I was doing homework using google and this is one of the things that came up:
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
A New Word for Me
I constantly switch between serious and making some jokes in exactly the same tone of voice. No, I don't have much of what I call a dry humour (making jokes in 'depressed' sort of tones) but it always adds to some of my jokes as they're said in the same way I talk, when I make observation or compliment, so as to remove people's ability to tell if I'm joking or not by my tone of voice. As a bonus, it is amusing to watch people who have not established that I'm not exactly normal trying to look into my face/voice/expression to see how they are supposed to take whatever I just said.
Anyway, when people don't get what I say, I usually said: "I was being sarcastic," or something of the sort. But now I am slightly uneasy about that as it doesn't really always seem to be the right description to describe what I was doing. So now, after a bit of research at dictionary.com, I have decided I will use:
fa·ce·tious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-sshs)adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
facetious
adj : cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" [syn: bantering, tongue-in-cheek]
Anyway, when people don't get what I say, I usually said: "I was being sarcastic," or something of the sort. But now I am slightly uneasy about that as it doesn't really always seem to be the right description to describe what I was doing. So now, after a bit of research at dictionary.com, I have decided I will use:
fa·ce·tious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-sshs)adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
facetious
adj : cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" [syn: bantering, tongue-in-cheek]
AFL
Sorry that I haven't been doing a blog recently (I got a new game that takes up my time on the computer). Importantly, I went to the AFL Brisbane Lions vs. Kangaroos match. They started off worryingly (in my 'third person' perspective) as they started out on a pattern I didn't like and usually meant they lost. They were down about 26 points by the first quarter. The second quarter mistakes started appearing in the Kangaroo's play, with them apparently changing tactics regardless whatever they were doing was working before, but it wasn't a big enough deal for us to start winning, but we did improve the margin. Then in the third quarter lot's of mistakes started happening, they were kicking it aroud 50m when they could of just gone for the shot and ending up excatly within 5m where they started, and the amount of times the ball hit the post (usually doesn't happen very often and gives 1 point not 6) was hilarious, they must of done it at least 5 times. However, the Kangaroo's managed to stay in front. But then, late in the last quarter, the Lions manged to take the lead for the first time and keep it in a one point thriller, with good old tall-a-hec-of-alot Akermanis kicking 3 goals late in the game.
Note: For the record, I have confirmed that the last time Essendon won a footy game was indeed April Fool's Day and they still haven't won a game since. I think they have now set a record for the most games lost in a row for Essendon.
Note: For the record, I have confirmed that the last time Essendon won a footy game was indeed April Fool's Day and they still haven't won a game since. I think they have now set a record for the most games lost in a row for Essendon.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Pirates Of the Caribean
I saw Pirates of the Caribean II Dead Man's chest yesterday (one day after it came out) so I decided to do a quick review.
It was defintely a different sort of movie to the curse of the black pearl. As I read in one of the reviews I just read, you just love it or hate it. Thankfully, the actors and more importantly the characters came back with as much if not more brilliance than last time. Hmm, more. The special effects were very good. I've read alot of the tricks and understand CGI pretty well for a 13 year old, but I could barely spot the rough edges that I normally see in other movies (except for one instance where Jack Sparrow is standing in front of what is obviously to me a blue screen and not a terror of the deep).
The action is very good and defintely not overdone, pretty much with a perfect balance. However, some of the action I have to say was a little bit unlogical even excluding the fact that it was a supernatural movie. Yes, it was darker, but the characters, plot, or anything else didn't suffer because of it as it sometimes does. There are alot of laughs in it too. The plot apparently got too complicated to understand according to some other reviewers, but I don't really see it that way unless you didn't go for enjoyment and to fret about the details and predict what is going to happen the first time to watch it. Sometimes you don't know what is happening, but not in a bad way and it is only to keep the suspense up.
Overall, a very good movie, but different to the first one. This means that you can't really compare the movie to the first one by the same terms, but the movie doesn't at all feel like it's completely seperate and unconnected to the first one. So, there you have it. It is a good movie and one of my faviourites NOT a disapointment.
It was defintely a different sort of movie to the curse of the black pearl. As I read in one of the reviews I just read, you just love it or hate it. Thankfully, the actors and more importantly the characters came back with as much if not more brilliance than last time. Hmm, more. The special effects were very good. I've read alot of the tricks and understand CGI pretty well for a 13 year old, but I could barely spot the rough edges that I normally see in other movies (except for one instance where Jack Sparrow is standing in front of what is obviously to me a blue screen and not a terror of the deep).
The action is very good and defintely not overdone, pretty much with a perfect balance. However, some of the action I have to say was a little bit unlogical even excluding the fact that it was a supernatural movie. Yes, it was darker, but the characters, plot, or anything else didn't suffer because of it as it sometimes does. There are alot of laughs in it too. The plot apparently got too complicated to understand according to some other reviewers, but I don't really see it that way unless you didn't go for enjoyment and to fret about the details and predict what is going to happen the first time to watch it. Sometimes you don't know what is happening, but not in a bad way and it is only to keep the suspense up.
Overall, a very good movie, but different to the first one. This means that you can't really compare the movie to the first one by the same terms, but the movie doesn't at all feel like it's completely seperate and unconnected to the first one. So, there you have it. It is a good movie and one of my faviourites NOT a disapointment.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Quote of the Day
The main football league in Australia is the AFL (Australian Football League). There is a team called Essendon in it.
"The Essendon Football Club has not won a single football game since April Fool's day."-Nick
Monday, July 03, 2006
My Prose?
Today I created an original and creative (as per always) poem (as per never before of free will). It is fiction of course and is about my granny whose name is Smith and she is bad and my constable father whisks her away eventually to the Granny Smith Apple Factory (Granny Smith is an Aussie brand of apples) and then I die etc. Anyway, as it is over 1,000 words long, I could not make it a complete poem and I am not going to totally abondon my style of writing for the sake of the poem, so I just casually labeled it a poem. My Mom said (before she read it ) that it said it sounded like a prose, and if I didn't know what that means I should look it up in the dictinary. (I don't think she knew what it meant either). So I did and it said (according to dictionary.com):
Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
Commonplace expression or quality.
Roman Catholic Church. A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel. intr.v. prosed, pros·ing, pros·es
To write prose.
To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prsa (rti), straightforward (discourse), feminine of prsus, alteration of prrsus, from prversus, past participle of prvertere, to turn forward : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
Thanks Mum.
P.S. I've since found out that mum meant every word and she already had full understanding of the particular word, "Prose". Apparently it was a ploy to make me look up a dictionary. She then fixed up all my spelling and grammatical errors in this and my other blog posts even this P.S. and to shock, horror, make it sound better - as if my style isn't good enough.
Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
Commonplace expression or quality.
Roman Catholic Church. A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel. intr.v. prosed, pros·ing, pros·es
To write prose.
To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prsa (rti), straightforward (discourse), feminine of prsus, alteration of prrsus, from prversus, past participle of prvertere, to turn forward : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
Thanks Mum.
P.S. I've since found out that mum meant every word and she already had full understanding of the particular word, "Prose". Apparently it was a ploy to make me look up a dictionary. She then fixed up all my spelling and grammatical errors in this and my other blog posts even this P.S. and to shock, horror, make it sound better - as if my style isn't good enough.
2 nights ago.
2 nights ago, somehow, The Flood was shown at a 'P for Performance night'. Nick, one of the creators, made a speech saying that you should buy it. Guess what?
We got, through the generosity of people's hearts, a $5 donation, somebody else is going to buy it but didn't have her purse with her and isn't going to be here for the next couple of weeks, and Nick reckons that we might be able to get another person to buy it. I was going to give an edited copy to play, but I didn't get time to burn it. I guess now it's a "Half Special Edition" so if anyone want's to buy it instead of the normal one for the same price, specify when you e-mail- agfilms@hotmail.com saying you want to buy one for $5.
We got, through the generosity of people's hearts, a $5 donation, somebody else is going to buy it but didn't have her purse with her and isn't going to be here for the next couple of weeks, and Nick reckons that we might be able to get another person to buy it. I was going to give an edited copy to play, but I didn't get time to burn it. I guess now it's a "Half Special Edition" so if anyone want's to buy it instead of the normal one for the same price, specify when you e-mail- agfilms@hotmail.com saying you want to buy one for $5.
Quote of the Day
'#@*$ The cops are here! How did they find me?'- Woman stranger to my dad on a holiday a while ago. No laugh followed. No arrest followed. Unfortunately. Wouldn't that be cool?
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Saturday, July 01, 2006
My Life Goals
This morning, my Dad beat me 9-8 in Table Soccer. This, needless to say, suprised me alot. However, I reasoned that I should not be upset because:
a) we were both tired (it was 10:00 am for crying outloud) but me more so because Dad usually wakes up at 6:00 am or whatever.
b) This means that neither of us were performing at our peaks, and the game could of gone either way.
c) Considering the amount of times we have played it, I suppose losing was only a matter of time (that fact was not processed until today).
d) I blocked the memory temporarily from my mind (so one wonders why the heck I'm writing this down).
BUT, more importantly, today I completed a life goal of mine- to beat Dad 9-nil (somehow he always seems to get that cruical one point in there). That is one of my life goals among:
1/. Slam dunk (nearly there :D )
2/. Save up my money so I can buy Medieval Total War 2 (for PC) as soon as it comes out
3/. Watch Pirates of the Caribean A.S.A.P when it comes out.
4/. Make Revelations in (mostly) CGI like Noah's Ark (but better than that).
5/. Finish the story I have started writing
6/. Sell a copy of THE FLOOD over this blog (i.e: YOU buying it)
7/. I do have others but I can't seem to remember them at the moment. If you watch this space one day this sentence and the last will magically disappear and be replaced with my other life goals.
Wow, that was a pretty deep blog.
a) we were both tired (it was 10:00 am for crying outloud) but me more so because Dad usually wakes up at 6:00 am or whatever.
b) This means that neither of us were performing at our peaks, and the game could of gone either way.
c) Considering the amount of times we have played it, I suppose losing was only a matter of time (that fact was not processed until today).
d) I blocked the memory temporarily from my mind (so one wonders why the heck I'm writing this down).
BUT, more importantly, today I completed a life goal of mine- to beat Dad 9-nil (somehow he always seems to get that cruical one point in there). That is one of my life goals among:
1/. Slam dunk (nearly there :D )
2/. Save up my money so I can buy Medieval Total War 2 (for PC) as soon as it comes out
3/. Watch Pirates of the Caribean A.S.A.P when it comes out.
4/. Make Revelations in (mostly) CGI like Noah's Ark (but better than that).
5/. Finish the story I have started writing
6/. Sell a copy of THE FLOOD over this blog (i.e: YOU buying it)
7/. I do have others but I can't seem to remember them at the moment. If you watch this space one day this sentence and the last will magically disappear and be replaced with my other life goals.
Wow, that was a pretty deep blog.
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