Friday, October 07, 2005
Ramblings from the man who fell to Earth
To the left you will see a picture of my niece... check out how she is nursing that bottle of root beer. I can honestly say, that addiction to root beer was probably my fault. Having root beer and corn dogs are one of our special uncle-niece fun activities. That and arguing. Anyway, I have a feeling by looking at this picture that you'd lose your arm if you tried to get that root beer away from her.
Well, what a long, long week it has been. I was at school at 2:30 AM not once, but twice this week. The other days I was here around 5 AM, so sleep is a luxury item lately. I took a Med Chem test yesterday, hoping for it to be my comeback test... some of it still needs to be hand graded, but at best I have a 77 %. The best bet is that my score will be in the high 60's. Not a great "comeback," but I am not going to flame out over it like I did last week.
The news today had a little thing about President George W. Bush's approval rating dropping to 37%. Wow. He's getting marks worse than me. A comedian on the radio said, "if you get a 37% on a test at school, they put a helmet on you." That is about right. I have a nice Creighton blue one that keeps me safe when I get off the short bus.
Its funny to me how the rap on Republicans is that they are never happy, even when they are in power. I used to think that was just a slander tactic, but you can really see it now. The party has imploded, and they will have to really get it sorted out if they hope to win the next election. If God wants a Republican theocracy so badly, why are they such a mess?
Speaking of God, I had an amusing thought the other day. I was wondering how God looks down on us, and how disappointed he is at times. But then I read an article about EA's game The Sims 2 for the Sony PSP. I love games like that, most of all Animal Crossing. I remembered how fun it is to watch your pretend creations interact and accomplish various tasks. Invariably the characters will take you by surprise, develop a personality, and even defy you. I think God probably sees us a lot like we see The Sims. He probably does get some enjoyment watching me, doing oddball things, finding pleasure in simple things and really working hard to figure the harder things of our universe out. He probably feels bad for me when I struggle so much in school, and gets a little angry when I defy him. But in the end, I think he's had some fun watching me roam about the Midwest, playing the misunderstood philosopher.
EA was on the Bubblegoose radar this month... the other time was concerning the PSP version of Madden. Rich and I were pretty excited for it to come out, because we'd be able to play over the internet against each other. Not to mention that the game was going to be chock full of everything we love about football videogames. One of the things I miss most in life is hanging out with Rich, but the PSP's wireless functions theoretically allow us to play games together. That is yet to happen. The reason is that neither of us bought Madden. There are pages and pages of reports of it not working. even single player will freeze in the franchise mode, causing your PSP to crash. The online feature works for a very low percentage of the users, and the experience is enjoyable for even fewer. It is slow, laggy, tends to drop out of the game or freeze up... and remember, that is for those who manage to connect. EA issued a small "oops" letter to people who bought it, but I think it is way too little to late. Besides, their big "helpful hint" was to not use the roster download feature to help reduce bugs... the roster download feature is one of the many things that make Madden so appealing to buy in the first place! Yikes. Not too good of a showing for EA, who had all the time in the world to work out bugs, and who owns exclusive rights to NFL games...
Speaking of NFL, I had better send Rich my picks this week. See you all again real soon.
Horns up.
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