And everyone who supports him is a moron.
You know, based on anecdotal evidence.
Actually, it’s possible I just wanted to use that title to see what would happen.
He is an idiot though. And I’d like to believe anyone smart enough to breathe wouldn’t follow him. But, you know, some people are just afraid of reality and like to pretend that history never happened and such.
So I just beat Assassin’s Creed, and I must say I loved it. Although the “ending” kind of sucks. I also never found the combat boring, so I can only suspect that people that did must have been doing it wrong or something.
I think I’ll put the rest of my thoughts in a Picasso strip.
I don’t really understand why, but I am single again. I just wish I recover from the shock of it before the rest of the world.
My work lately consists of what I would call “eternal reading.” I break it up with video games every few hours to prevent myself from reaching critical brain-drain mass, but it’s still a ton of reading. Speaking of which, I finally beat Radiant Dawn yesterday. That game is long.
Anyway, back to reading. I can’t really update much here when my life is all about books for the next few months, although I suppose I could write about how Heath Ledger just died. That’d be neat, right? Instead, I’m going to do two things.
1) I’ve approved my friend Hannah to post a feature, and I’ll be finishing up the administrative aspect of getting that working tonight. She actually emailed this to me last week, before I went to the mountains. (holy crap, we left a week ago today? :-O)
2) I’m going to post some quotes from the books. Some of these I’ve mentioned elsewhere already, and I won’t repeat them, so for today here’s a previously-unreleased quote from The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton.
A favorite object was cats — cats tied up in bags, cats suspended from ropes, or cats burned at the stake. Parisians liked to incinerate cats by the sackful, while the Courimauds of Saint Chamond preferred to chase a flaming cat through the streets. In parts of Burgundy and Lorraine they danced around a kind of burning May pole with a cat tied to it. In the Metz region they burned a dozen cats at a time in a basket on top of a bonfire…Although the practice varied from place to place, the ingredients were everywhere the same: a bonfire, cats, and an aura of hilarious witch-hunting.
So there you have it. France.
Travis and I are working on getting some digital copies of the pictures taken of us snow tubing this weekend. It was a pretty awesome vacation.
Other awesome things that happened this weekend that I couldn’t watch in real time because I was on top of a Panther’s Knob:
The aftermath.
The second man to ever have bling in two weight classes.
You know you’ve hit a certain point in your educational career when you’ve progressed beyond survey texts, beyond monographs, beyond theoretical studies, and into the point where there are no longer any books written on your subject.
My thesis is almost entirely primary sources for its main arguments.
We have snow! And it’s actually sticking to the ground!
No acceptance letters received. :(
No rejection letters received. :)
I’m ass-deep in my orals reading already. I’m shooting for five books a week, and I’ve already done two. I should have enough done before we leave for the mountains on Friday. Long weekend!
I have a meeting on Thursday with Jake (I cannot get used to calling him that) to discuss my thesis as well. I appear to be in good shape for tacking the “MA” after my name, at least.
I still quiver with barely contained anxiety about where I’m going to be forging that “Dr.” to go in front, though.
Sweeney Todd is the first movie I’ve seen twice in theatres since Snakes on a Plane. Laura and I saw it last night (although two days ago by this time stamp) in Athens. It’s really that good. In fact, I think it’s Tim Burton’s best movie.
It was weird though, since none of my Y-chromosome deficient female family members enjoyed it, and even when going to see it the first time I was completely dubious. For one, I despise musicals. Hate them. Most of them are just garbage. And then there’s the fact that while half of Tim Burton’s movies are brilliant, half of them are just really well designed garbage. It’s impossible to know which one you’re about to get. Add in the depressingly bad version Kennesaw put on a few years back when I was still there (granted: I only caught bits of rehearsals) and I was completely unsure as to which way the movie would go.
But it’s bloody brilliant. It’s been out for weeks now. Go see it if you haven’t.
This post brought to you by the fact that I’m so pathetic I actually have the soundtrack now.
I’m back to working on school work (my orals reading and German for Reading) and it’s a great feeling. Also hacking my way through the new Fire Emblem and still playing Forza 2. I’ve beaten Mass Effect twice since Christmas, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. My studies commence.
Random factoid of this journal post: Someone on Ars posted a thread about installing all of their PC games at the same time, all the way back to early DOS text-only adventures that originally came on 5.25″ floppies. This inspired me to do something similar, and count up just how many games I could play right now on my consoles without hooking up anything to the TV that is not already attached. I excluded my PC games because I hardly ever keep any installed, so they would only add three or four to this number. I also excluded my GameBoy or GameBoy Advance since, although I wouldn’t have to attach anything to the TV, they are obviously put away and not ‘in use’ regularly, leaving my DS as the only handheld represented. It’s possible that these numbers might be off by one or so, but I think they’re entirely accurate.
Microsoft Xbox 360: 71
Nintendo DS: 12
Nintendo GameBoy Advance:2 16
Nintendo GameCube:3 254
Nintendo Wii: 65
Sony PlayStation:6 22
Sony PlayStation 2: 27
Total: 115
So there you go.
1 This number does not include any Xbox Live Arcade titles.
2 Through Nintendo DS backward compatibility.
3 Through Nintendo Wii backward compatibility.
4 This number counts game collections as one title, otherwise this would rise to 35.
5 This number does not include any Virtual Console titles.
6 Through Sony PlayStation backward compatibility.
