Thank You for Smoking

This is a very enjoyable movie. While its main purpose is to serve as entertainment it deals with that art of arguing. It shows how someone can argue anything. Nick explains to his son his job. He shows how if you prove the person you are arguing against is wrong then you are right. While this is not a perfect way to win an argument it does show how you can make others believe you even if you never actually proved why you are correct. The movie is fictitious but it's cool to see how Nick can use words to turn peoples points of view and their actions. I look forward to watching the rest of the movie

Left 4 Dead

I have been looking into this game for a while. It looks like a lot of fun, but from some of the videos I have seen of the gameplay I'm not to sure if it is the game for me. It Doesn't really seem like a game where it's hard to survive and your afraid of the zombies. When I play a zombie game and I'm surrounded by zombies I want to have a feeling of no hope and that I will probably die. When I saw this game played it seemed like zombies were irrelevant and just something to shoot. They didn't seem threatening at all and despite their numbers you were able to easily kill them. Who knows maybe I have gotten the wrong impression from the videos. 

Anyways just wanted to ask anyone that has played the game to let me know how it is and if it's worth buying or waiting tell it's pretty cheap.

Here is a link to the video I watched 

Left 4 Dead Gameplay

First week back

It's has been a pretty fun week. I am really liking my new schedule. It's much more balanced than it was last semester. I had 4 classes in one day that went all day then the next I had one and went back home. Now I have about the same classes per day and  are about the same time. Most of my classes are kind of fun or at least interesting too which helps. Only class I hate to go to is Intro to Art. Possibly the most boring thing in the world.

Movies

I have been watching some good movies here lately. I have hit a wall though and ran out of movies that I knew I wanted to watch. Does anyone have any suggestions of some really good movies I could watch over the break? I guess what I consider really good are movies like Donnie Darko and Stranger Than Fiction. If anyone has movies similar to those or anything you think I may like let me know. I would really appreciate it.

Xbox Live

Just figured I would give out my name on xbox live should anyone want to send me a friend invite. My name is Shadow Demon 01. I probably wont be on this weekend, but next week you will probably find me playing some gears of war 2. So if you have Gears 2 send me an invite.

Log #11

Monday 3, 2008

We started off class by going over Aaron and Lacy's logs. Professor McArdle then brought up the Black Hair memoir. He then split the class into 4 groups and gave each group a question to answer about the memoir. After the groups had plenty of time going over their questions we came back together to form the circle of love and started going over each groups question. During this Professor McArdle went off on a bunny trail that involved sport psychologists and selling Ohio to Canada. 

Wednesday 5, 2008

Started the class off looking at James's log. We then started talking about the in class essay. Professor McArdle gave us a very interesting story of when he went to school and asked a lot of  questions about how God could have been wrong because Giraffe's necks were to tall and that the trees should have just been shorter. Professor McArdle then want back to our in class essays and talked about how he didn't want a summary of the paper. He wants our thoughts and ideas on the subject. 

Friday 7, 2008

Today was a workshop day. We were showed some examples of "your turn" and "letter to the editor" articles on the Daily News website. We then switched back to talking about the in class essays. Had another discussion about summarizing in papers and how that is not what he wants from us. He wants our thoughts and ideas. We were then given back our other two in class essays. We continued the rest of the period going over our essays deciding on which to choose for our portfolio. Professor McArdle was also answering any questions we had on our papers during this time. Near the end of class the importance of portfolios were discussed. Professor McArdle also added he would NOT be happy if we resubmitted an unrevised essay for our portfolio. 

Which to choose

Thinking about getting either Fable 2 or Fallout 3 this weekend or next week. I am going to look at some of the reviews and see which I think is better. Right now I'm leaning more towards Fable 2, but I do like the setting of post apocalypse like Fallout 3 has.