got this from carlos…

I am playing hooky to complete something for another class. My second photoshop class is tomorrow and our first assignment is due. So I’m kind of freaking out at the moment. And I don’t feel like painting today…

I’m in the mac lab and they’ve put new macs in! Actually, they seem to be the same except they’ve changed they keyboards, monitors, and mice. I’m not used to the Mighty Mouse… How does one right click? Oi vey.
edit: nevermind! figured out the right click.

edit: nevermind. it only right clicks on certain things. boo.

edit: It is 1:33PM and I am trying to hide from my painting teacher. I want to go into the second Mac lab to print my photos, but I’m afraid that I’ll be spotted. The bad thing about skipping class to work on something from another class is that you’re in the same building. People from your class walk in and out of the labs all the time. I don’t know why I decided to sit right where people can see me through the doorway… Thank god the monitor is huge so i can sort of hide behind it. I think I’ll be moving to that one computer in the dark corner of the room…

Whenever I watch a movie that I’m not super excited about, I secretly hope that the projector breaks down or that the film will burn. (Obviously not a secret now…) I like getting the free movie ticket at the end… especially if the movie was just “okay”. Also, watching film burn is fun… and a bit creepy. I always expect something terrifying on the screen after it burns, like a giant Ozzy Osbourne will appear on screen and … eat the audience or something.
Yeah, it kind of sucks missing a few seconds of the movie, but you’re going to watch it like 20 times after seeing it anyway! When it comes out on DVD, you’ll be watching it at family or friend get togethers or it will constantly be on HBO and you’ll watch it just because there’s nothing else on.

A few years ago I made of list of things that I want to do before I die. I filled it with things that I will obviously never learn or get to do, like “Learn to play the bagpipes”. I think I’m going to add “Be able to do the ‘running man’” because I thought about it and, how- I just don’t get how it… works.

1. Randomly pick a song from your music library.
2. Find the lyrics for the first three or four verses/chorus
3. Go to Google translation and translate the lyrics from English into German.
4. Take the new German lyrics and translate them into French.
5. Take the new French lyrics and translate them into English.
6. Post the NEW English lyrics and have people guess the original song

Us in the roads to fight our children above our feet and morals, it anbeten, and gone, us in the completely false judgement, you sat exhorted the men above decide and the gun of shot sings the song me sharpens my hat with the new constitution an elbow for the new revolution takes above with the modification completely around smiles and grinsen my Guitarre and play precisely draws aside as receives yesterday then me on my knees and does not request from us a maintenance still misled the modification, was it to come knew it to us all length all us of the time, is released and the world precisely looks at the same one and a history is not not modified ‘the flags cause them, completely stolen during the last war

I was watching the premiere of Windfall the other day and I wondered if my dad would change if he won the lottery. Personally, I don’t think he’s ever going to win. If my dad reads this, he’ll probably mutter something about how I don’t believe in miracles and how I should or something to that effect. It doesn’t have to do with believing in anything. It’s probability.

During my junior and senior years in high school, he would always play and then make me check the numbers online at the end of the day. I thought it was a waste of time since it was probably a losing ticket anyway. Once, I was just going through the motions and I accidentally copied the numbers on the ticket instead of the winning numbers. My dad came up to me and said, “Anak, these are today’s numbers right?” I told him yes and my dad started laughing and running in circles. I admit that I was excited until disbelief kicked in. I checked the numbers again. You should’ve seen my dad’s face when he found out that we weren’t getting so-and-so million dollars. Oh man. I wanted to laugh, say I was sorry, and run away as fast as possible. To this day, he believes that I did it on purpose… somehow getting back at him for the joke he played on my mom*.

Happy [early] 56th Birthday and Happy [early] Father’s Day!

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maurine says:
and then i have a picture with him holding a fake hand that is on my boob

denise says:
THAT SHOULD BE YOUR MYSPACE PHOTO FOREVER

When I was younger, I would imagine that cars were like people. They would go to the gas station for food, getting new tires was like getting new shoes, going to the mechanic was like going to the doctor, etc. So when I heard this movie was coming out, I was wondering how they would personify the cars and make them cute. I suppose you could count that whole Herbie thing, but… it’s not the same as giving it eyes, a mouth, and facial expressions. I was also wondering if it would be a decent story because all of the trailers that I saw up until this year never told us what it was about. Overall, I think they pulled it off. Cars is no Finding Nemo, but it’s not bad.

With the exception of the Shrek movies, I’m not really a fan of all the other computer animated movies. Pixar characters are much more likable than characters from other movies. Maybe it’s the way the characters look, the way they’re animated, or maybe it’s just that the characters’ personalities… Something about them just makes them more appealing.

That Squirrel Thing from Ice Age vs. Guido, the Italian Forklift from Cars.

( kudos to Pixar for making a FORKLIFT adorable. )

Another thing that I love about Pixar is the attention to detail to create this world where only cars exist. Japanese cars with Anime eyes. Tractors as farm animals. [funny scene involving that.] They’ve even turned insects into cars. ( They’re Bugs. GET IT? GET IT? ) I also love the cultural references and inside jokes that they plant in each movie. I was about 10 years old when Toy Story came out. I remember recieving a Disney Adventures magazine in the mail that showed all the little hidden things and inside jokes in the movie. ( The toolbox in Sid’s house is made by Binford, the fictitious tool company in Home Improvement. ) Ever since then, I’ve been trying to find little things like that in each movie. I think that Filmore, the hippie VW bus, got his name from the Fillmore in San Francisco… because, you know, the whole 60s thing.

One of the things that really bothered me about the movie was the length. It was just a little too long for me and my buttocks. It was almost two hours long. I’m so used to animated movies being 20 to 30 minutes shorter than that.

This semester was … “eh”. I didn’t really like a lot of my Graphic Design 2 assigments, I had no idea what I was doing in Printmaking, and I wish we could’ve done really complicated projects in Interactive Media Design.

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I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I LOVE ROLLERCOASTERS. It’s another thing to add to the “Things I hated when I was younger, but love now” list. I was afraid of going on one until I was about fifteen or sixteen years old. My older cousin took me and two of my younger cousins on Medusa. I remember being extremely nervous, but at the end I was hooked. I don’t remember what rides I went on, but I do remember that I left the park that day with a giant headache.

I haven’t been there in 2 years, so the last rollercoaster that I went on at Great Adventure was the Superman ride. Since then, they’ve built Kingda Ka and another wooden rollercoaster that is opening sometime this year. I have been waiting to go on Kingda Ka. I heard that it was almost twice the height of Nitro and OH MY HECK I NEED TO GO ON THIS RIDE, but I think Elah is not a rollercoaster enthusiast, and I’m not sure about Abbie or Leila. So unless my cousins arrange a trip (HINT HINT. i know someone from Piscataway reads this and i know that certain family members of mine live there… HINT HINT), I won’t be going anytime soon.

I think it’s amusing that I am so excited to go on a rollercoaster that goes 128mph and goes 456 feet in the air, but I avoid The Great American Scream Machine (the only rollercoaster besides the two new ones that I haven’t been on yet) because I’ve heard that it hurts…