I win one!
[Attn: Geek Alert]
I have to say, this was a lot of fun to figure out, especially if you're a Matrix fan: Follow the Angel. The admins had to turn off one of the puzzles in the middle because of some dork on a messageboard giving away the answers, though, which was too bad. (When you get to a message saying the Node has been disabled, you can't go any farther yet.) Impress your friends and loved ones by figuring out the deal with the angel before they do! I did. Warm fuzzies to me - I'm normally not that much of an outside-the-box thinker. (I'm very much in the box, thank you... Logic, reasoning, mind like a machine... Like that time I got marked down in freakin' kindergarten for coloring all my apples red. My poor mom asked the teacher what was wrong with that, and the teacher said I "displayed a lack of creativity" that the other kids had. Apparently I was supposed to be painting my apples purple or something. But dude, c'mon, apples are red... and don't give me that crap about Granny Smiths being green, either. That wasn't what this was about.)
Anyhoo, this puzzle was right up my red-apple-coloring alley and I was proud to amaze my friends by solving the part they were hung up on. :)
[/Geek Alert]
...And now for something completely different - my rant for the day. It's really a double-rant, or perhaps a rant with a side of sarcastic comment. The main rant is that I really hate it when you go to a movie and the person behind you keeps kicking your chair. It's even worse when it's a little kid, because it's a lot harder to be a complete bitch, and it probably won't do any good anyway. Kids are just kinda fidgety, and short, and get bored, and wiggle around, and tap-tap-tap your chair. And I know that someday when I have kids, they'll do it to other people. So I feel a little bit more patient about them... it's the teens and adults I want to do bodily harm to.
But - and here's the other part of my rant - what the FUCK are parents doing bringing little kids to see a movie called "Resident Evil: The Apocalypse" ? ? ?
And it's not like it was rated PG-13, or there was just 1 blissfully-unaware-(we hope) newborn in attendance or anything. There were entire families there. A mom and her maybe 3-yr-old daughter were sitting a few seats away from us. There was a group of young'uns all under 10 a few rows up. There were pre-teens galore. All with parents in tow. All watching massive carnage, death and destruction. And not a single one started crying. (So does that mean these poor kids are already used to seeing that much scary gory ick at their tender ages?)
Seriously, dude, there are gonna be kids having nightmares about zombies tonight. Or nuclear apocalypse. Or biological warfare. Or heck, why not all 3? And that little 3-yr-old just might have a permanent fear of dogs from now on. Why, why, WHY would you bring a child to that movie?
Totally, totally yarfy. (The parents, I mean. The movie wasn't bad. :)
Mom, thank you for not letting me see movies like that when I was little. I know I thought I wanted to see Apocalypse Now that time, but you were right, I was too young. Thank you for being a nice normal Mom and putting your foot down on that one.
- Joan
I have to say, this was a lot of fun to figure out, especially if you're a Matrix fan: Follow the Angel. The admins had to turn off one of the puzzles in the middle because of some dork on a messageboard giving away the answers, though, which was too bad. (When you get to a message saying the Node has been disabled, you can't go any farther yet.) Impress your friends and loved ones by figuring out the deal with the angel before they do! I did. Warm fuzzies to me - I'm normally not that much of an outside-the-box thinker. (I'm very much in the box, thank you... Logic, reasoning, mind like a machine... Like that time I got marked down in freakin' kindergarten for coloring all my apples red. My poor mom asked the teacher what was wrong with that, and the teacher said I "displayed a lack of creativity" that the other kids had. Apparently I was supposed to be painting my apples purple or something. But dude, c'mon, apples are red... and don't give me that crap about Granny Smiths being green, either. That wasn't what this was about.)
Anyhoo, this puzzle was right up my red-apple-coloring alley and I was proud to amaze my friends by solving the part they were hung up on. :)
[/Geek Alert]
...And now for something completely different - my rant for the day. It's really a double-rant, or perhaps a rant with a side of sarcastic comment. The main rant is that I really hate it when you go to a movie and the person behind you keeps kicking your chair. It's even worse when it's a little kid, because it's a lot harder to be a complete bitch, and it probably won't do any good anyway. Kids are just kinda fidgety, and short, and get bored, and wiggle around, and tap-tap-tap your chair. And I know that someday when I have kids, they'll do it to other people. So I feel a little bit more patient about them... it's the teens and adults I want to do bodily harm to.
But - and here's the other part of my rant - what the FUCK are parents doing bringing little kids to see a movie called "Resident Evil: The Apocalypse" ? ? ?
And it's not like it was rated PG-13, or there was just 1 blissfully-unaware-(we hope) newborn in attendance or anything. There were entire families there. A mom and her maybe 3-yr-old daughter were sitting a few seats away from us. There was a group of young'uns all under 10 a few rows up. There were pre-teens galore. All with parents in tow. All watching massive carnage, death and destruction. And not a single one started crying. (So does that mean these poor kids are already used to seeing that much scary gory ick at their tender ages?)
Seriously, dude, there are gonna be kids having nightmares about zombies tonight. Or nuclear apocalypse. Or biological warfare. Or heck, why not all 3? And that little 3-yr-old just might have a permanent fear of dogs from now on. Why, why, WHY would you bring a child to that movie?
Totally, totally yarfy. (The parents, I mean. The movie wasn't bad. :)
Mom, thank you for not letting me see movies like that when I was little. I know I thought I wanted to see Apocalypse Now that time, but you were right, I was too young. Thank you for being a nice normal Mom and putting your foot down on that one.
- Joan
posted by Call Me Joan @ 11:49 PM
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