Two students arrive at an impasse and ponder the many different ways of resolving it, much to their friends’ growing frustration.
Pavement
The bus sped away as I was making my way towards the stop. “Ha. Good thing I decided to bike instead.” The drizzle was a drizzle. Good thing indeed.
I guess it is true what they say – time does slow down when you are getting hit by a car.
My Neighbor Totoro; or, where is the second half of this movie?
I know I will get a lot of flak for this, but I just watched My Neighbor Totoro and honestly do not think it is a very good movie. Hayao Miyazaki excels at creating beautiful, rich and enthralling fantasy settings that beg exploration. He does not, however, excel at actually exploring them.
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So a straight man walks into a gay bar…
“Arizona?”
“Yep, my parents live there, but I’ve been here for a few years now.”
“Good for you!”
He smiled as he gave me my driver license back.
Of course, that was just an excuse to pat my back, which was just a pretext to put his hand on my shoulder, which was just a ploy to slowly slide it up and down massaging me a little too sensually for my liking. Oh yes. I was just about to enter the gay bar.
Redefining RPG Conversations (Part 1)
When a player chooses a play style in a game, he is presented with a multitude of options. A “fighter” can use many weapons, parry, dodge, and use potions or magic scrolls. A “thief” can usually sneak around, hide in shadows, use sound cues, distract the enemy, turn off lights or use gadgets. Even in non-RPGs, such as a racing game, one can change their car, tweak the engine, ram into enemies or drive peacefully. And he can do it all dynamically, at any point in the game, constantly adjust and re-adjusting his strategy.
But a “conversationalist” – what can he do besides merely picking from one of the few predefined responses?
Three reasons why Greyhound sucks
A few years ago, I had the opportunity made the horrible mistake of taking a greyhound bus from California to Arizona. Greyhound™, being a kind monopoly that they are, made sure the provided service is as horrendous as possible and all the costumers are treated like sheep. And you know it’s bad when the fact the trip takes some 13 hours in a cramped seat on a bus is actually one of the better parts.
Why I no longer donate blood
Most of your typical community service experiences follow a similar pattern of interesting, yet demanding work, filled with many new challenges, revelations and a profound feelings of self-fulfillment and satisfaction. My community service experience, however, was quite… different.
Reason #13 Why High School Is Atrocious
One of the many reasons why High School is Atrocious, as an analogy for you working folks!
Ceiling Painting
Just something to do on a day when you are really bored and it’s raining outside…
Butter
Sometimes you just can’t believe it’s not butter, and the truth hurts.