Urban Dead: Locked Out

One of the things I hate when playing as a human is when I use a strongly barricaded building as a means to get out and hunt some zombies, and when I try to use that building to get back in, it's been barricaded to heavy.

I then either have to attack the barricades or look for other ways to get in, or, if I don't have enough action points, just wait until I'm killed and go to a revive point.

Go For What You Believe You Deserve

This is a classic romantic film, where, in typical Hollywood fashion, there is only one male and one female lead, and the whole two hours is just waiting for them to realize they're meant for each other.

There's also the typical plot twist that she has a boyfriend since the start of the movie. How, in heaven's name, are the two main stars going to end up with each other?

This movie has a unique solution to the "third wheel" problem though, which is usually dispensed with in romantic comedies by some last act surprise where the boyfriend turns out to be an asshole and deserves to be left behind.

The writer made it worse by making the boyfriend (Bill Pullman) really likable, and even had asthma and had to be mothered - something shallow-minded moviegoers would think would make it easier for Meg Ryan to let go.

In the end it's Bill Pullman's decision, telling Meg Ryan he doesn't want to be someone that a woman would just "settle for".

And that's my message for today: do not just take with open arms the first person who shows an interest in you, especially if they happen to have a lot of bad habits. You owe it to yourself to expect more.

Urban Dead: That's One Way to Get Rid of an Infection

All for One and One for All?

If a chain is only as good as its weakest link, is a chain of stores (or schools for that matter) only as good as its worst branch (or campus)?

It's That Way with Penguins

Above is the birthday gift I got from Joel & Ryan. Below is a box made up of renticular (false 3d) images that I bought in Taiwan - again of penguins!

And the other day I just watched Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa where the penguins were prominent again, as was in the first movie.

What is it with these guys?

Only Minimally Enchanting?

This is a scale model of Enchanted Kingdom presented at the Laguna Investment and Business Expo in SM Sta. Rosa last week, where exhibitors and participants were treated to free entrance to the park in the afternoon of Nov. 8. Sir Chris & I didn't go.

I thought that it would include new rides being planned, but it doesn't. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait and visit again.

New Toy of the Week: Inexpensive Science

Ten experiments at around 7 pesos each! Hope to use this in the next Open Lab or Science & Math Week.

One of the advantages of being a lab rat is that you still get to play with cool stuff - and call it work!

Now If Only I Could Get School Credit For This...

An 80's Cartoon Quiz Score: 100% (15 out of 15)

Revenge of the Scary Clueless Blonde Movie

Anna Faris in The House Bunny doesn't stray much from the doe-eyed expression that shot her into fame in the Scary Movie series.

The plot about an unpopular sorority rising to greatness is borrowed from Revenge of the Nerds.

Glamorizing a female with no fashion sense is straight out of Clueless.

And the final monologue is in the same style as Reese Witherspoon had in the Legally Blonde films.

Overall does the merging of these concepts work? Except for the physical Cinderella transformations of the sorority members, which was also too quick (as was their change into vacuous vamps), it doesn't. The funny stuff was really too few and far between.

Effective IS Campaigns

New Movie at Metropolis Alabang

I wonder if the film in Cinema 4 is any good...