Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Bejeweled Meets Chuzzle

This is what I started playing last Tuesday. In about 3 hours of play I defeated 3 out of the 5 bosses, then I got stuck. Each level requires you to capture a minimum number of pokemon that up to the level I reached is now 350, with the additional difficulty that the boss tosses unusable balls into your screen to mess up the combinations you're trying to set up.

A week later and I haven't crossed that barrier yet.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Consistency Please

There are people who are in love with titles and formality (which is a reason why secret societies like in the movie The Skulls exist) but only on their own terms. What makes this so sad is that after they have gotten themselves into the public positions that they want, they lose all this sense of process, and manipulate the need for informal (or under the table) talks to push their own agenda.

Either everybody has to fall in line all the time or no one has to.

Monday, April 21, 2008

That's Technology


Because of the institutional workshop last Friday to yesterday, I wasn't able to attend the course card distribution of my graduate studies last April 18.

In any other universe, I would have had to wait until today to go to that campus and look for my course cards among the piles discarded by those who were there last Friday.

But I don't live in that universe. I live in the one where I could go online before Monday and get to check my grades and not lose any sleep worrying.

After all, In Computer Architecture, I needed 76% in the finals to get a grade of 2.0 - the passing. So it's a great feeling I want to share here that I got high enough in the finals to raise that to three-point-oh!

P.S. Read between the lines as to what I'm complaining about...

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Pet Peeve #2

Will I be doing a whole series of these in the next few posts? I hope not.

This one was definitely triggered by something that happened last night. It was a solemn moment, everyone wanted to hear how other people would pay tribute to Doc A, and you. Just. Won't. Shut. Up!

You have a grating voice that carries farther than you know (at last I hope you don't know, otherwise, it's just pathetic) and you can't let someone else be the center of attention for once, even though it's supposed to be their night.

And while we're on the subject, when Doc A talked about the people who put forth the extra effort to benefit the students and said he won't mention any names, don't delude yourself. He wasn't talking about you.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Perennial Pet Peeve

I was just reminded of this because of Boogsy's recent post, and the fact that the picture I found is so appropriate, not that this person has inflicted himself on me recently.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Ultra-Violent

I finally got to watch Ultraviolet last night. Maybe I shouldn't have, but at least it's off my video backlog.

It was trying to be Aeon Flux, Underworld, Resident Evil and Equilibrium all at the same time, which isn't surprising since the people involved here are the same people who came from those projects.

There were also some cool 300 like lines, such as one about killing 700 soldiers, but for the most part, it wasn't shown, which was a cop-out.

You have one girl with a virus sometimes called a vampire with superhuman reflexes who fights ordinary humans, and we're supposed to take it for granted so much that we'll just watch the other movies where it's shown, and you skip through it here instead.

Bad, very bad.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Latest Book Purchase

I currently have about half a dozen books of his in my backlog, including the audio book for lost boy, lost girl.

I hope to be able to use this summer to trim that number down, if not bring it to zero completely.

I actually have some Stephen King titles there too, but he's not as good for me as he once was in his early books.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

No Sense of Perspective

This is a DVD that Ms. Dianne lent me. I had seen the trailer a long time before, and that initial image of an infant grabbing a finger coming close to him and sniffing portrayed very pointedly what this person's "mutant power" was, and what he did with it, which is to try to preserve the smell of perfect feminine beauty.

And it made sense (pun intended) how he could get away with it given he himself had no scent and he could be alerted to danger nearby I guess by the pheromones of malicious intention.

Although the trailer gave no idea as to how it would end, it was foreshadowed well enough in the movie itself, in all of its strangeness.

Alan Rickman is still great, he who is Snape and was in Sweeney Todd.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Not So Grand Winners

All the hoopla about the P250 million prize got me looking at the history of the Lotto site. Here we had almost two dozen people who thought they were going home each going home with four million pesos, but because of the common-ness of the numbers they picked (look at all those "lucky" sevens and nines!) they actually got P226 thousand per winner.

Click on the picture to zoom.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Birds of A Claw: Attack One Get Attacked By All

I have already seen you play around with the hopes of three of my friends without telling them in the first place that you had no intention of returning their affections. Now you're with a fourth one, and knowing both your personalities, I don't see how you could like my friend beyond material provisions.

If you are just not enough of a human to tell my friend not to expect anything beyond just your company - if you have no conception of karma - I promise you, I will make your life a living hell.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

What I Did Yesterday

I will not go into the details here (or if it's related to the last post before this). I will talk about this in csi.journalspace.com tomorrow or the day after that. And I didn't buy the game above either.

Sorry for the suspense.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Another Tempting Acquisition

Saw this in one of the malls near work, for about one fourth the regular price. Should I?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

I'm Pregnant

That would explain a lot. It wouldn't be the first time in history. There's this one, and this one and this one.

It's also possible that this could happen.

Everything would be simpler. But the fact remains: I just have a big appetite. April Fools.