The Best Test EVER!

OK, going into this test was awesome. It's an essay test for Sped in class, that she already gave us the questions. There are 20 and we pick 15. So I already studied the crap out of them and then she comes in today and says that she's been getting calls for a fraternity all day and she needs to be in her office. Now, a common teacher would cancel the test, but that's no fun. So she has us put all of our stuff in her office and she gives us a group test. The same questions except we get to talk to each other. I love it!

Now, I know a lot of the questions already so I get done fast. This happens to much to me because I have a talent that I can write compact and quality-filled short sentences. My bane of Comp: 4 page paper due and I can only write 3 because I've ran out of stuff to write about. Anyways, I'm sitting in the class for the longest time until I just leave.

So now all of my stress is gone. I was elected ACM Secretary again for next year and I interviewed Wayne's sped teacher for Sped and I only have to talk to my FieldEx teacher now. By the way, I also have only like 5 hours left of FieldEx so that's winding down too. Whew!

Why Norfolk is Norfork

I was a little bored today, so I was clicking around on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia on everything and stumbled upon Norfolk's listing. Apparently the town was named after the north fork simplified of the Elkhorn River, but the USPS thought it was a mistake so they changed the name to Norfolk and that's why people don't pronounce it as it is spelled. I feel so learned.

I also found out that Wahoo, Nebraska, had the Nebraska legislature proclaim David Letterman an admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska. When Letterman jokingly said he wanted more, Wahoo sent him a '76 Ford Pinto with a sofa attached to the hood, a wall clock made of cow droppings, and two of the town's teenagers, brothers Jeff and Josh Price.

By the way, there is no Wayne State College entry yet so if anyone wants to make one for Wikipedia, go here.

My Relationship with iTunes

When we first met, I love how you were so awesome. You were so open and sharing, until you started moving my stuff around. I do like how you give me stuff with my pop, though. But it would be nice if you got along with my friends better. And I do like your companion, but it just doesn't really get along with my best friend. I wish you could just see what's new with me and adapt yourself to that, but you're a little rigid. I don't mind how you tell all my friends what you're doing, because I expect that from my best friend. Anyways, I'm not ready to breakup yet, I like what you're offering me. I just wish like any other guy that I can have both.

Why Episode III is PG-13

Millennium Falcon has posted some gruesome pictures from a German Episode III book that basically solidifies that Revenge of the Sith will be PG-13 instead of PG. Quite nasty.


(WARNING: Major plot spoliers inside) Millennium Falcon forums

(psst...a little trick whenever bandwidths get exceeded, go File, Save As to save the webpage and view it locally. You will have downloaded all the pictures.)

Battlefront 2?

From PC Gamer:
It will have space battles (Including Ep3’s space battle) where you can board, sabotage, and take control of certain parts of the cruiser class ships. Jedi will also be implemented although not a class in every map. The game will also be more objective driven compared to capturing outposts like the first battlefront.

Connell Fire Alarms Suck!

We had a fire drill in Connell today. I'm not sure why they need an alarm every 6 feet but they are so loud. It's like the sound of my brain mixing together! In retrospect, I wish I had recorded it, but I forgot. And the worst thing is I still had to go to class.

Lessons in Government 

You Belong in the UK



Blimey!

A little proper, a little saucy.
You're so witty and charming...
No one notices your curry breath

What English Speaking Country Do You Belong In?

Visited States Map

Thanks, Rhea! The pic is too big for the main page so see my map here. I would do the countries map, but there would only be the USA.

visited 15/51 states (29%)

My Thoughts on Venom in Spider-Man 3

(I wrote this a while ago, but due to yesterday's announcement of Thomas Haden Church playing Spider-Man 3's unknown villian, I decided now is as good as any to post it.)

When I get bored, I take a look at the IMDb entry for Spider-Man 3. The forums usually go into these topics such as "Venom's in, 100%" or "My great idea" all having to do with Venom. Personally, I love the character, he's cool, but I just don't see it happening.

The movies convey this sense of realism, and usually all it takes to accept the villian's ability is the acceptance of one thing about them that does not exist. Green Goblin had the Goblin formula because I think the glider is pretty plausible. You have to believe that this stuff can make you strong, but mess up your mind which is not too hard to grasp. Doctor Octopus had really the fusion machine to accept. It's not too hard to grasp, humanity has seen the sun for eons, can we duplicate it? The arms might be a stretch but in layman's terms it makes sense to control the reaction. For Venom to work, you have to accept that aliens exist. Wow!

It doesn't help that the fans' scripts always include Carnage in Spider-Man 4. One at a time. Tobey and Kirsten don't really want to continue after 3, so why even think about it. It may be fun to kill off MJ, but how 'bout using her while she's here. Plus, if the series goes too long, it may drag on, regardless of a cool villain.

They probably will do Green Goblin again and Venom is basically an enhanced Spider-Man, so we'd be looking at no new powers of any kind. And even if they did do Venom, the hype created by the fans would be so big that the movie would never satisfy them, i.e. Star Wars Episode I.

Basically it boils down to simplicity. Harry as the Green Goblin makes sense with the existing story and Lizard wouldn't hurt anything. I also heard the comment that they want a celebrity to play villians. I'm sorry, but how long has Alfred Molina been a major celebrity? No offense, he's a great actor, but he's no major celebrity.

Logan's Midnight Run

I am so tired. Last night I made a midnight run into Norfolk to pick up the Clone Wars DVD and that was fun. By the way, Walmart has a 128MB Rio MP3 player on clearance for 50 daura hidden in the back. Shh! The Mauve Hand...Shh! Anyways, I also got The Killers CD and I needed some lighter fuel. I can't watch Clone Wars when I get back because that would put me to sleep around 3 so I wait. I have a full day's events starting with class, class, lunch, field experience, class, speaker, and finally, dinner. I had to wait 18 hours to see it but I finally got to see my DVD! I love it.

One thing is happy, my projects are coming to a close! I had my teaching episode yesterday and my last SPED thing is on next Tuesday. I do have to do some interviews, but I'm not worried. I just can't wait until it's all over! Oh yeah, I also found the mp3 for the Star Trek fight song!

Oh well, for no apparent reason: Leprechaun piss!

I've got my ticket!  

Star Trek IV has come to pass!

I went to the Sci-fi Farscape marathon today and Jodie said that someone at Pepsi said that they may be bringing back Crystal Pepsi. The catch is that they would like it to be in clear cans. The answer: Transparent Aluminum, the formula Scotty gave that engineer back in 1986. Teehee! It's all a weird coincidence and all of this conversation is pure hearsay but it's interesting.

Not Public MSN Beta

I caved a while ago. I got a webcam and Trillian doesn't support it so I'm back to MSN beta. Anyways, I stumbled upon a non-public beta release which is kinda cool. First, it shows display pictures as an icon (you can make them bigger too, but too many are online) which I like, but also there's a private message bar which I like too. You can put in a message there and it will show up in your contact card. It also can replace that with "What I'm listening to" which shows what's on Windows Media Player (as evidenced below). You can also modify it to do that with Winamp somehow.

To show it all off, I made a screenshot. I decided to pixelate the names for privacy, but you may find your DSP. Also, some have grey by their name, that's the Messenger Plus! update that let's you rename contacts and keep the existing name in grey which I like.


Now I got it from here (right-click, save as .exe) but some of the links that the site listed are down, so if you want it and it's not working, let me know. I think it's spiffy and as far as I know, it's perfectly legal otherwise Microsoft would be hunting mess.be down as I speak and they're not.

You silly spoilers

ComingSoon! posted some good funny dialogue from key scenes SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS! Enter at your own risk...
Coming Soon! - Latest News

Another WSC Math Problem

St. Patrick's Day + Thursday Night = Bad Friday Morning

Review of "National Treasure"

This movie was showing in Ramsey tonight. It wasn't too bad despite the soaring historical inaccuracies. It was a nice story with nice twists and it would be cool if there was something like that. The big killer is that they made the treasure so huge. It takes a lot of gullability to assume that something so massive can continue to evade all records and historians. See, this is why Indiana Jones is good. He's looking for small things: the Ark of the Covenant, the Indian/Hindu stones, and the Holy Grail (tiny by most respects). It's understandable if these small objects get lost. But a treause that huge under NYC 5 stories despite subway excavation under two major streets being gone forever is just ignorance. Anyways it was enjoyable.

My Rating: 6 out of 10, can't ignore the facts.
DVD-worthy: not really, not a bad rental or tape off of pay-per-view.

Music Boredom

Here's a fun fact: When you're listening to music on a playlist on anything, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, whatever; go to Q 98.5's website. Their site plays their callsign sound when you go there. Now if you're bored enough (like me), go to the site right when a song ends and another begins. It's freaky because it sounds like you're on the radio.

Also, I think I know what my next CD purchase will be. Yeah, I actually buy CD's. I think I'll get The Killers because there's nothing like songs that get stuck in your head and refuse to leave. Well, anyways they'll be in Omaha on May 5 at Sokol Auditorium and if I have money, I'd love to go!

Also, the letter people on Fridge 1 keep making shapes and stealing letters and it's not that fun so Fridge 2 or any of the others are better.

Retro-prise

T'Pol in a TOS-era uniform from the upcoming "In A Mirror, Darkly"

Episode III Soundtrack out on May 3

The title says it all. John Williams is doing it again. That's about it.
Coming Soon! - Latest News

Episode III Trailer is out!

I'm always at a loss for words when it comes to trailers becuase I'm never sure what to make of them. I am surprised of the amount of spoilers in the trailer. I'm not talking about Vader or the Emperor, that's a given. But if you notice, they show the death of key prequel characters. Oh well, it's awesome. 60 Minutes said that Lucas wants the kids to stay home because ROTS will deserve the PG-13 rating it will get. Evil!

Check it out here.

You are


What Rejected Crayon Are You?

What I've learned so far

OK, I'm going to vent for a while but I need to do it. I'm going to talk about one of my cousins on my mom's side. She's a year younger than me and has quite the journey. I'm going to try to be as objective as possible and I do realize that I have her siblings' sites listed but I don't mind talking about her.

Now for some background. My cousin started last year at UNK. She visited Wayne but thought it was boring (true that) and she liked Kearney. She drove home every weekend while she was there. Granted my brother drove home every weekend too, but he was in Beatrice which is much, much closer. At the end of the semester she decided to transfer to Southeast Community College in Lincoln and live in an apartment. By the way, her parents are paying every step of the way. Now she says that she doesn't like the teachers and wants to go to UNL. I also hear she wants to move in with two guys and possibly another girl. And the parents are fine with this. She still has no major.

OK, One thing I've learned from college is that everything in college is up to you, there is no one to blame. If you don't like the teachers, point one, who cares, they're going to be gone next semester. And point two, you gotta realize that they don't care about you. If you don't like them you got to make the class interesting and pay attention to get better grades because they won't help you. My second rant is to the parents. I have nothing against transferring to another college but what a weak reason. "I don't like the town." OK, you're not there for the town, you're there for the college. She should have known that Kearney was too far away for her when she visited. Also, I consider my parents buying an apartment to be a reward for doing something good at college. I'm sorry, but switching colleges is not a reward. If I wanted an apartment, my parents would have me pay for it. And I know she won't like UNL. The classes will be too hard or the teachers will hate her.

Here's my psychic vision for her future. She'll leave UNL and maybe the parents will have her stay at home in Fremont. She'll go to UNO, not like it and maybe go to Midland before she gives up on college. She'll move to Washington state to be with her favorite Uncle Joe and will have completed her transformation into one of our aunts or uncles that have moved to the coast and lost contact that she has despised for so long. She was always planning family reunions to get the coastals out here but they all failed and she will become just like them.

OK, I'm done, but I may add more when I think of it...

These Are the Voyages...

Aww, there's little time left. Startrek.com released a production report for the last episode of Enterprise. But it sounds fun. Riker and Troi are back along with Shran and other plot-spoiling characters. No, there's no time travel, it's a holodeck in TNG-era. Riker will be dressed as a crewman, MACO, and another that they won't say...Degra? Hehe, wishful thinking. They're also going to Rigel X, where Enterprise went on its first mission. I've always said that a cool finale would have Bond-iose references to every season along at some subtle point in the episode. You never know now. However, it sounds like a nice and fitting bye-bye.

Couldn't think of anything more obscure.  

I've been slacking

Well, the big news is that the new theatrical Episode III Poster is out! Looks great, check out a huge version here. I've always said that sometime I wanted to get all the theatrical posters of the Star Wars movies (probably the special edition posters for the classics becaus those don't bother me) and have a wall dedicated to those posters up in Wayne, but that's money. And where I'm at, both StarWars.com and StarTrek.com are down, so I'm kinda limited on my super-official news.

I also want to throw this in: According to TrekToday, SpikeTV is interested in Enterprise for a new season but Paramount isn't talking...

Just Letters

Perfect for ADD. Rhea showed me this site where you have a refrigerator magnet board that users just drag letters around. Crazy, but keeps you occupied. Check it out!

Landfills don't die!

I'm playing SimCity 4 and a while ago I zoned for a landfill because I forgot about sanitation. Then I realized that there's much more environmentally friendly ways of taking out the trash. I've dezoned most of it, but now I have a 2x2 square fo landfill that won't go away. Can't delete it, can't remove it, can't destroy it. I got bored and tried using the disasters to get rid of it. Nothing works! I frickin' grew a volcano on top of it and it's still there! Does anyone know how to trash the thing (pun intended)?

Sunny Days

Things have been going so good the past few days, I have to share. I get a job, Halo LAN, bought me something, Friday's cancelled, what more can I ask? I'm so happy I decided to let Rhea borrow my PS2 for break. I figure if I take it home, I have to take my TV home and that's one more thing. Also, Best Buy called when I got home so I'll interview there. As much as I like the job that I've been given, I would LOVE to work at Best Buy.

Hey Rhea, what's that rabbit 30-second thingy link?

Halo LAN Results

Yay for Halo LANs! This was very fun. I showed up around 11 because I had homework and I waited for an opening. I brought my camera, but I figured I would not do good so I wouldn't use it. Well, it started off that way with 7-9th places basically covered by me, but then it picked up. I remember how much I miss that game. After a few rounds I got to here:


Somewhere around this time, Bruce asked me "What's going on with you?" or something to that effect. And then I got another good match. On the last match, both Biskuit and I got melee triple kills during football. We rock.


Well, that's about it. I'm looking forward to the next one!

You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?

I'm both mad and happy. I found out in Government that there was a Modest Mouse concert in Omaha last night. I would've killed to go to that! But, I am happy that All-American Rejects are coming to Wayne for our spring concert. Goldfinger's also coming, but, unfortunately, I've never heard of them. I know, I'm a loser. Let me know what songs I should get cause I want to know how they sound.

I also found out that my History class is cancelled on Friday along with my Government class on that day, so I may be leaving tomorrow, hopefully.

Happy Birthday Yahoo!

I first noticed this when my Yahoo! Toolbar button changed. How exicting. I feel glad to be a Mail member for 1/2 of their existence. They've got a lot of stuff to celebrate:
Yahoo! in 1995 (scary)
Netrospective: 100 moments of the web
Free Baskin-Robbins ice cream scoop for today only (must go to Norfolk...)

Battlefront Online

I tried Battlefront online tonight. It's not bad, but something is wrong with the scripting. My first game was me vs. two humans with 6 AI players: Me=Republic on Cloud City. Yeah, that's going to go good. No people to hold command posts and they are destroyers. Then the game does Endor with me as the Rebels, so now they're both in AT-ST's. Yeah, it's not fun. The game needs to detect the amount of players and compensate on its random selection. Don't give the advantaged humans more of an advantage with the only side with vehicles. I can't believe that there isn't anyone online besides these two at 11:40pm, it's not that late. And I know they don't want to cause lag, but 12 people fighting at a time? I know they expect the maps to be full, but when they're not, you have a lot of ground to grab and no resources to do it. What's the next one? Hoth, where they're both in snowspeeders making the AT-AT's useless. And I know they're not cheating, they're doing what they're supposed to, there's just no defense. Although they did manage to get a snowspeeder into the base... Next level, Kashyyyk Docks as the Separatists. I should win this and despite being in a vehicle and against only one this time, the numbers weren't adding up. I'm killing them left and right and capturing command posts but yet they still have a good 50 more reinforcements. I got 42 kills that round and he got 28. Explain that! Next one, Naboo Plains and it feels like it's already in progress. I'm the Separatists and guess where he is...the Jedi Starfighter, where I can't get him, but he can get me. The teams are even, I get in a tank and head to the center, die and notice that we're now 25 under. It's at this point that I turn off the PS2. I need more practice, and people need to play this game online more often. I got respect for the guys, but when you're already owning the AI, does it hurt to get out of the vehicle and shoot at them? Like I said, they're doing nothing wrong, but I'd love to play a big match where I'd have at least another human on my team.