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My room is now entirely packed up. It’s strange how one’s life can be so quickly compressed into just a few boxes. :D

Anyway, classes are now done, I found out that I kicked Java’s heiney on the final exam (a 91, when the mean was 79), and mum is here, so all is wonderful! We went to the theatre last night to see “Van Helsing” (David Wenham!), but it was sold out, so we saw “13 Going on 30” (Andy Serkis!), which was very cute. It was especially entertaining, because whenever I see Andy I see Gollum, so it was like seeing Gollum channeling Rowan Atkinson, which is just gravy. Too funny!

And now mom and I are off to ship stuff home and sell back books and such. Merriment!

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LotR, X2, Potc and Firefly own you!

So today I met with my friend Cathy to study for my Communications exam tomorrow. One of the first things we covered was Visual Deception, a small category of which was Prof Messaris’s “Top 5 Special Effects.” For some reason, Cathy wasn’t really up on the special effects scene, so the overwhelming majority of the two hours we had together was spent explaining to her stop-motion animation, the “Vertigo” effect, bullet time, the psychology behind a choice to use a “morph” in an ad, and the process and pros and cons of key-framing versus motion capture versus virtual world construction. At length. Three times.

I love Cathy and she is usually quite brilliant, but gah. At least I got to gush a bit about LotR and Massive and Andy Serkis, as Prof Messaris used Gollum as his example for motion capture and the Ride of the Rohirrim for virtual world construction. So I guess it evens out. And I got really good Italian food afterwards, so life is good. And now, back to packing! My room looks like a bomb went off.

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Just in time for 5/7, someone has started an Anti-Bush Haiku Project!

Ah, I look forward to the 2nd Annual World Blog Haiku day in July… though why it’s not tomorrow I have no idea. We must inform Gneil and Dave Barry in advance this time!

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Grr. Okay, I now solemnly swear not to look at any more of the “trading card” pictures or any sort of PoA spoilers, no matter how enticing, because I still want some things to surprise me when I finally see it. No more!

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Sometimes I wish that the apple that fell on Newton would have killed him before he got around to inventing Calculus.

I think about this a lot.