Okay, I guess I'll have rants in this little box here too from time to time.
I was looking for a book report on shakespeare--I mean, I was "researching" on of shakespeare's plays on the internet one time, a while ago. And I came across this really awesome comment in a forum:
"Shakespeare created his plays to entertain, not to ponder."
I was like...Wow. That's so true. So I got to thinking...Sure Shakespeare wrote good plays, with good examples of...Whatever the hell they're teaching me in english. But I think it's pretty stupid to have to answer questions like "What was Romeo's 'hidden' thought in this paragraph", or "Why does Juliet whisper a lot in this chapter?"
Typical answer: I DON'T KNOW, AND I DON'T CARE.
And I don't think Shakespeare wanted you to care either.
Well, yeah, he did, but he didn't expect it to become the basis of english in every freakin' school in over 30 english speaking countries. Well, sure, if he was still alive he'd be thrilled. Imagine you wrote some physics engine, and compressed it to four lines of code...Wouldn't it be awesome if it was used in every C++ speaking school?
k, here, let's compare Shakespeare's plays, to Halflife 2:
Shakespeare's plays: They entertain right? Blood flowing in the streets, people being called wretched cows...Yeah, the makings of a good play/movie.
HL2: Damn good game. Fun. Violent. Incredible graphics. Incredible-er physics engine.
Well, in the future, people are going to be dissecting the HL2 engine, and teaching it to the uber-blessed kids of the future.
The same goes for shakespeare's stuff. People thought his plays were damn good. And so, in the future, they disected his plays, and taught the kids of the future techinques and stuff with it.
Right now, there's not many people out there who care how HL2 was coded. I only know like 4 people (myself included) who are actualy like "Holy fuck! How would you program it to do that, and yet, run so smoothly?!"
Everyone else is like "Wow, cool graphics. Fun game. w00t I blew something up!"
I'm not saying that's bad or anything. It means they're enjoying the game, and that's what it was designed to do. Just like Shakespeare's plays.
k, now get this. The physics engine is four lines of code. FOUR FUCKING LINES OF CODE. FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD'S PHYSICS.
"So what. Shakespear has seven hundred and thirty five different pronouns in one of his plays".
Few people care that the physics engine of HL2 is four lines of code.
Few people care that Shakespeare has a billion hidden reasons in one little paragraph of conversation.
They're both entertaining, and they do their job well. (HL2 anyway. Shakespeare isn't all that interesting to a 14 year old boy.)
k, so the point of this:
HALF LIFE 2 FUCKING PWNS SHAKESPEARE.
And the scripts for hl2 is more interesting as well.
Okay, since you sat through all that, I guess I'll let you have a...STUPID STORY FROM THE BEYOND!...aka a book my little brother got for Christmas.
Police in San Antonio, Texas, caught Terry Allen in the act of removing burglar bars from the window of a beauty saloon. --I mean salon. (That's not in there, but I couldn't help it XD)
Allen was charged with attempted burglary, but he insisted he was guilty on ly of the lesser charge of theft. He claimed he wasn't trying to break into the beauty salon. He was trying to steal the bars so he could put them on his own windows -- to pretect himself from burglars.
Wow, that guy was smart. Pleading guilty to the LESSER charge of theft.
How the hell did he get in the world's dumbest crooks book? |
Alrighty guys! I'd like to dedicate this entry to my computer. I know we've shared some harsh words and stuff. Most of it was your fault. But I just want you to know I forgive you. Here, I got you 3ds7. Happy now? Good. =)
Yep, me and my computer love each other. Now, check you go check out this entry, and I'll go check out your mom, okay? Okay. Now let's see, what's been happening lately.
OMG, FRIGIN' UBER LEETO. My friend showed me it, 'cause , you know, I love listening to talk radio, especialy with ranting/funnyness.
Anyway, I'm writing like the talks in uberleeto.
Go to uberleeto.com
Basicaly the guy opens the show with a song, then starts his broadcast, then ends on the same song. Some of the shows are long and boring, but still, some of them are worth a listen. If the show is over 40 minutes, I don't sugest you listen to it, 'cause it'll probably be long and drawn out.
Anyways.
On friday, me and Matt went to playdium to play DDR. There's a group of "crazy asians" and Matt calls them. They're gathered around the machine every friday that we go there, and OMG, Deanna's online! OMFG, FUCKING COMPUTER! DON'T CRASH ON ME! ARG! FUCKING YOU COMPUTER! I GAVE YOU 3DS AND EVERYTHING! AGGGH!
...Okay. Just had to restart BlackBox. *phew*
Okay, so this is going to go like 2x slower because now I'm talking to Mike and Deanna. I'm not bad at math! it's 2x slower instead of 3x slower because I can just ignore Mike XD
OKAY, back on topic.
Friday night.
Back when my computer hated me.
Because I didn't give it 3ds.
Me and Matt went to the Playdium (an acarde in Toronto) and the Crazy Asians were there again. (Deemed "Crazy Asians" because they're good at DDR...One guy memorized Japan...While facing backwards. Another guy can get AA on almost ANY song. This other guy can do this one song on his knees....Yeah....Stupid 4 year vetrans...)
Anyway, one of the girls was babysitting two kids or something, and they were going up to everyone around the DDR machine asking if someone had a 20 dollar card (You have a credit-card-like card that you swipe in the machine instead of using loonies...Canadian $1 currency...And yes, it does exist. And so does the toonie. ($2 coin) and we have no $1 bills...(Just incase you didn't know XD)) and aparently if you have one, you can get a free piece of pizza at the bar or something. So the kid kept bugging Matt, and he's finally like "Here, I'll just buy you one -_-" So he bought the kid one. Then the kid and Matt get back, and the girl is like "woah, are you loaded or something?" "No, it's just a 2 dollar pizza...Want one too?" so yeah, he bought one for her. And after that we were kind of in their little circle of DDRers...
Blah, I'm the worst out of everyone there. And I have no stamina XD
I fucking have a heart attack half way through rythem and police -_-
So anyway, we plan to go there every friday.
Speaking of stamina, heart attacks, seizures, etc, I've thrown up in my mouth TWICE in the past two days while playing DDR. The first time it came out my nose too. I'm like "O.O Holy fuck...This is awesome!" It means I've
a) Pushed my body to the limit. (I love doing that...You like, start to lose focus on a song, and begin to black-out, or your leg starts spazing, or you throw up XD)
or b) I shouldn't be jumping so much after eating.
The first time I KNOW it's not 'cause of my food, 'cause I hadn't eaten in like 5 hours. So I'm proud of myself! ^_^
I don't know about the second one though.
Fuckin' barf...Burns your nose.
Hmm, I'm wondering. Is it because of stuff like this (throwing up) that people don't leave comments on my long entries? I mean, look at this. 11 comments on a 7 line entry. 0 comments for the 10 thousand line entry right above it.
Oh wait, actualy, yeah, there's a comment there from "emoisafad". It's not really related to the entry, but it brings up an idea...Which I don't want to explain right now, as I think it's a dumb idea. I was thinking (due to the mass amount of ranting radio I've been listening to to catch up to the current episode of uber leeto) I would do a once-a-week, maybe just bi-monthly, "radio" type thing. Basicaly I look up random news, and rant about that. However, I'll end up being too lazy to look up news, so I'll just rant about what's happening in my life, which is what I already do, so yeah. Stupid idea.
k, let's talk about my convo with Deanna.
She's babysitting...uhh...Three kids I think.
Simone
Daniel
James
There might be others locked up in the closet though, so I don't really know. Anyway, whenever Deanna leaves the room to make James toast, or something, Simone and/or Daniel come on, and start asking me questions.
Today's question..."Who is Emily?! Are you cheating on Deanna?!"
"No. She's some girl from my online school who I've met like 3 times, and it was her birthday." (Refering to when I had "Happy birthday Em" in my name)
So they kept accusing me of stuff, then "Uh-oh, Deanna's coming back."
She comes back, and reads through the convo.
"I didn't tell them to say that :P"
"Uh-hu, suuuuure. XD"
"Really! I didn't! You don't believe me?!"
"lol, yeah, I believe you."
"So you actually thought that i would want to know if you had another g/f?"
"lol, no."
"Okay. 'Cause I wouldn't."
*shrugs* If you knew her, you'd find that funny.
Here, read part of Simone's (The little girl she's babysitting) book report (It's from a book called "a loser", so yeah):
"Zinkoff wanted to be friendly with Andrew so he made him a huge snicker-doodle cookie, but when he gave it to him Zinkoff dropped it and Andrew cried. That was the end of the friendship with Andrew."
rofl, I couldn't stop laughing at that. Simone is now cool in my book.
k, how else can I elongate this entry...
Oh! Hotmail!
One of the ads on Hotmail attempts to instal -- or run, or something, whatever -- the applicatoin "Double click". Spybot S&D tells me that is a bad application.
Microsoft had better not become like AOL, with their stupid effin' cookie from AIM. 'cause Microsoft is cool. I like Microsoft. And AOL sucks. I hate it. AOL can go die...Except for the fact that Krizel is currently living her online life off of free AOL dialup cds. Poor Krizel. Stupid Krizel's aunt for not buying real internet. *glares*
All righty. One last thing. Me and Matt are going to meet Val tomorow! w00t! 10:45 we're going to meet...Oh crap, I don't even know WHERE we're going to meet. Gotta go set that up -_-
Anyway, the point is, we're meeting Val again, and she's going to make cookies! w00t!
Basicaly all we really have planned is playing DDR, and handing out Cookies to hobos all day.
k, things to comment on for this entry (In no particular order):
-Throwing up wihle playing DDR
-DDR every friday
-My Shakespeare vs HL2
-How much me and my computer love each other
-stfu with the random Deanna comments
-Me checking out your mom, since you checked out this entry
-11 Comments for a 7 line entry, but 0(1) for a long entry
-Hotmail having double click
-How much I think *nix sucks, and you should go back to windows. (jk)
-Meeting Val
...I think that's it.
but actually he surprised me and showed up!
and brought me a cupcake haha
But its only a month.
I'm sure he'll forget about important things over time.
...like next week haha
love!,
Love,
Manda
I think he's got a little while until I'll start getting mad at him for this stuff.
Right now we're doing alright though haha
love!,
~Ja
SOPO
~Ja.
I threw up through my nose once. That was odd, and sick. It was all...rawr. =O I'm in your friends list. ^_^ Aw.
You remind me of my friend Ross. Yep. I might have said that before, but he loves to rant on and on.
DDR..I hate that game. Probably just because i really suck at it. Yep. Well I'll talk to you another day.
-Alanna
lol. Thanks for making me smile.
wait till u study about macbeth!
hahahahaha
sorry bout that..i ran out of space -_-
And the only reason Rob will ever go out is when i want him too or, when he goes
♥
~Amanda-chan
wooo, but saved by the bell
is such an awesome show.
haha. :)
♥