The Box Co.

Damn Andrew

Figures. Lucky Andrew, as always, doesn’t even have his face associated with female faces as Binkle (and others) did. Instead, he gets the chiseled good looks of Patrick Swayze and other actors attached to his face. Bastard.

You Will Laugh

James Gandolfini and Vin Diesel is complementary. But Barbara Bush and Dakota Fanning? That’s just not right.

Dr. FuckUW (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Hate That Damn PD2 Course)

Tomorrow at 4PM is the deadline for the second block of PD2 assignments. I have always found it strange that their deadline is at 4PM on a Friday, which is absolutely useless to co-op students. It may as well be at midnight on Thursday, because no one is going to stay up too late if they have work the next day. And no one is going to work on it through Friday because they will have to work. Such is the nature of a co-op job.

So, due to my immense loathing of all courses with the PD prefix, I have to say that completing their ridiculous activities is the most emotionally and physically draining task I have ever had to endure. But still, it is necessary to complete my co-op work term.

And, since I failed to complete PD1 last year, I have to complete that soon too. My free time evaporates into the air so quickly. I would have finished PD1 last year, but somehow, the entirety of that workload became less pressing after two events transpired:

  1. I got a job, which was the purpose of PD1.
  2. I got within a two weeks span to finals. At this point, PD1 (which was a pass/fail course), and my important classes were weighed against eachother, and I went with what mattered.

But now, it has come full circle to bite me in the ass. Before tomorrow at 4PM, I have to write and submit a conclusion to a report I do not even understand (and haven’t written yet), and I have to analyse some of my own ideas. And analyse my own paragraph structure. Why God? Why? Have the standards of education dropped in this country, that we cannot be expected to format effective paragraphs in our academic writing? Sure. I have the occasional hiccup here in The Box, but a blog is more of an insane stream of consciousness thing. Like Heart of Darkness. Andrew will tell you how much he loves Joseph Conrad. Andrew loves him. They have a father/son relationship.

And, now I’ve run out of things to say for this post. Read it and enjoy. I hope to have more content up soon, but things are getting extremely complicated.

All You Sinners…

In my time of immense boredom and stupidity, I have returned to LegendsAlliance to match wits with those who have none. It brings me great sorrow to admit that - while my blog was in disrepair - I crawled back to that horrible den of miscreants and ideological Christians.

I am currently debating with a Satanist turned Christian about what it means to be a Christian. Every so often, he goes and grabs a quote from the Bible off of the Internet (I know this because his spelling is horrid, but the Bible quotes are always ‘spot on’ in regards to formatting and grammar) and he tries - in vain - to prove a point.

It is both enjoyable and saddening. Also, arunma fancies himself a genius boy because he finally has a degree in physics and math. And, since my return, he has steadfastly avoided any serious thread that I contribute to. I wonder if he fears the thrill of battle that would surely consume him.

I’m Sorry…What?

The Box says ”You moron.

Read the article. My distress with the Marvel employee will be obvious, and he has just made it so that I will no longer purchase the Civil War comics. Not that it will damage his salary. But, I stand on principle. And he is a dick.

Surely You Jest

Sony executives seem to live in a magical land painted silver and cobalt, with “Sixaxis” and “PS3” carved into giant reliefs that sit atop giant archways that lead into vaults of profit. Unfortunately for them, the video game industry has not crossed into that dimension. In fact, it continues to drift further away.

The Box says ”Behold!

Sony’s comments are confusing at best, but they seem to genuinely believe that the Playstation 3 is selling like hot cakes, and that they are meeting demand better than any other company.

I’m sorry. But, all things considered, Nintendo is excelling in that field much better. The Wal-Mart where I am currently stationed receives 9 Nintendo Wiis each Tuesday (or Wednesday), and they are sold out before 4:00PM. They have PS3 stuff sitting her constantly and it is immobile. Perhaps it is merely ornamental or afixed to the surface it rests upon by some unholy adhesive. Who can say for certain?

In order to be meeting demand for your product, there has to be demand for your product. For the Playstation 3, no such demand yet exists. Even the folks at Penny Arcade waited to buy one, and only got one because it was up for auction during Child’s Play. They purchased it for double the retail cost but only because they are nice guys. The purchase was made for the children and not for the system’s merits (if there are any).

Sony, Sony, Sony. I pity you. It seems like many of you feel pressed to say nice things about a system that is unappealing, worthless, and marketed poorly. And because of this, the gaming community laughs at you.

It is certainly entertaining how they attempt to change the social climate towards their system by reporting that it has been “flying off of shelves”. It seems as if they are trying to run their system into the higher sales numbers through outright lies as opposed to the failed deceptive marketing techniques of the past.

Good luck Sony. May the united forces of Nintendo and Microsoft leave your empire in wastes, crumbled around its foundations and lying amidst the remains of your immense ego.

The Box says “Sad Sony”.