Eriq’s Blag

Somehow I managed to completely forget to post anything for the last three days. After we got back from house sitting I attempted to play TFTwo only to find that we had literally run out of internets. I was unaware that our service was capped at twenty five gigs and I had managed to go over that. With four days left in the month, I had to pay five pounds for five more gigs. I did almost nothing yesterday as I had stayed up late the night before, but in the evening my dad and I went to see Surrogates which was a cross between Die Hard and I, Robot. It wasn’t terrible, but it also wasn’t mind blowing. One thing to note is that no matter where you go, movie theaters suck. They overcharge you to watch ads that they are being payed to show you. I suppose they have to pay to show the movies, but fuck them. Then I stayed up late again watching Farscape. Again I got nothing done today. I got Trung Left 4 Dead and Garry’s Mod for his birthday and we played through a couple campaigns. When we tried to play GMod, he kept getting kicked from servers claiming he was logged in from another location, despite the fact he wasn’t. Hopefully that will fix itself because he can connect in TFTwo just fine. Now for more Farscape.

I meant to wake up at ten in the morning. I woke up at seven. I went to bed  at two. After finally figuring out where to put my laptop so as to not burn/melt/crack anything I played TFTwo for about an hour completing an entire game (getting two hundred and eighty nine points) without the internet cutting out. Although my ping was at a near constant one eighty to one ninety, it played smoothly. I’ve now determined that the router resets whenever a computer connects…or when it feels like it. I had planned on going out, but I had no money and by the time I was done with the game, my mother had fallen asleep. When she did wake up I helped her with her laptop and we eventually went shopping. The city does not smell very nice. I took some pictures on our journey to Marks and Spencer. The first thing I wanted a shot of is what is called the gurken, a large, pickle-shaped office building:

Giant Pickle

We walked through the place where (according to my mother) the Diagon Alley scenes of Harry Potter were filmed. I couldn’t give a shit, but I figured Emma would be mad if I didn’t take any pictures:

This is for you, Emma.

When we got to Marks and Spencer I found this:

Might have to get this for my birthday.

Then there was Lloyd’s Tower which looks like something from a dystopian mining facility, but whose picture is currently sideways. When we got home I fiddled around on the computer for a while and then Princess Mononoke was on and having never seen it I felt I should watch it. I did. It was of course very good and trippy. Then I fiddled on the computer some more. We’ll see how sleeping goes tonight.

The new Indiana Jones with an unbelievabley long title came out today; I wore my hat and whip to celebrate. Lots of people were busy today (damn them and their schedules), but I got Alex and Harlan to go with me. Ignore all those bad reviews you’ve read. The new Indy movie is pretty kick-ass. I’d say the writing it better than that of the first 3 even though the plot is much, much stranger. Although, I’m ashamed to say, it did not kick as much ass as Iron Man.

I forgot to write about the fact that I saw Iron man. In short it was aweome. Slightly longer, it was awesomazing. I went with my friends Alex, Harlan, and Trung. Did I mention it was awesomazing? If you haven’t seen it you should.

This is definitely the best “Meet the…” so far.

Even though “The Princess Bride” is my favorite movie, I’ve never read The Princess Bride. At least, not until now. I bought a copy on Friday and started reading it. There are two reasons why the movie was so good. First, the screenplay was written by William Goldman, the same person who wrote the book, so there’s non of that “I’m going to interpret this differently” bullshit. Second, (and this leads off from the first) the movie is not a rewritten version of the book, it’s an abridgement, albeit there are a few word choice variations, but for the most part, it all happens and is said in the same way. Both of which are a good thing, the advantage of reading the book is that it gives more background for the characters, so not only do you love the characters, but you also know them.

I haven’t posted much lately. As I said, I’m lazy.

However, I finally uploaded the Bio video:

I never got to see it in theaters; disappeared too quickly. I must say, that was fucking awesome. At first the plot seems rather simple: guy with baby gets shot at, but then it builds up, all the while filled in with extremely well choreographed fight scenes…and carrots.

So, apparently our movie was a real hit and I’ve got a number (okay 2, including the one in comments of the previous post, but also one by my bio teacher) of (damn I’m not sure what word I’m looking for, suggestions?) to put it on YouTube, maybe. If I do, it will have to wait until this weekend because it would require me to get the size down from 1.2 something gigabytes to, I believe, 100 megs, plus I might alter a few things that I don’t like.

We had to make a video for bio. I’m the only one in my group that knows how to use video editing software. I probably spent between 9 and 11 hours editing it…maybe more. However, it’s done!!!