Friday, September 24, 2004

Three comments? Just three?

Shin- How efficient. I wish I was a bastard child of science, too. :(

Aleia- I smell a new craze.

Godel- I don't remember what exactly she said. I'm lame like that.

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I played DDR for the first time in forever yesterday. When we were waiting for Sky Captain to start, we wasted a few dollars in the in-theater arcade. My dad did that gatling gun game, my brother and good friend played Virtua Cop (They say it's really, really awesome), and I predictably drifted toward the MAX2.

And, predictably, I did horribly. I don't know what my problem is with arcade DDR. I do amazeringly at home, and yet when I get in the arcade, I start overstepping things. It's crazy.. I'm beginning to think that the arrows being a tad deeper than the rest of the stage could lead to some problems, but that doesn't make too much sense. I'm just glad nobody was watching.

So I decided to pull out my home pad and practice a bit when we got home. When you consider how long it has been since I've had a real "session," I did amazingly well. I broke records on almost all the songs I played, with little breaks made up of AIM conversation inbetween.

And my pad developed a rip. Out of nowhere, there's this cut along the down arrow, and it strangely matches the pattern on the pad. I'm rather worried, so I haven't played it today. Fixing it with duct tape would look really, really lame, and I'm not about to spend seventy bucks on another good pad, so who knows what will happen next in my amazingly interesting and post-worthy DDR legacy?

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My science teacher ended up vaguely answering my question today, with a satellite picture of a galaxy far above another galaxy. Not as thought-provoking as I had hoped, but more unanswerable questions came up throughout the lesson. The one I remember most vividly right now is about how black holes supposedly absorb and use the devoured stars' gravity. It was also said that there are no black holes anywhere near our solar system, but.. If one were to eventually gather enough gravity, the distance wouldn't really matter as much. Considering that I'm only in eighth grade, being taught basic astronomy, and there are so many college folk out there, I'm sure there's something I'm missing. Let's move on.

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I've been using headphones on my computer a lot recently. Normally I just listen to my tunes via lame pre-packaged Polk Audio speakers, but ever since my brother started playing The Sims with the volume pretty high up on the desk next to this one, I decided to harness the amazing power of those Bose headphones my dad won in a raffle a while ago. Nobody but me ever uses them, anyway, and their over-ear design really helps in drowning out Sims music. On the downside, of course, I can't hear anything else going on around me, which has led to a lot of yelling. Oh well. *rocks out to music on a brightly colored background, ala the iPod commercials*

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Weekend. Woot. I'm doing nothing. Woot squared. I'm sort of looking forward to just laying around the entire time- I twisted both my ankles earlier this week and all the running we have been doing has not been good for it (Complain to the teacher? No, no, no). I would like to get some drawing done tonight, and some Half-Life playing tomorrow. As for Sunday, that will be left up to fate.

Teh SillyCircus Day 40- It's only six and I want to go to sleep.
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