Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Miracle Drug - by U2

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Thats right people, its a new post straight from the brain of your lovable rambling fool. This probably could have went up far earlier (yet still maintaining the same level of crap) but well i didnt want to put up a new post till i got the new U2 album (giving me something at least to talk about) and then well i got lazy as i normally do and put it off till tonight when i dont feel like studying. Hmm think i can top that "sentence" for lack of well a break? Lets find out!

So yeah lets get the boredom of life out of the way. Semester one is coming to a very rapid and scary car-wreckish ending but at this point i could care less. Damnit wheres my christmas already!! Finally done my chem 101 labs, which is great considering all the other labs are wrapping up next week. Should be working on a rather stupid essay critique but meh its only due tomorrow so life will go on. Thats enough on school because lets face it no one ever wants to hear about that.

Finally finished Going Postal which turned out to be a rather good book, then again its the only real book ive had time to read while up here. Damnit! and reading used to be such a factor in my "down" time. Ah well, good read although slightly odd considering it had actual chapters and well a staple of Pratchetts writing has been the lack of chapters. Gave the book a better flow without them but meh ill live, it passed the time etc.

Floor went to the waterpark in west ed on saturday and boy was it a fun way to blow off a day. Well minus the incredibly cool but incredible rip off thumb-print activated lockers. Somehow i doubt that a space slightly larger than a shoebox is worth 6 bucks to rent, fancy high techery or not (yes thats right techery; what you gonna do about it?). Waterslides were a blast though, especially the blue bullet. Man races in that was so fun especially once we found out which tube went faster and then obviously did a team race. Good times..good times. Just so long as you dont ride the tropical typhoon, aka toilet bowl, aka cheese grater for ones back. Dear god is it so hard for them to just smooth down the edges connecting the plastic sections? Ah well one bad factor of all the slides, plus standing in defiance of the waves was quite fun albeit made us look like fools but isnt that whole point of it all?
Of course it is. Jeeze what a dumb question to ask

Aannywho. Also bought Blade Runner while at west ed which i found for 11 bucks on DVD. this of course made my day because its one of my favourite movies of all time. Such a good film which i reccomend you all go and rent and then say what is this crap and throw a rock at yours truly. Bricks are also fine and Neil the howitzer is back from the cleaners so its available for those who are outside of hucking range. My opinion of the movie will still stand though, regardless of any chunks of pavement flying at my person.

While on the topic of buying things I got the latset CD by U2 whose best song now graces todays song of the day. Its a pretty good album overall i must say, not up to the extremly lofty standards of The Joshua Tree but still far better than their last in my opinion. Also i think its better than some of the reviews its getting but then again i do have a rather odd and random taste in music (considering i like both journey (often credited with being one of the stalest acts of the late 70's) and the police (a part of the New wave movement that brought about the end of such groups as Journey)). So yes expect some of the others songs from the album showing up in that nice happy line at the top of the blog that i am sure no one even pays attention too.

Speaking of music ive also came across another extremly great sounding new group called Metric. Although not really all that new waht with being around since 2001 ish, they are new too me and if anything one of the definite perks of rez is being able to find out about the fact that there still is good new music out there. Closest comparison i have for their style is a killers esq vibe (what with the synthesizers and all) but with a female lead singer. Top notch all around. Be sure to see a few of their songs mixed into the songs of the day along with the new U2 stuff.

Holy cow i really havent posted in a while considering ive now bought Half Life 2 and are at least 3/4 of the way through it. Man alive... well regardless i can happily say it was well worth both the wait and the money. Such a quality game, from the graphics to the story and the gameplay is just so much damn fun. None of the predictablitiy of Doom 3 (well minus the fact that its now commonplace for blood streaked wall to equal zombie attack but for some reason it never gets dull like it did in Doom). Guns all sound perfect, everything just feels right and that reload animation on the pulse rifle is just far to slick for words to do it justice. Near perfection i tell you, obviously not the best game ever but it comes damn close.

Moving on so i dont sound overtly geeky ill comment a bit on you guys and call it an evening. And in retrospect there isnt much to comment on. Ergo actually yeah that is what the backs of our shirts look like jackie. A guy on our floor has a silk screen and he did them all for us so they turned out rather nifty looking. Oh send my thanks over to your sister for pointing out how the bastards at Guinness Canada are lying sacks of shit and its the canned stuff that i want... and in retrospect yet again i realised ive talked to all of you since that post and well replied to all those comments. (btw thanks for the long awaited return to the world of the commenting Jenn, you bumped the avg comments back up over 5; kudos!) So..

Till Next ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

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