things. I’m tempted to try
Tomato for my router, since
DD-WRT’s QoS seems to be broken. That would explain a lot of things. I’ve really nothing interesting to say, I’m just rambling.
“Vicinity of obscenity in your eyes”
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
I looked outside on Sunday morning and it’s snowing. It’s the beginning of spring and…it’s snowing. Global warming? No. All the episodes of South Park online, free, and official?
YES. Half the fun is deciding which word gets the link. Speaking of words, one of my new favorite words is “wallbooty”. Wallbooty is a booty that is so flat, it is parallel to the wall. Let’s use it in a sentence: When Sir Mix-A-Lot found out about her wallbooty, he was not very pleased. He likes big butts, and he cannot lie. If he did, someone would kill him. In his face. That’s why he cannot lie. I would play that on my bass right now if I brought it home with me. I miss it, but I have work that needs to be done and a need to leave Rolla. Research must be done, and shall do it. I remember when Spring Break meant I was on a break. My lack of free time makes me increasingly content with the possibility of not getting an internship this summer. I’ve been crunching numbers, and I can apparently (barely) afford it in the worst case scenario. In the best case scenario, I’d get a GTA position during my last semester. My pockets would explode with money. In a better case scenario, some company will say “You’re impressive, we’ll hire you!” instead of “You’re impressive, but no.” Regardless, a free summer would give me much time for other things that don’t get the time they deserve. But I’m more than happy to sacrifice that for financial security.
My mom called me to see if I was underwater. I didn’t really know why, because it was completely dry outside. As I was driving home the next day, I passed Eureka and saw a huge lake. This was odd, because I was not aware of a lake existing past Eureka…then traffic slowed down to a crawl. That’s when my dad called me and suddenly, it all made sense. Apparently, there were places underwater. About 20 miles ahead, they took a 3 lane highway and made it a 1 lane highway. It turned a 1.5 hour trip into a 4 hour trip. In there defense, Fenton (a town further down the highway) had reason to fear the arrival of the
Kraken. Luckly, my house isn’t underwater. I fear singing fish named Ariel (she didn’t have legs and she breathed underwater, thus a fish). Speaking of which, I haven’t spoken to Ariel in ages. I haven’t spoken to a lot of people in ages. On an unrelated topic, Casey has pointy boots. I don’t know why that popped (almost wrote pooped) into my mind.
School Days is a pleasant surprise. I’m only 4 episodes in, but I already give it a thumbs up. I’m surprised I like it so much, but I won’t be surprised if this is based off of an H-game. Japan and their H-games. Speaking of games, Brawl is still awesome, and Guitar Hero 3 hurts my fingers now; a clear sign that I need to play more. Proper semi-colon usage? Not sure. Speaking of music games, the Wii version of Rock Band is
apparently crippled. When they say “The feature-set is a lot closer to the PS2 version of Rock Band…”, they mean crippled. No online play? Guitar Hero 3 has online play. I can pwn jerks in their jerk faces online with GH3, but Harmonix is telling me that they can’t get that worked out for the Wii? LIES. I thought Harmonix loved me more than Activision, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Game developers, don’t cripple the Wii versions of your games. In fact, don’t cripple your games. Make them as awesome as you can. People appreciate awesomeness.
Are you reading this? Are you going to leave a comment? You better. I’ll even give you a topic: What do you hate most about weddings? Mine is the expectation to dress up fancy while eating. Never a good idea.
“Don’t touch my girlfriend”
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Let’s make an attempt at structure.
As I’ve (unsuccessfully) been seeking summer employment, I saw a listing for a certain company I
use to work for. I wish I could tell people IT’S A TRAP! Then again, someone might like working there. I don’t know why, because it sucked out much of my soul. I said I’d never go back there, but no one seems to want to hire me (I’m still not going back there, ever). Maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Who knows? I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t get an internship. I’ll be a sad panda. Possibly a broke panda too. I wish companies that reject you were a bit more descriptive in telling you why they rejected you. “Unfortunately, due to the limitation of available positions and the competitiveness of the candidate pool we will be unable to move forward with the interview process at this time.” isn’t very helpful. If they just want to tell me I suck and give me a nice list of the reasons why I suck, I’d appreciate it. However, I can see why they don’t do that, people are entirely sue-happy nowadays. Although, if I don’t get a job, it would give me all the time in the world to do the things that I’ve been wanting to do, but didn’t have the time to do. But I would love employment, like ninjas enjoy wailing on their guitars as the fly through the air.
Brawl is still ridiculously awesome. I find that I’m doing so much better at Brawl then I did at Melee. I don’t like randomly falling over, but I’m cool with that. Online matches with friends are awesome, but still laggish. Brawl has made me become increasingly fond of pokémon. This reminds me, I need a Pokémon game for my DS. I’ve been without pokémon for far too long. I want to be able to use “LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS!” as the perfect pick up line, which I shall wield with no success. Alas, I have far too much gaming to do. Far too much.
St. Pat’s is over, and I am glad. St. Pat’s has the power to kill any good mood I’m in, and I’ve yet to figure out why.
Millennium Actress is, like all of Satoshi Kon’s movies, quite enjoyable. It’s, in my opinion, the least enjoyable out of all his movies, but that’s not saying much due to the high quality of his other movies. People needs more Satoshi Kon goodness.
New South Park is new and enjoyable.
Robot Voice is awesome. I wish it was mine for the taking.
I got an email forwarded by Amanda from Ian’s Mom (I’m assuming) about a “Senior Development Position” and I was confused for various reasons: a) I won’t graduate grad school until May 2009, and b) I’m not a senior anything. However, I appreciate the effort.
Now that I think about it, “Just be yourself!” is horrible advice, at least in respect to myself. Being myself doesn’t work very well when I need it to. If being myself worked, then I wouldn’t be single and I’d have 20 internship offers (none of which requiring business casual). This is different than reality, with my lack of love from both women and companies. I just get no love all around.
I apparently left my keys in the door to my apartment. LOCK FAIL.
My “other blogs” section looks sparse. I should just get rid of it all together. That would be optimal.
I HATE presentations. Public speaking is among the numerous things I fail epically at. Making balls of foil is something I don’t epically fail at. I like my foil. I also like
Retro Sabotage. Unlike 99.3% of the stuff that has the word “retro” in it, it isn’t lame.
People talk about
xkcd like it’s the gospel, but it’s not. I will admit, I have it bookmarked, and I find it enjoyable. However, I don’t think that it’s the best web comic in existence. xkcd is funny when it’s funny, and not even close to being funny when it’s not, and there are many times where it fails in the funny.
Penny Arcade,
White Ninja,
thingpart, &
Dr. McNinja have a much higher funny to crap ratio. While I’m dumping on things people like, I must dump on
Zero Punctuation. Once again, I have it bookmarked, and I enjoy it every Wednesday. However, just because Yahtzee (with the fancy hat) says something doesn’t make it true. Case in point: Yahtzee
claims that the last venue in GH3 is impossible. I’m assuming he’s playing on hard, and not Expert (note how Expert gets capitalized but hard deserves no such capitalization). Regardless of the difficulty, this is a clear case of someone needing to man up. No, I can’t 5-star Raining Blood. No one can. I remember when I saw Raining Blood and was broken. You know I did? I manned up, grew a beard, powered up passed 9000, and told that song where to be. But I digress. Quit liking the things you like so much.
“Trapped in purgatory”
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 - "BRAWL"
Someone…call a guard. Brawl is here, and it is good. It is SO good. One would need to make up a new word to describe how good Brawl is. It is everything I hoped it would be, and more. The only thing that could be better than this is Duke Nukem Forever (it’s been 10 years, it has to be the best game ever created and cure AIDS or someone will die). It makes me seriously consider skipping class, and I never skip class. The only thing I haven’t done yet is play online without lag. I’ve tried, but I’ve had no luck so far. Avoiding spoilers made the game so much more enjoyable. I’m so happy they gave Zelda one of the best taunts in the game. The is only one thing I miss from Melee, and that’s the numerous bonuses you get at the end of a match, like “Edge Hog”, or “Shameful Fall”, or “Predator”. Other than that, Brawl is superior in all ways to Melee. Interviews can be a pain. I interviewed with Cerner, and I made it pass Level 1, but I was rejected at Level 2. That sucked, and not because I didn’t get the internship, because I had to put on a suit two days in a row. It’s not like I’m terribly eager to spend the summer in Kansas City. Who do I know that lives in Kansas City? I can only think of 3 people, and none of them are named Brawl, so they are not love. I love Brawl, I love its face off. There’s a new Guitar Hero game that I’m going to avoid like the plague. I wouldn’t enjoy a Guitar Hero game dedicated to Aerosmith, but Activision thinks I would. They are fools. St. Pats has a habit of putting me in a bad mood. I don’t know why. Drunk people knocking on my door while I’m watching Karas doesn’t help. Walking around Rolla for an hour helps. Stranger Than Fiction was surprisingly good, I recommend it to anybody who exists. It taught me the power of guitar ability and potted plants. I thought about order when writing this, but chaos suits me better.
“Audi famam illius, cucurrit quaeque tetigit destruens”
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sunday was a wonderful day of surprise, because NIN suddenly released
a new album. It’s a 4 part (36 songs!) instrumental album, and the best part is Trent Reznor himself uploaded the first part to
The Pirate Bay. This was very handy, since you can download it from the official site, it’s been getting violently slammed since yesterday. This kinda makes it hard for me to pre-order the CD, because that’s what I’m doing, and it’s $10. If you’re cool without an physical CD, then you can download it for $5; however, that’s not how I roll. Pre-ordering the CD also gets you the the download, so you don’t have to wait until the April to enjoy. I’m sorry if I sound like a bad infomercial, but this is just so…epic. There’s even the “Deluxe Package” with all songs in multi-track format, which is essentially the master tracks. Once again, epic. I could never pirate this! I’d feel guilty, since NIN is now officially independent. Watch me kick it old school. Brawlday is soon. On Saturday, I shall be waiting in line. Shortly after midnight, I’ll be rushing home to enjoy Brawl on my Wii. At 2:30, I shall take a break for Death Note. Death Note is painfully awesome. At 3, I’ll start playing again till I pass out. I’ll likely wake up to play more Brawl. I have my St. Pat’s mostly planned out. It will involve Brawl, solitude, Brawl, a little music, some Guitar Hero 3 (in stereo!), and possibly some research. Mostly Brawl. I might watch Saikano again. I saw the final Kenshin OVA, and I’m am enraged, angry, and sad. I also saw No Country for Old Men on Saturday, and it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t awesome, but it wasn’t bad. The one thing the Rolla theater has going for it is that I can catch “old” movies that aren’t in a lot of theaters. There’s a Guitar Hero 3 tournament in Rolla, and I feel like it’s money in the bag. All the songs are on hard! HARD! Babies play hard. Real men play expert. I wouldn’t see a Spartan play on hard. The only person I’m worried about is Kyle, but with 2nd place getting $50, I’m cool with that. There’s only one thing that could go wrong, and that’s if they play every song on Battle mode. Battle mode = broken. You have to be infinitely better than the other person to win; otherwise, whoever gets the first/best power up wins. Remember battling Lou on Expert (which is what real men do)? It’s like that. You know what’s weird? When I want to talk to people, they’re never very talkative. Ever. People seem to only want to talk to me when it will inconvenience me the most. This is true. I’m about to leave the house? My phone rings. I’m finishing up my research proposal that’s due in 2 hours? IMs galore. At least I don’t have to deal with drunk people anymore, it’s one of the perks of living by myself. Have I mention how much I love not living with anyone? I’ve gotten very comfortable with solitude. I also don’t have to deal with drunk friends/roommates/friends of roommates. I really don’t like drunk people, they are not cool.
“Did you think you were cool?”
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