According to this site, I’m only worth $6.91. Kinda makes me a little sad, actually. I was hoping I’d be worth at least twenty bucks.
What you do is you enter some (fairly generic) personal information, and it generates your own personal bar code, complete with explanation. Then, there’s an option to scan the bar code, which will tell you what you’re worth. Feel free to leave me a comment with your worth, so I don’t feel cheap.
I’m excited beyond words. I was browsing through Ain’t it Cool (yes, yes….I know), and what did I find? Why, only that Helena Bohnam-Carter is going to be in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd movie!!! With Johnny Depp!! I know they were in Corpse Bride together, but I don’t think they’ve ever actually acted together in person. It’s something I’ve wanted to see for a long, long time now. And it’s with Tim Burton! In a musical I love!
Just….just….SQUEE!!!
I’ve spent the entire morning (about 6 hours now) working on a programming project, and I’m not even close to being done. I spent the weekend trying to make sure I really understood the source material before I started coding, and while I do understand on a conceptual level, actually coding this beast is something entirely different. I’m going to go bald from pulling my hair out over this.
On top of the assignment itself being challenging, we’re expected to do a whole bunch of things here that I’ve never done before just for the sake of doing them. Learning how to create a makefile, accept comand line parameters, and compile a single program from multiple files is practically an assignment in and of itself.
I have another week yet to get this done, but I can already tell it’s going to be tight. So if anyone would like to volunteer to kill me this evening and put me out of my misery, that would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe I just need a fancy helmet like this.
Disney has started winding down their “50 Years of Magic” promotion, and is now moving on to the “Year of a Million Dreams.” Apparently, it’s a giant prize giveaway that you can enter either by going to any of the US parks or though the mail. In the parks, a “prize patrol” wanders around with this little machine that tells them when and where to award the prizes. For example, it may tell them to go to table 12 at the French Market restaurant and award the people sitting there a free churro.
While many of the prizes seem to hardly qualify as “dreams” (free churros, mouse ears, and ice cream sandwitches), some of them are truly the coolest darn things I’ve ever heard of. At the Magic Kingdom in Florida they are building a suite in Cinderella Castle, and every once in a while a lucky family will get to stay the night inside. Even better than this though, was one of the first prizes to be awarded. A family of four was given the chance to have the Magic Kingdom to themselves for the morning. They walk in, following a red carpet down the center of Main Street, with the air still and eerily quiet. Then, as they pose for the cameras and wave, thousands of cast members and costume characters pour out of the shops lining the street to greet them. Disney, of course, put together a reel of footage for the media. Be sure to check out the B Roll in the sidebar. I know it’s all put together to look good on film, but I can’t help but think how amazing of a day this family must have had.
Since I had some extra time tonight, I decided to rent a movie. For some insane reason, I decided to get Hard Candy. I’m not usually one for the thrillers, but the trailer for this one caught my attention some time back. And yes, I had read a few reviews that mentioned the part of the movie that makes every man in the room cross his legs and look away. Which makes it even more insane that I decided to watch it.
Needless to say it creeped me out a bit. Watching a young girl talk and act like an insane 45 year old is disconcerting to say the least. But, at the same time, I spend a good part of the movie not being sure who I wanted to come out on top. I know this is odd in a movie about a child molester, but the girl is every bit as messed up as he is. She does end up having her motives for doing what she does to him, but. . .well, just no.
So, the movie’s worth a watch if you’re female. If you’re male, I’d think twice, just because that one scene is too painful for words.
I just read on MiceAge (a Disney news site) that they’re planning on massively re-doing California Adventure in an attempt to fix some of what they really screwed up when they made the park. This includes changing a lot of the theming that doesn’t make any sense unless you’ve talked to someone who actually knows the backstory about it. Like the desert airfield theme by Soarin’ Over California. If I hadn’t told you that’s what that area was about, I’m fairly certain that you never would have known. At least I didn’t.
As a part of all this, the design team (led by John Lasseter of Pixar) has decided that they are going to remove Muppet Vision 3-D and put in Philharmagic. Now, I love the Muppets. They were a super important part of my childhood. While part of me is sad that they’re getting their real estate pulled out from underneath them, I understand why. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone walk into their attraction in the last, oh, dozen visits I’ve made to the park. Myself included. Philharmagic is such a nice attraction, and it seems like it will easily fit right in with the less modern version of Hollywood Blvd. they plan on changing that section of the park into.
I say it’s time to make a trip to the park when it goes in. Any takers?
I’m sick today. It sucks. But when you’re sick, nothing is better than children’s television. Especially when it’s in Japanese. TV in Japan is a fabulous site that scours Youtube and Google Video looking for anything interesting that from Japanese TV that people have been kind enough to post. My favorite posts there are almost always from a show called “Pitagora Suicchi,” which translates to “Pythagoras Switch.” For those that don’t know, a Pythagoras switch is a machine that uses chain reactions to initiate some event, like knocking over dominoes to smack into a book to knock the marbles into the tube. . .
This clip is the best one I’ve seen. It’s got two, count ‘em two switches, a dance number, and singing penguin. So awesome. It makes me feel better just thinking about it.
I just found a link to this article that talks about a sex column in the campus newspaper for the University of Southern Mississippi. It’s talking about how the column is very popular with most of the students, but there are a few people that are unhappy and making some noise about it. Granted, I haven’t seen the column itself, but if the University is willing to let it by published, can it really be that offensive the the majority of the population? Anyway, my real reason for posting this was the quote below, which made me laugh very, very hard at it’s semantic stupidity.
“I’m aware that most young people do experiment with sex,” Burnette acknowledges, “but when you print it on a university campus, you’re just opening the doors to so much more.” She says college students already have enough issues to deal with. “They don’t need the pressures of sex involved; they need to concentrate on education,” she says. “I mean, there’s too much sex in today’s world anyway. That’s not what life is all about.”
Oh, so sex isn’t what life’s about? Makes me wonder how this chick got here in the first place then. Must be aliens. And frankly, you get a bunch of young people living together in tiny bedrooms where they are mostly unsupervised for the first time in their lives, there’s going to be the pressure of sex involved. There can’t be that many pheromones in the air without something steamy happening.
Anyway, I thought it was funny. Just my two cents.
I guess it’s time to change my name to, “Non-procrastination Girl!” I just finished my last assignment for this week, the one I have due next week is already finished, and I’m ahead on my reading for a change. I can’t believe that I actually have free time during the semester that I don’t feel guilty about taking! It’s amazing what a difference taking one less class a semester makes. I wish I could have done this all along.
I went to bed earlier, and got back up 15 minutes later because I could tell that trying to sleep was going to be completely useless. Flipping through the movie channels on my digital cable, I noticed a movie on Sundance that looked interesting. It was an independent film from the 1990′s titled Nowhere, and it featured just about every up and coming teen star from that time. Christina Applegate, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, Denise Richards, Shannen Doherty, and Rose McGowan were all in there, and those were just the ones I recognized. In addition to the crazy list of teen stars, there were cameos by Traci Lords as a valley girl (porn star, I believe), Charlotte Rae as a fortune teller (You take the good, you take the bad I guess), and Christopher Knight and Eve Plum as a Swedish couple that were parents of one of the kids in the film (fictional incest-tastic). Oh, and John Ritter as an incredibly creepy and convincing televangelist.
With all that star power, plus a plot that features lots of sex, drug use, and violence, you’d think it’d be a great movie, right? Well, it was. Until the alien showed up.
Yes, that’s right, a movie with a cast this interesting felt it had to resort to alien abduction to make the plot good. It could have been a really interesting look at the way that the decline of society’s morals will ultimately lead to the destruction of mankind. But no. The movie is just a bloody mess, both figuratively and literally. So much blood and violence.
It was incredibly stupid thing for me to watch while I’m trying to get to sleep. Yet, for some reason, I’m giving it a 6/10 on my movie page. Go figure. I think it was mostly John Ritter that did it for me. If the movie would have just ended about 30 seconds before it did, I’d be in a much better mood right now.
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