A New Teacher

Hello one and hello all. First of all, I apologize for the great break in posts on this blog. I have been super busy with one thing another from day to day. I have a ton of things to write about, I just havent felt like posting to be honest. Well now I am back and Im back with a bang! Here is what is new in my life.

As of a week ago I am officially old. I started my new teacher orientation this past Monday and I am getting ready to start teaching Geometry at Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, GA. This is the career path I have chosen, and I know it is what I want to do. I can only hope my first year goes well.

I have done a number of things related to the job.

1. I stopped by and saw my room for the first time. Here are some pics after the jump (online blogging terminology practice is today)




This week was a lot of meetings about board policy, ethics, and so on and so forth. Next week is Teacher Planning week. The following week I actually get the kids and have my first lesson. I am looking forward to bringing technology into the classroom and am extremely fortunate to have all the resources I need either in my possession or at my fingertips in the school media center.

So how did my first week go? Windsor Forest High School has an excellent mentor program set up. I have been assigned to a one of these wonderful Math teachers (whos name I will leave out for purposes of privacy). The entire math department, staff, and administration are full of energy and are very excited about having me and the other teachers along for this year.

As a new teacher I have been assigned as a "Squire". My mentor is my "Knight". This is funny because we are the Windsor Forest Knights. They call the school itself "The Castle", which at first hearing is terrifying but upon arrival is found out to be a fun term that is tossed around casually. Everyone as been positive and that really helps. I have little to none classroom experience, which puts me one step behind most of the crowd. I did find out that one of my new colleagues is in the same boat though. I have already made friends with some of the new staff and have spent some time outside of working hanging out with them. Meeting teachers my age in similar situations makes me not feel as nervouse about the whole situation.

So now I go forth to mold the minds of tomorrow. I can only hope that my goal to help the kids can be executed how I like and want. Wish me luck.

Live free of Die Hard Song

Dont worry about me not posting much. With bloggers feature to save drafts, I have started 2 or 3 blogs that are a few pages each on feeds that i read, recent event, and funny stuff. I have just yet to post them yet. I saw this and figured it would hold everyone over in the mean time.

No one has been wearing their white wife beater and rooting for the new Die hard sequel more than me. I loved all three movies, and just like Bon Jovi, here we are 15 years later producing quality 80's stuff that is exactly the same. Here is a brilliant, hilarious, and totally awesome music video to sum up the ...quadrilogy???

Enjoy

Long time no post

Ok so its been a while since I posted. So here are some cool things that have happened recently

I moved into a new house with two cool roommates. They are down to earth individuals and I think we are really going to get along. My new room rocks. I will give pics to those who deserve them soon enough. I took pics already, but my usb mini cable is broken at the time so I will have to get a new one before I can get them uploaded.

I have signed all official paperwork and received an official certificate of teaching from Chatham county and will begin teaching in August.

I found someone to go see the Transformers movie with that is JUST AS PUMPED AS I AM! I cant wait because I think it will be awesome despite its minor discrepancies from the cartoon.

This trailer was released and I think "Shoot Em Up" is going to be a SWEET movie.

I am STILL playing Ogame and I am rocking. Almost all my mines on all my planets are level 20 or higher...(almost)

I started playing Windwaker again...hrmmm...

Vultron Gets Served

I used to worship Voltron as a kid and i used to have the sweet toys that added up to make the voltron guy. I almost died when I saw this because I laughed so hard i couldnt breath.

Strategy gaming dream come true

I am a HUGE fan of strategy games. I was at the store the day Warcraft I and II (not WOW) came out. I drooled when I found out that Command and Conquer was releasing a new sequal. But my favorite strategy/war game of all time was Starcraft. I absolutely love the inovation, fun, and overal play of the game. There isnt anything much more brilliant than the design of the alien Zergs and the keen sharpness of the Protoss.

Every few weeks someone comes out with supposed screen shots of a new game. After years of rumors and MUCH hiding on Blizards part, they have finally announced an official sequal to one of my favorite games of all time. And when I say annoucned, I dont mean then intend to or they are going to...I mean they have developed most of the game and put up an official website for it. With all the millions they have comming in from WOW, there is no way this game will not have the funds to rock everyones face off.

Now all Blizzard has to do is throw "Battle.net" in a trash can, shape up a new connection system, and let everyone lean back and have a good time.

From the looks of the site, there are TONS of new units and plenty of sweet new graphics (all 3d like Warcraft 3) but they havent added a bunch of new species with overcomplicated systems and weird attributes. I loved WC3, but the addition of the night elves AND the undead was too much. Not to mention they were tactical nightmares to learn, but once learned...dominated everything and everyone leaving new players in the dust (as usual for most online games...oops!). They are sticking to 3 (i think) species in the new game, but concentrating on making the game innovative and good.

Now I just have to go get a computer that will actually PLAY this beast of a game/resource monster. Check out the videos of the hi def play...SWEET!

Spiderman 3

SO for those of you who know me, you know that I have kind of wanted to see Spidey 3 for a while. While I did not have high expectations for the movie, there were a few things I was looking forward to.

1. Venom as a badguy
2. Sandman as a badguy
3. The black suit in general (not just Venom)

While destroying plot lines and utterly disappointing comic book readers across the nation by doing everything short of ultimately been posted on golden-rod paper with flashy lights and a neon border, the spider man series has, up to this point, remained a pretty decent series of movies. The first one, while cheesy was one of the first comic book movies so it is difficult to look back and actually judge it. I had a pleasurable viewing experience with it many years ago and havent really seen it since. Spiderman 2 was great. Doc Oc was played perfectly. One of the major boundaries for comic book movies is the line between actual/comic book reality. For instance, wolverines original suit in XMEN the comics was bright yellow...which had to be translated to black...this, with much thought, was pulled off rather seamlessly and made most people happy with its execution.

Most of the things in the movie were CG. I think I remember parts where CG animals were put into shots to make it look better, and simply made the entire movie robust and completely non-fluid. There was a lot of action, I will give it that. The movie jumps off to a quick start, and keeps the action at a steady pace most of the film, but there are HUGE sections of random romance and CHEESY dialog...not the necessary romance dialog you usually find in these kinds of films...these were shots of total cheeseball crap that made you just want to get up. For instance, the scene where Spiderman/Peter Parker get consumed by the suit and they are trying to shot how it changes his everyday attitude is totally ridiculous, contradicatory to the meaning of the suit itself, and serves no purpose other than pissing me off and earning a few cheap laughs from idiotic audience members.

Sand man was pulled off perfectly and was by far the coolest part of the whole movie. This movie is worth going to pay for just to see his scenes. I felt like his creation (how he became the sand man) was shoddily thrown together just so that they could pack in more crap. The reason for this is my major complaint...TOO MANY BADGUYS. There are easily enough bad guys in this single movie to make 3 movies in itself. Ultimately they took every idea that hit the cutting board before Toby McGuires contract ran out and shoved all of them into one film. They kill the whole Venon/Eddie Brock story by jamming it to the side, and the ambiant life/suit just seems to randomly fall from the sky in the intro sequence rather than its actual arrival story. What they should have done was choose one cool vilian and make one sweet movie out of it.

Now to my final and ultimate complaint. VENOM SUCKED. The black suit was cool on spidey and they pulled the look off fine, but when the suit gets to Eddie Brock the crap hit the fan. WHile everything in the movie was CG, the one person that should have been ENTIRELY cg was NOT. When I think of venom this is what I think of...when the suit is busy taking over peoples bodies and being by itself it is amazing and has all kinds of cool special affects...I thought for sure an AWESOME spidey/venom fight was on the way...

What does the viewer get instead? Instead we are delivered a man in a cheap outfit that has some CG teeth. Venom is supposed to have dripping saliva, huge muscles....think ALIEN...instead it looks like just another person in a different colored spidey suit. His head is not even the right shape...it looks like a normal persons head...See the pic above linked to see what im talking about. I was completely and utterly disappointed with the execution of this baddie. They have prety much ruined one of the best bad guys of all time. What few scenes he did have were ruined by the clutter of him only being involed with a 4 person battle between sandman, green goblin, venom, and spidey (TOO MUCH GOING ON, TOO MANY VILLIANS!).

I repeat. Sandman was sweet and totally worth seeing, but the rest of this movie was just a big CG orgasm mess that I dont want to be responsible for cleaning up. Thank got this series is over.

Last.fm

So I just got back into Last.fm (formally Audioscrobbler). Its a site that keeps track of what you listen to in ITunes or whatever player you use and gives you recommendations. Its very low maintenance and straight foward to use.

My Page is here. This will give you an idea of what I have listened to recently. I also added a "Recently played" list to the right side of my blog for (for the few readers who actually read the blog and not the feed).

Also, I updated my blog pic.

douche bag

Finally Done

Okay! With a few things out of the way, finals ending, and graduation behind my back I have more time to post and keep you guys up to date.

Last Saturday I walked (graduated) Cum Laude from AASU with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. The things that hunched over my back were the following

1. Getting a job
2. Finding a place to live
3. Finding a temporary job till I start my other one (since teaching wont pay me until September)

1- I have been offered a job at Windsor Forest High School. I will be teaching mathematics (but they are unsure of what classes and what grades). It is a relief to not have to worry about this. This was the school I did my practicum observation at, so at least I have my head on my shoulders for what I am getting into. Some of the teachers there already know me from that, and the principals seem to be really inviting. I am excited and nervous about my next steps in life but hopefully they will work out fine.

2. I have officially signed a lease (I know, pictures or it didn't happen!...those will come once I move in) with two people that I will not disclose names of because its not important. They are a 26/27 year old couple that live in a good area of town and are renting a room to help with the rent. They both play guitar hero and grill out all the time. They are really down to earth and I think living with them is going to be sweet. I got a pretty decent price on the monthly rent. The important thing is that my gut says "yes" on it.

3. I was offered a job starting May 20th, 2007 at Office Depot in Savannah, GA. My old manager that used to work at Office Max is now the manager there. He is a super awesome manager and is giving me a lot of flexibility. I will be there a very short time and am expecting a decent amount of pay for what I will be doing, and he is graciously doing me a favor by giving me a short term job.

With all of the major stresses out of my life I can finally sit down, hang with some friends/girlfriend, read some books, and catch up on the much needed sleep I have missed lately. I still have two finals left (one today and one tomorrow), but the ones that I was really worried about have already posted grades and I passed them with the grades I had hoped for (B's or higher). w00t.

I cant thank my friends and family enough for the support over the past years they have given me including financial, mental, and emotional. I have developed into an adult and now I am ready to face the world with both guns drawn. Roland Deschain hasn't got crap on this.

Chinese Democracy.

The endless wait is over.

It's been a long time since Guns N' Roses have released an album of new material. Everybody knows this, but it's a fact that bears repeating. If you purchased a kitten on the day that Use Your Illusion I & II arrived in stores, it's probably dead by now. As a consequence, there has been a great deal of pressure on Axl Rose to deliver a record that would validate a 15-year, $13 million wait. There is really only one way for Chinese Democracy to avoid utter and absolute failure: It needs to be the greatest rock album ever made.

For Those In Doubt....

For those who doubted the validity of the existence of this movie...

What You Know About Math?

Okay...everyone can yell at me...call me a loser...with no taste.


I almost died laughing when I saw this...



This is an obvious parody of this video in case you didnt know already.

The New Pirates will probably ROCK

Ok. Sorry for the lack of posts lately. With graduation quick on my heels, a girlfriend, friends, and my job, all on top of trying to find a professional job it has been tough to post at all. You will certainly get more posts from me in the comming weeks after the dust clears from my graduation.

If you recall, I made a post earlier (a few weeks ago) I made a post about the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I was afraid of the general tone that the movie would take, but was hopeful of its outcome. This link sheds new light on my hope and makes me want to see it. This is a small few minutes of stuff that is behind the scenes that makes the movie seem like it will be the all out battle, dark, epic that i was hoping it would be. I certainly hope so, or it wont make up for its predecessors.

Carry me home

Nothing in this world pisses me off more than "Carry me Home" in Guitar Hero 2 on hard mode...

Books!

I have created a public Google notebook of the books I have, want, and am thinking about reading. If you have any suggestions leave me a comment on here or shoot me an email and I will make you a collaborator on the notebook itself. If you have any comments about the books I already have up there I would love to hear your feedback!

Thanks!

One step closer

Today I received my passing grades for the GACE standardized test! w00t. Hurray for being one step closer to "life". This is a huge relief to me. Now I have all the credentials needed to become a state teacher. All I need now is to graduate and I am ready!

Hurray me!

Birmingham gets an Apple Store

I have a few readers in Birmingham that I thought might be interested in this...

Spyshot: Alabama's Apple Store revealed

from Unofficial Apple by Dave Caolo

Filed under: Retail

Earlier this week, we mentioned that Alabama's very first Apple Store - in Birmingham - will finally open this coming Saturday the 14th. TUAW operative Jeremy saw our post and went down to the Summit Mall, camera in hand, and took this shot of workers revealing the store's facade. That's a cute display in the front window, though we thought the iPod shuffles were actually a lot smaller.

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Grindhouse is SWEET

I went last weekend to go see Grindhouse and I have to admit is was one of the most entertaining movies I have seen in a while. EliRoth/Rodrigues of Sin City teamed up with the brilliant Quentin T. to show a double show of blood, buts, gore, vulgarity, all out stunts, over the top brilliance. There are heads flying, cars tumbling, zombies, women with guns for legs, and to put the ice on the cake....Bruce Willis.

The movie is split into two movies that are completely seperate from one another. The first of which is Eli Roth and Rodriguez 's zombie flick (the name slips me at the moment). Its a gorefest-palooza. The intent of the movie was to recreate that old really bad 70/80s over the top action flick type of movie. The acting was terrible (but on purpose so it is in a way good). The movie is overal quirky, doing things like cutting out sex scenes and important plot scenes due to "missing reels". If you go and watch this one, you are definitely guaranteed more than once to yell at the scream, squirm in your seat, and cheer for your favorite characters. The movie has a grainy old feel to it on purpose in order to make it seem more like the "grindhouse" genre.

Terentino's section is really awesome too. Appropriately, it has a feel more accustom to him and less over the top. While the first movie seems more focused on the over the top aspect, Terentino attempts to recreate the movies of his childhood by making his a crazy stunt movie called "Death Proof". The premise is that Kurt Russel is an old burnt out car stunt man that uses his "Death Proof" car to go around killing innocent girls. He gets hold of a group of girls that just so happen to be current Hollywood stunt drivers and...well...it just gets nuts. This one was a little slow on the upkeep but when the action started, you spend the next 45 minutes on the EDGE of your seat fearing for the stunt drivers. All the actors in the movie has no stunt doubles. Terentino wanted to make a movie with no strings, no CG, and no fake shots. Most of the scenes with the stunts are shot in one seamless uncut reel so that you know there are no tricks going on. This movie is just balls to the wall stunt crazy. Girls ride on the tops of cars, cras fly through the air, and of course Maureen from Broadway's RENT gives us streamlined heroin style straight to the veins much needed comic relief throughout.

These movies/This movie MUST be seen in theaters. If you haven't had the chance yet I would suggest running out and jumping on this band wagon ASAP.

By far the best part of this movie was the intermission/intro trailers. If you don't have a feel for what a "grindhouse" movie is or is supposed to be like, Rodriguez/Terentino used friends in the industry such as Rob Zombie to direct trailers for fake grindhouse style movies. These make for a HILLARIOUS intro. I cant really put them on my blog for legal reasons, but take my word they are great.

Marriage

I received a Wedding invitation yesterday from someone I went to High School with....Someone that hated me with every gut that they had...I have no idea how this person got my address but I assume that they want a gift/money. Screw that! I have no desire to give them my attention.

This whole thing sent my brain whirling around (a humorously actually) about the whole marriage thing-a-ma-bob in general.

The holy sacrament, tie the knot, hook on the ball and chain. I don't get it. What is it about marriage that seems to get people so happy? I have reached an age where everyone that I know is starting to get married...and I have not even yet begun to think about it! There are a few things that I think that marriage is and a few things that I think marriage isnt. They are as follows

IS
1. Marriage IS necessary to start a family. This is ONLY for the reason that children of bastard families get teased...it has nothing to do with the people involved, but rather the better of the child
2. Marriage IS a sweet tax benefit
3. Marriage IS a great way to blow a LOT of money to show off to EVERYONE ELSE that you are happy with the person you are with.
4. A good place for an open bar.
5. Great for people who WANT it...SUCKS for people who get forced into it.

ISNT's
1. The way to prove to your girlfriend that you love her
2. Understood by most people. I feel the real reason for marriage is different than everyone else does. People seem to think there is a time limit that is ticking when you meet a girl...and if that time comes, its time to get married!! w00t!
3. ISNT (or shouldnt be) important to anyone other than the people getting married. If two people get married, whats the big deal with all of the big who ha? I want to get married on a beach with absolute minimum amount of people around. My brother as a best man...my best friends as witnesses...I love the folks but they will be lucky to get invitations.
4. On my priority list in any form or fashion
5. A prerequisite to moving in with your significant other....There is such things, however, as moving in with someone too early, and OFTEN I think it is living with someone only when you get married and not beforehand. Not necessary...but it helps with the meshing of it I assume.

Im just tired of getting phone calls from people that are my age that are ever so happy because they ran to the alter with a guy they met 2 months ago because they felt like they were getting old. Dont think Im terrible...I think marriage is great for some people, and if you really do love each other more power to you. I just dont understand peoples obsession with the "NEED" to have it...If you are with someone...and you love them...whats the big deal?

Luckily I am with a wonderful girlfriend that feels EXACTLY the same way I do. Its awesome to have that as one less thing on my plate..."uh oh...I have been with you for 2 years darling...I suppose its time to go look at rings or everyone will start pressuring you into feeling like I don't love you because I haven't turned you into a soccer mom or house wife yet..."

Its just very fun to see the reaction on individuals faces when someone asks me "Are you and your girlfriend getting married when you graduate?" or any slick reformation of that sentence and I reply something to the extend of "Nah...we are just happy the way it is...whats the point...?".

If you are ready to get married, I am honestly happy for you (whoever you may be reading this). I suppose this decision comes at different stages in different peoples lives. I am not bashing anyones motives or questioning anyones love for anyone else. I hope that this will not be misconstrued to seem as if I am a bitter soul, I am merely saying that I don't get it. Its not wrong in any way....its not terrible or in any way a bad things...I just don't get it...

A Comic I thought was worth putting in my blog

Here is a comic that I thought was funny enough to put in my blog....

Klein Bottle

A few people have asked me about the geometry of the Klein bottle since I posted last time. I cant really go into too much more detail without you actually being here with me and giving 3d representations of it. Here is a video that should help to show the creation of a Klein bottle from its 2D-Manifold though. Essentially the way a M-Strip is twisted and connected to itself once....a Klein bottle is twisted and connected to itself on every point of its 3D surface (hard to imagine...why? Because you can only bend and warp 3 Dimensional space inside of the 4th dimension...thus making what you see here only a theoretical representation of the Klein bottle rather than its actual form.)

Möbius Strip Madness

One of the coolest things in Mathematics to me is the Möbius Strip. The Möbius Strip is a 2 dimensional strip of paper that holds both 2 and 3 dimensional properties. Cut a strip of paper, fold it once, connect it back to itself. Start one point on the strip and trace along the strip and you will traverse every side of the mobius ring including the inside AND outside....while still ending up at the end...in a sense, while it is a 3 dimensional object, its surface is a 2 dimensional non-orientable topological surface (much like the widely loved nerd referenced and worshiped Klein Bottle).

The Möbius Strip was actually mentioned in my previous blog by the authors video as an example of 2/3 dimensional manipulation.

The Klein bottle is something I cannot even begin to explain...however I will try...Topology is a field of mathematics that makes sense to few...and those are the ones that tend to be insane. Klein bottles do however hold many cool geometric properties. Essentially, in lamen terms, a Klein bottle is a bottle created by the combining of two Möbius Strips. This is what you end up with...a bottle which only has one side, and amazingly CONTAINS ITSELF and whos INSIDE IS ITS OUTSIDE....ponder that one for a while...
But although it's a 2-D manifold, it can only exist in 4-dimensions...yeah...crazy...and freaking Mathematically AWESOME...I have an Klein Bottle coffee mug that I use often and its sweet...I have no idea how it works and never will...but I have the pleasure of taking it into math classes and looking smart while at the same time boasting my ability to hold coffee in a 1 sided 2/3/4 dimensional object....sweet!

Math Dork Stuff

Here is a really cool video that dwells into a little bit of "string theory". For those of you who are not very math or physics oriented, string theory is the idea that there are 10 dimensions and at the uppermost dimension lies a series of "Strings" that vibrate in a sense to make everything and nothing and all creation...lol...Its easy to imagine 2 dimensions (ie paper, flat surfaces, xy Cartesian coordinates) and 3 dimensional (the world that we live in, adding z to the axis and imagining things in 3d space) and even 4 dimensions (taking every instance of 3d space as its own identity and thus creating the illusion of the 4th dimension) time. But what comes after that...what does it exactly mean to be FIVE dimensional....or SIX dimensional. Rob Bryanton tries to explain this to everyone in his book.

"Imagining the Tenth Dimension" is a book that is being marketed pretty heavily that tries to break down mathematics of 10 dimensional space to people like you, who may not have much (if any) mathematical background. If you have about 10 minutes take a look at these video...they are by far some of the most interesting stuff I have seen in a while. I intend on buying and reading this book very soon (I just started Wolves of Calla, so it may take a few weeks for me to order it).

Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2

Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 2 of 2

If you found this interesting, which I did, you may find his blog (which is a tad more technical in spots) to be interesting as well. Hes a bit quirky, but also a bit funny.

Double PS2

This weekend I raised my general self confidence by attending the Saturday Easter Bonanza at the local Flea-Market. In between dodging rednecks and ignoring tacky crap I was able to pick up TWO (not 1....2) Playstation 2's for 20 bucks. This gives me two shots at modding/installing the chip I just recieved today 1.

I rock

a lack of things to talk about

A lot of the "Cool" stuff I have to talk about is taken away by my awesome Google Reader feed that can be seen to your right here. To keep up with the latest internet crap that I think is sweet just click there. Its been a pretty lame past few weeks. What little time I have had to post I haven't done so because Its already listed there. I guess i could put them down anyways.

However, for your amusement...here are my most recent things that are going on in the life of Corey

1. I was totally duped on April Fools. I was given fake parking tickets by a friend and called yelling and very upset to...him...yes...and was so angry that I fell for it for like 10 minutes before realizing it was him...and only after he told me it was...Way to go guys.

2. My other good friend is now playing OGame. w00t.

3. I went and saw the "Lookout", and much to everyones opinions I thought it rocked.

4. I have successfully pat myself on the back for having kept a few things consistent in my life that I deamed as sort of "New Years Resolutions" including the following...Keeping my cell phone charged, keeping my time managed better via Calendars etc, organizing my music collection.

5. I have converted to Christianity due to this overly convincing video about the disproof of Evolution via a Jar of Peanut butter (Not really...but this video is HILARIOUS)

6. I got BitTorrent working on the school network...w00t! (For legal downloads only of course...)

And Thus My Life Begins

    Today I celebrate what everyone has harped and preached on.  This morning at precisely 9:30 AM I dropped off my first actual resume to a school in Chatham County Savannah, GA thereby starting in motion what my father would so eliquantly call the "Real World...Son".  With much aid from friends as well as girlfriends in the "How to not look like an idiot when you submit a resume" and "How to write a resume that doesn't blow your cover of not looking like an idiot" departments I have been guaranteed an interview at Winsor Forest High School for an open Mathematics teaching position.  The school is on spring break this upcoming week, but "I can expect to hear from them the following week".  I was actually given the opportunity to give the resume to the assistant principal.  Luckily I was prepared and dressed appropriately for the occasion.  It was a brief exchange but the fact that she wanted me for an interview was evident.  So, best of luck to me and thanks everyone for your help!

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Something to build

OKAY! So, now I am in a rut. I am currently working on no projects. I have one unfinished project (making 3 ultra big awesome pillows), but I can only work on that when I am near a sewing machine (which I do not own). So what are some things I can build or mod that will be useful for my new place, not too expensive, and not TOO involved. I like big mods, but honestly I dont have time/money for anything huge.

Any ideas??? Post them!

Things that rock about Alec Baldwin

So I have decided that one of my favorite characters in movies is Alec Baldwin. Watching Alec Baldwin almost makes me want to rush to the closest Lowes and buy a pane glass window to shatter into a thousand pieces, blend into a milkshake and drink. He just has that badass raspy Tom Waits (also awesome) voice. I wont go so far to say that I think he is nice or whatever, but there are a few things that make him a respectable actor.
1. His complete and utter lack of shame while taking roles
If you take a look at his IMDB page it is clear that Alec Baldwin has been in every movie since Jesus walked on water (Starring William Defoe Rated R). While he has been in some defining roles which I will get to later, he also had a lobotomy done in the second grade which removed the section of your brain that gives an individual the ability to either hire a good agent or pick good roles. Granted, this post is not sarcastic and I genuinely think he is a pretty awesome guy, I think he could stand to read scripts before entering movies.

2. He plays the perfect A-Hole
If in any movie you ever stumble upon a role that happens to be a burnt out, A-Hole dad that makes a ton of money, cheats on his wife, and has a Vodka bottle surgically attached to his palms it can be expected to be played by Alec Baldwin (EX: Running with Scissors, The Aviator, The Cooler, Glen Garry Glen Ross, etc...).

3. Any movie that Alec Baldwin has NOT been in, he NARATES
The Royal Tannenbaum's along with many other roles are great examples of his voice. Alec Baldwin should go in direct competition one on one with Morgan Freeman for the most awesome voice of all time. Both of them have been the voice over in so much crap that i cant even list them all.

4. He was that guy in Beetlejuice!
Enough said

So this pirate walks into a BARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

There has been nothing in my life more disappointing than the second Pirates of the Caribbean Movie. It was far too long with far too little good stuff. All of the jokes were re-used. Everything about the movie seemed to be filler. Well supposedly this is for a good reason. Today the trailer for the third and final chapter in the "Pirates" series has been released and I do have to say that it looks promising. The whole concept of "Davey Jones" being an actual person from the second movie was the only thing in the movie that made it worth watching. While Jones himself did not have enough screen time, the concept of his underwater army and the whole story line with the heart of the ocean was brilliant. I can honestly say that the second movie was an amazing concept with piss poor execution. There were too many stabs at attempts to be funny and far too few cool character scenes like we saw in the first one. I was absolutely extatic when captain Barbosa made his appearance in the last scene of the second movie. In my opinion, this is one of the most brilliantly designed and cleverly acted villains in a long time. I can only hope that the third installment will not do what the previous installment did and ultimately end up being a burnt out joke fest with no good story. Im hoping that the trailer for this movie depicts it well by showing it as an action packed character driven blockbuster fest that all us summer movie fans are dieing to put into the "guilty pleasures, bad but I still love watching it over and over" closet. The first movie still serves as a FANTASTIC movie to watch on a rainy day and never seems to get old. Well just for yourself. do me a favor and leave me a comment of two and let me know what you think! I plan on catching the midnight of this one as well. Amongst other things in this trailer there we have Chow Yun Fat making his appearance as another pirate lord. You cant go wrong with that! Anyhow check it out for yourself.

WiiKitty victory

We should all take a moment out of our day to congratulate the recently crowned "Featured" Wii kitty Archimedes and his equally adorable brother Charlie for making this weeks www.wiikitty.com

I am ever so proud of them.

Goto www.wiikitty.com to see them in action. Archimedes has made the "Favorite WiiKitty" section this week as well! Yah!!! Needless to say their mother is happy.

Redifining the "Epic" movie.

Almost everyone loves and "Epic" movie. We cheered when Brad Pitt slashed and dashed for three hours through Troy. We yawned while Lord of the Rings Return of the King went froward into its 27th ending scene. But one thing that remains....Epic movies, while long and...well...epic....are always beautiful.

I am fresh home from watching the 300 at the midnight showing last night. My suggestion...grab anyone you know that has male genitalia and RUSH them to the theaters.

There are 5 main components that i can see that went into editing and creating this movie.
1. Gallon after gallon after gallon of fake blood
2. 1 million memberships to Gold's Gym
3. 300,000 square feet of green screen material from your local green screen fabric store
4. 1 comic book
5. An editor that is EXTREMELY familiar with how to use the "Slow Motion" option on his editing panel board thing.

Let me start by saying that this movie is FANTASTIC. I just finished reading Frank Miller's 300 after i got home, and the movie literally IS the comic book. Almost every line from the movie and every scene from the book is EXACTLY created. This is one translation that does its original source AMAZING duty.

King Leonidas (played by Gerard Butler) does the most amazing job of playing possible the most awesome male character in a movie since Brad Pitt pulled off Tyler Durden. He never breaks character. he is a walking, talking, breathing example of the image that Sparta stands for. This movie takes every loyal and brave person you have ever known and makes them look like sissies...I mean seriously...these guys are just simply bad ass to the bone. The graphics are beautiful, the cinemetography is AMAZING, but most importantly the FEEL of the movie is mind blowing. King Leonidas leads you with his army to a most certain death, as told by the only survivor of the battle. I dont want to ruin much else for you, but I will recommend brushing your teeth before going. Your jaw will drop at the site of this film and your laughter will not stop at the sheer charecter of King Leonidas and his loyal followers.

Nintendo's Customer Service ROCKS!

I noticed the other day that my Nintendo Wii was acting up. Its been showing green lines on the screen whenever I play games. Well I haven't had the thing for long, so I decided to troubleshoot it. Sure enough, the lines showed up in multiple games, on multiple TV's. I deduced that it was certainly the system that was having problems and not the TV that I have or the games that i bought.

Its been to long to return the system to the store, so I went to the Nintendo website. Expecting to spend the next 4 hours navigating a corporate mess of hiding contact information, I found a "Contact Us" link on the front page. I immediately assumed I would have to bombard the website with emails until a customer service rep sent me an auto reply informing me that they would call me in 2 - 3 weeks like most large companies and websites do...nope...on that page is a direct 1 800 line to the Nintendo hotline. Hrm....ah hah...I see....I suppose I will have some automated voice troubleshoot me and then follow up with the TELEPHONE getting my email address and starting right back where I was assuming i would start....NOPE!!! Woot! Check this out, Nintendo had about 4 options...problems with your Wii press 1, problems with your Gamecube press 2, problems with Nintendo magazine subscription press 3, To hear these options in Spanish press 4....So I press 1, and IMMEDIATELY I am put into contact with a REAL PERSON who takes my problem down and sets up to have my system repaired and back to me within 2 weeks (including shipping both ways).

I can honestly say that this was one of the most pleasant customer service experiences with any company that I have ever had. I suggest this model for all companies.

Black Snake Moan != lame

public class Movie{

boolean movieContainsSamualLJackson = false;

public int MovieGrade {

if(this.movieContainsSamualLJackson == true){
int MFBySamual = 0;

while(Script.end() != false){
if(Script.readLine("moviescript.txt").contains("Mother Fucker")){
MFBySamual++;

}
if(MFBySamual <= 1) {return 0;} //Do not go see movie.
else if(MFBySamual <= 25) {return 1;}
else if(MFBySamual <=200) {return PulpFiction}
}
}
}

Please forgive the terrible syntax. Google blogger wont allow me to do real editing on it (like tabs) unless I put html tags in this thing...and screw that.

This movie rocks. Go see it as soon as you get a chance. And after you go see it, rush yourself to the store to buy the freakin awesome soundtrack!

"Me" Day

This Friday is what I am designating to "Me" day. What is Me day? Me day is a day of nothing. I have some chores I have been wanting to get done with and I intend on finishing them. In between these chores I will be playing non-stop Zelda and guitar hero w00t! I have to get my hair cut and do my laundry and even possibly wash the inside of my car (carpet), but other than that tomorrow will be a lazy day. I have a ton of homework I could be working on and even more studying, but to be honest I need a day to be completely by myself.

On another note I have decided to cease reading the Discworld book that I started. I have gotten more than half way through it and dont really like it that much. I thought it was neat at first, but now that I have had the chance to read some more today I realize that it just doesn't grasp my attention enough. I feel like the writer just thinks he is funny when in fact he inst. You cannot tell while reading whether it is cheesy writing, or comedy which is a paradox. I have deicded to start Night Watch.

INSIDE the water temple (Per viewer request)

Sorry for my previous post. I went on an one babbling bout the water temples and this and that. Then it hit me that I was dead tired so I just went to bed on a cliff hanger. So here it comes per user request...here are things to expect INSIDE the water temple

1. Blog creatures of the "Hit and Multiply" form
Multiplicative blobs are not uncommon. They come in a dozen colors and take an hour each to beat. Usually you cant ignore them because defeating them is the main means of getting the key to goto the next room that just so happens to be 400 feet in the air above you...You hit it, it becomes 2 blob guys, they become 4, they become 8 and so on....How can you get up there you might ask? Well, that comes to water changing puzzles.

Link to the past -> Gate opening/closing puzzles to move levers to open doors
Ocarina of time -> Level changing puzzles (Change the level of the water to get to the next are of the temple)
Wind Waker -> Ridiculous all kinds of water puzzles with 2d effects...sweet
Twilight Princess -> Water DIVERTING puzzles...move the water all over the place to move the wheels and get the water powered machinery in the temple working so that the platforms move so you can access new levels.

Typically as in any Zelda game, the BIG BOSS door will stare you in the face the second you walk in the door. It laughs at you and cackles because you need whatever item is stored deep within the chasms of the temple to get to it. A good rule of thumb is that half of each temple is beaten by using the item obtained within it. Anyways back to business

3. Platforms, bridges, and items to stand on of any sort seem to be detachable or rocking back and forth. A very common thing to have to do is to move standing items around such as bridges, or rocks and so forth. If these items are movable, you will most likely have to use the water level to divert them from one place to another in order to obtain access

SO here for your viewing pleasure is an exert from the Zelda Twlight Princess water temple.

Twilight Princess - water temple = happy video game enthusiast

Zelda rocks my face off. The Wii version of the Zelda game (Twilight Princess) is the best installment of the series thus far (coming in CLOSE CLOSE first to Link To The Past!).

My only complaint for the Zelda committee is the water temple. I wont divulge too deeply into it, because anyone who has every played any game that even slightly resembles a a guy that you knew once that knew a friend who played zelda knows that every single game has a water temple. This temple usually comes withing the mid to later parts of the first half of the game.

It is good to be aware when you are getting close to the water temple as to mentally prepare yourself for the weeks of lever pulling, swimming puzzles, and constant "Water level changing" puzzles that you will soon have to encounter. If one is not properly prepared for a water temple, ones will to continue the game is severely hindered.


The following is a guide to identifying a water temple.
1. The ZORA's start popping up in any form or fashion.

What is a zora? Zoras are friendly water dwellers. They often will try to
coax you into some skeam to ultimately save their race or give them money in exchange for some magical item. They are GREEDY WATER CON-MEN-WOMEN-THINGS!!!

2. You are sent on some kind of weird mission that has 1000 levels of indirection. All signs point you ending up with some sort of breathing apparatus that will let you enter their home/water temple. The water temple is generally unaccessible wihout said item...

3. You have come to the end of what seems like the first little section of the game. AKA, if you are collecting pendents, you have collected all but one...if you are collecting light force pieces you have collected all but one...etc...

Now...there are a few more but I cant think of them all right now. Here is what you can expect INSIDE of a water temple.

So go forth and get ready for yourself. Do not be let down by it. For surely, directly after the water temple, you will obtain some formulaic awesome power such as the ability to go back in forth in time, go from light to dark world willingly, or travel anywhere on the world map you like. Good luck!

Oh, One Last Thing

For my RSS readers, I have added a link on the right hand side of the blog page to my shared links page. These are all links I consider worthy or being read. If you click on the shared link it should give you another RSS feed for my "Shared" items.

Tired and burnt out

If I have to stay one more semester in school I will quit. Today I wrote 2 papers, did a Mathematica assignment, took the Math exit exam, and studied for a Differential Equations test. Tomorrow I have just as much to do. I am so tired. Sorry for the short post, but I have to goto bed. Friday I anticipate will be my sloth day. I want to spend an entire day to catch up on lost sleep, video games, and personal reading time. I haven't read as much as I would like to this week. I am still half way through Discworld 1 because I havent picked it up since my last entry about it. I want to start the Necromancer book my brother recommended to me but I cant seem to get around to it. I have already bought it, so I suppose I will get to it eventually. I also bought the "Night Watch" book, which the Russian movie is based on. Supposedly the book is amazingly fantastic and a brilliant English translation. We will see soon enough.

Anyhow, I might fall asleep at this keyboard if I don't goto bed. Goodnight.

Busy Busy

There probably wont be any new posts here for a few days. I have 2 papers, 2 tests, and a project due by Wed.

Sorry!

Television sucks

I am so tired of TV. All of the good shows suck now. The only show that I still watch consistently is LOST and it is losing my interest show by show. If flaming polar bears came from the sky with spears shooting lightning bolts from their eyes it would not surprise me. Every question on the show inevitably end with 3 more questions. Every answer is not really an answer....The writers have lost my attention by creating a show that is so large it cant possibly be answered or explained in any way that seems plausible. The only way I can see this show ending is it all being a dream...at which time I will be throwing my TV promptly out the window never to watch any show ever again. The ONLY reason I still watch it is to see if anything is going to get answered at all...only to be sadly disappointed every single episode. They are supposedly wrapping the whole shibam up by the end of the next season, but honestly I have no idea how they will do it. I am getting close to calling it quites and getting the Cliff Notes.

Grey's Anatomy used to also be a great show until it became ever so riddled with drama and not as funny. The wit has slipped away and been replaced with vulnerable characters. The only character I really related to and loved, Burke, pretty much has been turned into a crying wuss this year...Its like the Fonz is punching the Juke Box and it wont play his song anymore....Without Burke being awesome, its just not worth it. This week they have stooped so low as to "possible kill the main character next episode". What would Grey's Anatomy be without Grey? Thats like House without Gregory House or Die hard without Bruce Willis.

Everything else is pretty much crap. Every time a prominent figure retires, dies, or takes a break from acting I anxiously await the reality show that is sure to creep up to replace him/her. Need someone to marry your rich ass of a husband? No problem, we have 60 women lined up that want to marry you...but there's a twist!!!! Feeling bad because you got a stomach virus? Dont worry, Dr. Search is taking care of that.

I have realized that movies are my thing. I rent movies all the time and should just keep it that way. I am realizing that TV is only good for video game playing like Guitar Hero and Twilight Princess.

Series....

I have realized that by reading Sci Fi novels and being a dork I have eternally doomed myself to series of series of books. I have recently decided that I like certain types of Sci-Fi (see previous post). Unfortunately, and fortunately for me at the same time, Sci Fi novels tend to come in book sets of at least 600 books with each book containing a total of 5200 pages. A prime example of this is the Discworld series. I went to Barnes and nobel to pick up a "Discworld" book (written by Terry Pratchett). Little did I know, that this book encompasses literally 32 seperate novels! Each novel is a different color with a different name that completely relies on every book before it. I spent about 15 minutes with the B&N people just walking around the giant Terry Pratchett section trying to locate the book which could be labeled appropriately in the series as "Book 1". "Oh, we have book 9 here...I remember my sister read this one, its good..." he said..."Too bad it relies on books 1-8 COMPLETELY." From my understanding if i was to pick up any Sci Fi novel of any kind, it would be like reading a book in French without the precursor novels. I try to imagine reading wizard and glass without a prior knowledge of Rolands personality and my almost explodes. Luckily there was this strange guy with no hair that looked like he played D&D WAY TOO MUCH in his time that had read the entirety of the collection. At the price of hearing all 42000 of his Sci Fi recommendations (41,999 of which were in some way shape or form related to dragons or Star Wars....or god knows how, both) I was able to get "The Color of Magic". Now I have read about 40 pages of this modest and small novel. I intend on finishing it in a couple of days. So far it is pretty funny already. The humor, like Hitchhikers is very British. So far I have found out that the world that this book exists in is a Disc that sits on the back of an elephant that rides on the back of a turtle that wanders around the galaxy looking for the other turles that have the other elephants on their backs so that they can mate and make other worlds (This is referred to rather humorously as the "Big Bang Theory"). We are met with the protagonist, an out of work magician who is stuck with the task of being at our guide to the Ambassador for an EXTREMELY wealthy neighboring country. It just so happens that this Emporer wants to explore every crevice of this country (although it is an EXTREMELY dangerous one). The protagonist is forced to help and aid this stupid Emporer guy around his city while saving him from his own idiot tourist type mannerisms. Imagine if you wrote a book about taking Jessica Simpson to the Slums of New York and told her to run around acting stupid and taking pictures...now imagine being the guy that is charge of making sure she doesn't get shot...you can see the humor that ensues here. I will give more of a review after I am done with this book though.

The real book I want to talk about is the Dark Tower series. This is the series that has most caught my attention recently. I just finished book 4, and have decided to take a break from it. I have read Books 1-4 in less than 2 months.

Dark Tower is set in the mystic Mid World (basically a world between all other worlds, which at the center holds the "Dark Tower"). The Dark Tower is essentially the nexus of all time, space, everything, nothingness all in one. Our hero (if you can call him that) is Roland. The story revolves around his epic style quest to find the ever crumbling dark tower (or so he think it is falling apart...as the world has "moved on"). Thought midworld he can access several doors (literally) that will take him from this world to the next. These worlds parallel our own but in different times. Restaurants are different, events are different, the year is different (Think SLIDERS but without the chubby fat guy that made it cool). Book 1 is mostly about Roland (who is known throughout the novel as "The Gunslinger" as he carries pistols and on of an elite few individuals who is trained to be so) and his chasing of the "Man in Black" across the desert. Book 1 was the toughest to get through and was only 300 pages, but set a solid ground work for the type of character that Roland is. He is by no means a hero in the eyes of anyone. He has been known to kill hundreds in his quest to reach the Tower, even his closest friends/loved ones. He is accompanied in this book by a small boy name Jake. SPOILERS AHEAD!. He eventually reaches the man in black, who tells him his future and tells him he will meet three others along his quest. Walter AKA Man in Black also tells him the concept of what the tower is and sets the stonework for the reader to get an idea of the scope of Rolands journey. Roland is of indeterminate age, but age is of no such matter in Mid-World. The crumbling of the Dark Tower itself has caused everything in its land to warp and die, including time itself.

Book 2 is basically about how he picks up some other friends along the way for his journey. I wont go into it too deeply, those who are reading this section have probably already read the book anyways. Roland uses the "doors" he finds on the beaches to "draw" Odetta Walker, Eddie, and Jake from their realms/dimensions (whatever you like). They discover the idea of "The Beam". The beam is a path that the must follow. There are several beams that all lead to the center of the (world?) and at this center lies the tower. All things follow the path along the beam...grass brows in a pattern, clouds split, etc....They follow the beam all the way to A city (which for the life of me has slipped my mind). Anyways on to book 3 we go (Book 2 is about 600 pages...they just get bigger).

Book 3 is the Wastelands. In the Wastelands we learn some of Rolands past. Most of the book is the story of Roland and his crew traveling to and from a city that is one of the last remaining cities in MidWorld. Here the people of the city are in Revolt. Most of them cannot procreate so everyone there is old and dieing of something (probably STDS). In short, they get into several bouts with these people, get captured by some important charecters that show up in book 4 (Tick Tock Man, Flagg, etc). They end off with Blaine the maniacle train that puts them out of the city and on a 1 way death track to suicide unless they can outriddle him (the trains computer system). Book 3 is about 600 pages

Book 4 is all back story. They get away from Blain and end up in "The Stand's" Kansas where Flagg has demolished the population with a virus. Thinnies (rips in time space ?) are all over the place. They are eluding and memorizing but ultimately are the aftermath of the Towers slow deterioration. Roland stops and tells the story of his past involving an epic 600 page Witch Hunt, Western, Romance Novel -esque thing. This part of the book divulges heavily into why Roland is what he is and does what he does. The crap that happens to Roland and his crew is REALLY screwed up. We also learn about the Wizards glass, which seems to me to be one of the most important elements thus far in the series. Everyone is out to get it. It has this Lord of the Rings type Golem effect in that anyone who has it kills to keep it, and dies from being obsessed with it. In it, Roland sees his fate for the Dark Tower and the fate of Susan Degaldo to be burned at the stake for "reap day" (essentially the local fair of Mejis, the town the story takes place in). Longest yet 700 pages

After book 4 we are left with our individuals back where they started, on the path of the beam. Headed to what they believe to be the town of "Thunderclap". The once hesitant individuals that travel with Roland are now determined to finish the quest, while the story telling Roland is exhausted and having second thoughts. As they continue their quest, Roland knows bit and pieces of their future, but only slightly and sometimes skewed...there is no telling what lies beneath...I hope the rest of the books suck me in like this one.

One of the greatest things about this series that I have honestly gotten to know the characters. It is unlike me to read a book over 200 pages. I am intrigued with every page to get to know Roland and his crew, and at the same time fear the day that I reach the end. I want to know what happens, but must take a break or I will ruin too much of a good thing. This series thus far is a MUST read for Sci Fi fans. I was never a fan of Stephen King in the past, but this set of novels has renewed my faith in him and given me the power to go back and reread some of his classics.

A Shameless Plug

For my understanding, I will benefit for putting this banner thingy on my page. One day I may be able to backup my music online if I do this...so here is my Shameless plug.

Taken directly from my brothers blog
"The deal is that if bloggers display their logo and link to the post describing the free account program, the blogger gets a free account for a year. If they give me a free account and can actually backup my music successfully, SOLD. So here it is, a new music backup service called BandWagon. It is supposedly launching on February 22nd. Let me know what you think and I’ll do the same."

So here it is...

Things I have become involved with.

Okay, Thanks to a number of people in my life I have become immersed in tons of new things lately. Some are good, some are questionably good. Luckily none of which are what I would consider bad at all, just time consuming. Here, in traditional schoolteachers fashion....a list is comming your way. Clear the way for bullets because they are coming at you!

1. OGame
Now any educated person will say...what the heck is OGame? Well O Game is an online web browser based strategy game for totally ridiculous nerds....*points to himself*. Think Warcraft...but you cant see all your little guys moving around. Its like old school civilization without the map. You research, build, mine, etc. You get all your dork friends together and form a dork OGame Alliance and you spend at least 30 minutes of every day queing your OGame builds and getting ready for the next raid. Why...you ask...would anyone ever play this and how is it different from EverCrack and Whorecraft? Well the joy of OGame is that it is designed in such a way that you can play it for 10 minutes a day or 10 hours a day and it is still fun, fair, and free. The game runs in real time...you click build, queue up your stuff and then 2 hours later you have a building. You dont get a map with the building on it, but it adds to your stats. So basically after you have played for a while you build and research and so on until you can make a fleet. Once you have a fleet the fun starts. The OGame "universe" is huge. You start off with one planet, and move out to colonize up to nine other planets. The more you colonize the more you rock. You build fleets and attack other people. You may log in one day to find your homeplanet of "whatever-a-name-you-give-it" has been attacked by "whatever-other-guys" planet. Strategic building, attacking, and dominating. When you beat someone, you steal some of their resources and and a lot of their fleets. This is all done with absolute minimal input per day. You click attack, you tell it where to attack...it sends a fleet and "X HOURS" later is sends you the battle report...you get resources, they suck or they get resources and your fleet is screwed. You should check it out if you have a given 30 minutes a day to contribute. Checking your OGame 3 times a day, 10 minutes each, is more than enough to keep you sane, enjoyed, and gain a social network with your friends. Think Risk, on the computer, with more dorkness attached.

2. Teaching
I have come to the realization in my life that Programming is NOT what I want to do. Much to some peoples dismay, 1 semester before graduating I had a realization that sitting behind a desk was not for me. I need people interaction. SO...I have decided to do the noble thing and settle for mediocre pay at the expense of feeling fulfilled (which in my opinion is WELL WORTH IT). I have decided to continue my career after college in Savannah, GA for a number of reasons. First, I love the town. I love the atmosphere and the individuals. I may not find soon that I love the children here that I will be teaching, but I love the Irish feel and the Old Timey "We are old and Rich and know it" attitude here. I love going downtown to Forsyth Park and watching the dogs hang out with their owners and just having a soothing day. I love the hypocrisies that come with SCAD students and the attitude they carry. Having SCAD friends that focus a majority of their life not conforming, while at the same time do just that, gives me a joy. While at the same time, I love the feel that the SCAD college brings to the town. There are endless festivities every weekend. Every week or so some SCAD organization decides its an awesome idea to do something nuts and celebrate in the name of Art. Last weekend was the Irish Festival. Every Irish band for 1000 miles comes to Savannah, drinks, draws, and sketches to their hearts content. River street is amazing.
Secondly, my friends and girlfriend. I have been so lucky in Savannah to befriend two individuals who I consider to be the best friends I have ever had. They are different than me in several ways, but alike me in enough ways to make me feel home. I want to settle in a place where I have friends. This is far more important to me than my previous opinions of "Following the money" (As I have obviously given that dream up by teaching lol). These friends would take a bullet for me and I know it, and there isnt much more that I can ask for it. I have a beautiful and loving girlfriend that is awesome in so many ways I cant explain. She is different and still normal, regular and unlike anyone else, perfect yet still humanly flawed, she is self aware and does everything in her power to use that to help others...me especially. She is one of the main reasons my recent exploration of life has exploded. Not for her...but because of her...which is IMPORTANT. While we are extremely serious about one another, she thinks realistically in a non-traditional non-souther girl mentality...in other words she doesn't want kids and is not rushing to the alter. Marriage in my opinion is useless other than tax benefits, but that is left for another post. Money is no thing to her, and she has a genuine and pure understanding of what relationships are and should be truly...She is the person I would like to stay with indefinitely and will do whatever I can do to make that happen. If schools suck here, i will take it for her.

3. Books
What? Corey...Read? Never! I never in my life thought that at any point I would enjoy reading. I have come to the realization that (at the expense of being TERRIBLY cliche) that reading is all about WHAT you read and WHO you are. While I still look at a lot of books and think...how boring....I am currently on a journey to discover my taste. At the age of 23 I am just starting, sadly, to realize that I love reading. I have burned through a dozen books since Christmas. I have a Nintendo Wii that has hardly been played because I have so many books lined up.
Here is a list of the books I have read since I started
1. Bill Bryson
a. A Brief History of Nearly Everything
b. The Lost Continent (Most of it at least)
c. The Mother Tongue
2. Dan Brown
a. Davinci Code (Recommend not to read...boring)
3. Augusten Burroughs
a. Dry: A Memoir
b. Running with Scissors
4. Douglass Adams
a. The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
5. Stephen King
a. The Long Walk (Written as Richard Bachman)
b. The Gunslinger: Dark Tower 1
c. The Drawing of the Three: Dark Tower 2
d. The Wastelands: Dark Tower 3
e. The Wizard and Glass: Dark Tower 4

Some of these books are tiny in comparison to others, but all of which have been pretty good except for the Dan Brown book. His suspense was a good first book, but ultimately after reading other books that are better (mostly the Dark Tower) I realized that suspense can get WAY better. The book was pretty bad in perspective, and the movie was even worse.

I love Bill Bryson's History of Nearly Everything, but his other work was a little boring at times. His humor is GREAT and his views on things are hilarious and intriguing, but I have foudn that I can only read his books a little at a time. They are good when I do read them...there is just so much info in them that they are hard to absorb in large doses. Long up all nighters are not involved with his novels with me, rather than quick chapters between classes or before bed. The History of Nearly Everything was a straight through read because of my intense interest in Math and Science, but his other perspectives on American life are just not as engrossing as "History".

I am not a fan of traditional Sci Fi...I don't really like dragons, and wizards, and kings, and so on...I like Sci Fi humor like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy *A MUST READ FOR ANY DORK*. I do like the Dark Tower but I will be saving that for another post. It is Sci Fi, but in an entirely different way. Thus far it is my favorite of the previously mentioned series ("series"...another word to be discussed in further posts). Anyways, I have to goto class and then to lunch. I still have things to finish in this list, but I life must go on. Another time....

Yet another blog

Okay...so here is my 4th and final attempt to write a blog. I have a huge habit of starting these things and abandoning them about 3 weeks later, but i will do the best I can to stay true to this. A lot has happened and is worth mentioning lately and I will attempt to share it with you from my perspective (As the title of the blog indicates). So rev up your RSS feeds, because this is a blog that is GOING TO LAST....I SWEAR IT....(As all hibitual recovering alcoholics say...its for real this time!) HAH! Anyways...so here is the start...