:: Momentary Flash of Genius ::
What's in this section?
These are little grains of genius that strike at unexpected moments. Keep in mind that what I consider "genius" may not be quite up to snuff with what *you* consider genius!
Rumis - for 3D challenged people like me!
Friday, January 21, 2005
This game is so awesome! Alice and her kids Ariel and Kirstan showed me this game - it’s like 3D Tetris!
I’m not really one for strategy games and especially not one that involves understanding spacial relationships (my bro got all of that genetic material and left me with none!), but this board game is so much fun! Rumis is a game that has up to 4 players, each with their own set of colored tetris-shaped blocks. You are given a foot print and a height limitation and you begin construction.
The object of the game is to have the most pieces showing from a bird’s-eye-view. So all the work you did making the base a solid red will make no difference if the blue or yellow completely covers it. You have to be the person on top! Literally.
I highly recommend it. :D Kat gives it 2 thumbs up! It would have made me a genius had i gotten it a little earlier in life.
No more yellow snow
Friday, December 24, 2004
Have you ever experienced the disconcerting event of taking a beautiful picture of snow and suddenly realize that there’s a patch of yellow snow?
Well, worry no longer! My magnificent idea is to photograph it in Black and White! Yes, ingenius, novel, superb...the idea has been called many such things. Not only that, it saves on memory since it’s only saving black and white info versus three channels of color (RGB). Weeeee!
I thought i’d give you a sample of some shots i took in Central Park before i left. It’s actually quite pretty. Not too much snow, but just enough to make it look completely different than before!
Us Weekly - truly the fount of unending knowledge about the world
Thursday, December 09, 2004
How did i not realize how utterly useful and informative Us Weekly is? Why, publishing that magazine was a stroke of genius!
For my iTV project, i’m trying to recreate a creative diary of a highschool girl who is reflecting on interracial dating. She supposedly grabs images from mags that she would read. So i am gleaning through old copies of Us Weekly to find pics of interracial couples. Not so much luck in that arena, but woot! I’m finding out all this useful information about the people i care about.
For example, this is seriously old news now, but Quentin Richardson (formerly of the L.A. Clippers and one of my favorite players in that club) is engaged to Brandy! And he looks really strange with hair! And this was back in AUGUST!! Bizaaaarre. This is also where i found out about the Baz and Nicole commercial for Chanel No. 5.
So. much. useful. information. I can barely stand it.
Up to my eyeballs in it
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
This post is in the “Genius” section, but i feel far from that at the moment.
This program is kicking my butt right now! There are projects flying all over the place, my groups are having troubles scheduling appointments with our “real-world” contacts/clients, deadlines are fast approaching and so is the end of the sememster! Yikes! People around me are going crazy! Stress is oozing like some kind of secretion from a large, tentacled, oozing alien creature.
And i love it!
This is what i came back to school for. For some reason, i’m not stessing out quite yet. I have yet to actually do school work on a Friday and most of Sunday remains open for social interaction as well. I think i really *should* be stressed out soon. Perhaps it’s just my procrastination that’s kicking in. Don’t ge me wrong; school is doing its thing and making me feel uncomfortable about my deadlines, but nothing unmanageable.
So if you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s because i’m out running around, filming peoople and digging up educational theory and methods.
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
This game freakin’ rocks! (but don’t take my word for it. Read the reviews!)
So Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (RC3) is by Insomniac, the company that Slim and Max work for. This game has gotten all kinds of crazy reviews! It’s ranked as the second highest ranked game EVER (the first is Zelda for the N64). W00t! It’s got this great multiplayer option now as well as a full single-player mode. It’s basically getting 2 complete games - the addition of one does not detract from the other.
Now, i keep saying this game is great, like i’ve played it or something but in actuality, i have to go off of other people’s testimonials. It just went on sale today! I’m gonna try this game even though i don’t normally play games at all. Slim initiated the “squatting stat” in multiplayer mode which basically is how many times you humiliated the other players (by killing them and then putting your character on top of theirs and literally squatting on top of them). Sweeeeeeeet. It’s great to have your mark in some permanent piece of work, isn’t it?
Anyway, go out and buy RC3. Go have fun! Go squat to your hearts content!
"The hills are avive..."
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Why isn’t there a word to differentiate between being alive as in, “I’m a sentient being” versus, “I’m alive but i’m a vegetable that uses CO2 and photosynthesis to grow my cell walls?”
This was one of the many topics that were tossed around at Jannine’s birthday dinner at Penang Restuarant. Why not differentiate between the vegetable and the animal?
Sensing that the English language has been lacking this very word for centuries, i put my Mensa-level brain to the task...and came up with....
This word has both Germanic and French roots. Well, actually, it’s mostly a bastardization of the word “live” and the French word “vive” which...well, which means to live. So let’s face it, I stole it from the French but just made a new meaning. Vegetables alive = Veg - alive = v-a-ive = AVIVE
GENIUS!
This can be easily conjugated into many other parts of speech. “Viving” (pronounced with a short ‘i’) as in “All viving plants need water.” “Vive” (long ‘i’) can be used like this - “Vive plants somehow use soil without depleting it.” And how insulted would you be if someone said to you, “Buddy, you’re so brain dead that you’re barely AVIVE much less alive!” oooh, that one stings!
So make sure you add this to your vocabulary! I’m going to go have a nice little chat with Merriam-Webster now…