3D Movies are Pointless

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Topic #202: Here in the U.S. it can sometimes be harder to find a theater playing a new movie in plain old 2D than in 3D. Do you think the trend for releasing movies in 3D will continue, or is it on the way out? Why or Why not?

I don’t think that 3D movies are going to continue on with such popularity in the future. I’ve never seen a 3D movie in a theater before, but I’ve heard that it doesn’t really add that much to the movie. When we watch 2D movies, we automatically add a third dimension into the picture. For example, when we see a tiny man slowly getting bigger, we assume that he is walking towards us, not rapidly expanding in size and mass. The added dimension really isn’t needed to help us out with that.

I also heard that watching movies in 3D will give you headaches. I remember my dad telling me a long time ago that he read in a newspaper that if you watch a movie in 3D, it takes your brain twice as long as the movie after it’s over to go back to its normal state. It didn’t mention any damage occurring, but I’d rather avoid a headache and watch a 2D movie, adding the third dimension in by myself.

 

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The Point of a Todo List

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Tip of the Day

If you see something on your todo list that you have a faint memory of adding, it probably means that it was important enough at that time that it had to be done. Not seeing the reason behind it and ignoring it will most likely have negative consequences later when you finally remember why you added it onto your list in the first place.

 

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Topic #201: What would it take to get you to move? If someone you trusted offered you $1000 to move to a different city, would that be enough? More? Or would you need other things (the promise of friends or better weather?) What would they need to offer you before you’d instantly say yes? Or if you already want to move, what would it take to get you to stay?

If I was paid $1000 to move to a different city, I would probably do it if it actually really is a city and the location of my home would be convenient. I would also most likely accept the offer if my destination was California (although, I might put the offer on hold until I finish my undergraduate university studies in Madison, Wisconsin). It would be helpful if I got more than $1000, though, because I would still want to have some money left over after the moving costs.

I don’t think the promise of friends in my area is that important of a factor of me deciding if I want to move or not, seeing as I usually don’t spend a lot of time in person with friends in the first place. The weather is important, though, because I’ve lived in cold and snowy areas all my life, and I’d rather live in a place where it doesn’t snow at all and rains infrequently. The trade-off is that I would have to live through more hot weather, but as long as I have an air conditioner, I would be fine.

 

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Done Transferring Photos to Picasa

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A few days back, I finished transferring all my Facebook photo albums to Picasa Web so they appear in my Google+ profile.

If you’re friends with me on Facebook, you may or may not have noticed that I stopped using Facebook about a year and a half ago, and made my entire profile private so people couldn’t contact me or see anything I uploaded unless I initiate the conversation.

This also meant that the photos and videos I uploaded were hidden too. About a year or so ago, I uploaded all the videos I had on my Facebook account to my YouTube account, and now I’m finally done transferring all the photos as well so all my old content is public again.

https://plus.google.com/photos/101330767311420885425/albums

Not all the photos might make sense because I didn’t transfer over any of the captions, and it seems like a tedious waste of time to do so. But, I’ll be sure to include relevant captions for all future photos that I upload.

 

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Literary Tattoos: Do you have a literary tattoo? Or, if you got one, what would it be of?

I don’t have any literary tattoos and I’m most likely never going to get one, but if I were forced to get one, I would probably get one of a book in the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, or The Lost Symbol).

Topic #200: In honor of reaching topic #200, what in your life would want to have 200 more of? Some people say they want to live longer, but would you really want to live for another 200 years? Others claim they want to be smarter, but how would you get along with your friends if you were 200 times smarter than they are (assuming that’s not already the case)? Perhaps you’d like a new car, but would could you possibly do with 200 more of them?

This is easy.

I want 200 more millions of dollars.

 

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Technology and Starbucks

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Topic #196: People are too dependent on technology: agree or disagree? Explain.

I agree that people are too dependent on technology, but I don’t really see this as that much of a bad thing. Of course, technology can go wrong and we might be left in the dark (figuratively and literally), but it’s not like our entire race is going to die if we don’t have the proper technology. This dependency on technology is helping us live more efficient lives, and if the technology were to ever be taken away from us, we would most likely be able to develop different technologies to get back to normal.

 

What I’m Reading

Following the suggestion of Benjamin Chow, I recently read How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill.

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

This book is a memoir of Michael Gates Gill, a fortunate man who managed to get a job in an advertising company immediately after graduating from Yale University. After working at this company for over 25 years, he was asked to leave because he was getting too old. Unfortunately, he has five children who need to be taken care of, and he is rapidly running out of money.

One random day, he is offered a job at a local Starbucks by a young, African-American woman. After much determination, Mike gets the position and tells the story of how he went from someone who enjoyed the luxury of coffee to someone who cleaned the bathroom of the coffee place.

I thought this was an okay book that was overall worth reading. A good portion of the book involves recollections of past events that sometimes do not have an obvious or apparent connection to the main idea of the book. Otherwise, I think this book teaches a valuable lesson about the importance of family and back-up plans.

 

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Top Ten List Fail

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Topic #195: Make a top ten list of the reasons why top ten lists are often so disappointing.

  1. Most people who write top ten lists don’t have the proper expertise to rank what they’re ranking.
  2. The items on the top ten list are blatantly obvious and can be guessed easily.
  3. On the contrary, some top ten lists leave out important elements that everyone would expect.
  4. Or, some top ten lists are lists of personal preference rather than objective judgments.
  5. People leave some positions blank to fill in later, then forget to fill them in later.
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  7. When people run out of top ten items, they start rephrasing previous items.
  8. Sometimes the same item appears twice, but worded differently.
  9. Top ten lists sometimes don’t even have ten items in them.

 

What I’m Reading

A few days ago, I finally got a chance to finish reading the last book in a series that I started reading over five years ago – Scorpia Rising in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz.

Scorpia Rising

In this final installment of the series, Alex is sent on yet again another mission for MI6, even though he promised himself and his guardian that he would never get involved with MI6 again. This mission takes him to Egypt where all he must do is keep an eye out for a suspicious individual. What Alex and MI6 didn’t know is that this entire mission was set up by Scorpia, the criminal organization responsible for the death of Alex’s parents.

Like all the other books in the series, this one is filled with high levels of action, and Alex continues to show exceptional amounts of luck and intelligence. A main character dies in this book, but as a result, Alex gains the opportunity to start living a normal fifteen-year-old’s life when the mission is over. This book is a must-read for everyone who has read all the previous books in this series. I’m disappointed that the Alex Rider series is now over, because it was probably some of my favorite books that I’ve ever read.

 

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Throwing Food

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I need some interesting topics for my extra credit papers for my psychology class, so if you have any suggestions, feel free to send them to me until August 10, 2011 (that’s my last day of summer classes).

I already did one on the ultimatum game, which you can read in my blog post from July 09, 2011.

 

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Topic #194: Recently Rupert Murdoch, as part of investigation into corruption at one of his newspapers, was attacked in courtroom by someone wielding a custard pie. Historically, people used to throw food at other people as a sign of protest, particularly eggs and tomatoes. Would you ever throw food at anyone? Perhaps in a college dorm food fight? Or have you ever had food thrown at you? Tell the first story that comes to mind.

I don’t think that I would ever throw food at anyone in protest or rebellion. It’s obviously wasteful to throw food, but regardless, it doesn’t seem like something that I would do unless I was in a life-threatening or harming situation and throwing something at my attacker’s face would give me a good-enough opportunity to avoid pain, injury, or death.

I (fortunately) do not live in a dormitory at my university, but if the members of my apartment randomly chose one day to have a food fight, I would not participate and instead would try to encourage the management to cancel the event.

I don’t think I’ve had food thrown directly at me before with harmful intent, but I have been hit by food when I was in high school because the people I used to sit by in the cafeteria during lunch liked to argue with each other, and thought it was a good idea to throw food at each other to prove their point. Once in a while, I would be in the line of fire, but when that happened, I usually shifted my seat and started eating my friends’ food so they wouldn’t have anything left to throw.

 

My Homework for Your Reading Pleasure

This is a very short paper I wrote for my Shakespeare class about my favorite quote from Much Ado About Nothing.

I’ve been slacking on putting up good blog posts lately because I’ve been busy, so I decided to put this up in today’s post, even though it might only make real sense to people who have already read Much Ado About Nothing. It does, however, slightly touch on psychology, which I know I’ve written about a lot before, and I know a lot of you seem to enjoy, based on your responses to my work.

A line in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing that I found particularly memorable was in Act 2, Scene 3 when Benedick says “Ha! ‘Against my will, I’ve been told to bring you in to dinner.’ There’s a double meaning in that.” This was said after Benedick overhears a set-up conversation among Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio about how much Beatrice loves him, and then Beatrice comes out to get him for dinner because she was sent out against her will. Relative to the remainder of the play, this line is at the end of the event that marks the beginning of Benedick’s change in attitude that ultimately leads to his marriage with Beatrice. This is immediately before Beatrice falls for the same trick and starts believing that Benedick loves her.

The fact that Benedick believes the conversation and believes that there is a double meaning in what Beatrice says is what started the remainder of the plot between Benedick and Beatrice. If Benedick had not believed what he had heard and knew that it was a set-up, he would not have changed his attitude towards Beatrice. However, because he believed that Beatrice loved him, he adjusted his behavior such that he acted in a manner a loved man would. I think this is extremely effective at getting the point across to the reader because it gives insight into Benedick’s mind and opens up an opportunity for us to relate to Benedick’s situation with a situation of our own where our attitude made a difference in our actions.

Benedick’s change in attitude also emphasizes the importance of preliminary attitudes when approaching a new or unfamiliar situation. Benedick and Beatrice had a history of making fun of each other and arguing at every chance they had, and if they had continued living with that attitude, they would have never seen the positive sides of each other. However, because of the deception and the change in attitude, Benedick and Beatrice were able to see through each other’s covers and realize that they had enough in common to become good friends, and later, spouses.

 

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