Wednesday, November 3, 2004

I could have done that.

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Shin- Ugh, basketball.. Another sport I'm useless in.

Mal- Yes, exactly.

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"Enjoy your last day of freedom, Nick, because tomorrow we start working on the yearbook."

So said my Journalism teacher.

It turns out I'm not the only person sour about this class.. Anybody with half a brain in there agrees with me.. We all want out. We all feel as if we're being used.

I met up with my former art teacher after school and asked him what I need to do to transfer. Apparently, I need to have one of my parents call the school, and have them set it up. He says that he only has two art classes anymore, and that they are both "horrible," but it wouldn't be bad at all if I sat with the other sixth period art "veterans." I basically ignored everyone last year anyway, so I don't see what could be so different.

The problem is, I would feel really, really guilty if I dropped out now, just as things seem to be "picking up." The yearbook would be utter crap without me, and I don't know if I could stand looking at it- or the teacher- ever. I would be fine with doing things outside and/or after school.. Maybe I'll do that.

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I'm sure you all have noticed how stupid the media can be about technology. CNN, Fox News Network and the rest of the gang are all talking about spyware as if it just popped up overnight. Then, in their impressive yet pitiful attempt to connect every story to the presidential election, they all talked about how Kerry or Bush would change the technology industry in the next four years. It's obvious that they're both among the legions of old fogeys (despite Kerry's windsurfing) who, for some unknown reason, are physically and mentally unable to comprehend even basic terms.

Internets, for God's sake! There's more than one, apparently. Thank you, Mr. President.

But the tech-news atrocity that takes the cake is this rat bastard, Kurt the Cyberguy, technology correspondant for the KTLA Channel 5 news. Every other night he comes up with some useless segment about things that are just stupid. Examples:

Internet bullying! Like, oh my God, kids say "ur gay" to each other online! Scandal, I say!

This one wasn't so bad, but it came out only a month after the game. *rolls eyes*

Like we really need an article about the latest political flash animations and a THQ game adaptation of a Pixar movie.

He did something about Enter the Matrix a while back, and praised it like there was no tomorrow. It was insane.

There have been one or two segments that have kept me from wanting to kill him entirely, namely a Paper Mario 2 thing and a reference to Silent Hill, but I can't stand the guy.

I could go on and on about him, but I have a novel to read.

PS: While The Assembly of Nihilo is an incredibly cool place, I am a little aggrivated by the puzzles. They're nothing that mind-bending (maybe they weren't even meant to be puzzles?), and they take up too much time. Like Ken before me, I play games like this mostly for the story (though Nocturne's gameplay still kicks ass), and I just want to get on with it.
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