Crystal Skulls are Meh

Okay. You want to know how the Indiana Jones movie was?

Television Without Pity's review sums it up absolutely perfectly. I don't need to add anything to it. It could have been my review, that's how much it jives with my opinion.

Browsing

Just finished going through the archives of the Zebra Girl webcomics. It's really interesting to see the difference between the older and the newer comics - the artist has really come a long ways in terms of storytelling, layout, and detail skills. I totally approve, and look forward to seeing more from him.

I continue to like the playlist I made in this post. Listen to it on random, and it is good.

I added a new wish on the Corrupted Wish boards:

I wish I had a free wish, with no consequences but those which I dictate.

The response:

define consequences:
the physical, social, psychological or emotional effects of a behavior.

Wish granted. You make your second wish. You dictate positive consequences as one would expect. You're living the dream, and everything seems great... Then one day you develop low-self esteem and become self-mutilating. From that day on you live the most terrible and miserable life anyone has ever lived, because now, you dictate negative consequences.

I wish I could see the eye of a tornado and be untouched.

(one a side note, I think paradoxical wishes are awesome. It takes a whole lot more thought to try and corrupt a wish that seems incorruptible. I would like to know what exactly jcroxmisox would have wished for the second wish.)

My response in turn:

Wouldn't you like to know? ;P

Sextepalabras

And, in case the six-word stories you've .already.seen. weren't enough, here are some more.

• Flying, fire-breathing... I can take him.
• Shuck off the weight, stand tall.
• Six walked, but I heard thirty.
• Try something a little more... tailored.
• Perusing the soft, worn, leather-bound books.
• Lovely, a green tea... Too hot!
• Bamboo, stretching towards the green canopy.
• The mouth yawns to swallow me.
• I'd lie, but he'd know it.
• It's the ring - won't come off!
• Twittering bird, perched on stone.
• The diamond glittered in trembling hands.
• "Why didn't you see this coming?"
• "The age of man is over."
• The shotgun gave a satisfying recoil.
• A warrior must not be tempted.
• My soul was scraping my insides.
• It will come, if I call.

And yes, yes I should be asleep right now. Mind your own business.

Swoosh

Moral of the story: Don't go to bed with wet hair.

Lawl

Stumbling Into Addictiveness

LINK!

And

(wait for it)

...another link.

The Language of Colors

It's really interesting to read about how the human race distinguishes colors, and fascinating to find out how we learn them.

New knowledge is FUN!

ALSO. I've desired (like so many) to fly for quite a few years now. Thanks to this guy here, I finally can.

City Life

It's so loud, here, in the city. I open my window at night, and hear the white noise of the freeway and the impatient blaring of horns. The dirt in the air, kicked up by thousands of tires daily, coats everything in dust and grime, even up to a mile away.

It's not right. I want to hear the wind through the trees, smell the pollen in the evenings. I don't want to look up at night and see the orange lights of the city reflected off the belly of the clouds, or diluting the shining arm of the Milky Way. I want to have a black night, without the grim orange haze of streetlamps at every corner, nor waking in the morning to the sounds of lawn mowers and construction. I want crickets and frogs to make my nighttime lullaby, and birds to be my morning alarm clock.

Classroom Activities

I'm not actually going to join the group on Facebook that has these, but I found a funny list of actions you can do in the classroom to eliminate boredom. I'll post a few of my favorites:

• Carve a bust of your professor out of cheese. Tie a ribbon around it, and present it to him/her at the beginning of class. Demand extra credit.


• Whenever you answer the phone, do so in a French accent, and slowly change it to a Japanese accent.


• Threaten to jump out of a ground floor window.


• In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you, just shut up."


• Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, "Sorry, I really prefer it this way".


• Look at the person next to you for a while, say "You're one of them!", then run out the classroom.


• Every few minutes, take a sheet of notebook paper, write Signup Sheet at the top, and start passing it around the room.


• Name your pen Mr. Pen. Talk to him often. Cry and go mad if Mr. Pen commits suicide (falls off the table).


• Have a funeral for Mr. Pen.


• When you are taking a true/false test: Whenever the answer is false, stand up, grab your hair with both hands, and scream "LIES, ALL LIES!" Sit back down, acting like nothing happened, and repeat.


• Pluck out someone's hair and yell, "DNA!!!"


• Play Teacher Bingo: Have everyone in the class write down 6 words, and when the teacher says one of your words, you cross it off. When all your words have gone, stand up and shout "BINGO!", then sit down and carry on working.


• Organize a whole bunch of people to fall off their chairs at the same time.


• During a test, open up your bag, look inside, and say, "Got enough air in there?"


• Put a sign on your desk that says "Out of my mind, be back soon", then go to sleep. If your teacher wakes you up, scream, "CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN?!", then go back to sleep.


• Start having fights with yourself aloud over which one of your personalities is better. Start to cry and say, "I love you both; why can't we all just get along?" And if you are really insane, have your personalities hug and make up. Then have all of your personalities gather round to sing Kumbaya! (I suggest you do this when it is really quiet in the room; it scares more people.)
  

Overanalysis

I was perusing Facebook instead of studying, and I came across this guy's comment:

Groups: The Paradox of Belonging
by Patrick Shearing at 11:36pm on May 8th, 2008

"Throughout our Facebook lives, we wander aimlessly through a mass web of irrelevant data and commercialized logic. Nonetheless, we also have the responsibilities which resound with importance such as our Inbox, Wall and the more recent addition of Chat. These serve as our only means of communication with our peers as we meander through the infinite streams of Application requests, Pokes, You Might Know This Person lists and nefarious Super Pokes. Groups tend to be a median between the monotony of obligations and the desultory nature of freedom. Nothing needs to be done as far as groups are concerned, they are simply worn as badges on a profile. In our contemporary culture, creating Facebook groups is the social equivalent of establishing a catchphrase. The title of a Group should either be regarded as a statement expressing information about the author (in an indirect manner) or as deeply symbolic. The influential scientist and theorist Niels Bohr once exclaimed 'Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.' This is an apt description of the ritualized phenomenon of group appellation. The process of creating and joining these groups is intrinsic to this diverse subculture. The correlation between Bohr's theory of Complementarity and Facebook groups can be summed up as follows: physical reality is determined and defined by manifestations of properties, in the virtual world these manifestations are called applications. This explains how a Facebook group can be meaningless and symbolic at the same time, that is the paradoxical nature of this application."

On the one hand, wow. Heck yes. On the other hand, dude... a little bit of overthinking, are we? He even goes so far as to use a Niels Bohr quote. A freaking Bohr quote, and it's a blurb about Facebook's GROUPS.

Jeez. I don't know whether to shake my head and walk away or to add this guy to my friends list. O_o

Interesting Results

I asked my friends to describe me in three words. This is what they came up with:

Kara: Energetic, positive, sexy
Bacon: Smart, persuasive, classy-ish (alternately: determined, stubborn, and "slusherish")
Natasha: Sexy, bold, intelligent
Rebekah: "Why?" Independent, critical...
Tre: Fun, happy, interesting

And later:

Brittany: Bold, different, smart
Ashley: Fun, intelligent, unique
Rian: Intelligent, intrepid, forward
Rollin: Cute, smart, sarcastic

Hiking Trips

Sprouting

Well, I'm not sure how it's happened, but it seems I've grown taller lately. I should be too old for growing. It makes me happy. :)

Also it would explain my recent inexplicable habit of eating like a horse at every meal.

But it reminds me of the part in the second Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.

Merry: Why are you taller than me?
Pippin: I've always been taller than you. What are you, three foot six? At the tallest? And I'm pushing three foot seven. *burps* Three eight!
Merry: Three foot eight...?!

It's funny, because even though they're totally excited about growing a couple of inches, they're still less than four feet tall, so no one else cares, because everyone else is five nine and up.
Yeah, I feel like that.

That Daniel Radcliffe Comic Guy

Pop Rocks


His name is Dartanion London. He whines because everyone says he looks like Harry Potter. His whining is funny, though.

More Headroom.

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Liquify My Laundry

[ variation ][ zoo humor ][ gay ][ art trade ][ skin tone ][ coupons ]

until the light comes
I am caught within the web
of my subconscious.

Browsing

This is a really well-done search engine, which filters through the tags on Flickr photos. Really cool, lovely interface, simple and elegant. Very nice.

Also, Nick Brandt and Eric Gustafson are amazing photographers.



Here is all you need to know about mythology, of all nationalities.

The band Flobots. Fascinating sound. Go check them out.

Iron Man Review

Just finished Iron Man. This tale of weirdness begins when a young sorceress has an argument with a headstrong sailor.

Okay, just kidding. But you've got to admit, the plot is pretty flimsy - who wants to sell insanely hi-tech weaponry to some backyard, dime-a-dozen terrorists? And to what, shift the balance of power? I mean, come on. Aside from that, Robert Downey Jr. is a fantastic actor and performed wonderfully. The effects were great, and I even liked Gwyneth Paltrow (who I wasn't holding out much hope for). Jeff Bridges, however, needs to stay away from these kinds of roles. He doesn't do the whole "comic-book villain" very well, especially when it comes to the predictable good-vs.-evil monologue at the end. Just no, Bridges... you can do better than that.

On the other hand, I loved the cinematography, the directing was good, and there were some really great moments. Not the most fantastic movie ever, but certainly one of the best superhero movies I've seen so far. But then, the only good ones I've seen so far have been Hellboy and X-Men. I haven't liked the Fantastic 4s, the Spidermans, Batman Begins, or Smallville. I didn't even bother seeing Punisher or Superman Returns. (Did I miss any...?)

I like Ghost Rider, but not because it's good. It actually sucked, but I find myself watching it repeatedly anyway. Just shallow entertainment, I suppose.

Oh! The Incredibles. That movie was amazing. There is no getting around that one; it was too great. Good old clean fun. I wish they would make a really good sequel, but I just don't see that happening.

Making the Leap