Various thoughts, some more useful than others
They're trying to take Scrabulous away from me!
This article is talking about the creators of Scrabulous, the online Scrabble game played largely on Facebook. Now admittedly, I have mostly abandoned Scrabulous in favor of Scramble, the online Boggle game, but that's only because I have such a limited attention span, and I like group Scramble games. I love the live action. There is always a game going and I don't have to get irritable waiting for a player to take their turn.
But! But!
While on the one hand, I can see the Scrabble people wanting their cut- Scrabble is not like chess, it is not open property, but I definitely don't see how Scrabulous hurts Mattel/Hasbro, the owners of Scrabble. I didn't burn my Scrabble board because I started playing online. Scrabulous is just another thing we do to keep from being productive at work. Scrabble and Boggle are what we do with our friends while drinking.
Does anyone get anything done at work anymore? Really?
I've fallen into a mood, for various reasons, none of them particularly reasonable, and so my apologies to anyone who expected to see me yesterday. I got out of class thoroughly defeated and went to the movies for five hours. Neither the amazing acting and shocking violence of There Will Be Blood nor the Period Angst of The Other Boleyn Girl could raise my spirits.
Eventually I went home, watched Big Love, drank spiked tea and studied biology. I have yet another exam in the subject on Friday and god only knows if my test karma will hang on for another week.
The Other Boleyn Girl, by the way, is every bit as terrible as the reviews said it was, and only vaguely resembles the book, let alone the actual history of it. The only believable part of the damn movie is when Mary Boleyn falls in love with the king. Because Damn. The actor is really hot. Any girl would get her knickers in a twist over such a piece of manflesh, even if he is wearing excessively silly fur outfits. The book is so charmingly smutty and salacious. The movie took all the damn fun out of it. Ah well. The costumes were still pretty.
So one of the previews shown yesterday was for Stop Loss, the new Ryan Phillipe movie that also stars Joseph Gordon Levitt, another actor on my top ten most out of nowhere celebrity crushes.
So here's the thing. I KNOW the movie is going to be terrible. Not only that, I have next to no interest in the subject matter, and I think Ryan Phillipe is silly.
I think whoever made the Preview should get an Oscar. (Come to think of it, they should totally give a best preview award. And best preview narrator.) The music/visuals/cuts are so precise, so incredibly manipulative, I found myself tearing up. It was incredible. I found myself on the edge of my seat entranced and had absolutely no fucking idea why.
I read about a new find in Peru that's the oldest settlement in the new world. 3500 BC according to carbon dating, older than the Pyramids of Giza. When more information becomes available, no doubt I will post.
*sigh* I admit it, I'm lonely here. It's not that I don't have enough to do, or that I don't have friends, or that my life isn't going just fine, but I'm lonely anyway. And it's doubly odd coupled with my pretty intense instinct to stay by myself. Yes, I both want to see other people and see absolutely no one.
I'm invited out for drinks with people from my biology class next week. Maybe I will make stupid superficial friends and that will make me feel better.
OK, a woman just walked by my coffee shop with a double-wide stroller filled with at least five tiny dogs. That was a close encounter.
I have to think now. And study. And watch Dr. Who. And Big Love. I can't figure out quite how I feel about Big Love, which is interesting plot wise, but also filled with characters I can't stand. That's reality for you.
This article is talking about the creators of Scrabulous, the online Scrabble game played largely on Facebook. Now admittedly, I have mostly abandoned Scrabulous in favor of Scramble, the online Boggle game, but that's only because I have such a limited attention span, and I like group Scramble games. I love the live action. There is always a game going and I don't have to get irritable waiting for a player to take their turn.
But! But!
While on the one hand, I can see the Scrabble people wanting their cut- Scrabble is not like chess, it is not open property, but I definitely don't see how Scrabulous hurts Mattel/Hasbro, the owners of Scrabble. I didn't burn my Scrabble board because I started playing online. Scrabulous is just another thing we do to keep from being productive at work. Scrabble and Boggle are what we do with our friends while drinking.
Does anyone get anything done at work anymore? Really?
I've fallen into a mood, for various reasons, none of them particularly reasonable, and so my apologies to anyone who expected to see me yesterday. I got out of class thoroughly defeated and went to the movies for five hours. Neither the amazing acting and shocking violence of There Will Be Blood nor the Period Angst of The Other Boleyn Girl could raise my spirits.
Eventually I went home, watched Big Love, drank spiked tea and studied biology. I have yet another exam in the subject on Friday and god only knows if my test karma will hang on for another week.
The Other Boleyn Girl, by the way, is every bit as terrible as the reviews said it was, and only vaguely resembles the book, let alone the actual history of it. The only believable part of the damn movie is when Mary Boleyn falls in love with the king. Because Damn. The actor is really hot. Any girl would get her knickers in a twist over such a piece of manflesh, even if he is wearing excessively silly fur outfits. The book is so charmingly smutty and salacious. The movie took all the damn fun out of it. Ah well. The costumes were still pretty.
So one of the previews shown yesterday was for Stop Loss, the new Ryan Phillipe movie that also stars Joseph Gordon Levitt, another actor on my top ten most out of nowhere celebrity crushes.
So here's the thing. I KNOW the movie is going to be terrible. Not only that, I have next to no interest in the subject matter, and I think Ryan Phillipe is silly.
I think whoever made the Preview should get an Oscar. (Come to think of it, they should totally give a best preview award. And best preview narrator.) The music/visuals/cuts are so precise, so incredibly manipulative, I found myself tearing up. It was incredible. I found myself on the edge of my seat entranced and had absolutely no fucking idea why.
I read about a new find in Peru that's the oldest settlement in the new world. 3500 BC according to carbon dating, older than the Pyramids of Giza. When more information becomes available, no doubt I will post.
*sigh* I admit it, I'm lonely here. It's not that I don't have enough to do, or that I don't have friends, or that my life isn't going just fine, but I'm lonely anyway. And it's doubly odd coupled with my pretty intense instinct to stay by myself. Yes, I both want to see other people and see absolutely no one.
I'm invited out for drinks with people from my biology class next week. Maybe I will make stupid superficial friends and that will make me feel better.
OK, a woman just walked by my coffee shop with a double-wide stroller filled with at least five tiny dogs. That was a close encounter.
I have to think now. And study. And watch Dr. Who. And Big Love. I can't figure out quite how I feel about Big Love, which is interesting plot wise, but also filled with characters I can't stand. That's reality for you.