Prose is ponderous so I’ll list significant goings-on for the last month below.
1. Posted to Armour HQ
2. Got into Cornell (but unsure as to whether to go). Waitlisted for Stanford and Williams.
3. Got a new PC. But it’s giving me speaker static problems. Anyone with any idea why?
4. Playing games like BioShock and Half Life 2 in my free time.
5. Chronologically inverted, but I passed out of BMT a happy private.
6. Began collecting Hayao Miyazaki films on Code 1 DVDs.
7. Watched the most awful parody in cinematic history (refer to previous post)
8. Noted the most pathetic advertising slogan on the market today: “Simply Indescribable” for McDonald’s McGriddles breakfast. If you can’t describe it, why bother advertising it?
9. Finished, at long last, the thick, erudite and at times darkly funny synoptic account of the 1930s era leading up to the Second World War, The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon.
10. Updated this blog at long last.
Speaking of advertising, I really should get some for this foundering morass of a blog. It’s been so long since I touched WordPress, the new dashboard is a surprise to me way behind time.
Haha, speaker static often an artifact of bad cables or bad connections. Other possibility: unshielded source somewhere nearby. ‘Indescribable’ reminds me of Asimov’s answer to ‘what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object’ — an indescribable event.
Yay! Finally an update. =) I’ve been clicking here futilely for ages…
Haha. I know. NS saps away my desire to blog.
sinisterdexterity – Anyway the static problem seems to have disappeared, for now, at least – I reconnected the speaker power cords to another power point. Thanks for the advice!
miyazaki rules!
Hey colin,
you got waitlisted by Williams??
Unbelievable. :/