Archive for March, 2007

Yet another (soon-to-be) failed attempt at the GREs

Published at March 30, 2007 in Misc. and Personal.

So the main thing I’ve been holding off on with regard to taking the GRE is that fact that I don’t have the tie to go through a massive word-list. Seeing as there are no word-list / flash cards available for the Mac, I’ve been kind of shit outta luck. Enter Mental Case. So far, the execution is excellent and it is easy to add information to memorize. I wish there would be a nice GRE “mental case” already made up, but I’m taking this as another learning experience. I need to add the words to the word-list before I start reviwing them through the application. Kind of time consuming, but I think it will be more beneficial over time. I just hope I can stick with this plan.

Ok, that’s all there is, hopefully my narcotic-addled mind was ledgible … =P I’ll have to share my Wisdom Teeth story another time.

-Thom

myspace is a parasite… and my teeth hurt

Published at March 30, 2007 in Misc. and Personal.

Oh. My. God. MySpace just sucks more and more each and every day. Not a day seems to go by where I don’t have to deny/ignore 3-6 friend requests from non-people. Such a waste of time. Ugh…

Anyway, ahem, I just had two of my wisdom teeth removed and they kinda hurt a little. The two lower teeth were impacted, so it took two hours of drilling, cutting, crushing, and pulling to get them out. Percocet is now my friend, yay! Anyway, I have to keep this short, because I’m finding it difficult to stay awake for an extended peroid of time =P

-Thom

Site Upgrades, and stuff

Published at March 12, 2007 in News.

So to begin with, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 and am now running the first Release Candidate for K2. Hopefully I’ll get some graphics up on the site as well, or at least play with the color scheme a little. Who knows? Blue is my favorite color, but I’m totally digging the white/green-light-grey on black that I’ve seen on some pages, so maybe I’ll do that…

In other news, I’ve been a movie-watching fiend recently! Just this weekend I went out to see three movies. My two favorites of the bunch would have to be Black Snake Moan and 300. Black Snake Moan I totally expected to suck and went for the potential comedic value, and left considerably surprised. I’m not gonna say that it will win any Oscars, but damn, I actually enjoyed it. Of course, seeing Christina Ricci half-naked for much of the movie and listening to some kick-ass blues music did much to turn my opinion =P 300 was also enjoyable, but not the type of movie I usually go out to see. Being a comic geek and huge fan of Frank Miller, I had to see it, and considering I read the original comic, I was very pleased with how faithful of an adaptation it was. Either way, I also wanted to take a moment to quote this kick-ass line from Pete Vonder Haar’s review of the movie:

I feel comfortable enough in my masculinity to say that if I had to stand in the presence of these men for more than ten seconds, I’d spontaneously grow a pair of ovaries.

I just re-discovered Portishead… Oh, such awesome music. Pitchfork Media linked to this really cool live video of Portishead playing at some small, secret gig in Bristol. Theck out the link! And while you are at it, check out the greatest music video of all time … HERE!. Musically, I’m still jumping from genre to genre, so who knows where I’ll be tomorrow.

It’s been months since I last mentioned video games, and of note, I have not gotten anywhere in Final Fantasy XII since my last post regarding this. It is sad, I work too damn much it would seem. Still, I’m already lusting after a PlayStation 3 now after seeing this video for Sony’s new Home service. Between LittleBigPlanet and the videos for Final Fantasy XIII, I must posses that console. Oh sadness…

Anyway, I’m trying to make a better effort to post more, I already have an idea for another post that is too tangental to append as part of this entry, so with that, I bid you all good night!

-Thom