It's That Time of Year Again

Blogger keeps generating an error when I try to upload a picture, so this will be all text for now.

It all started again this week: Smallville, CSI and Heroes. Happy days are here again.

All Gun Fight Scenes

This is an enjoyable leave-your-brain-at-home movie. It's like "Cellular", which comes up with all possible life and death situations you can have because you have to stay on the phone, but doesn't take itself as seriously.

As for why hundreds of goons are after a woman and child in the first place, it actually has an explanation more credible than "Snakes on A Plane" (witness against bad guy on a plane, find a way to kill him, ergo the snakes).

The lines are great too. Will be looking for other products from this writer/director.

Best Elusive Targets

Congratulations to the Dark Green Mustangs for winning in the Dodge Ball competition during the College students Sports Cup yesterday.

Too bad this is only a once a year event. This is one game everyone could get into.

Inconvenience For Some Is Alright?

The hot water valve of the dispenser near the engineering faculty room was sealed off yesterday. Why? Because some Integrated School students playing in the table tennis room beside it got scalded? Because it was costing more electricity to keep the water hot and cold when most of the people just use the cold water? So where are we supposed to get hot water now? All the way in the west wing? Two floors down in the IS faculty room?

"Giving It Your All" Does Not Pay?

When teachers exhibit laziness, the students can pick that up. Talk about sending the wrong message about work ethics.

"Revengeance" Rears Its Ugly Head

One of my recent weekend viewing choices was Jodie Foster's "The Brave One". It's a fantasy, basically, because it doesn't show the audience what to do in a similar situation. Jodie's character happens to be at the right place at the right time several times in a row after being mugged and her fiance dying, to prevent the same thing from happening to other people, and not get caught.

Of course, that's good, because otherwise, if a film ever taught people the proper way to go about becoming a vigilante, what kind of society would we be in?

Mind Cracking Humor

From the very insightful xkcd.com that JP first linked to, I found Perry Bible Fellowship, which seems to up the weirdness to another level, of which the above strip is representative.

Jumping Snapping Jaws

An interesting fact (now I'm echoing JP) about crocodiles I found out yesterday from the thesis presentations is that besides the belly crawl and the high walk (shown in several horror creature films like "Lake Placid" with the reptiles moving fast) crocs can "gallop" for short distances and very rarely, either if their prey is getting away from them, or if they are trying to escape (from hunters?).

Sesame Street Brought to You By the Rating "R"

This is the original Broadway cast of "Avenue Q", the ones whose voices are heard when you listen to the tracks from the CD, and the youtube videos of "The Internet Is For Porn".

We're going to be watching this on Saturday, courtesy of Ms. Celia's Animo Teatro contacts. My only temptation is to sing all the songs along with the performers, which I must resist or my seatmates might shush me.

Cheap Refreshment

Thanks to the water tight liter sized instant powdered drink shakers being sold nowadays with the powdered juices, it is now possible to enjoy a large amount of any juice at less than ten pesos per liter (after the initial investment of the bottle, of course).

It beats paying twenty plus pesos for 300 to 500 ml in La Casita or Zaide, or even the twenty peso liter bottle in the supermarkets, especially since cold water is free in school.

The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem

You find out someone who is among those who offers you a ride to and from school doesn't like your bad habits like not going to class even when you're already in school.

For some time you tolerate it, because hey, it's a free ride. Until you find out other people know about it. Then you stop riding with them, under the pretext of not wanting to lose contact with your other friends, when in fact you're just choosing one group of friends over another.

And you still ride with them when it's late and you don't want to commute.

So you still have your bad habits, and just added being a user and running away from your problems among them.

Tetris City

Found this new flash game, again from the fun-loving creator of nodwick.com: Tower Bloxx. You drop apartment floors onto a building under construction, and tenants move in immediately from the sides gliding down on umbrellas.

In Build City mode, towers of different heights have specific locations as to what color building they have to be beside, and can only be unlocked when the city is of sufficient population. Part hand-eye coordination, part logic-strategy.

Where's Mel Gibson In Blue Face Paint and a Kilt?

Check out the details at bluepoint.com.ph.

Will be there this afternoon.

Weakest First

Just found out: in Urban Dead (duh) when attacking a group of nameless zombies, you always hit the one with the least number of hit points first - the one that will take the smallest number of attacks to die.

I don't know if the same is true for the humans being attacked by zombies, but maybe not.

Another Blast from the Past

It may look like two Adam Sandler movie posts in a row, but it's not technically. His film "The Wedding Singer" has been made into a Broadway Musical Comedy, with more songs performed by the characters that get put in the soundtrack and with more blatant 80's references.

Below are the lyrics to the first song, "It's Your Wedding Day" from the show.

ROBBIE
I wrote a song six years ago
While playing in a wedding band
The word got out and suddenly
The band and I are in demand
And now couples all over Jersey
Hire me to insure their wedded bliss
All because of a tune I wrote
That tune
goes like this:
Oh, when it's your wedding day
And my music starts to play
I can guarantee that

ALL
LOVE WILL FIND YOU!

ROBBIE
Yeah, when it's your wedding day
All the problems melt away
If you count on me
'Cause love is what I do
Now when we play a wedding gig

ROBBIE, SAMMY & GEORGE
We're like a finely tuned machine

ROBBIE
Sammy does Van Halen licks
While George gets down on tambourine
We might play you some careless whisper

SAMMY & GEORGE
Or make you wish you had

ALL
Jessie's Girl instead

SAMMY & GEORGE
Bring the room down with endless love

ROBBIE
The blast bang your head

ALL
BANG YOUR HEAD!

ROBBIE, SAMMY & GEORGE
So when it's your wedding day
And my music starts to play
I can guarantee that

ALL
LOVE WILL FIND YOU!

ROBBIE, SAMMY & GEORGE
So when it's your wedding day
All the problems melt away
If you count on me
'Cause love is what I do

ROBBIE
Long before the night is through
Your uncle will be my uncle, too
I'll be so tight with your cousin Steve
He'll invite me over for Christmas Eve
I'll dance your mom all around the room
The present the bride and groom

(Dance break.)

ROBBIE (Spoken)
Line dance, follow me!

ROBBIE & ENSEMBLE
So when it's your wedding day
And my music starts to play
Love will find you
Yeah, when it's your wedding day
All the problems melt away

ROBBIE
If you count on me

ALL
Cause love is what

ROBBIE
Yes, love is what I do

ENSEMBLE
DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO
DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO
DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO

ALL
LOVE IS WHAT I DO!

Happy Madison's Latest

Watched this sort of impromptu last Monday night in G4, since I wasn't really in the mood for "Disturbia".

The sight of Ving Rhames singing "I'm Every Woman" in the shower was a bit more disturbing though.

Will Ferrell is still one film up on Adam Sandler having gay overtones, with his "Blades of Glory" and "Talladega Nights".

How Well Do You Know Your Friends, or, Do You Want to Know Them Better?

This is the second game we played last Thursday night.

Loaded Questions is one of those ice breaker type games where the players have to reveal something about themselves, so you can easily chum up with would-be friends with this one.

Looking Not at the Back of Opponent's Cards, But Through Them

This is one of the two games I mentioned in CSI that we played last Thursday night. As shown, the cards are transparent.

A Taste of Another Culture

This is the Greek Taverna, Cyma, that I was talking about in CSI today. Well worth it, just be careful not to order too much or you will end up with a full stomach, an empty wallet and something to take home besides.

Ackland Mall Reclaimed By Humans

After a period of no access yesterday lunchtime onwards, I logged on this noon to find that the mall has been heavily barricaded. This is was imminent, considering there were only one digit number of zombies inside each corner of the mall yesterday.

Bargain hunting days for toolboxes and ammunition begin again. Let the rebuilding commence.

So JP, I probably don't need to go to your corner of the burbs anymore. Ready to come home? :)

Appropriate Movie Title

The two words above describes my character's state in Urban Dead: revived - in a safe house - go to sleep - log in again to find the building had been attacked by zombies.

This has happened almost half a dozen times since the Ackland Mall Attack (the event is now historical enough to be capitalized).

I will stay a zombie for now, and will sleep in an open space beside a known revive point, to ensure to humans that I did not lose action points attacking a building or humans, but was on my way to the revive point.

One side note: Sir Joel saw me playing Kingdom of Loathing earlier, and said it appeared more "believable" compared to Urban Dead.

Two side notes: I have watched the movie above. It was my introduction to the pair of superb British actors, now divorced, and both having roles in the Harry Potter films. This suspense thriller has a modern day couple starting to recall a similar love affair in the past, where the guy ended up getting convicted for the murder of the woman. Is history going to repeat itself? Good flick, for its time.

Gravestone Appointment Not Kept

Sorry, JP, only read your reply about where to meet in UD now. Anyway, I'm alive again thanks to the Four Winds, and am in Westropp Bank [41, 47], the only place in the vicinity that I know has been EHB for several days now, and with several humans inside to maintain it.

It's also up to two blocks away from a hospital, police station and an NT building which hopefully will be easy to clean out now.

But more immediate problem is that since I'm infected (doesn't go away with reviving) I'm down to 1 HP when I got inside. Somebody better heal me quick.

As for "Microserfs", my copy is with Ms. Jeng, which her hubby read first. You can help me bug her about it, although there is another option I'd tell you about offline...

Following are the lyrics to one of the few retro-80's songs in my playlist these days, "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton. The picture above is one of the few books about programming before the turn of the 21st century I most relate to, with a Lego code monkey on the cover.

Code Monkey get up get coffee.
Code Monkey go to job.
Code Monkey have boring meeting
with boring manager Rob.

Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
but his output stink.
His code not functional or ellegant
what do Code Monkey think?

Code Monkey think maybe manager wanna write god damn login page himself.
Code Monkey not say it outloud.
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud.

Code Monkey like freetos.
Code Monkey like tab and mountain dew.
Code Monkey very simple man.
with big warm fuzzy secret heart.
Code Monkey like you.
Code Monkey like you.
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Code Monkey hang around at front desk.
tell you "sweater look nice".
Code Monkey offer buy you soda.
Bring you cup, bring you ice.

You say no thank you for the soda cause,
soda make you fat.
Anyway, you busy with the telephone
no time for chat.

Code Monkey have long walk back to cubical,he sit down pretend to work.
Code Monkey not thinking so straight.
Code Monkey not feeling so great.

Code Monkey like freetos.
Code Monkey like tab and mountain dew.
Code Monkey very simple man.
with big warm fuzzy secret heart.
Code Monkey like you.
Code Monkey like you. -- a lot
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Code Monkey have every reason
to get out this place.
Code Monkey just keep on working
to see your soft, pretty face.

Much rather wake up eat a coffe cake
take bath, take nap.
"This job fullfilling in creative way."
Such a load of crap

Code Monkey think some day he have everything, even pretty girl like you.
Code Monkey just waiting for now.
Code Monkey says "someday, somehow."

Code Monkey like freetos.
Code Monkey like tab and mountain dew.
Code Monkey very simple man.
with big warm fuzzy secret heart.
Code Monkey like you.
Code Monkey like you.