Monday, August 30, 2004

I don't care what you say. Ernest Goes to Africa is a modern classic.
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Shin- Butch's adventures bored me, and Uma's performance was remarkably appealing.

DDG- See, this is where it gets good. Shin wants to see what people end up talking about when they start running out of things to say. I sort of see it like a scientific study where people study the behavior of animals in dire circumstances.

But maybe I'm reading into it a bit much.

Mimmi- For me, ten minutes is overstaying.

Godel- Yes, so could I, but there are so many other things to go on about, and so little time to do it all in.

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I surprised myself today when I willingly got out of bed- fully energized, mind you- at 9:15 AM. I later decided this was because I had a reason to get out of bed, and that reason was Pikmin 2.

After getting dressed and checking on a few sites, I woke up my brother and forced my mom to drive us to the mall at 10:15. I rushed over quite quickly to Gamestop, and found the guy at the desk saying that the game shipped today, but won't be on the shelves until tomorrow.

In retrospect, I really should have seen it coming, considering it has happened to me so many times before, but it's been a while since the last incident. I still reserved Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metroid Prime 2, with five dollar deposits on each, so the trip wasn't an entire loss.

My brother ended up playing the original Pikmin when we got home, and I was forced to help him get the pieces. It's sort of funny how I was directing his every little movement, as if he had no free will- it was like I was Olimar and he was a Pikmin. Ironic, wouldn't you say?

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CRH totally schooled me last night in our first round of the Literati tournament. The scores were pretty back and forth.. For about two turns. After that he was totally dominating, and he ended up winning by a good ninety points.

Fortunately, it's two out of three, so I still have a chance to win. It's small, but it's there. :P

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I really didn't have that much to do today, so I continued my little research project about concocting a home-built computer. I browsed Xoxide.com for a while, and I put together a little chart comparing the several cases that I'm interested in. I think that it has come down to the Raidmax Samurai and the Logisys Phantom II, but there are still a few cases that just might win me over.

Of course, this is the easy part. Selecting hardware is where it gets tricky, especially when you consider that I'm basically doing this unaided except for occasional conversations with a couple people online, and that all of our previous computers have been pre-made by companies like Hewlett Packard and Acer.

But I won't ramble on about this; I'm sure it's not that interesting.

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I now close this post with a list of summer movies that I want to see.

- Hero
- Garden State
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Collateral
- That one movie where the guy's girlfriend goes missing and he ends up staying with his stalker neighbor
- That other movie where the woman remembers having a kid but everybody says she doesn't and there's something about government censorship

I really would go see a lot more movies if I had the time and ability (No, Mr. Ticket Stub guy, I don't have a valid form of identification).

Teh SillyCircus Day 15- Thank God I got this up before midnight.
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