Today we begin our list with a great scene from the end of the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. The whole trilogy is packed with epic fights and wizardry aplenty, but the lifeblood of the story is still two hobbits, and their attempt to handle a task that is way over their heads.
In moment number 100, Samwise elaborates...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Monday, June 1, 2009
Snipers on the Auction Seas (A Tragedy in 3 Acts)
Act I (In Which Our Hero Spies the Item of His Desires)
The Protagonist is perusing eBay. He spies a copy of Quarashi's self-titled debut CD.
The Protagonist: I need to buy this!
Chorus: When last you saw this item, it sold for $90. Your coffers are far too bare for such an undertaking.
The Protagonist: Nonsense! I'd never forgive myself if I didn't at least make an attempt.
Chorus: Then make your attempt, though it be in vain.
The Protagonist: I need to buy this!
Chorus: When last you saw this item, it sold for $90. Your coffers are far too bare for such an undertaking.
The Protagonist: Nonsense! I'd never forgive myself if I didn't at least make an attempt.
Chorus: Then make your attempt, though it be in vain.
Chorus: Fifty dollars is a foolish number. It is neither so small as to be sensible, nor so large as to assure victory. Your efforts are both wasted and unwise.
The Protagonist: Not at all! See there? The bid is only at thirteen dollars right now.
Chorus: Four days yet remain. Temper your unchecked optimism.
Act II (In Which Ominous Signs Gather)
Chrous: This ought to be good.
The Protagonist: I'm buying a CD.
The Wife: Why are you telling me this?
The Protagonist: It's sort of an expensive CD.
The Wife: What do you mean? How expensive?
The Protagonist: My high bid is fifty dollars?
The Wife: ...
The Protagonist: The current bid is only fifty dollars....wait....never mind it's at fifty dollars.
The Wife: ...
The Protagonist: Don't worry, it's a collectors item - any serious Quarashi fan would pay this much and more.
The Chorus: You talk about "serious Quarashi fans" as if they are tangible things that exist in this world.
The Wife: Are you out of your mind?
The Chorus: Our thoughts are akin.
Act III (In Which Hope Is Dashed Upon the Rocks)
The Protagonist: With one minute on the clock, I'm still in the lead.
Chorus: Sixty seconds is an eternity in this place.
{Forty Seconds Pass}
Masked eBay Sniper the first: I strike! Sixty dollars!
Masked eBay Sniper the second: HA! I strike! Seventy dollars!
The Protagonist: Wait! NO!
Chorus: Fifty dollars was already a fortune. Seventy would be too foolish even for you. Will you relent?
The Protagonist: Yes.
The Protagonist: This is ridiculous! The eBay system is built along the concept of a maximum bid being the highest you will pay for a given item. What point is there in this pointless sniping? If the user had placed seventy dollars as his maximum bid in the beginning, they still would probably have won the CD, and I wouldn't have had to go through all this nonsense. I'm sure it saved them a dollar or two, but so what? Stupid. I hate snipers.
Chorus: You are merely angry because it's a legitimate strategy and you're neither wealthy nor savvy enough to take advantage of it.
Chorus: Sixty seconds is an eternity in this place.
{Forty Seconds Pass}
Masked eBay Sniper the first: I strike! Sixty dollars!
Masked eBay Sniper the second: HA! I strike! Seventy dollars!
The Protagonist: Wait! NO!
Chorus: Fifty dollars was already a fortune. Seventy would be too foolish even for you. Will you relent?
The Protagonist: Yes.
The Protagonist: This is ridiculous! The eBay system is built along the concept of a maximum bid being the highest you will pay for a given item. What point is there in this pointless sniping? If the user had placed seventy dollars as his maximum bid in the beginning, they still would probably have won the CD, and I wouldn't have had to go through all this nonsense. I'm sure it saved them a dollar or two, but so what? Stupid. I hate snipers.
Chorus: You are merely angry because it's a legitimate strategy and you're neither wealthy nor savvy enough to take advantage of it.
{PAUSE}
Chorus: Well?
The Protagonist: And what if I am?
Our hero resumes his searches, knowing them to be in vain.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Bliss, Madness
Changes
I've been married 3 weeks, I've been at my new job for 5 days... Things are hectic right now. Leaving Unicel was as difficult as I figured it would be; probably a little more difficult, actually. I worked with good people, and it's always hard to leave something like that behind and jump off into the unknown for such base requirements as pay, work shift, and job security.
Married life, on the other hand, has been about par for the course thus far, the only obvious difference being Linds doesn't call her parents' house 'home'. We had been going out for 5 years, and been pretty serious for at least 4, so there haven't been a large number of surprises. The only big difference is that overpriced piece of metal on my left hand... I swear i took that thing off no fewer than 30 times a day the first week.
Let's See How This Looks
The normal sized bolded text just isn't enough to make each paragraph heading stand out. I guess I need to experiment a little.
A Silver Lining
Vikings fans have known for a couple weeks now that Adrian Peterson is the real deal (I suspect that Oklahoma fans have known for longer than that). Sunday confirmed those truths to the rest of the world. No Viking has ever rushed for that many yards (and no Bears' defense has been gouged for so many). The best part? Rather than looking like a fleeting phenominal game, it looked like AD was simply doing what he does; running hard for positive yardage and breaking a tackle or two. Rather than looking like an aberation, it seems to imply that he could break huge gains at will.
Even so, Sunday almost turned into another sickening example of Coach Childress' ineptitude at getting, then keeping a lead. The 4th Quarter turned mean in a hurry, and some questionable clock management forced Ryan Longwell to kick a career-long field goal to win. Tarvaris looked alright, it's very encouraging that he threw no interceptions, and he made very few mistakes throughout the game.
Don't get me wrong, this still feels like a 6-10 team at best, but there's just enough silver lining here to where the clouds don't seem quite so bad.
I've been married 3 weeks, I've been at my new job for 5 days... Things are hectic right now. Leaving Unicel was as difficult as I figured it would be; probably a little more difficult, actually. I worked with good people, and it's always hard to leave something like that behind and jump off into the unknown for such base requirements as pay, work shift, and job security.
Married life, on the other hand, has been about par for the course thus far, the only obvious difference being Linds doesn't call her parents' house 'home'. We had been going out for 5 years, and been pretty serious for at least 4, so there haven't been a large number of surprises. The only big difference is that overpriced piece of metal on my left hand... I swear i took that thing off no fewer than 30 times a day the first week.
Let's See How This Looks
The normal sized bolded text just isn't enough to make each paragraph heading stand out. I guess I need to experiment a little.
A Silver Lining
Vikings fans have known for a couple weeks now that Adrian Peterson is the real deal (I suspect that Oklahoma fans have known for longer than that). Sunday confirmed those truths to the rest of the world. No Viking has ever rushed for that many yards (and no Bears' defense has been gouged for so many). The best part? Rather than looking like a fleeting phenominal game, it looked like AD was simply doing what he does; running hard for positive yardage and breaking a tackle or two. Rather than looking like an aberation, it seems to imply that he could break huge gains at will.
Even so, Sunday almost turned into another sickening example of Coach Childress' ineptitude at getting, then keeping a lead. The 4th Quarter turned mean in a hurry, and some questionable clock management forced Ryan Longwell to kick a career-long field goal to win. Tarvaris looked alright, it's very encouraging that he threw no interceptions, and he made very few mistakes throughout the game.
Don't get me wrong, this still feels like a 6-10 team at best, but there's just enough silver lining here to where the clouds don't seem quite so bad.
Friday, September 28, 2007
End of (Another) Era
Tomorrow, at 3:00pm, I get married. I'd elaborate on what that means to me, and how it affects the world I live in, but I'm sort of running to and fro trying to get everything organized and whatnot. I'll probly write up something after the honeymoon.
Here goesnothing everything.
Here goes
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