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progYou and I should go bowling sometime.
Here is a bunch of crud I wrote about last weekend. I "need" to post it before it gets too old.
Still coming down from the most social weekend I've had in recent memory. (Today [ed. note: Monday] was actually an extension of Sunday, for various reasons.) Friday night I went to Party #1. Had a good time. Thought that Magic Hat Ravell porter tastes like beery Moxie (but according to its website I was actually tasting vanilla beans). Discovered that I'm not really able to just keep drinking beers, even if the thought crosses my mind; lose all motivation for further consumption after two. I'll call it a feature.
Lots of people in the room, when questioned, said that they liked Moxie. I think this may be a real litmus test for membership between my different social circles. (YT not included.) Saw some Circle-N people I hadn't seen in quite a while. (Circle-N is probably the only social circle I still name by letter, since it hasn't gotten around to giving itself a name I can use. Maybe it is antisocial at its core.
Someone made a brilliant Frank-o-Lantern (a la Donnie Darko). Sad that I either don't have a working camera, or I don't carry the camera I have around with me. (It's probably inevitable that I'll soon purchase a phone with a camera in it, especially since I've been told about how easy it apparently is to instantly -- literally instantly, through yon cellular waves -- send said images to a blog.)
Saturday had Party #2, which unfortunately I couldn't enjoy for as long as I'd have liked; two friends had come from far-away lands to see "Tamala 2010", a bizarre anime film playing this week at the Brattle. We had planned this excursion many weeks ago, before I started thinking about probably date conflicts, and it was the only night we could all see it. So, I took them to the party with me, and it came to pass that the evening was jam-packed, and it was a tasty jam enjoyed by all.
I suppose I enjoyed the film, but I can't really recommend it. It's disjointed and nonlinear, and while it does manage to fall pleasingly into place at key points, it also has some flaws, most notably by two very long info-dumps towards the end. "The Matrix Reloaded" got dinged for containing the same sort of stuff, but at least it was, if nothing else, a (noisy and expensive) treatise on the first movie in that series; if, on the other hand, half the content in your sole existing chunk of story is delivered through monologues or talking heads, then you have some severe storytelling problems. Specifically, it implies that you lacked the talent or resources to actually illustrate your story, and instead just dictated it to the audience.
Also there were some BadGeeks in the balcony, who were laughing uproariously at small things, early on. Their laugh was of such a quality that you just knew these were fans of some variety, perhaps unused to seeing movies like this outside of their homes, or at conventions. But after a little while they were chastized by one of my fellow annoyed persons, thus:
Movie: [minor humorous stimulus]
Socially inept people: [real laughter] OH HO HO HO HO!!
Annoyed person: [Fake laughter] BWA HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!
Socially inept person: Well... you don't get it.
But they were mostly well-behaved after that.
Haven't worked on Volity in quite a while because I only really get cranking on it during the weekends, and haven't had a weekend all to myself in a while. Poor ol' me, yes indeed. Looking forward to Saturday. What's happening on Saturday? Nothing.
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rserocki just AIMed me with this message: "The eye from Exidy's crossbow laughs at a movie but an annoyed person shoots it."
Here is a bunch of crud I wrote about last weekend. I "need" to post it before it gets too old.
Still coming down from the most social weekend I've had in recent memory. (Today [ed. note: Monday] was actually an extension of Sunday, for various reasons.) Friday night I went to Party #1. Had a good time. Thought that Magic Hat Ravell porter tastes like beery Moxie (but according to its website I was actually tasting vanilla beans). Discovered that I'm not really able to just keep drinking beers, even if the thought crosses my mind; lose all motivation for further consumption after two. I'll call it a feature.
Lots of people in the room, when questioned, said that they liked Moxie. I think this may be a real litmus test for membership between my different social circles. (YT not included.) Saw some Circle-N people I hadn't seen in quite a while. (Circle-N is probably the only social circle I still name by letter, since it hasn't gotten around to giving itself a name I can use. Maybe it is antisocial at its core.
Someone made a brilliant Frank-o-Lantern (a la Donnie Darko). Sad that I either don't have a working camera, or I don't carry the camera I have around with me. (It's probably inevitable that I'll soon purchase a phone with a camera in it, especially since I've been told about how easy it apparently is to instantly -- literally instantly, through yon cellular waves -- send said images to a blog.)
Saturday had Party #2, which unfortunately I couldn't enjoy for as long as I'd have liked; two friends had come from far-away lands to see "Tamala 2010", a bizarre anime film playing this week at the Brattle. We had planned this excursion many weeks ago, before I started thinking about probably date conflicts, and it was the only night we could all see it. So, I took them to the party with me, and it came to pass that the evening was jam-packed, and it was a tasty jam enjoyed by all.
I suppose I enjoyed the film, but I can't really recommend it. It's disjointed and nonlinear, and while it does manage to fall pleasingly into place at key points, it also has some flaws, most notably by two very long info-dumps towards the end. "The Matrix Reloaded" got dinged for containing the same sort of stuff, but at least it was, if nothing else, a (noisy and expensive) treatise on the first movie in that series; if, on the other hand, half the content in your sole existing chunk of story is delivered through monologues or talking heads, then you have some severe storytelling problems. Specifically, it implies that you lacked the talent or resources to actually illustrate your story, and instead just dictated it to the audience.
Also there were some BadGeeks in the balcony, who were laughing uproariously at small things, early on. Their laugh was of such a quality that you just knew these were fans of some variety, perhaps unused to seeing movies like this outside of their homes, or at conventions. But after a little while they were chastized by one of my fellow annoyed persons, thus:
Movie: [minor humorous stimulus]
Socially inept people: [real laughter] OH HO HO HO HO!!
Annoyed person: [Fake laughter] BWA HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!
Socially inept person: Well... you don't get it.
But they were mostly well-behaved after that.
Haven't worked on Volity in quite a while because I only really get cranking on it during the weekends, and haven't had a weekend all to myself in a while. Poor ol' me, yes indeed. Looking forward to Saturday. What's happening on Saturday? Nothing.
rserocki just AIMed me with this message: "The eye from Exidy's crossbow laughs at a movie but an annoyed person shoots it."