I have to say, Apple seems a little desperate. Why oh why do they have to rely on degrading the opponent for their commercials? They seem to have to say that PC = bad and headaches, while saying very little else about themselves. It is almost as if they don't want to compare themselves, for fear that the truth of how they compare may be shown. Come on Apple, stop it with these stupid commercials, and instead be like what Microsoft has done, show your strong points.
Anyways, time to talk football! I love the way the Longhorns looked on Saturday. They played a strong game, and looked great doing it. I loved the first half. My only problem with this game was Colt's interception. Very sad.
I have also been hearing a lot about how people are chatting, saying that the UT/OU game was very sloppy. I know saying this now is a little late, by two weeks, but I don't care. If this was a SEC game, those same people would be praising it as a defensive battle, which it was. Sure, it was sloppy, but that is classic SEC style. The defenses were the stars of that show.
On to games! So, my school has a club called LAG. They meet every so often to play games, usually zombie games, and have tons of fun. Well, at the last one we played a game called Zombie Maze, a custom map on Halo 3. It is hilariously awesome. Pretty much the survivors have to make their way through three areas that are part of a giant maze and have to reach an exit door. There, one of the people has to face a keypad on the wall while the others carry on with the zombie killing while the guy facing the keypad puts down his controller and goes to do three tangrams. These three tangram puzzles represent figuring out the code to escape.
This is harder than it sounds. Even when we had seven people protecting the decoder, the tangrams killed us. those things are hard! The closest we got was finishing two after trying for ten minutes. It was pathetic looking. We never escaped.
If you own Halo 3, I seriously suggest getting this map, especially if you have many friends who like fun too.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Various tidbits
Howdy all!
Today, I am just gonna talk about how my past couple of weeks have been. Start with school, wind through news, end with football. Ready? Here we go.
So far, school has yet to improve, crazy teacher is crazy, while the others are slowly growing on my nerves. One of them actually told us today that he puts some false information on the slides to show bad examples of various works... without pointing this out on the slide itself. That means if I miss a class, I could be in a world of trouble if I resort to only the slides. This also happens to be the class I am doing the worst in.
On the brighter side, my labs are going much betterm with the exception of freshman general biology lab, which is surprising. I am a senior and have seen most of this in all the classes I have had so far, yet I can't even get more than half the points of the question section? Really T.A.? Do you have to grade it so hard that if I don't mention a vague factiod about the subject the question is asking I get half off? That is bull.
Another bright side is that American Government is starting to become my favorite class solely on how well i am doing compared to the other classes.
Off to the news.
First, why oh why did Barack Obama get a Nobel Peace Prize. He has done NOTHING to deserve it, yet. The one reason why he got it that I have heard is it could possibly help some proposals of his. This is bull. This is just like how people voted for Sam Bradford for heisman just so they could have two heisman winners duke it out in the national championship(which is also another theory I heard back then). Anyways, I am not saying that he should never get one, but I believe he hasn't done anything to deserve it yet.
Thats all I have for news that I can think of today.
Finally to football!
So, I went to the Cotton Bowl and watched two big rivals, the Longhorns and the land thieves... I mean Sooners(no offense on this little joke), fight it out. I have to say I was saddened by how badly the Longhorn offense did due to the Sooner defense being rediculously good. The truly was a defensive battle the whole way.
That brings me to another point, Sam Bradford. Damn, just damn. I feel sorry for this guy. He wanted to come back, forsaking millions, just so he could try and win a national title. I give him props for this. But with both these injuries, I feel sorry. His whole stock in the draft will fall from this, losing him alot of money, as well as injuries that could cause complications later in life. I hope he gets better. Good luck to him.
Third, Colt McCoy. I loved how he ran during the game, even though he "fumbled" the ball after a beastly run. He did not fumble it. I didn't like his throwing so much, mostly due to the sooners being outstanding with their pass guarding. They did amazing, and it showed with his numbers.
Thinking of that fumble, this was the worst officiating I have ever seen, worse than this high school playoff game I went to where the refs were biased out their ass. Those refs called pass interference so much on my team that were not that it was rediculous. Anyways, the refs in the UT v OU game need to be sent back to ref school. They called so many things that weren't right while having to rely on the booth for many plays. Speaking of the booth, you also need to get sent back to officiating school since you called a horrible verdict on that last fumble by McCoy. That is a little extreme, but seriously, you guys need to get your act together.
That was said without knowing the exact ruling for fumble and whatnot, but I saw another paly in the NFL that had much better angles on the ball and the ball was actually moving out of the guys hand towards the ground, but since it was "between the arm and the chest" it was deemed in possesion. Colt had much more control on the ball, yet they called it a fumble? WTF! I trust the NFL ruling more than the other.
Anyways, I guess its that time to wrap it up and call it a night. Hopefully I will have cooler things to talk about later.
Peace,
-Eld
Today, I am just gonna talk about how my past couple of weeks have been. Start with school, wind through news, end with football. Ready? Here we go.
So far, school has yet to improve, crazy teacher is crazy, while the others are slowly growing on my nerves. One of them actually told us today that he puts some false information on the slides to show bad examples of various works... without pointing this out on the slide itself. That means if I miss a class, I could be in a world of trouble if I resort to only the slides. This also happens to be the class I am doing the worst in.
On the brighter side, my labs are going much betterm with the exception of freshman general biology lab, which is surprising. I am a senior and have seen most of this in all the classes I have had so far, yet I can't even get more than half the points of the question section? Really T.A.? Do you have to grade it so hard that if I don't mention a vague factiod about the subject the question is asking I get half off? That is bull.
Another bright side is that American Government is starting to become my favorite class solely on how well i am doing compared to the other classes.
Off to the news.
First, why oh why did Barack Obama get a Nobel Peace Prize. He has done NOTHING to deserve it, yet. The one reason why he got it that I have heard is it could possibly help some proposals of his. This is bull. This is just like how people voted for Sam Bradford for heisman just so they could have two heisman winners duke it out in the national championship(which is also another theory I heard back then). Anyways, I am not saying that he should never get one, but I believe he hasn't done anything to deserve it yet.
Thats all I have for news that I can think of today.
Finally to football!
So, I went to the Cotton Bowl and watched two big rivals, the Longhorns and the land thieves... I mean Sooners(no offense on this little joke), fight it out. I have to say I was saddened by how badly the Longhorn offense did due to the Sooner defense being rediculously good. The truly was a defensive battle the whole way.
That brings me to another point, Sam Bradford. Damn, just damn. I feel sorry for this guy. He wanted to come back, forsaking millions, just so he could try and win a national title. I give him props for this. But with both these injuries, I feel sorry. His whole stock in the draft will fall from this, losing him alot of money, as well as injuries that could cause complications later in life. I hope he gets better. Good luck to him.
Third, Colt McCoy. I loved how he ran during the game, even though he "fumbled" the ball after a beastly run. He did not fumble it. I didn't like his throwing so much, mostly due to the sooners being outstanding with their pass guarding. They did amazing, and it showed with his numbers.
Thinking of that fumble, this was the worst officiating I have ever seen, worse than this high school playoff game I went to where the refs were biased out their ass. Those refs called pass interference so much on my team that were not that it was rediculous. Anyways, the refs in the UT v OU game need to be sent back to ref school. They called so many things that weren't right while having to rely on the booth for many plays. Speaking of the booth, you also need to get sent back to officiating school since you called a horrible verdict on that last fumble by McCoy. That is a little extreme, but seriously, you guys need to get your act together.
That was said without knowing the exact ruling for fumble and whatnot, but I saw another paly in the NFL that had much better angles on the ball and the ball was actually moving out of the guys hand towards the ground, but since it was "between the arm and the chest" it was deemed in possesion. Colt had much more control on the ball, yet they called it a fumble? WTF! I trust the NFL ruling more than the other.
Anyways, I guess its that time to wrap it up and call it a night. Hopefully I will have cooler things to talk about later.
Peace,
-Eld
Sunday, October 4, 2009
School
Well hello there!
Today, I feel like complaining about school. It has been hard the past few weeks, and I have been dropping the ball lately so, I hope this will help.
So, I am in my senior year of college, and as such, I am gonna graduate within a year or two, depending on how many classes I can get. The problem is, the way things are going, I will fail the classes I am taking right now, which will be a horrible thing to happen. I so far have bombed the first tests of two of my classes, and have bombed the first lab reports of my two labs.
I am not familiar with the way these professors like to teach, or make their tests, so that could be one of the problems, although I doubt it could cause that much of a problem. So far, I have received one grade back, which was a horrid 11%... which makes me cringe. I currently hate the teacher, since I could have dropped the class if he had given the test two days earlier; the dead line for dropping a class without a penalty was the day before the test. The teacher also loves to hit tangents, and I cannot for the life on me focus on all he says. I drift off, and start surfing the web.
The one thing I am gonna try and combat this with is by not using my computer to take notes anymore, and instead write them, which is the way I used to do school. I tend to do better that way anyways, so I might just switch back.
Anyways, I hope this year will turn around. The one class I kinda am looking forward to is a subject that I hate... American Government. I got a 76% on the first test, which was actually kind of surprising, since I am inherently bad at government themed classes.
On another note, I have run across an awesome comic on the internet called VgCats.com. It has alot of parodies on different games and is overall a hilarious treat. The style is interesting. Another I ran across is the comic called MsPaintAdventures.com This is a hilarious little comic that takes a world the artist has designed with a loose plot that is going on. It is loosely based on a text adventure game, although it isn't. He takes a different fan inputted "commands" and advances the story that way. There are small tangents that form this way that he will incorporate into the story.
I highly suggest reading these two, especially the problem sleuth comic on the mspaint adventure website.
Today, I feel like complaining about school. It has been hard the past few weeks, and I have been dropping the ball lately so, I hope this will help.
So, I am in my senior year of college, and as such, I am gonna graduate within a year or two, depending on how many classes I can get. The problem is, the way things are going, I will fail the classes I am taking right now, which will be a horrible thing to happen. I so far have bombed the first tests of two of my classes, and have bombed the first lab reports of my two labs.
I am not familiar with the way these professors like to teach, or make their tests, so that could be one of the problems, although I doubt it could cause that much of a problem. So far, I have received one grade back, which was a horrid 11%... which makes me cringe. I currently hate the teacher, since I could have dropped the class if he had given the test two days earlier; the dead line for dropping a class without a penalty was the day before the test. The teacher also loves to hit tangents, and I cannot for the life on me focus on all he says. I drift off, and start surfing the web.
The one thing I am gonna try and combat this with is by not using my computer to take notes anymore, and instead write them, which is the way I used to do school. I tend to do better that way anyways, so I might just switch back.
Anyways, I hope this year will turn around. The one class I kinda am looking forward to is a subject that I hate... American Government. I got a 76% on the first test, which was actually kind of surprising, since I am inherently bad at government themed classes.
On another note, I have run across an awesome comic on the internet called VgCats.com. It has alot of parodies on different games and is overall a hilarious treat. The style is interesting. Another I ran across is the comic called MsPaintAdventures.com This is a hilarious little comic that takes a world the artist has designed with a loose plot that is going on. It is loosely based on a text adventure game, although it isn't. He takes a different fan inputted "commands" and advances the story that way. There are small tangents that form this way that he will incorporate into the story.
I highly suggest reading these two, especially the problem sleuth comic on the mspaint adventure website.
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