Archive for July, 2008

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 by sentimentalgamer

I’m a bit of a fan of the books. They’re hilarious. And fun. And smart. So, I finally made myself watch the movie. I actually started to watch it before, maybe a year or so ago, and it’s one of the few movies I literally could not watch, so I stopped 10 minutes in. It was just… not… funny…. you know? Like, whereas the book had me in stitches by the time the Earth is blown up, the movie… I really couldn’t bring myself to laugh much at all.

So eh… oh well. I told myself I’d try it again, and I did, and nope… it didnt’ get any better. Could have been a lot of fun, but nope.

So, as so often happens with this sort of thing… read the book, skip the movie.

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Summertime

Posted in Sentimental with tags on July 4, 2008 by sentimentalgamer

There’s two possible reasons for not updating Sentimental Gamer as much as I should.

Reason 1: I’m just so darn happy with life that I feel no need to comment on it.
Reason 2: I’m just so darn depressed with life that I feel no need to comment on it.

Actually, it’s probably a mix of the two. Funny thing I’ve been thinking about a lot is that I sort have a love-hate relationship with what I’m doing in life. On the one hand… man… I’m friggin working on Spore!!! Fairly sure that it doesn’t get much better than that. Then, on the other hand, I get the nagging feeling sometimes that this is a really hollow life and I need to pull a 180. Feel the same way a lot at Cornell too. I either feel “wow… this is it! This is the apex of life!” or “God… this is just a poisonous way to live.” I’ve really not sorted out for myself which of the two is true.

Then again, maybe it just means that only select bits of my life are either great or poisonous. Maybe I’m doing ok on average (to quote The (British) Office that I just watched… maybe I’ve rolled a three?). *shrugs*

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