Craving For A Quick Light Repast

CA graduate (and sports development office coordinator) Roy sold these at the Recruitment Fair last Tuesday at thirty pesos each, or four for a hundred pesos. Too bad since then he couldn't find anyone to man the booth for him, so he had to forego selling yesterday and today.

I could eat a dozen of these a day, they're so non-bloating and easy to prepare.

Advantage: Zombies

In Urban Dead (which, yes, I'm still playing) there is a new rule now that accuracy of hitting an enemy with a weapon in a darkened room in a building is now half of what it used to be (with or without light).

This is like the fifth or so game change in a row that favors the walking undead, after ruining buildings enough to be repaired first before re-barricading, ransacked buildings being more difficult to repair the longer they are left so, free running characters getting injured if crossing to a ruined building, and zombies even without action points preventing barricades in a building.

What's the only consolation so far, household items being used as weapons now, although still at a lower hit ratio than previous weapons.

I hope this just means night vision goggles will be introduced soon though.

Oppression as Animation

Persepolis which I watched last weekend, is not the first film to represent injustices done to a culture or a race that does not resort to graphically violent images.

It is the first I've seen though that shows that Iranian women do know how to party in the privacy of their own homes, and that not even the depiction in American Dad in the Middle East showed everything.

It also shows aspiring filmmakers and artists that it doesn't take fancy stylized artwork to sell a story, just having a lot of meat in that story.

Poor Priest

"(Sob). You know, all of this is supposed to be for God, but normal people strive all their lives to have luxuries to make life more bearable. But I'm supposed to cast aside all of that and work for heavenly rewards."

So don't even mention luxuries, if that's not the point, unless you are really trying to be subliminal (you're not). Or maybe you're in the wrong calling, and you shouldn't be a priest anymore.

DLSC = Doing Last Second Commissions?

Why is it that people here (and I'm not just talking about students) LOVE putting off their work until not just the 11th hour, but the 59th minute and the 59th second?

If a teacher is not considered absent until after 30 minutes since the class started, he will show up at 8:29 am - after all, it's a 3 hour lab class, so they still have 2.5 hours to perform the experiment. In other words, finishing early is not as high a priority as not rushing the work.

If a policy of 10% per day deductions for last submissions are enforced, there will still be students who believe they can pass it ten days after the deadline, when only 10% of their efforts will be graded!

It's just so sad that there are still people who value "Hard work pays off eventually; procrastination pays off now" when it's so much easier to relax and have fun knowing you've done all of your work ahead of schedule and there's no "to do" list hanging over your head.

Blazing A Trail Through 1's and 0's

Thanks to the net and all the walk through information available for a lot of games, I've never been stuck in any one of them.

Except for Lego Indiana Jones DS. It's new enough that there aren't that many people yet out there who've completed everything.

In fact, it seems like I might be the first one to find out how to get the red brick from the first level of Episode 1 (Raiders of the Lost Ark), since no one has posted about it yet.

By the way, I couldn't find an image that showed both cheat codes and Lego Indiana Jones, but the above picture works just as well.

Think Twice Before Speaking

This is not the first time I'm ranting here about this person, nor is this the first time he has brought up this "concern" during a faculty meeting.

It was about the freshmen having no pictures in the class list given to him.

First of all, the students' pictures in the class lists were only instituted in 2006, well after he had started teaching here, so there was a time when he received class lists without pictures.

Second, if it's something he absolutely relies on to be able to identify his students (after all, does he give them an opportunity to talk in class since he's wagging his tongue the whole period?) what did he do before?

For freshman classes, especially large ones, I've resorted to asking the students to bring ID pictures on index cards for grade incentives (not as if it's coming out of my pocket).

I think it's inconsiderate to complain to Ms. Karen about it knowing she has enough problems on her job, and stupid to bring it up at a faculty meeting when no one else backs you up and it ends up just being a plea for attention, even (especially) if you do preface it "I know the answer to this has been brought up in a previous item about IDs this year being delayed".