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February 2, 2005 at 6:40 pm · Filed under friends, tv/movies
A couple of college friends flew up this past weekend to go skiing with us at Killington. It was a lot of fun, but I don’t feel like I improved much from my last skiing adventure about a year ago. If anything, I think I got worse. The slopes seemed scarier, steeper, and all in all I just didn’t have it in me. Next time I go anywhere near a mountain of snow, I’m going to take some lessons.
On another note, Gary, one of the friends who came up to Boston this weekend, mentioned that he recently signed up for Blockbuster Online with his roommate. I’ve heard people using Netflix, etc., but it always struck me as being super expensive. But I realized talking to Gary that it really isn’t a lot of money … for $15 a month (the price of 3 in-store rentals), you get unlimited to-your-mailbox DVD borrowing AND 2 free in-store rentals a month. So, I’d break even if I just get 1 DVD mailed to me a month. Sweet deal, eh? So Ryan and I signed up for Blockbuster Online on Monday ($3 cheaper than Netflix and you get 2 in-store rentals per month), requested three movies. Yesterday, all three were shipped out with estimated arrival date of 2/3/05. Well, today’s Wednesday the 2nd (groundhog’s day!), and we’ve already received 2 of the three movies. REALLY sweet if you ask me.
Anyway … a couple of pictures from the ski trip:
Group shot at Killington Peak. Left to right: Jake, Ryan, me, Gary
Ryan looking spiffy on his snowboard, while I’m trying very hard to snow plow down a bunny slope.
December 13, 2004 at 1:12 pm · Filed under tv/movies, grad life/MIT, daily grind
As usual, I am behind on work yet do not hesitate to procrastinate. This past weekend was rather uneventful and exhausting since it was almost entirely devoted to work. BE.430 had our take home final last week, officially due last Thursday but unofficially today. My goal was to stick to the official deadline, get it over with, and move on to studying for my two 3-hour finals this week. Well, the take-home kicked my butt, and I only moved on (briefly) last night. Today was the first day of studying for those two finals … one tomorrow morning, and one Wednesday morning. Screwed am I.
Despite all this, I still found it wise to go see a movie this weekend. It was opening weekend for Ocean’s 12 afterall. The movie also kicked my butt. There were too many characters that my head spun from trying to keep them all straight. So in the end, I only remember it as an experience, but nothing about the movie itself. If you told me to write a little synoposis of what exactly happened in that movie, twists and all, I wouldn’t be able to do it. Not even in the least bit. This then got me thinking about the original, Ocean’s 11, that I seemed to remember deciphering well. Except, upon thinking about it yesterday, I realized that I couldn’t exactly tell you the sequence of events in Ocean’s 11 either. That made me rather depressed … realizing that my brain just can’t handle stuff like Ocean’s 11/12.
I’m currently waiting for Ryan to call to go eat lunch. He went to the Law School earlier today to study with his law buddies. It’s pretty late now, and I’m getting really hungry. I haven’t eaten since getting up at 11ish, but apparently Ryan and his law buddies are superhuman and don’t need to eat when normal people do.
December 5, 2004 at 2:37 am · Filed under tv/movies, grad life/MIT
My new hard drive came in Friday. It’s already installed, and my laptop’s essentials are up and running, essentials being Office and MatLab. MatLab being an essential is kind of sad, but such is the story of my life this semester. I got Office 2003 from Ryan, and I actually REALLY like it! Some of the auto-correct stuff has gotten smarter; the layout in Outlook is better; overall, the interface just looks more bubbly, kinda like Windows XP compared to 98/2000/NT kind of bubbly difference. Two thumbs up :D
Ed, Grant, Ryan, and I saw Finding Neverland last night at the Harvard Square theater. The theater was kind of small, not the best of conditions, but the movie was excellent. I have always liked Kate Winslet, and Johnny Depp has really grown on me too since Pirates of the Carribean, and the two of them together were spectacular. While I was really looking forward to it, I was a bit skeptical/worried going in after the Kinsey experience. That was a biography of a famous guy; this movie was the biography of a famous guy. Kinsey had >80% fresh rating; so did Finding Neverland. Luckily, Finding Neverland lived up to its fresh rating :)
It’s almost the end. I get my first exam this Monday, a take-home, and the actual exam week starts a week from tomorrow. At the end of exam week is when I fly home again. *sigh* I’ve been waiting so long for this semester to be over, but now it’s actually a bit sad. I think next semester and the subsequent semesters, the comraderie between the first years is going to change quite a bit as everyone gets integrated into separate labs, and as we stop taking the same classes.
I remember someone once saying to me that all the best things never last … “All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away” - Fuel
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