It's been a long time. And this is probably going to be a dorky one, so get ready for that.

So I'm taking a film theory class and it's semi-interesting. I keep reminding myself in the class that it doesn't help me too much because my whole purpose for taking film classes is to apply what I learn to game development. Which isn't all that true anymore ( Read more... )

So I just played the game Braid, which is an Xbox Live Arcade game. It's only $15 and these games are usually just mindless fun. But this game was so amazingly well done and so thought provoking that I've been reading interpretations online all day. The best so far is from a blog called Feministe, which usually doesn't talk about video games too ( Read more... )

So I guess I should post stuff. Been a while. I'm so used to thinking of this as my place to post stuff about traveling places, but I haven't gone anywhere. Well, I did go to Las Vegas. And it was pretty cool. I rode on this ride on top of the tallest building west of the Mississippi (The Stratosphere) that swung me over the side so I could see the ( Read more... )

So there's a really interesting article in the New York Times talking about how people feel overwhelmed with contradicting advice on how to 'be more green.' I don't know a single person who hasn't had this happen. Things like recycle glass or not? It costs a ton to transport the heavy material and it takes energy to recycle it. Or the whole nalgene ( Read more... )

I knew coming back to the U.S. was going to be weird and probably a bit hard, but it's harder than I imagined. It's not really a bad thing. I'm just constantly aware of what makes this America rather than anything else. And I'm totally not going to do the "welllll, in Europe everything is better," because that's totally not true. Some things are ( Read more... )

If you haven't already heard, California affirmed the right for gay marriage. So now California and Massachusetts are the only states allowing gay marriage. Two is twice as good as one, right? Anyway, it's a really good thing. It's bound to be a huge topic for the presidential election. I'm sort of excited to see what they say, but I'm also a ( Read more... )

Okay, so this was really dorky and fun. I was listening to these Dubliners, a man and woman, talking about Ulysses and I decided to write poems using only parts of what they say. Fun, right? I really like how the Irish use the word like.

#3 The woman

Needs, kind of, a woman, like
goes with, like, companionship
kind of

Sort of a Jane Austin
Idea
More ( Read more... )

So I have plane tickets for London near the end of May. Hostels? Hotels? Nope. I'm trying this new fangled couchsurfing. It's free and I'm sure I'll meet some pretty crazy people. Mostly I'm doing it because it's free and I have about.... -1millioneuro. Which is so much worse in dollars let's not even talk about it. But I'm pretty excited to do it ( Read more... )

It's pretty much official at this point. Grand Theft Auto IV is now the highest rated game of all time. Right there above my favorite, which has held that spot for a decade. Maybe it's a nostalgic thing, but better than Ocarina of Time? Better than Portal, Half-life and Bioshock? Better than every game ever made? I sincerely doubt it. Unless ( Read more... )

Oh, it's real late in the morning. Sentences like that are fun. My flatmates all go on a trip to Amsterdam tomorrow and I pretend to write a really long paper on Ulysses worth 100% of my grade. Should be fun. They'll be gone for about five days. I haven't spent a single day in Ireland completely by myself. Five will probably be interesting ( Read more... )