Stinky Flowers
Up around campus about half the trees up here bloom these white flowers. They stink horribly. Seems like I’m the only one who notices. Every whiff of these things almost induces this gag reflex yet everyone around me doesn’t seem to notice one bit.
Watchmen Movie
I saw it. Don’t take kids. As I was leaving the movie I look over and see these two kids and was sort of shocked. There’s several different ways you can go into this movie:
- Novel reader. You know what it’s about. You will like this movie if you liked the novel
- Non novel reader/expect this to be like X-Men or something. You will hate this movie. You will be confused and angry. You will do something dumb like take your kids to an R rated movie with very graphic violence and hot steamy airship sex scenes. Incidentally, you’re a horrible person for not doing some research beforehand.
- Non novel reader/no expectations: You will probably like this movie because it’s somewhat fresh and new apart from your regular super hero movies.
Overall, after watching it, I felt the same after I read the book. It was neither great nor terrible. It was entertaining and worth experiencing but somewhat depressing.
Weather
The weather has been so great lately except the occasional windy day. Every time I’m outside I want to ignore anything I have to do indoors and do something. My brain sort of seizes up when I have to determine what “something” actually amounts to though.
A lot
It is two words. Stop thinking that it is one.
Ubiquity
I have failed in any attempt to use it. It seems so great yet almost paradoxical. You want to make it easy to combine elements of the web and mash them together, yet the way to use it seems to require some semblance of moderate to advanced computer knowledge.
Street Fighter 4
I played it heavily for a week. I did a very horrible thing though. In my process of unlocking all the characters, I set rounds for 1 and difficulty to easiest. So when I went back to trying to play online, I was thrown off guard by opponents who played more intelligently than a rock. I was discouraged and took a week off to let my friends unlock stuff and get more practice time in. I myself haven’t been seen online in SF4 in a while. This is disappointing and I should actually start playing again soon. Probably over Spring Break.
Rock Band
In early to mid February I had probably hit the peak of my drumming ability. I was breaking through songs I had massive difficulty with such as Don’t Fear The Reaper on expert. Then I sort of stopped playing and when I picked it back up, I had lost it. It’s crazy that such discipline is required for this game to basically stay in shape mentally and physically and yet so interesting to me.
Working Out
Speaking of staying in shape. I bought a pull up bar. I very faithfully used it every other day all of February. It’s laughable how poor my level of strength was as I just bought it and rewarding to see how far I’ve come in just a month. However, I took a week off and am starting it all up again. I think I’m going to try working it in every single day now and seeing how that goes. Against previous attempts to start working out, I’m going to do this gradually and see how it pans out.
