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August
2002
Stay awake
August 31
I realize live journals are the type of thing to
write about school in, but the thing is, I'm too busy
with school to write here. That may sound a bit
pretentious, sense I just finished my first week, but I
think I'm getting a good taste of what's ahead.
The following lies within the
realm of pseudo-philosophy, read at your own discretion.
At what point does opinion become
fact? Say you took two televisions: A Philips
60" Widescreen Rear- Projection HDTV Monitor with
D-Sub Input and 2-Tuner PIP (Model:
60PP9352) and this,
and gave them the same feed. Then you had someone watch
the two side by side, and asked them which one looked
better. Could they be wrong? If so, how close of quality
between the two sets would you need before it becomes
opinion instead of fact?
If a man held two rocks, one 10
ounces, and one two pounds, and was asked which one felt
heavier (not what one was heavier, but what one felt
heavier) could his answer be wrong? If he
genuinely and honestly thought that the 10 ounce rock felt
heavier, is he wrong?
Take me out
August 20
The proceeding entry was put into the Me talking
section, do to the fact it was quite long.
Also, a new entry was added to
the Thoughts From page, concerning a recent minor league
baseball game I attended.
Lists
August 15
I like lists. They're very fun. You can makes lists,
you can argue about lists, you can compare lists, you
can do lots of stuff with them. I bring this up because
Harry Knowles, Hollywood's self-titled stepchild, has
put up an article
pretty much denouncing the entire concept of lists.
Now first, a few
works about Knowles. Harry is probably the best
barometer I know of for judging if I want to see a movie
or not. He likes a movie, because of these reasons, and
I decide to see it. He hates a movie for these reasons,
and I decide not to see it. However, he could claim that
this movie is the best movie of all time, but when he
says he likes for these reasons, I decide not to
see it. Then again, he could not really care for a
movie, but because he doesn't for theses reasons,
I'll buy a ticket the first chance I get. I've found it
hardly ever fails.
Anyway, I like lists
for the exact same reason he doesn't. He says that
giving top ten lists isn't even specific enough, are
they your favorite movies, the most significant movies,
or the ten best movies. But that's the great part about
them: there's no right list. No one's list is correct.
They're all wrong. You can argue all you want, you're
never going to come up with the right list. And that's
what's fun about it. You can look at Sight and Sound's
list of the best actors, directors, and movies and say
"Well what about Charlie Chaplin? He was one of the
original faces of movies." You can look at look at
VH1's Top 100 albums and say "They put 'Songs in
the Key of Life' above 'Pet Sounds?.'" You could
look at EGM's top 100 games of all time and say
"There's only one SNK fighter and it's not
'King of Fighters '98'?"
You see, it's not
that lists are supposed to be definitive, they're
supposed to encourage discussion. True, some people take
things very seriously, and get defensive, but people do
that about everything. It's a lot more fun to ague if
"The Bicycle Thief" should rank higher than
"Seven Samurai" than if both were good movies.
People have always defended their opinions, what better
way to express them than to stack them all up in
numerical value? It may be slightly cold to assign
numbers to things, but once again, these aren't be-all
end-all. They're comparative. Say you have your favorite
movies written down and you compare them with your
friends.
"Wait
here," says your friend, "You put 'All Quiet
on the Western Front' in front of 'The Godfather.'"
"Yes," you say, "I thought it had a
greater impact on future movies than 'The Godfather'
did."
"But this is about the best movies, not the most
influential ones."
And so on. This is
why we share opinions, to defend, express, stack up
against and readjust. I may be presenting a perfect
world scenario, where people discuss instead of fight,
but that's only to show what lists can be. In any
case, I stand by my view on lists, unless any of you
would like to tell me otherwise.
Vinamp
August 13
Neat thing Winamp can do: Select all of the tracks
and press Ctl+Alt+G. It'll create a html list of all the
songs. I messed around with mine to fit the sites
template, and here you are. I
put it up with the personal section, should you visit
there.
Nice Jumping
August 9
"The Master of the Flying Guillotine"
review is now in the Media section. Please read it, and
please make every attempt you can to see it.
Gnome
August 8
Someone wrote the words knome and gnome on the sheet
of paper I use as a mouse pad. Odd.
In any case, I've got three old reviews in the media
section as well as a completed about section. Know
useless facts about a complete stranger! Yay!
Very true
August 5
I've discovered the secret to success. To gain notoriety
in any field you must do one of the following:
A) Do it first
B) Do it best
C) Do it naked
I however, do not
fall into any of these categories, in anything.
Check out our first entries in Me Talking, wont you?
Hard a boardport
August 3
I've got the general
structure of the site going, along with some actual
entries, mostly (entirely) in writing.
5...4...3..._..._....
August 2
Welcome one, welcome all to the maiden voyage of the
S.S.S.S.S. Or Lack Thereof. Here I hope to have many
things in the future. Future things. Like Dippin' Dots.
Until then, watch in
awe as the site springs to life like any number of
flowers that do that sort of thing.
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