Inner Self

I was once told that if you truly knew who you are (your inner self) then you could write a list of 50 "I am"s. I think you were supposed to do it in like 10 minutes but mine took a bit longer.You aren't allowed to use things like titles, such as Atheist or Technologist, both I had to take off. Anyway I'm posting the list and I'm not sure why since most of it makes me seem like a terrible person. I do, however, suggest you try it.

1. I am a realist.
2. I am pessimistic.
3. I am selfish.
4. I am caring.
5. I am loyal.
6. I am a liar.
7. I am sarcastic.
8. I am self centered.
9. I am self deluding.
10. I am an asshole.
11. I am unmotivated.
12. I am reward driven.
13. I am forgetful.
14. I am vengeful.
15. I am a minimalist.
16. I am true to myself.
17. I am easily angered.
18. I am creative.
19. I am intelligent.
20. I am ever changing.
21. I am self reliant.
22. I am spontaneous.
23. I am lazy.
24. I am compassionate.
25. I am unorganized.
26. I am explorative.
27. I am often confused.
28. I am unique.
29. I am rebellious.
30. I am stubborn.
31. I am forgiving.
32. I am trusting.
33. I am aggressive.
34. I am confident.
35. I am anti-social.
36. I am worrisome.
37. I am geeky.
38. I am apathetic.
39. I am accident prone.
40. I am out-of-shape.
41. I am a procrastinator.
42. I am deep.
43. I am able to recognize bad decisions.
44. I am unable to stop myself from making bad decisions.
45. I am a listener.
46. I am an audible learner.
47. I am comical.
48. I am impressionable.
49. I am adaptable.
50. I am often content.

Oh Where Have You Gone, Decency?

I went to a movie tonight. Doomsday to be exact. It was good, but I'll get to that later. The thing that stood out the most was how terrible people can be. I arrived early and get a ticket and hand it to the ticket guy. He tears it and mumbles something presumably about where my movie is located. I ignore this and decide I can find it on my own since he seems to have no interest in it. I find my theater and discover that it is not ready yet. I'm early and can understand this. What I can't understand is why there is some form of supervisor in the hallway yelling for her employees to move faster and have this theater prepared. It continues, to my astonishment, and yet the move at the same snail pace. Eventually they arrive there and go inside. The supervisor looks at the few of us that have gathered here and says nothing. No apology for the display or for taking so long to prepare our screen. OK so maybe I shouldn't expect much here, after all these are just theater works that are probably not very interested in their jobs.

Well, eventually they come out and we are allowed to enter. You would think that my troubles are over and I could enjoy my show now, but no, it continues. Soon after I take a seat I am greeted by several younger guys that sit near me. They are talking and one even makes a phone call. He is calling to tell his friend how to get into this movie that he clearly is not of age for, of all things. I think to my self that this is not a big deal and surely they will stop when the movie starts. Boy was I wrong. They continue to talk through the movie and even keep operating cell phones. I don't guess I can blame them too much though, as it seemed to be common for my movie to be interrupted by a bright sudden light from a near by cell phone. I do not know what has happened, but I thought we all agreed a long time ago that this kind of behavior in a theater was rude and disrespectful to the people around you. Just consider the others around you that paid the same nine dollars to see this movie, and stop to think that maybe they would like to enjoy without scenes of your personal life spread throughout it.

Back to the movie. It was great! I really enjoyed it a lot. I went into it thinking that it might be a zombie movie. The preview reminded my of a zombie movie where they trap them inside a city and leave them to die so I thought it might be a spin off of that. Its not. Its just as twisted, but not about zombies. I don't want to give it away, I'm sure there are plenty of places on the web that you can ruin it for yourself if you so desire, but I do want to recommend it. 4/5

Weekend of Wonders

My girlfriend is gone now, and has been gone for several days. I'm sadly just getting around to posting about it though. There are a couple of things I want to talk about now that I have the chance.

We watched a good bit of content on Hulu and we enjoyed it. While we were watching shows it was still in beta, luckily I had a beta invite. The quality was good and the ads are minimal, but there was a lack of content. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of stuff there. Just not a lot of the same thing. For instance, we watched 3 episodes of House and that was the end of the list. Well Hulu has come out of beta and I went to check it out expecting to see many more shows uploaded. No luck, however, there are still only 3 episodes of House and nothing but clips of Scrubs. I'm disappointed since I truly believe that media on demand is where we are headed.

In other news, we also went to see several movies. We saw Jumper and I'd recommend it. It was a good movie, but the one thing I don't get about was the lack of someone teleporting behind an enemy to kick them in the back of the head. I mean any teleporter knows this is one of your best offenses. Oh well, they still come up with some creative things to do that make it worth while. Then the trouble came. My girlfriend saw part of 10,000 B.C. and wanted to go to it so she could see the rest. I pulled it up on Google and saw the reviews were terrible, and tried to talk her out of it. She insisted though, and we end up seeing it. The reviews have never been more spot on. This movie is awful. Do not waste your time on it, you will be disappointed.

I took her out to Fairhope as well. This trip went poorly. We had fun but only because we tried to make the best of it. I got lost, as I've never driven there before. Not the good kind of lost either, the kind were they make a TV show about it. No, this was the kind of lost where you say things like "didn't we pass that church twice already." Eventually we made it into Fairhope though. Lucky for us it was 5 o'clock when we got there, and apparently no one in Fairhope believes in work after 5. We managed to find one shop that was still open and it turned out that he was only open because he had forgot to turn the sign around. Still, Fairhope is an interesting place. They have a lot of pride in there city and we enjoyed just walking around looking at things and peering in windows as if we were going to rob them. Maybe next time we will get to go inside.

Things sometimes happen

Well I'd normally have the same schedule of events this weekend as usual. The weekend of WoW with a mix of beer or woodchuck is what I am speaking about. Not this weekend though. No this weekend my girlfriend is visiting. Earlier than she had planned might I add, which lead to me rushing to get things in order around here so that its at least some what presentable. Nonetheless, I'm excited to see her. I have to come up with something to do though and I'm not that good at this part. I've always felt like we had to be doing something. Unfortunately I'm out of ideas as I've already taken her to all the tourist attractions here.

I started a Twitter account, check the links section. Twitter is a lot of fun it seems, and I asked them what to do here in Mobile. Someone suggested the Festival of Flowers, but we can't make the times that its going on. Still its nice that someone gave me some input. I watch the site a lot, not that its good for me, but its amazing that you can basically see whats going on in the world just by what people are twittering.

Well maybe this weekend will be the first time we just have to be together and exist, or maybe I'll resort to going to the movies as usual. Either way I can't wait to see her again. She has talked about traveling within the past month or so and I told her to wait and we'd go together as soon as we could. Now I know a guy who really is packing up and traveling around the world with his girlfriend. When I said it I had a sense of "yeah that would be fun, but maybe it will just go away." Now that I think about it though, I'd really like to travel and see the things this planet has to offer. He is keeping a blog that I don't mind plugging here and I'm going to follow it to try to get an idea of what this would be like.

A Revolution of Content

Well it turns out I'm only a moderately good journalist at best. Since I was incapable of writing IT stories and getting people to read them, I am revising the blog. The IT Life has died, and born from it are The Days of Clay. Updates to follow.