February 23, 2008 at 9:26 pm (1)
Tags: comic, daily, education, halos, life, nintendo, personal, Professor Layton, random, teaching, video games, Writing
My rabbit is trying to destroy my home. I think I’m really going to have to start banning the bad one from running around too much before she starts a fire. She keeps going after electrical wiring. If I hide it, she thinks that’s a challenge. Yesterday she jumped ONTO MY DESK so she could hop off the other side and get to a cord.
I have almost finished Professor Layton. And yes, I figured out the “Food” challenge! I must say, this is a very uncommon video game. It’s not Resident Evil-style puzzles (you have a jewel, and later on you find this thing that needs a jewel). It’s like doing math homework. In a game, though!
Wait a minute….
At any rate, I have one puzzle left to solve and it’s driving me mad. Everytime I pull out the DS my boyfriend groans and covers his ears. I told him to try to solve it and he said no, so I really don’t think he has anything to complain about 
One thing I will say, though, is that there’s a major cheat factor in this game! I’m as guilty as anyone. Limited number of hint coins, huh? Not if you turn the game off and restart after you use them. As it turns out, though, I didn’t really need to do that: the number of coins kicking around is more than sufficient to solve the game’s puzzles.
Anyway, off to finish that last puzzle — I hope.
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February 16, 2008 at 5:07 pm (1)
Tags: comics, education, funny, halos, humor, nintendo, school, teaching, video games
Ah, our little angels — every now and then they do something sweet. On the other hand, sometimes not: I told them I’m not buying them presents anymore, because I bought them candy for Valentine’s Day and out of 21 kids, I received five thank-yous, ten no-comments, three “what if I don’t like this stuffs?” and three “can I throw these in the garbages?”
Right now I’m obsessively playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village on my DS. I received a very detailed training seminar in Nintendogs from one of my favorite kids the other day, too, but I opted for the puzzle solving game over the virtual dogs. Man, I remember Tamogotchis coming out when I was in high school (and getting banned from finals, because at that time the programming geniuses didn’t include a way to make them shut up if they wanted food or whatever). Nintendogs is definitely fifteen or twenty steps above.
Professor Layton is a lot of fun too, though, especially if you like beating your head against the wall solving puzzles. Does anyone know how to rearrange those darn matches to say FOOD? Please tell me!
Anyway, I’m off to dance practice, and then some more Professor Layton. Cheers!
Caryn
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February 10, 2008 at 12:01 am (1)
Tags: comic, daily, education, evolution, halos, life, personal, politics, random, religion, teaching, Writing
Yes, thoughts on evolution. I’m getting introspective here. The thing is, I just finished reading an analysis of the works of popular atheist theorists Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Have I read the works themselves? Not in their entirety, no. They’re too annoying and factually, well, irresponsible to warrant more than a skim through.
But something occurred to me in considering Dawkin’s self-imposed label for himself and other atheistic scientists and philosophers, the “Brights.” With a capital B, yes (so I guess the rest of us are the Dims — if we warrant a capital). As the name implies, Dawkins believes he is somehow the cream of the crop of humanity. And in terms of science, the man has some wiggle room: he is an extremely intelligent and thoughtful scientist. Skip over that for a moment, though.
The point is, Dakins is supposedly culturally, intellectually, and philosophically (as well as morally) enlightened, the top of the barrel, so to speak. Given that, his argument is basically as follows:
There is no intelligent design behind evolution. Over billions of years, by one massive improbability after another, life appeared on this planet. Over more billions of years, these life forms continued to evolve, each generation with mutations to make them smarter, more likely to survive. And what do we get at the end of these billions of years of evolution? Why, Richard Dawkins, of course — the creme de la creme of modern humanity, the type of person we’ve been waiting for billions of years of evolution to produce.
Megalomania amuses me.
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February 2, 2008 at 8:52 pm (1)
Tags: bellydancing, comics, daily, education, halos, humor, life, random, religion, school, teaching
I finally started belly dancing again today — I had to drop out of the last set of classes because of the play (rehearsals interfered with classes). It’s pretty interesting, actually: for a variety of reasons, we’ve moved our classes to a United Church hall. Well, it appears that some of the older church ladies do NOT want us using their facilities: they’ve been taking down signs, parking against doors so we can’t get in, and a variety of other childish behaviors.
Is it asking too much that people not sully the name of Christians everywhere? The problem is, people remember the negatives. When you talk to the ladies in my class, far more of them remember these few people who have gone out of their way to be obnoxious than remember that the church has been very helpful in renting to us in the first place.
It’s Harry Potter syndrome all over again: people who know nothing about belly dancing, its tribal origins, or what we do, but hear the name and assume we’re upstairs stripping. If you’ve seen belly dance and don’t like it, fine. We can talk. If you’ve just decided you hate it without knowing anything about it, well, that ticks me off.
More to the point, Halos is up. Miss Levine’s planbook suspiciously resembles mine….
Cheers!
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