Random thoughts

I have had some strange and disparate things running through my mind the past few days that don't really have anything to do with anything. So here is a selection in all of it's madness.

1. Vestigial is a fun word to say.

2. I think that thong underwear is proof that, if god exists, he/she/it has a sense of humor.

3. I think pretty much everything else in this world is proof that, if god exists, he/she/it is a real bastard.

4. Mute Math defies thermodynamics.

5. I feel like my friends from high school and I are drifting farther and farther apart and I don't know how to stop it, or perhaps if I even should. It occurs to me that this just may be the natural course of things. Our worlds collided for a few years but I suppose nothing is permanent and I certainly am grateful for all the great memories we made together. It's just kinda sad is all.

Well that about sums it up. Sorry if the last one is kind of a downer. Have a good weekend folks.

A long weekend

I am at the end of a long and eventful weekend. Some good news, some bad, got some work done, but not enough. My dad and brother came into Columbus for the weekend, which was nice. We don't get to hang out enough. Friday night we went to Schmidt's German Village Restaurant. If I am ever on death row, I think my last meal will have to be Schmidt's sausages and their pretzel bites. Anyway, it was a pretty good night all round.

Saturday was pretty low key. E and I woke up late and got some Cane's for lunch. He seemed underwhelmed, I guess Cane's really peaks after a good night of drinking. Anyway, we were both tired from Friday night so we just hung out and watched the Heroes marathon on SciFi. Great show btw if you haven't been watching, catch up on DVD when it comes out. After a couple hours of that we headed over to the Chemistry symposium to hear my Dad's PhD advisor talk about dodecahedrane. The chemistry was over our heads but it was cool to see the guy talk anyway. After that, my dad, brother, and I went to a Columbus Clippers game because I got some free tickets through the Astronomy dept. That was kinda funny. We saw D'Angelo Jimenez, former White Sox player, playing for the AAA Clippers (Washington Nationals), and Edwin Encarnacion on the Louisville Bats (Cincinatti Reds). Neither team was that impressive. There were a lot of fielding errors for the Clippers.

Sunday was pretty quiet too. I slept almost all day, aside from waking up early for breakfast and to see my family off. We got the base for our football cannon, Pachelbel, built and we tested our gun. It was really impressive if I say so myself. Hopefully I'll get pictures and/or video at the competition that I can post on here or youtube in a couple weeks.

What I'm listening to right now:
Dig - Incubus : Even if you don't think you like Incubus, listen to this song. It is just amazing.

A Comet Appears - The Shins : Simply beautiful and a bit melancholy at the same time.

Emo Spidey is a Dick

Spiderman 3
Directed by Who Cares

Well Spidey had a record setting opening weekend so when Becky and Zach wanted to go, I caved in and shelled out the bucks for Spiderman 3 last weekend. I should have just given the money to a homeless person and then slammed my head in a door for 2 hours because that would have been more worthwhile. So if any of you haven't seen it yet, don't.

Well, I've already given my review but for those of you who want to know why it was so sucktacular, I'll outline the worst of it.
1. The dialog sucks, as expected, but was actually so artificial and stupid that it caused unintentional laughs at several points. Although mentioning Hamiltonians earns the writers ten bonus points.
2. The villains aren't scary, or really all that villainy. Thomas Hayden Church (Wings, Sideways) is the sandman (what??) whose molecules are replaced by sand when he falls into an open-air particle physics experiment?? This insults me as a physics major on so many levels. Then spidey's buddy Harry goes all Goblin Jr. and attacks Parker, gets knocked out and ends up with amnesia (temporary I assure you) . Then spidey gets some space goop on him and gets all emo/wierd dancing fetishy. Well this causes him to be a dick to Topher Grace, whose character name escapes me so I'll just call him Foreman, who asks God to kill spidey, conveniently enough in the same church where Spidey is trying to shed the space goop. Long story short, space goop lands on Foreman and gives him sharp yellow teeth.
If that all is stupid/confusing to you, the movie doesn't make any more sense of it either.
3. As bad as the dialog was, the acting was worse. The actors had no chemistry together so that you never get to care about them or their obnoxious fucking relationships. And the scenes that are supposed to be the most emotionally heavy are delivered either so woodenly or so melodramatically (with nothing in between) that they just end up laughable.

Please don't see this fucking movie.