Entries from October 2008

October 30, 2008

Fallout 3: Tales from a Confuzzled Beginner

“Needs more tutorials.”
Now there’s something I don’t find myself saying every day, but if ever it was appropriate to utter the abominable sentence above, Fallout 3 is the place to let it slip.

The game exudes an atmosphere that I want to soak in through every pore.  I want to explore, to discover, to roam, and [...]

October 25, 2008

t.A.T.u. – Minus the Blippy

When a band decides to pursue the path of change with a new album release, the trail is always fraught with danger.  It seems that t.A.T.u. have attempted to brave this tricky task with their newest album, Happy Smiles (or Vesyolye Ulybki for those of you who can’t read Russian and would rather look at [...]

October 22, 2008

Wallpaper Concoction

There is a particular type of desktop wallpaper that I seem to like very much which is not overly easy to come by on the expansive Interwebs.  Good wallpapers are hard enough to find, much less ones that fit my rather strange tastes.
The particular style in question is that of minimalism.  I like to have [...]

October 20, 2008

Wavering Republicans

What, exactly, is it that the Republican party stands for these days?
I make no bones about the fact that I am a fairly liberal-minded person, but I mean that question in the most sincere way possible. I have managed to completely lose track of what my opposing party claims to stand for.
At one point [...]

October 14, 2008

Philosophy in Abstraction

Why are all philosophy classes a giant load of nonsense?
Every course I’ve taken in the discipline feels like such wasted potential.  There are so many fascinating questions and issues to explore in philosophy.
What does it mean to be beautiful?
How do we know what we know?
What is human nature?
How do we assign value to things in [...]

October 14, 2008

An Ugly Betrayal?

It’s not often that I wish a book had been less enjoyable.
“Yeah, that was so awesome, but you know what would have been better?  If it had sucked a little more.”
Yet Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, has placed me in just such a position.

[Note: I’ll try my best to keep away from overly specific spoilers, but [...]