3D Movies are Pointless
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The Daily Post at WordPress.comTopic #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.
Here’s what’s happening in the picture in case you can’t tell.In the first frame, one man is staring up into the sky. In the second frame, two more people join him, wondering what’s up in the sky. In the third frame, even more people join the man, and someone is looking down from a window. In the fourth frame, even the person on the second-floor window is looking up along with even more people on the ground, and they see an angel. In the fifth and final frame, the social influence of the people on the ground is so great that even the angel looks up to see what’s in the sky.I’ll be having a review of this book in the very near future as soon as I finish reading it. Quote of the DayParkzer: brb, heading out for a little bit
No, that is not my house.On a slightly related note, when I looked through my iPod Touch’s camera roll to upload the photo shown above, I also found the following picture.
This is what happens when you let Ed Lam try to take video with your iPod Touch. He’ll take a picture of your car and the tip of your knee instead.(If you don’t know who Ed Lam is, he’s in a lot of my vlogs.) 
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.