Saw Cloverfield today with Binks and Danger. Good movie. Guys, apparently we failed to notice something in the last scene. Given Abrams other works, I should have known to be more attentive.

SPOILERS:

In the final Coney Island scene, where Rob and Beth are on the ferris wheel, it apparently shows the creature (or some object) falling from the sky and landing in the water.

I completely missed that. END SPOILERS:

Now I want to find a cam capture or DVD screener to watch it again and again. I really liked this movie. It felt real.

The Box is in a state of disrepair. If it wasn’t a highly competitive academic term, I would so totally be redoing this template. Maybe that will be my “leisure” activity instead of playing the games I got for Christmas (neither of which has been completed, and unprecedented failure).

Alright.

I’ve been removed from @UW, which is nice. Now I can return to posting in relative obscurity, which was how I liked it.

Brendon used some sort of PHP hack in order to hide all of my old posts, and so I am probably going to undo that soon. That being said, I will still be looking for some sort of plugin that will allow the creation of a functional archive of all my old posts. I’m hoping that someone, somewhere, has made something for Wordpress that allows me to partition sections of my posting so that older posts can be passworded while newer ones are not.

There are a few plugins that I have downloaded which I am going to implement on the site in the meantime, specifically one to remove that unsightly long archive listing.

Brawl has been delayed again.

First, it was coming out on December 3rd. So, I could have played it over the Christmas break.

Then, they delayed it to February 18th. That turned out to be okay. Reading Week was February 18th. It seemed perfect. The first year that Mathies get a Reading Week, and my most anticipated game was scheduled for release then.

But today, it was delayed again to March 9th. March 9th, less than a month before exams and around the time most math courses get ridiculously hard.

Fuck.

Well, I definitely wont be buying this game during this term. Not a chance in hell anymore. Maybe after exams are over…but I know my last exam is on the second last day of the exam period (a side effect of working in the MUO is you find out exam schedules nice and quick).

So, yeah. If you have STAT 230, you’re going to be writing on the second last day. Shitty.

I’m going to mope and do Number Theory.

The blog is back up for now, until I can archive all the old posts and begin anew.

With my dishes washed, dried and nestled away in their cupboard, I though I should head up to my room to get some work done. Although it was my intention to polish up that work report, I was lured into this thing some call a blogosphere to see what other effects had followed Maggie Clark’s article in Imprint.

Among my incoming links is @UW|News for the University of Waterloo community. I was not entirely surprised. While I had never heard of @UW before, the accompanying description made me assume that it was a mirror of the Imprint story. I was mistaken. TingleZ, Wolfgang, and I have been added to the Blogroll at @UW. This was an interesting revelation. The divine ruler of the site is a former Imprint editor, which may mean that Maggie Clark sent the word out to her predecessor to add us to the blogroll.

The reasoning behind this is not immediately clear to me. The pessimist (read: realist) in me was immediately drawn to the worst possible reason. Perhaps that one post has given someone the impression that I care about writing real news regarding the University of Waterloo. Nothing could be further from the truth. My experiences with journalism are limited to a week long course taken at Queen’s University when I was in Grade 10. Any passion for journalism that was felt at that time has since subsided.

I cannot help but wonder whether we have been added to this blogroll as a result of our comments about Imprint’s declining quality. In her editorial, Maggie’s comments come across as both complementary and patronizing. She acknowledges that our “desire for a journalistic voice” is “thorough and well-reasoned”. However, we are also singled out for our typos and misinformation (I would have appreciated clarification on that note).

I will admit that my blog is not perfect. I do not have a writing staff, or an editorial staff, or even a single editor. I am the only one working here. And the blog is a tool that I use to keep in touch with my friends. Not all of us use MSN, and Facebook is junk. So, I drop an occasional post on here every once and again. It could be something that happened to me. Maybe it is something that tickles my fancy. You might even see something ridiculously cool or something ridiculously stupid. Frankly, I have not cared until now. My audience has been my dearest friends, and they were not judgmental.

Now, my private little corner of the web has been thrown up in front of everyone. And this brings me back to Imprint. TingleZ, Wolfgang and I attacked Imprint’s quality. Have we been hoisted up in front of the masses so that we can be judged as well. I try not to think the worst about people, but I cannot deny that this feels like some sort of way to get back at us.

As a result of this, Binks’ blog has been locked down for the day while he carefully doctors his previous posts. I may be forced to close up shop as well while I tidy things up. However, since I do not have time for this, the Box will probably be closed down for a while.

I told Binks that I thought this would happen. He told me that he used his prefabricated response in order to avoid being pulled into anything. Unsurprisingly, he evaded detection.

Maggie Clark dropped our names (Tinglez, Wolfgang, Granite) and the RedCardGroup domain in her editorial piece in the first Imprint issue of the term.

Check it out here.

The interesting thing is that she mentioned www.redcardgroup.com, which means that she will be taken to the homepage with all of our pictures. So, Bravado, Binks, Danger and I will be easily identified by…any person who reads this article and happens to see us on campus.

On the plus side:

a) Readership may go up. Who knows? We might have people stick around…right? Right? Nah.

b) Maggie Clark seems committed to change things up a bit. I guess we can sit tight and see how that works out.

Anyway, I’m going to crash now. It is midnight, and I wanted to be asleep two hours ago, but I have been reading Imprint and listening to Pink Floyd.

Oh, and I’m moved into CLV. My contact info is on MSN.