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This morning, I had my first topical final for the first time in two and a half years. In accordance with Murphy’s Laws, it happened to be a presentation. The good news: it could be any topic we wished (although, of course, it had to be the same topic as our last paper). The bad news: it had to be no more than five minutes long. My topic happened to be concealed carry on campus (surprise!), which can be an extremely extensive topic. I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped on either the paper or the speech, but both were due to length–the paper was too short (when the clock reached 6:15 and I had to get up at 7, I just said, “screw it.” That’s what I get for trying to have any sort of social life), and the presentation ran too long. Oh well. The instructor seemed to really like my writing, which is awesome. I may post the paper at some point, if anyone really wants to read the nine pages written by a college freshman.

Other than that, it’s been a rather good day. The other presentations showed that more of the other students in my class are more conservative than I could have hoped, and it’s been relatively relaxing since I got back to my dorm. I actually played World of Warcraft and got my character to the next level, 58, which happens to be the time when I can go into Outland. So that was pretty cool. Unfortunately, it all but wasted my entire day, but such is the nature of the game. Tomorrow afternoon is my Chemistry exam, on which I’ll hopefully do rather well (mostly to perhaps have an effect on my GPA, which in turn has a large effect on my acceptance into my college of choice. Not that I’ll not be accepted without a certain GPA, but 3.0 and above gains automatic acceptance.). The moral is: don’t have friends or any kind of fun, and especially don’t start a blog post at 1 am if you know you take forever to write anything.

Here’s the brain cell-killing video of the day: Charlie the Unicorn 2!!!!!111 Yes, someone was stupid and/or high enough to make a second, and I’m just stupid enough to enjoy it immensely. The first is far better, though.

True Lies came on TV sometime this weekend. Need I really say more?

A couple months ago, it came on TV and my mom and I were watching it and found it hilarious. She told one of our WoW friends about this scene, and the two of them started exchanging videos of strip scenes from famous movies (just to reinforce my mom’s insanity). He was playing Warcraft at the time, and it made him run his character into a lake (“stupid women stripping!”). For some reason, however, he didn’t like the Flashdance one (I would include a link, but I can’t seem to find a video of it… it’s that one with the chair and water thing, though).

I need to work on a presentation for my english final tomorrow morning, so this is all you get for now. Might try to throw something out here within the next few days, but we’ll see.

This is all you get, since I will most definitely not be able to post anything any later. So, here it is: a scene from the office (which I rarely watched until recently–though it’s growing on me) that we got to watch in psychology class to illustrate classical conditioning.

It was either that, or a Cake song and the Miss Teen South Carolina answer that I got to watch in english today to illustrate bad public speaking. I love those classes. See y’all later!

The epic time of the ninja movie died off long before I was old enough to be weaned off of Disney. So now I hear of Ninja Assassin (How can a name be so generic and awesome at the same time?), which will be coming out sometime after it’s made. They (The Wachowski brothers) promise it will be more Matrix and less Speed Racer (I still can’t believe anyone spent money on making that. No one under 45 has even seen the cartoon), and I will hold them to that, by golly. Since it’s being directed by the V for Vendetta guy, I’m holding on to some hope.

I swear, though, if these guys screw up the first ninja movie I’m actually looking forward to (forward to which I’m actually looking? It’s 1 am.), they just might have another ninja assassin to contend with (with which to contend. HA!). Too bad, though, it’s illegal to carry shurikens concealed in NC. That’ll stop a ninja. (insert eyeroll here)

Alright, I’ll try to be back tomorrow, though my week is getting real full.

I should really be working on my english paper that’s due thursday, but who cares?

So… the (somewhat) long-awaited Jackie Chan/Jet Li flick. Overall, it had a really predictable plot, but I really enjoyed it. A kid in [some American city that starts with a "B"]is transported to ancient China by a really pretty magic staff (I’m pretty sure it’s called a bong in tang soo do) that once belonged to this really annoying monkey king guy. So he starts on this quest with Jackie Chan and some girl who can kill people with hair pins to return the staff to the monkey king and defeat the evil warlord guy, and Jet Li comes in at some point with this really neat fight scene between him and Jackie. I’m sure you can guess the overall ending… at least if you watch it, since I’m somewhat bad at explaining things.

Some random thoughts that probably won’t entirely make sense:

• I’m thinking they figured that any funny, drunken character who can still fight awesomely would make a movie work, due to the success of Jack Sparrow. It hasn’t gotten old for me yet, though.
• You need a montage! I would really think they’d have learned since the 80’s.
• I think that kid (hah, kid. He’s two years older than me… though the character isn’t…) actually learned some martial arts for the film. I mean, maybe Jet & Jackie have a thing about being in a movie where the main character sucks at king fu, but I was still impressed.
• Speaking of which, he does a double front kick somewhere in the middle of the final fight scene (you know, after he was just beaten in a previous fight and pretty much unable to continue…) and those are hard.
• By which I mean difficult.
• Though I wouldn’t be surprised if that was done with wires, in which case I’m totally better.
• The fight scenes were pretty awesome, for the most part. Ones that didn’t make me so happy were
  • The ones early-on on the mountaintops with the uber-fake flying
  • Anytime that that lady started fighting with her hair
  • I just didn’t like the monkey king guy that much… too cheery. So, most of the fights with him had a bit too much of a silly taste for my liking.

Alright, since I need to go do at least something for my paper tonight, I’ll leave you now with a comment and a trailer. Personally, I ended up enjoying it quite a bit. I know it won’t end up being a huge hit or anything–it’s not getting nearly enough attention for that–but I would still highly recommend it for anyone to watch to hold them over until the big movies come out next month. Especially to people who know martial arts and can fully appreciate the pain of standing in a horse stance for long periods of time. Ouch.

It’s currently the last week of school, so all my teachers crammed in one last test while the university would still let them. Plus, there’s that little annoying matter that I’ve made a couple friends (I’m actually surprised I managed it this quickly…). Plus, there’s that protest all this coming week, and I’ve been doing tons of crap to prepare for that (I’m fairly certain of at least 8 people here wearing holsters… including me, but who cares?). Hopefully, posting will pick up again in the summer (after finals, the IPSC match that I’ll be shooting, and the gun show to which I’ll try my best to go). Until then, it will be light, though not nonexistant. May even throw a movie review up here–and this time, I saw it in a theater! So, two videos today to try to make up for not making sure y’all knew I’d be gone again over the weekend (though you really should get it by now). First, a satire (though just barely) of gun-usage in movies. Beware, it’s pretty painful, though the hilarity more than makes up for it.

Second is one of my most favorite songs ever. It came on the radio while I was driving home from my office-cleaning job, and I was reminded of it. That tends to happen a lot. It’s just such an intensely sad, beautiful song.

Umm… you really don’t need to watch the video, which uses Halo 3 visuals. Heck, I’m not even watching it. I couldn’t embed the actual video, so this is what you get. Enjoy!

You would think that, ever since that whole Titanic thing, people would have realized that God has a pretty goddamned cruel sense of humor. But no, the uncrashable car is now being developed. First of all, so long as there are cars there will always be car crashes. It’s common sense: there is no gurantee against stupidity or mistakes. The entire concept is ridiculous. Second, this here car tries to solve the first problem by taking control out of the hands of the human and into the car itself–a robot, essentially. Now… I, for one, don’t trust robots. And no, it’s not because I’ve seen I, Robot and Doctor Who too much (I totally don’t watch Doctor Who at all…). No, the reason that I don’t like robots is because they are computer/electric-powered machines. Computers have a tendency to die after only a few years, and I wouldn’t want to have to pay for a whole new car that often. Also, I know from experience that anything electric has a tendency to fail sooner than, say, mechanical systems. Take my car(s), for example. The 300D has electric windows and sunroof. For a long while, three of the four windows would roll back up, and the sunroof stopped working altogether once the turn signals started up again. The 240D, on the other hand (and 3 years older), has those annoying roll-up windows and an electric sunroof. Not a single one of the windows has ever caused a problem, though I’ve never used the sunroof because the previous owner said it was broken.

My parents are both mechanical engineers–so sue me. The point is, robots should never be trusted. Ever.

They shouldn’t feel bad, though. I don’t really trust humans that much either.

So, for today’s video, the credit music from I, Robot! Just kidding, but here’s a YouTube video featuring it in case you feel like listening to it.

Naw, today’s video will be a YouTubeified version of that old flash video about a rabbit falling in love with a cat. Why, you ask? Because it’s Korean. Yeah.

Alright, I know Myspace is real old and everyone’s already seen this a few hundred times, but I’m just keeping with the short-film feel from the last post. Next will probably just be a music video of some sort or another–we’ll see. Alright, you’ve probably guessed by now that this is MySpace: The Movie, so here it is:

Alright, it’s the last two weeks of school, and I have many, many things to do with class and a certain organization, so expect the posting to be light, but still existent. With all the Obama stuff going on lately, I found this on RWN (the first blog I ever found, actually), and found it too sadly true to not be hilarious (according to Stranger in a Strange Land, laughter is a defense mechanism against bad feelings. I agree to an extent, but most certainly not in all cases of laughter. I did like some things in that book–I think I was just unprepared for the revelation of the premise).

As for videos, I just feel that I should give some form of entertainment in replacement for the lack of intelligent thought going on around here lately. So, as a starter (as I will likely be posting some video or another more often), here’s a 15-minute video that I found extremely funny… especially the very end. Why asian guys can’t get white girls:

The irony is that I love this video so much and try to share it with everyone I know, yet my first boyfriend was not only asian, but also broke up with me for another white girl. That’s what happens when people make really funny videos, I guess.

Last summer, when my sister and her group were starting to have me hang out with them (I guess since they noticed I didn’t have any friends), they introduced me to a fun sort of game-thing. It’s called Geocacheing, and what you do is get a hand-held GPS, get coordinates from this website of “caches” that people have hidden (they can be anything from film containters to mini-M&M things to pill boxes–anything watertight), and find them. Is there a prize? No, not unless the person who hid it wants to stick little trinkets in the cache for people to take–or if other finders decide to put their own signature in it when they find it (stop me if I start not making sense). But that’s not the point, is it? No, the fun lies in the search and the reward is that you find something and get to tell others that you found it. Granted, we haven’t found that many–mostly since we all usually have other stuff to do–but I’ve really enjoyed it when we’ve gone cacheing. Searching for something that only a few really know about (those who don’t are deemed to be “muggles”) is just the kind of stuff I enjoy. I loved scavenger hunts when I was a kid and since this is pretty much the same thing with a GPS (and the B.I.L.T.B.’s nerd-phone with internet so that he can read the hints and other logs while we’re hunting), I love this as well.

So, that’s just a fun activity if you ever find yourself bored and with a GPS nearby. It must be done in secret, though. Of course, “secret” is a relative term here, since walking around a particular spot looking around and behind everything (trees, guard rails, fences, lamp posts, etc.) is a pretty conspicuous task in and of itself.