Quote of the Day

“i am 23yrs old 165cm tall,chocolate skinned,with brown sexy eye balls.”

This is from a spam email. Thanks to MysteryGuitarMan for sharing.

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

Corners are everywhere. Make a photo of an interesting corner today, capturing its light and angles.

 

What I’m Watching

I haven’t been keeping up with my reading, so instead of “What I’m Reading,” I decided to do a quick review of a movie I watched yesterday and do a “What I’m Watching” section. The movie is called Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

At the beginning of the movie, there was a note that said that the movie was based off a game called Street Fighter. I vaguely remember hearing of it somewhere, but I never played it before, so I knew from the beginning that I was probably not going to understand it as well as I could.

Although the whole movie itself was somewhat action-packed, I felt the movie had difficulty leaning toward an attempt at reality or purely science fictional. At times, it seemed like the producers tried to make the movie emulate something that could actually happen in real life, but then in some segments, it completely ignored that and added something farfetched and odd. Basically, it was slightly inconsistent.

As for the plotline, there seemed to be multiple conflicts arising and falling that sometimes had little relation to one another. For example, one of the introductory conflicts was when the main character’s father gets kidnapped by a group of criminals. Another conflict arises randomly toward the end when the leader of the criminal group, Bison, receives his daughter as a shipment, and the international police force comes to stop Bison from maintaining posession of the daughter. I don’t know if there was something in the game that involved the shipment of a human being as a package, but either way, it seemed confusing.

The Internet Movie Database’s user rating for this movie as of today is a 3.8 out of 10. Although I would probably rate it a bit higher than that because of the random bursts of action and because it incorporates martial arts, one of the only sports that I like, I still wouldn’t recommend it as a “good” movie. I suggest watching this movie only if you’re interested in random bits of entertainment from action scenes, and a little bit of tension here and there from the plot progression.

If you have both played the Street Fighter game and have watched this movie, and your opinion differs from mine, feel free to contribute to the Discussion section at the bottom of this blog post.

 

Question of the Day

A lot of my blog posts lately have involved my presence at my family’s business. A handful of people have asked me what my family’s business is. So today’s question of the day is, “What exactly is your family business?”

Although it may have been a little obvious from the pictures I took, my family’s business is a self-service coin laundry. Essentially, our business is a massive one-story building with tons of washing machines and dryers ranging in size from machines that take a single load of laundry to machines that can wash a few comforters at once.

Our customers use our business by bringing in dirty clothing from home and using our machines to wash and dry them. All the machines are coin-operated, so our customers either bring their own quarters, or bring paper money and use our coin changers to exchange them for quarters. Each machine has a different cost to operate, depending on how big it is.

The target of our business is generally people that either cannot afford a washing machine and dryer, do not have enough space in their house or apartment for a washing machine and dryer, or choose not to purchase a washing machine and dryer. Of course, people that have blankets and comforters that are too large for their washer and dryer also come to use our laundromat. Occasionally, we have people that come because their washer and dryer at home are broken.

I have some pictures of the laundromat on my Picasa Web account. Although those pictures are over two years old, they’ll still give you a general idea of what our laundromat looks like.

 

Discussion

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