Structure has never been my strong point, but some thoughts in particular at the moment:
1) Star Wars: Clone Wars is very enjoyable. It takes a moment to get past the rather stylised representations of each of the characters (worryingly enough, Palpatine has a bit of a Monty Burns forehead thing going on) but it has the scope, the panache and the overall kidlike excitement inducing feel about it. Check it out if you’re a Star Wars fan.
2) I think that this might just be the worst example of parking that I have ever seen in my entire life (I feel compelled at this point to give a nod of credit to Kelly‘s “random from commute/roadtrip” series). Taken at my local supermarket on Sunday evening – check it out and see what you think:
3) Sunny days must do something to me, because I’m busy right now, work is hard, but I feel up for it and able to handle it. Yesterday I got stressed, annoyed and accordingly my productivity dropped…maybe someone was walking by in the street with some kryptonite?
4) I think it is rather amusing, endearing and entirely typical that with everything going on in the world today, the British spend this much time, energy and vitriol talking about the new graphics on the BBC weather reports. To paraphrase William Shatner – for god’s sake, it’s a weather report people!
5) I have come to the conclusion, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, that I am just not built for modern video games. My PS2 gaming sessions pretty much boil down to an uninterrupted series of deaths, embarassing crashes, friendly fire incidents and plain old getting lost. When I play the Battlestar Galactica game I swear I am a gift to the Cylons. When I play James Bond…well let’s just say if I were in charge the movies would all be a lot shorter and probably end in a spectacular burst of gore. The less said about my performance as a Jedi, the better. I think my head is still stuck in the golden age of the platform game. Sonic, Mario, come back, all is forgiven. None of which is going to stop me playing of course – the games are fun, even if I am rubbish at them, and it amuses the hell out of my better half when she sees me make a complete arse of myself, even if it is only in virtual form.
6) New blogs, cha-cha-cha, new blogs, cha-cha-cha…my blogroll increases yet again with some new cool blogs to check out. My net reading time is getting taken up more and more. My optician thanks you all, my better half looks askance, and my keyboard hates you for all the extra punishment it’s taking these days.
7) Denny Crane.
Any more thoughts occur, you’ll be the first to know.
May 17th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
2) That’s bad but at least he’s straight in the parking spot(s). As far as coverage of both spots goes, though, that may be the worst.
3) Oops, I was sending some kryptonite adorned jewelry to my 2nd cousin once removed in Scotland. The mail carrier must’ve been walking past your office building at the particular moment. Sorry.
5) I hear you there. We have an Xbox and I completely suck at most of the games. Especially the first-person shooters. I think the low point came when I excitedly rented a Wallace and Gromit game, and ended up screaming obscenities at the TV because after 15 tries I still couldn’t fly a biplane through a lava filled cave. Yet, like you, I still keep playing. It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya!
May 17th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
I second what Kelly said: at least he’s straight! I’ve seen a car occupy two spaces by parking diagonally across them, with that slight disorder of the wheels and line of the car that indicates either advanced drunkenness or a very old and disoriented driver.
I’ve also seen an enormous vehicle (such as an RV), parked across the width of 3 or 4 parking spots because they can’t find any single parking spot big enough for their vehicle. Annoying as that is, at least it makes some sort of sense.
The only real game of any sort that I play is World of Warcraft (my husband got me into it). Lately it has caused me to use rather unladylike language because let me tell you: trying to orient/move yourself underwater without drowning while simultaneously fighting a baddie can be quite frustrating. I play a dwarf for crying out loud, we like to keep our feet on the ground!
May 17th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
It might be silly to get totally intellectual about the difficulty of video games, but I was reading this article in the New Yorker about how some academician has written an book on how, because games and TV are so complex, humans are getting a lot more collateral cognitive work than they used to, and thus we’re smarter. I sure don’t feel smarter when I can’t figure out how to get around corners in racing games.
As for your blogroll increase, thanks for the link!! You’re totally welcome to the movie review thing with us, BTW.
May 17th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Two things:
1-I have seen plenty of people park like that. Usually they are people with new cars who are afraid af getting their car dinged by another car. I hate those people.
2-Thanks for the link, I’m going now to return the favor as I should have done long ago!
May 20th, 2005 at 5:09 am
1) LOL….I kept waiting for him to steeple his hands and say “exxxxcellent.” I have the first Clone Wars on DVD and I watched season 2 on the Star Wars® site, so I’m all set for Episode III tomorrow. You know Clone Wars is basically the screen crawl at the beginning of the third movie, for those who missed out? The rest of us got a little something extra.
2) Parking lot at my office is NOTORIOUS for this, though not as bad. Usually they’re JUST over the line enough to keep you from parking next to them.
3) Yeah, with recent changes in my own health and attitude the last few months, I’ve started to think I’m a solar battery as well…
4) That’s funny
5) Meepers comment makes a lot of sense. I think about the complexity of Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Mario and even Super Mario Brothers, and I realize those were entirely beatable without a walkthrough. There are scenarios in some Resident Evil games for example that you’d never in a million years realize, “oh, you have to push that bookcase aside to find the blue amulet that goes in the tigers eye in the hidden room on the other side of the house past those zombies and then find the red amulet in the art gallery but click the painting lights in an order that won’t wake up murderous crows.” Modern games are Very Different.
8) Um….Himself, in Free Enterprise. “I come not to praise Caeser….”