Making Good Time
I thought I was pretty cool, riding my bike to and forth from class. Instead of the normal fifteen to twenty minutes that it would take me to walk from my room to class, I can now bike to class in about five minutes, even less if I don't have to slow down when people cross the street. It takes a little bit longer to get to my room since its all up hill going back, but I can still make good time. The only down side is that I get pretty sweaty, especially coming back to my room. (I don't have a road bike, or even a lightweight hybrid: I've got an old chromoly Trek 820 mountain bike with 1.95 inch tires, so its a lot harder for me to reach the same speeds as a racing bike.)
The fact of the matter is, I always thought I was pretty cool, racing cars (and sometimes beating them!) to class. But I saw the most amazing thing as I was picking up my bike to head back to my room last week: a segway locked up at the bike rack. So I took a picture, for my blog.
I actually saw the guy, riding his scooter up the hill a few days ago. I was sweating up the hill and he was crusing along, cool as a cucumber, talking on his cell phone the whole time.
Election Day
Come on, all you lazy Americans! Todays the presidential elections, and as much as you hate it, its your civic duty to vote. Even I'm voting!
Best Burn Ever
One of my roommates likes to leave our door open all the time in hopes that random people will stop as they walk past, allowing to meet new people. So last night, we had the door open and were setting up the TV and DVD player to watch The Wizard of Oz, when some guy knocks on our door and asks, "hey, do you guys know where Elfusio [or something like that, I really don't remember that well] lives?" One of my roommates replys with "nope, sorry."
But another of my roommates gives the visitor a funny look and says, "Wait, its a person? Sounds like a Pokemon."
And the visitor walked away. I hope he told his friend, 'cause it was pretty damn funny I think.
Enchanted – A Review
While I was home for Christmas break last year (2007), I went to the movies with my friends. The fact that I went to the movies is actually quite noteworthy since I generally go about once a year, if even that. (I find it much more enjoyable to watch a movie on a 22 inch computer monitor in the comfort of my own dorm room, rather then have to keep moving my head to see past some fatty behemoth in front of me while a dumb kid kicks my seat every ten seconds. But I digress...) I had no idea what movie we were going to be seeing, but I went to hang out with my friends.
We saw Enchanted, that happily stupid, Disney movie thats a weird parody of a bunch of old Disney movies. I don't generally keep up with all the new movies coming out, so I wasn't really sure what it was about at first, so my initial reactions were a little something like this:
(Opening credits and then the movie begins with a cartoon.)
Me: Really guys, a cartoon? I just paid money to see a Disney cartoon? OK, the Incredibles and Finding Nemo were pretty cool, but still, someone could have told me.
(The cartoon continues, showing Giselle building her prince mannequin out of random crap scourged from the forest.)
Me: If this doesn't get any better, I think I may very well leave. Because this is just sad people. We're legal adults, we shouldn't be watching this. Its not like we're even babysitting someone's younger sibling. We're here, sitting in a crowd of little kids and parents watching a Disney cartoon.
(We see Giselle transported to a world without love. Shocker, its our world.)
Me: OK, well maybe its getting a little better.
(Watching Giselle traipse across New York City)
Me: OMFG, somebody fetch me a gun.
(Lemme guess, you're looking for your princess. No, I'm looking for my prince)
Me: OK, so maybe this movie does have some funny parts.
(A few minutes later.)
Me: Nevermind, the bad outweighs the good. WHERE IS THAT GUN?!?!?
(The evil stepmother turns into a giant laughing dragon.)
Me: This is worse then the Eragon movie. ARGHHHHHHHhhhh
So that was my Enchanted review. I hope you all had fun. I happened to just think of writing this because I saw Enchanted again a few days ago when I was on a bus.
On Being Lazy
I could lie and say that I've been really busy the past two weeks, with rehearsals going from 9AM to 9PM every day, but thats ultimately just another excuse. I've just been far to lazy to post anything on my blog. Oh, I check it regularly and respond to comments and clean out the spam queue, but I just haven't been writing new content. I've got maybe a dozen drafts waiting to be finished, so I think I'll try to bang those into something vaguely readable and push them out in the next few days.
I know laziness is going to be the death of me, and is the reason why I did so badly in my classes the previous year, so I'm going to be making every effort to combate my laziness.
Professional Bloggers
So professional bloggers. Golly.
I don't like many of them (Surprise! I don't like a lot of people.). Oh, there are bloggers that I respect; those bloggers that put a good bit of thought and effort into their writing and actually manage to produce something that doesn't sound like the drivel of a cranky child (The Linux Hater's Blog immediately springs to mind, although I am a Linux lover). But there are some people, mostly personal bloggers, that pound out pointless crap for about ten minutes a day and yet somehow manage to get paid quite nicely.
Some deep, inner part of my soul (OK, its mostly just my pride) is pained by the knowledge that someone on the internet is making a tidy sum of money by doing very little. I'll take for example, the so-called most popular blogger in Singapore: Wendy Cheng. Her blog reads as though it were written by a ditzy, hormonal-driven, teenage girl, and yet she makes a goodly sum of money every day, through site sponsoring, just because a surprsingly large number of people enjoy reading her regular tirades and outburts of enthusaism. I've always thought Singaporeans are a bit weird (watch some Singaporean TV shows, spend some time in the city/country, I think you'll agree) but they must be weirder then I thought to enjoy reading Cheng's blog.
Granted, most pro bloggers aren't all as bad as her. But because I'm a mean-hearted, biased bastard, I feel inclined to hate a lot of people. I suppose if I could count myself amongst one of those nicely paid, professional bloggers, I wouldn't be as much of a hater.
Space Mountain
These pics are over a year old, but still funny. Back when I was running my own hand-written blog CMS, i had a little web app that would resize uploaded photos and create a photo gallery. When I switched to Typo, and then later WordPress, my photo gallery kinda got lost. But I'm uploading these pics again.
FYI, the book I'm holding is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and no I wasn't actually reading it. We just went on the ride enough times for me know where the camera was and whip the book out.
USB Powered Humping Dogs
I encountered today, what was quite possibly the most amusing advertisement for the weirdest product, that I have ever seen: the USB desktop humping dog. Yup, thats right, its a USB powered humping dog. Because they're just aren't enough useless USB powered objects today, we need another one that does nothing besides suck power and amuse viewers a wee tiny bit with strange sexual movements. The funny, funny banner advertisement, read:
USB gadgets aren't always useful. [Well actually, all of mine are.] Sometimes they're just beyond belief. [Yeah, no kidding.] But you've got to do something with your empty USB ports. [OK, I know modern computers come with a lot of USB ports, but who has ever said, "damn these USB ports, I just have to use 'em!"] This pint size version or our worringly popular [No kidding.] Humping Dog may not be the next best thing since sliced bread, but it's a lot funnier. [Too true, too true.]
You can check out the vendor's website, and see the cool animated GIFs of the humping dogs. Perhaps most amusing of all behind the high-speed animated humping, is the vendor's statement that the dogs are "suitable for ages 16 yrs+."
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