A screenshot doesn't do it justice. That's because this OP sequence really dove into the true potential of the animated medium. I mean, watching this really drives home the point of why they animate and don't just show a slideshow of images. Crazy graphic design elements, kinetic typography, lots of brilliant movement and colors... you simply have to see this sequence in action.
This may very well be my favorite OP sequence of all time.
The ED is amazing, too, for that matter.
As for th
I finished writing 52-Pickup the day before yesterday. 20 chapters and an epilogue. 176 pages in Microsoft Word (all default formatting) and 54,839 words.
I feel such a massive sense of accomplishment.
Oh yeah in related news, until yesterday I was off in the Washington D.C. area; visited a college, visited Loray Caverns, visited the National Museum of Natural History, looked at the cherry blossoms, etc. Rained on college visit and museum days, which is better than raining on the cherry bl
Accepted:
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering
University of Maryland
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New York University
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Institute of Technology and School of Science
Columbia University Columbia College
Rejected:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Cooper Union Albert Nerkin School of Engineering
That's all nine schools I applied to.
*sigh* now the problem... largely... is mo
... however I'm really annoyed because I had a screenshot of the error message and Photoshop for no reason whatsoever crashed on me and simply closed without even giving me an error or not responding. Probably has to do with the virus scan I'm running... which is annoying enough in it's own right by completely murdering my CPU and the stupid antivirus programs are practically worse than viruses anyway and STUPID @*(&(*!&!! AAARGH HATE HATE HATE okay I'm done. Plus it's not giving me the
I love Organic Chem at the Columbia SHP.
We goof off ten times as much as we do in Chem class at school, yet we haven't broken anything yet. On the other hand, at least once every two labs in AP Chem you hear the tinkle of shattering labware.
Speaking of which I gave my sister a carbon dioxide lab glove balloon today.
I don't think I've had to put new staples into my stapler for over a year. Perhaps more. You wouldn't think, but I probably only need to staple one or two assignments a week, and however many pages it is, that's still just one staple per assignment... so just one of those long thingamadoohickeys can last quite a long time.
... the problem is, I've forgotten where the new staples are.
Accepted to Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. =D
That leaves Columbia and Cooper and Columbia already said I'm practically in, only not committing to anything yet, so it's pretty much just Cooper.
And then... comes the decision... *shudder*
There's something in this world that nobody has seen.
It's something gentle, and very sweet.Probably, if it could be seen, everybody would want it.
That's exactly why nobody has seen it.So that it could not be so easily obtained, the world hid it away.
However, one day, somebody will find it.The person who should obtain it—that person alone—will be the one who can clearly see it.
And that's how it goes.
Our school got another bomb threat. I'll bet it was a freshman. Stupid freshmen. You know, I don't think I've made fun of freshmen nearly enough this year so far, and I'm a senior! It's practically a duty.
In any case they evacuated us for 20 minutes in which we had to stand outside in the cold and in which a good amount of seniors wandered off to the parking lot and drove home.
What's funny is, the threat was obviously discovered before C lunch, because that's when they announced a facult
So (I don't remember why) today in Physics I was trying to teach people how to properly pronounce things in standard Mandarin Chinese (Putong Hua). That is me and a couple other native speakers in the class and the people trying the pronunciation obviously weren't native speakers.
Young people really are pretty flexible and they were okay when they were following along with me but even after I explained all the Pinyin accent marks they still couldn't get the tonality right by themselves.
R
And it snowed.
Best. First day of Spring. Ever.
Ah, too bad it only lasted a couple hours. While it was snowing though, it came down hard. Huge clumps of the stuff.
Reminds me of the time it snowed in April and all my mom's flowers died... XD
No matter how "ahead of their time" a sci-fi author was (and I'm talking from at least twenty, thirty years back, any more recent doesn't count), it would seem that everybody underestimated computers.
Like I'm reading The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Heinlein... no idea how old it is, but his main character harps on the amazing storage capacity of these data wafers that are a couple centimeters big. They can store around half a million words.
Let's give a generous estimate and say each w
Yes that is what we Latin nerds call ourselves.
We placed second in Certamen regionals, upper level competition, which means we won't be advancing to states... ah well. We tried.
I'd forgotten so much history and mythology... and even translating into Latin, I blanked out on a rather easy question... but my comprehension was on the spot and I managed to get several translations immediately. It's kind of funny how some skills are transferable... although of course it's hard to isolate var
So, it seems we are back!
Well, I've got to catch 52-pickup back up again... the entire topic was gone. Of course, this is why I kept the entire story safely on my computer and backed up several times on my e-mail account (because I'm paranoid). So once I can figure out the double-post prevention thing I'll get all fifteen chapters that should have been up by the past Sunday up.
In terms of life... well, tomorrow's Certamen, the Latin competition. I really need to study. I've just been e-m
One out of 150 student's nationwide! That's pretty exciting! Especially since I thought I failed the quarterfinal test!
... yeah, that's about it. While I'm at it, 52-pickup, chapter 14.
We're at the dinner table eating and my sister runs off to get this book she wrote (about the "Family karaty super center" where she takes karate ) and starts presenting it to us all.
In the middle of her storytelling she goes, "Hey, turn around and look!" (since the rest of us are still eating, after all) "You don't have eyes on the side of your head!"
To which I reply, "Yes I do. You just can't see them behind my hair."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"No you don't! Only teachers have them."
So while working with some Kanji, it occurred to me that despite the fact that I definitely know the Hiragana, I'm not nearly familiar enough with them. Meaning if you told me, "Write 'nu'" I'd probably need to hesitate a second or two, remember what it looks like, and then write it. I don't have this problem with more commonly used kana but I still want to be able to achieve almost instantaneous familiarity with these characters.
And so. I practice. I've been doing this for a while, I just s
You don't want this to happen.
So seeing as recently a topic for each of the library forums has popped up in GD, esp. on the subject of how little attention stories are receiving these days, that got me thinking a bit... from my own experience, I'd like to say that perhaps part of the fault lies on neither the writing nor the readers... but the formatting.
Like, look here, see what I just did? I double-returned between paragraphs. Why do I do that? Well, because it keeps this blog entry--
Text: Glasses, glasses, where are my glasses?
So this week the juniors have HSPA standardized testing (HAHAHAHA juniors sucks for you... okay obviously I had to take them last year and they're darned easy anyway, but...).
Anyway the entire annex except for a few classrooms was devoted to the HSPA rooms, right? So all the classes in the annex for the first half of the day had to be relocated.
Now, this shouldn't have affected me. First block today I have Global Studies which is in the ol
Man I needed this. So much stuff due... not to mention US Physics coming up.
I think I had a hilarious anecdote from over the weekend except I forgot it. So it goes. :\
I finished Stranger in a Strange Land. Pretty crazy. A lot happened over the course of the story. Of course it's also necessary to keep in mind it was 1961 when this was first published... so science and ideas change. But overall I enjoyed it.
Was out shoveling snow for a while. Arms still kinda sore. We got a lot, and t
It's a link.
Well it's not that I mind not getting a lot of replies... but greater than zero is always appreciated. ^^;;
Oh and for those not interested in the above link, I still need a tiebreaker on this.
And a pretty picture for those interested in neither.
So at Columbia in Havemeyer Hall (er... sp?) there's a sign right outside the men's bathroom, next to it. It's probably the first thing you see as you're walking down the hall towards the bathroom. It looks something like this:
WOMEN'S RESTROOM
Take stairway down to
second floor >>>
Now, maybe it's just me, but I can't help but think the sign might be a bit more effective if it instead looked like, I dunno...
MEN'S RESTROOM
For women's restroom take stairway
down to second
