December 12, 2003

• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Pirates Site

  
  

   

  
  

  I thought I’d put this up in honor of Pirates of the Caribbean being out on DVD (and yes, I have received mine, but, oddly enough, I haven’t watched it yet). As the title suggests, this is a site devoted to pirates and piracy. It’s pretty thorough, with a section on the history of piracy, biographies of famous pirates, and a large section of random pirate facts, including codes of conduct, a guide to pirate ships, and a small article on modern piracy (which surprised me, although it probably should not have).

  
  

   

  
  

  Previous Websites of the Week:

  
  

   

  
  

  The Deadly Follies of Stick Figure Warning Man and Family

  
  

  Jennifer Government: Nation States

  
  

  Cannot Find Weapons of Mass Destruction

  
  

  Secret Service Test

  
  

  The Brick Testament

  
  

  Hero Machine

  
  

  Urban Legends Reference Pages

  
  

  The Shadow Radio Theater

  
  

  The Shadowlands: Ghosts and Hauntings

  
  

  Story Generator

  
  

  I Used To Believe

  
  

  Time Travel

  
  

  Doom Buggies

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Please welcome my newest subscriber, the_collector.

  
  

   

  
  

  Well, classes are over for the semester (and technically, my junior year is over, since I’m a semester ahead of everyone, although I won’t graduate early or anything). The most significant thing is that I have now completed my Chemistry minor, and I never have to take another Chemistry course again (I know you get into it in med school, but at least there it’s under the guise of medicine). Chris is visiting next week, and I’m going home next Thursday.

  
  

   

  
  

  Fencing went pretty well on Tuesday. We started épée, and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, although I didn’t take to it as fast as I did sabre. I think I like sabre and foil better than épée, but I can’t choose between sabre and foil. Also, it looks as if I’m going to be Fencing Club captain starting next semester.

  
  

   

  
  

  I am currently on an Inuyasha spree. I’m usually not much of an anime enthusiast, although if Liz wants to show me something I’ll let her. I don’t dislike anime, mind you, but the only two anime shows that I love and watch faithfully are Ranma ½ and Inuyasha (and I definitely like Inuyasha better than Ranma)., and of course I loved Spirited Away. For some reason, my mom has decided that since I like two anime shows, I must like all anime. She drives me crazy when she does that. At the beginning of the school year, she tried to buy me Yu-Gi-Oh folders. When I refused, she replied, “But it’s anime.” As far as entertainment goes, I tend to go for plot first, format second. If a show with a story I like happens to be an animated series from Japan, so be it. But I digress. As I said, I am currently on an Inuyasha spree. It started as a result of my History of Cinema class. I got so sick of all the other students talking about their workshop projects, and who was filming/editing/lighting what, that I was starting to go crazy from not using Final Cut Pro in a year. I got to the point where I HAD to edit something, so I decided to make a music video. The only two shows that I had enough footage of were Monster House and Inuyasha. Monster House isn’t quite music video material (it’s a building/decorating show), so I grabbed my Inuyasha tapes and headed for the Digital Media Lab. I ended up making a pretty good music video, if I do say so myself, even though there’s a continuous Adult Swim logo in the corner. Anyways, editing all this stuff made me want to watch it, which I did. Last night Liz and I watched the second Inuyasha movie, which was pretty good, even though we had to watch it in Japanese with subtitles (it hasn’t been released in the United States yet). I only watch the show in English, so the Japanese voices sounded kind of weird, although most of them weren’t bad (but I still prefer Inuyasha’s English voice to his Japanese voice). The animation was “movie-quality,” so everyone looked slightly different (and I think I like the way they look on the show better, but I’m not going to be picky about it). Much to Liz’s surprise, the plot was based around a Japanese myth (The Bamboo Cutter’s Tale, or The Bamboo Princess, as it’s sometimes called) that she happens to be doing print illustrations of for her senior project. She was so excited when she realized it. She showed me the prints that she has done, and they’re really good. I just realized that this paragraph is probably longer than it needs to be, so I’ll shut up about it now.

  
  

   

  
  

  The only bit of sci-fi news I have is that apparently production is set to begin this month on a Farscape mini-series. Yay! Finally, they have a chance for redemption. For those who don't know, the series had possibly one of the worst endings ever. Earth was saved, but in the epilogue segment, Crichton and Aeryn were sharing a moment when some spaceship came out of nowhere and blasted them into powder. I was so pissed off when I found out. And yes, Ben Browder and Claudia Black are set to star in the mini-series, so it has to have Crichton and Aeryn in it somehow. 

  
  

   

  
  

  In other movie news, I found a poster for the live-action/computer animated Garfield movie that comes out next summer:  

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  Needless to say, things don't look very promising. I'm sorry, but Garfield just looks weird...

  
  

   

  
  

  Okay, both my peppermint tea and my lemon tea boxes are missing. I swear to God I had them when I came back from Thanksgiving, and that I kept them in a large plastic bag, and now they're not there. Now I have to drink Apple Cinnamon Spice tea until break (and it's impossible to get it right; it always ends up being too spicy or too weak). Damn.

  
  

   

  
  

  Well, I’ll leave you with something weird I overheard on campus (and I have no idea who said it): “When you’re playing rugby or something, you’re running into a person. When you’re playing squash, you’re running full speed into a wall.”

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