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Saturday, June 28, 2003
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Man what the fuck is wrong with blogger, the site is like...always down (for me anyways). Sucked that the NBA draft wasn't on TV (for me anyways). But who cares right, it was a boring draft, no major deals. Raps certainly drafted the right dude at that spot, Bosh looks pretty good and could be a Jermaine O'Neal type. But was it the right move to draft at all? They shoulda sold the pick, but I guess there weren't any good deals that GG liked. I love Will & Grace, what an awesome show. Funny took me so long to catch on though. Blondie's got me hooked on it. The cast is awesome. Is Sean Hayes really a gay guy? Man he plays his character so well. Eric McCormack at least, I know, isn't gay. I saw him/liked him before cuz he's a Canadian actor and I always catch those weird Canadian indie films on TMN (or used to). He did this weird/hilarious film with William Shatner in it. Debra (sp?) Messing is cute. A bit on the thin side but really funny and cute. I don't care if people think Megan Mullaly (sp?) is a "big" girl I think she's pretty cute. And so fucking hilarious. Boy: "I love you." Girl: "Yeah, I love me too." Ouch! Man good job G! That is major propz. Man I wish girls would compliment me sometime! Embarassing! I never get any attention :). The best thing a girl ever said to me, was, "Brandon, how can you be so yummy on some days, but so bummy on others? I don't understand." Man is that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?  ! Now that's hurting! At least the girl was respectable (wasn't a Queen Evil sort). Nice rhyme though.Well finally finished . Great book. Have more to say on it tomorrow. Nite. Thursday, June 26, 2003
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
I kinda like Last Comic Standing, decent show. Man, I remember one time, when _______ was cockblocked. Man that cockblocker, such a fucking sonofabitch!
While mud-slinging continues in the ERP/CRM world, the graphics world is also engaged in it's own dirty war. NVIDIA really doesn't learn it's lesson, having been caught 3 times now red-handed. While ATI was caught "once", their explanation at least seems plausible and the performance gain was negligible compared to NVIDIA's whopping 25% boost they got from "cheating". I say "cheating" because like THG says, it's all a matter of "philosophy" I suppose. NVIDIA does make a good point though. If chipmakers can optimize drivers and code to target specific games, why not benchmarks? There's a bit of hypocrisy running there I suppose. It's all a matter of how you see it, what your philosophy is, and what you consider, "cheating". That said, NVIDIA doesn't seem to get the point that what they did was not simple "optimization" but really cheating. They refuse to own up to their fault/responsibility, much like privacy commissioner Radwanski. NVIDIA's "optimizations" were actually simulating performance and environments in which a user might never encounter under a real-time scenario. And they were getting a leg up on the competition, so it is cheating (haha of course the only competition is ATI). Of course, all these companies are bastards anyways. They say in the end, the customers are the ones who benefit, but really, it's the customers who get screwed. As if it wasn't hard enough already to sort out the different cards out there and pick the one most suitable to your purposes. As if these damned parts weren't expensive enough already! What I'm really curious about though, is who is the secret whistleblowing chipmaker who tipped everyone of NVIDIA's cheating? I bet it's SiS, since, they suck, and it would help their business to stir some shit up. I really like THG though, it seems to me that they at least seem to retain some sense of impartiality and integrity in their testing and reporting of products. It's funny that a lot of these performance/business/marketing issues are so similar to other businesses, just like in sports. To parallel with something LV wrote recently, LV says that because of the media and Joe Blow's general sports ignorance, Joe Blow is gonna think 80-85 wins for a Jays team is "more ass" than the Raptors. Or how Joe Blow will see a high avg., or high RBI totals and think "superstar". There's no mention of OPS, or splits, or # of AB, or career numbers. Same sort of thing with the computer world. People see a clock rate and assume, X GHz > Y GHz therefore X better. Or same with RAM. Or any number of other stats.
Clay's made me realize...I hate so many NBA players! Man so much hate. What's this? TripleDoubleYou is down? If CP is the comics/hockey guru, then Snowman is certainly the computers/Star Wars guru. I ask him so many annoying questions, but he never says, "I don't know." He always has some wicked answer to give. The annoying thing about making things for girls is that, once you've done one thing, you can never do it again. Else you'll be seen as boring/uninnovative (that a word?). Some dude said chicks always have to be kept on their toes. Man. I guess J-Tron can't use that rose on a pipecleaner shtick twice then. I love oranges, but they really are annoying to eat. Sunday, June 22, 2003
So Dreamwave has actually come out with issue #1 of TMNT as well. Cool. Those guys who do the Bumfights stuff got arrested hahahaha. Saturday, June 21, 2003
"5. Antonio Davis, Morris Peterson and Toronto's fourth overall pick to Dallas for Steve Nash and Raef LaFrentz. The Mavericks get Davis, the tough guy and post presence they need. He's a little small for the Western Conference, but he's rugged and can battle the bigger forwards in the West. The Mavs also get the Raptors' No. 4 overall pick to get a project big guy they can wait for, like Chris Kaman. The key in the deal is Steve Nash, the British Columbia native, returning to Canada. Nick Van Exel was on the court at the end of all the Mavs' big playoff games, and Nash comes up for a new deal after the 2004-05 season. Better to trade Nash a year soon. The Raptors also get Raef LaFrentz, who'll fit better in the East away from the Mavs' frenetic game. Toronto would be so thrilled to get Nash, a potential franchise savior, it would probably throw in whomever the Mavs wanted, perhaps Peterson or to expand the deal if the Mavs want Alvin Williams and would send back someone like Evan Eschmeyer." I like! Alvin = fag. MoPete = fag.
Haven't kept up with any Dreamwave comics or even news for a long time, simply because comic collecting is such an expensive hobby. Heard from my bro tho, that the smart chaps (Chinese no less!) at Dreamwave are really starting to branch out their business and ideas. They've taken on offers to do North American versions of comics for Megaman, Rival Schools and Devil May Cry. Good job dudes! Looks like someone's made a deal with the Devil! Sympatico really blows. I bet Snowman could write a way better application than this. So many fucking problems, I should go to Rogers. Friday, June 20, 2003
, a job posting on the U of T website from The Score/Headline Sports! You know, I always thought Greg Sansone had the hots for Martine Gaillard (who wouldn't!), but seriously, he should tone it down. He's always leering at her and trying to make jokes and flirt on national TV. I just wanna see my scores! Anyways I haven't had the channel for a while, maybe they don't work together anymore.Jay Mohr's another superstar actor. I always thought he'd break out though. He's had some good works but nothing spectacular/blockbuster to really make him stand out to the general audience. G deserves propz for his determination to overcome his self-confidence issue and try different things. While he humbly turns it aside tho, I would certainly say getting ur courage up like that every time has to help in some way to boost yourself. Each time builds on the other. I forget what spurred him to it, I think it was an article like "The 30-Day Experiment" or something. Good article. Most guys wouldn' be bold. Certainly I'd be too scared to try stuff like that, so major propz! I'm curious tho, as to who the friend is, but I think I know, since Lara was mentioned! You can tell I'm running out of material. G's right, take it back for yourself! Why write to please or entertain. I find myself trying too hard to be funny so what the fuck yo! Fuck humour and entertainment! "The horsemen took your lands...they drove your people into the hills......to scratch a living off rocks! Take back the lands they stole from you! Burn every village! BRARREAHEHA YEAHAHAHG GAAHHHHH!!!!" Suck. My. Dick. Said the pimp to the ho. You know, no offense to anyone who likes the books, but I really don't dig Harry Potter (the books). I liked the two movies, so I picked up my brother's copy of Philosopher's Stone (which he didn't like) and tried it out for half an hour one night. Man, all I can say it's queerbait lame. I expected so much more. Guess my standards/expectations were too high after the movies. Oh fuck, it's "Sorcerer's" Stone isn't it? Blondie always laughs at me for forgetting that. It's not that bad; I know it's for a "wide range" of audiences, but it's still a kiddie book if you ask me, or that should be the target audience. I think I'm disappointed simply because I much prefer another, more unheralded and unappreciated series aimed at kids, in Brian Jacques' Redwall series. Now that's good shit. Reminds me of all the stories with animals in them I read as a kid. They even have a cartoon of Redwall! H-Potts doesn't have a cartoon now does he? Damn nerd. Plus, it's always chic to cheer for the underdog  .I can't believe I used to think The Runelords was a good series. Has some great ideas in it and statements on ethics/morality, which could have flourished under different pen, but Farland just isn't up to task. And why did I think Terry Goodkind was good. He sucks and he's becoming another Robert Jordan. His first 4 or 5 books were good (like RJ - not Big C), but now he's gone downhill. RJ is like Ken Griffey Jr. and Goodkind is Mo Vaughn. I never finished The Axis Trilogy but Sara Douglass kinda sucks too. The Japanese are so wasteful. Them and their over-packaged, over-embellished little snacks and candies. My Dad, ever the skeptic, but with an insatiably curious mind, bought some supposedly "really popular and tasty" cookies made in Japan that he saw on sale at a Chink supermarket. Boy what a disappointment. They tasted like crap. But even more gay, why the hell does every single cookie come inside it's own pretty, sparkling wrapper? Pure extravagance. That's so fucking wasteful why would you do that? Superfluous past any fault. Have they never seen cookies just dumped into a tray in a cookie box? That's really terrible. Chinese people have a saying for this, but I don't know how to properly convey the tone of anger in English. But really, that's just fucking "Jeet Door" (Door with a silent "R).
Man, good reviews for The Hulk! Maybe I should give respect and go see it after all. I guess I didn't think it'd be good cuz I was biased; I never really liked the character that much, I thought he was a green, angry version of The Thing. And while I respect Ang Lee and his work (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm), I didn't think his strengths could be adapted to a comic book film! Well I think I'll go see if I was wrong now. Thursday, June 19, 2003
Thanks to Mean Gene and Snowman for the thumbs up on the intro. G is right, Flash can get quite tedious. Even after "componentizing"/"modularizing" parts of the object you want to animate, it's still really annoying, since some motions you can't tween (thus meaning you have to go frame by frame for those segments). Actually, I got the idea to do one after seeing G's all the time and thinking I should get one too. Wednesday, June 18, 2003
!!! I have just been humbled! Eeyore defeated every one of us in the 2003 NBA playoff pool. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Must...challenge...him...to...basketball....duel.....reclaim....honour....hahahaha. Beware Eeyore! :)Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Word, good article. Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, two superstars. Isn't Elisha Cuthbert a total hottie? I only started watching 24 cuz of her. She's hot, blonde, Canadian, what more could you ask for?
Finally have my amateur flash intro up. It's a tad long and may take a while to load, so you can always use the skip button, or go straight to https://chanbr.tripod.com/home.html for the regular stuff. Make sure to turn on your sound if you watch so you can hear the cool Matrix trailer music. Monday, June 16, 2003
Ok seriously, what the fuck is wrong with kids these days? Or teens rather. Why are they so fucking apathetic? They're lazy, they don't do what you tell them, they don't do their homework, and they tune out when you try to teach them. Not all are like that but lots. Well maybe it was that way when I was a teen too. But seriously ... how can a kid in Grade 10 NOT know how to reduce fractions??? How the fuck do you expect to get help if you don't even know the basics and you're not willing to learn when people teach you? Fucking waste of time. Sunday, June 15, 2003
Awesome, Hasbro has announced they will team up with Angry Films to create a live-action version of a Transformers movie. It's funny because a month ago I was saying to my brother that the technology and special effects should be advanced enough for them to be able to do Transformers "for real". Hope it turns out ok. I can't believe George Lucas is gonna charge his fans to visit the Star Wars' website(s?) now. Doesn't he have enough money already? Poor Star Wars fans getting beat and battered time and time again. Saturday, June 14, 2003
Haha nevermind, just found confirmation on one of the blooper sites. Man that's some bad special effects or bad management of it anyways. Some people thought it was Gamling but he doesn't have blonde hair nor rides a white horse. Another elf? Doubt that too. Props to Star Wars and Matrix, I don't think they have anything like that!
I've been watching my Two Towers rip and I noticed something odd during my favourite scene (the Rohirrim charge/"Forth Eorlingas") and was wondering if any else who has a copy (namely Snowman) can verify this (very hard to see with these cheap copies). When the riders charge out of the gate, you see two white horses. It's barely noticeable (I wish I'd noticed it during a viewing) but it seemed to me like BOTH riders were Legolas! This because you can see the outline of the quiver on both and none of the other riders have it, and oddly enough both do exactly the same sword swing motion, except off by about a second. I can't tell if this is a blooper or if that's just another rider. Looks suspicious though, did they fuck up the CGI somehow? I mean if they have some program and they imported that motion/shot of Legolas as an object, maybe they used two instances. There's tons of bloopers in any movie but this one just really struck me (if it is one). I couldn't find it on any of the blooper sites though, so if anyone can verify this, please do so. No one else has a white horse (Arod in the movie) except Legolas (well and Gandalf). Also, as they charge out of the hall in the keep, there's only 1 white horse. They could have added the white horse later and still might not be two Legolas'. Theoden is out front, Legolas on his right and Aragorn on his left. Behind Aragorn is the standard-bearer, and behind Legolas is...his clone!!! Attack of the clones AHHHHHH. I mean, it wouldn't be bad/unusual to duplicate Rider of Rohan Joe Blow over and over, but duplicating a main character? Weird!
Whoaaaa James Caviezel as Christ and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus Christ! Well, no one can ever really play Christ, but Caviezel's a good choice. And Bellucci man she was hot in Matrix 2! Friday, June 13, 2003
Think I'll refrain from mentioning another's work from now on to keep it lidded although it probably won't do much good. I never advertised the work but have mentioned names on this blog so I'll keep off it. Anyways sorry dude if I caused trouble (I know I'm not the only one but sorry anyways). My blog is not funny. But. It's entertaining (I think) or people wouldn't read it. Or maybe people are just nosy . I don't rack up mad hits but there's a small following. So, while I don't really use this to rant or talk about personal issues that much, I like it because it lets me write and brainstorm. So, sorry if it's not that funny reader.Why do people who didn't make it into university, or "just" went to college, say things like, "All people who go to university are just snotty fucks anyways. They think they know everything." That's major bullshit generalizing and not true. How would they like it if we said they, "Only went to college" or that they're, "Little League players anyways"? Oh wait, we do. Well nevermind that argument. Still that's such a big misconception. Ignorant speak. Not all university people are like that, just as lots of college or only high school education people are superstars. Why are people such homos that way? The world's proven time and time again it's varied enough that nothing is EVER EVER EVER EVER 100% EVER! Fuck humans. Fuck humanity! We're all such ignorant, hypocritical fucks. There's philosophy and existentialism for you! Anyways that angers me, but not to a raging point. Not directed at anyone in particular, it was not from a personal experience, but happened to someone I know recently so that pisses me off anyways. Weak responses do not deserve answers in return (to someone in particular). Pure faggotry (to no one in particular). Haha so Snowman tells me those NVIDIA stinkers have resorted to cheating with 3D Mark 2001 SE (or maybe it was the 2003 version) and Futuremark filed a lawsuit against them. Few months ago there was also that pussied assault they made on 3D Mark 2003, trying to discredit it as a benchmark suite. NVIDIA, as LV would say, is pure heel. Hulk looks really gay, I don't think I'll see it. Thursday, June 12, 2003
Been out last couple days. These weird ECE Clan dreams lately are really...weird! Anyways, so last night I dreamt I went to see a movie with CP and Snowman. It was fucked up. CP had free tickets to an Oscar-nominated movie which was running again in theatres because of it's success. The movie? Swimfan. What the fuck??? I remember, while dreaming, thinking, that just makes no sense. Didn't that movie suck? No, exclaimed CP, eyes dilated with forefinger pointing upwards, it's an Oscar-nominated film yo (imagine him putting the emphasis on that word). But, isn't it gay I asked? Don't say that, that's not true, CP replied, that's a common misconception. Ok so he had me convinced. He persuaded snowman as well, who acquiesced quietly. However, upon getting to the theatre, Snowman said, "Yo, sorry guys, but I think I'm gonna bail. I'm gonna go play fooseball with Rainman." What the heck he doesn't even like fooseball! CP bugged him about it. Snowman said he wanted to play fooseball cuz Rainman's cousin, who works for CBC would be there, and he wanted to meet her  . Man. Makes no sense. So I went to the movie with CP, and indeed, it was NOT Oscar calibre. At least, that's the impression I got after the movie, though I don't remember what it was about! Usually, CP has good taste in movies, but in my dream, what the heck was he thinking???Why did Snowman want Rainman's cousin??? I haven't seen that last TNG movie (forget what it's called), but after watching parts of First Contact again last night, I'm sure First Contact is still the best TNG movie. Oh yeah, Nemesis, that's it. There's one run of scenes that is the pinnacle of that movie, going from Riker telling Cochram about the quote he said ("Don't try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make it's own judgement." "That's rhetorical nonsense, who said that?" "You did, 10 years from now."), to the Worf-Picard confrontation ("If you were any other man I would kill you where you stand!"), to the excellent scene with Picard and Alfre Woodard (dunno the character's name): "They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds...and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn HERE! THIS far, NO farther. And I.......will MAKE them pay for what they have done!" "Jean-Luc blow up the DAMN ship!" "NO!" -Pause- "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -Obliterates the display case- Gold! Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Why wouldn't you always use split horizon with poisoned reverse? Why would you only use split horizon at all? Makes no sense. Split horizon always has the possibility of a loop; with poisoned reverse that's all but eliminated. So why did Eddie Law teach us to use split horizon as well in Networks II? I don't see any disadvantages that poisoned reverse has that regular split horizon doesn't. In fact, since it prevents loops, that's one disadvantage less!
Both CP and LV e-mailed me about the bizarro dream. To answer CP's question, yes, LV was invited to the wedding; in fact, all of the now-defunct ECE clan was there and others from ECE OT2 as well. And we all died! LV related to me one of his own dreams, which was pretty funny. I don't know if he wants me to tell it, but I'll just say it has to do with dismemberment of a certain appendage . Why didn't they ever have a fatality like that in Mortal Kombat? That would have been nuts! It never made any sense to me why Johnny Cage could punch a dude in the crotch but not the chicks. I mean, I'm sure it hurts way more to pucnh a guy in the balls, but wouldn't it hurt to a girl to punch her in the pussy too? I'll have to ask a girl. Sunday, June 08, 2003
It's odd the kinds of dreams you can have when nothing in the dream relates to anything that happened or that you'd been thinking the entire day. Sometimes they are just plain wacky. Like the dream I had last night. I dreamt that Hoc and Helen got married. The loving couple registered with some unknown company that no one had ever heard of. All the guests were worried that the company was some sort of pyramid scheme, so no one bought them any wedding gifts. On the day of the wedding, Hoc was so angry at this, that he took out a machine gun and killed everyone. Helen laughed during the slaughter. Man I woke up scared and sweating, as one of Hoc's bullets pierced my side! . Must have been the huge dinner I had. Go Ducks Game 7! Saturday, June 07, 2003
Got my Dad a powerhouse set of collector's edition (or whatever u call it) movies in preparation for Father's Day: Spartacus, Laurence of Arabia, and Seven Samurai. Tell me that's not a wicked combination! Friday, June 06, 2003
So is Jason Kidd's wife called Jouwana or something? Cuz if it is, that's pretty funny. Jouwana Kidd? Bahaha. Like that movie, Jouwana Mann. I remember watching the Jays back in '96. One game, Tilson Brito had a full count. The battery decided at the last minute to throw an intentional walk for some reason or other. Brito swung and struck out on the pitch, which was slow and way outside. He was the only idiot I ever saw in the major leagues to do that. Striking out on an intentional walk, that's pathetic! Remember when Darnell Coles had that 3-homer game in Boston (I think it was Boston)?
Mean Gene's experiment with that store and the superficiality of sales associates is hilarious. Classic work. I would have loved to see the look on that bitch's face when he laughed in her face. Fucking bitches. 2Fast2Spurious (bahahaha I thought that up myself) opens today. It looks pretty bad. The first one was good. This one sux cuz Vin Diesel was a greedy bastard. It just seems too fake and forced (from the commercials/reviews). And the orcs in this one blow ass. Tyrese is a cheesy pretty boy orc. Usher's a better pretty boy orc. And I hate Ludacris. Why do movies always have to put gay rappers who can't act in their movies. They're not as big a draw as you'd think. It's not like having Losers like Ludacris, JaRule, Sisqo, P. Diddy. Hate them all. Of course there's cool rappers who actuall fit well, like DMX (he's so raging!) and veterans like Ice Cube and LL Cool J. Snoop-Dogg and Dr. Dre should do more movies. Well seems I might have been wrong about SCO Group haha  . Read this shit:"My impression is that [SCO's claim] is credible," says Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group analyst who was shown the evidence by SCO Group earlier this week. "It appears to be the same" code. But DiDio says the developing battle could hinge on legal fine points that are hard to sort out in the current atmosphere of claims, denials, and counterclaims. Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work. "The fact that these appear to be transposed from Unix System V into Linux I find to be very damaging." DiDio says she was shown several instances where the source code and developer's comments in one operating system were the same as in the other operating system. Hahahaha man copying code and forgetting to change the comments! That's REALLY bad mooching. Hm didn't someone in ECE get caught copying and forgetting to change comments? Rainman was the best code copyer. He wrote good code, but often there wasn't enough time. He would always change it around so it would look nothing like the original. That helped us so much in Digital Systems. Well it's a good thing no one ever liked to copy my code. Since, a) I never went to class so I didn't know what I was doing, b) my code rarely worked, and c) my comments were so anally long it's too much of a bother to change! Thank goodness I had powerhouse partners for labs, like LV, Snowman and Antropov. They went to class, they coded well, and they documented well too. They were like OPS monsters! They can get on base, hit for average, and hit for power .Convoluted thinking ! Makes no sense!
Man Clay you drive such a hard bargain! Ok FFL I don't know if you read my website, but if you do, offering me a platoon catcher who can't hit for power, average or draw walks, for a 1000 OPS starting 3rd baseman who hits in a pretty good hitters' park just doesn't cut it. That's why I asked for your other catcher you reject. Watch some baseball it might help. What I offered was fair. Admittedly, the 3B is probably just having his career year, but he's not worth that crap slop sludge you offered me. You fucking fluke learn more about sports! Thursday, June 05, 2003
Man I have not read Jeremy's site for a while. I forgot how gold it was. Was looking through his archives, he has a pretty good explanation about The Matrix: Reloaded. Further down, he mentions something about the Metal Gear Solid 3 trailer. Man I was gonna talk about that too. Good trailer. Most people think it's not Snake you use, but Big Boss (check out the eyepatch; that's why). Did anyone catch Jeremy's subtle dig at SCO Group? Or maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill again. He says something like "Hooray for not signing any NDAs". NDA being a Non-Disclosure Agreement. I think he's talking about SCO Group. Honestly, I think SCO Group are a bunch of shit-disturbers. They just wanna wring concessions from the entire Linux community. Maybe their business sucks so much they think continuous lawsuits will give them an infinite revenue stream (kinda like Microsoft's licensing system). That's pure desperate. Anyways why sign an NDA to see the evidence, I bet there's like one line of code that was copied. Man I bet people in ECE rip more code in one day doing a lab (reminds me of Testi copying all his first year computer labs and those were the easiest!) than any companies have ripped from UNIX in a lifetime. It's debatable if SCO Group even owns the UNIX IP. Why don't these companies just concentrate on destroying Microsoft. Even if something major was copied people would find a way to rewrite it anyways. Wednesday, June 04, 2003
CP made some good points about the hockey thing and I agree. And I also agree that certain unnamed people are fuckfaces and play cheap in certain pools (not Antropov or Clay, so take a guess). CP is a hockey and comic book guru, never dispute his word. He's pretty knowledgeable in music too, but I'm not sure if he's a guru in that. Was talking to Clay about the Enter the Matrix game. He has it and says it's awesome. We both agreed Niobe must be the worst character ever. Jada Pinkett sucks (yeah you know what she sucks, just ask The Fresh Prince)! And she's ugly Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Haha I just read Squid's site. He's right, Griffin is such a fucktard! Good to see Rob Neyer, The Man, put him in his place. Someone should e-mail him that article...about him! Monday, June 02, 2003
Warning: SPOILERS for stuff Actually I retract my comment yesterday. Eddard Stark would also have fallen. Foolish comment for me to make. His weakness (ie. being too much of an honourable person) was also exploited by Littlefinger and led to his downfall.
Warning: SPOILERS for various stuff Haven't been blogging as much/long lately cuz I'm working on something. Hopefully I'll be able to show what it is in about a week's time. You know your life is boring when you watch the PC leadership convention and actually find it interesting. Well so be it. I'm not a Tory supporter but these things are always interesting to watch. Certainly, this race wasn't actually all that exciting. Personally I found the candidates boring. There just wasn't any fire to most of them; they all seemed tepid, not just Peter McKay. David Orchard doesn't make any sense. I don't get it, why doesn't he just join a left-leaning party? Maybe it's cool to be a maverick (no not a Dallas Maverick). The race doesn't really matter; the party is moribund and I doubt McKay can do any damage to the Liberals or boost the party back up that much. That other right-wing party's already long taken the PC's place on the federal level. Think Prentice would have been a better choice; he's more old-school Tory. Heck what do I know. One thing while watching election races though, I can't help but think sometimes of A Song of Ice and Fire. Having the 5 candidates fight for leadership was exactly like The War of the Five Kings where each faction fought for dominion of the Seven Kingdoms. I couldn't really tell who should be who though. But when Chris what's-his-name (that's how bad a candidate he was) threw his support to Prentice, that was like Renly's troops going over to Joffrey and the Lannisters when they knew they'd lost (and Renly dead). Then again, when Orchard and McKay cut that deal it was like Tywin Lannister getting the Freys to betray Robb Stark. Man that was the major turning point in A Storm of Swords. No reader expected it. Absolutely shocking and pretty hurting. I doubt if Robb's father were alive he would have been taken by that plot. Oh well. All I do know is, if we went by sexual orientation, well then Scott Brison would certainly be Renly. Nicholas Sparks' new book, The Guardian is out and I can't wait to get it. It looks good and looks like he's taken a different direction this time (hopefully). Aria tells me Nights in Rodanthe isn't that good though she's been bugging me to read it anyways. I think this next one will be good. Message in a Bottle was amazing and really tragic; too bad the movie wasn't as good. It was Kevin Costner's fault, I know it. I hate him every since he ruined my image of Robin Hood with his poor portrayal of him. I can't believe that queerbait in Vancouver who mowed that guy down in his car while street-racing isn't gonna get any jail time. Oh well no one said life was fair. Not sure if I mentioned it, but Clay A. (Aiken) Chow has good taste in books. He's reading Life of Pi, something I thought about picking up myself. Clay you are the man. Things I want to write about but haven't: the 3rd/4th year things and my reviews for Tess of the D'Urbervilles and American Gods. As one of my friends said, Neil Gaiman is pimp (I assume that means good). I'll have to try his Smoke and Mirrors and the Sandman stuff. I'm really liking Wuthering Heights, it's a great story and not the typical Victorian novel or love story. It's amazing how conniving, reckless and downright selfish the characters are. Perhaps Emily Bronte was trying to evoke pity from her readers rather than warm feelings, although the love element is still there. I'll have to finish it before deciding if it truly deserves the label of "the greatest love story" that most people brand it. Even if not, it will have been a great read. I've wanted to read it years ago ever since my high school Grade 11 English and Writer's Craft teacher Mrs. Danilowitz told us how wonderful it was. I always had a great respect for Mrs. D and her opinions. She was the greatest teacher I ever had and impacted me more than any teacher or professor I ever had. She was always encouraging and tried her best to milk every creative fibre out of her students. No one was ever "not good enough" and no one was ever excluded from anything. She really taught us that language, reading, writing, literature, the very essence of English class had value, when so many people in high school just thought it was crap. Thanks Mrs. D. It's been two weeks and yet I can't get Morpheus' fucking speech out of my head. Every day at some point I hear in my mind, "What if the Prophecy is true? What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth........dying for?" Shut the fuck up you reject! The Prophecy is NOT true get outta my head! Why are the guys at Kinko's (and other stores of that ilk) such assholes? So I was there printing out some documents and this Orc lady is sitting beside me. She didn't bring any floppy disk to save her work to, so she asks the jackass Chink (I'm allowed to use this word cuz I am of that proprietary race) working there how she could keep her work. "Well Ma'am you could send it to yourself through e-mail and access it at home). To which the Orc replies, "How do I do that?" Now, I have to admit, that's a pretty stupid thing to ask and I was laughing at her Orcish ignorance. But the guy was major ass as he snipes back his robotized de facto answer, "We at Kinko's are not allowed to tell you what to do. We can give you hints but we can't tell you how to do it exactly." What the fuck? Is that store policy? I never heard of that shit. The lady asked, "So I go to Hotmail, login, then went?" To which said Chink gives the same spiel. I felt sorry for her. I mean, yes she's pretty dumb. But what would it kill him, or the store, to just say, "Go to compose message, click attachments and find the file you need." What kind of service is that? Is it illegal to tell her or what? How much wasted company time would that entail? It just seemed like total bullshit to me, so I just told the Orc how to do it and the stupid Chink gives me this face. Hey I'm not working for your store asshole get over it. I wonder if he was making that shit up to mock her ignorance. Probably. I forget what else I had in my brain to tell.
I loved Finding Nemo. What a cute, sweet and hilarious movie. Animation was awesome as usual. Both children and adults will enjoy it thoroughly. Of course I didn't have much did that I would, having liked Toy Story, Bug's Life and Monsters Inc. |
