Archive for January, 2008
Meh
Things have been really boring lately…not much has happened. I did go to this Korean restaurant place I had some Korean sake. Yeah, Korean alcohol tastes really tame and not gross.Oh, and Rock Band is fun!
While doing some research…
“…female game players attend to self and others during game play. Gamers playing with a same-gender avatar experienced greater connectedness with game play and competitiveness” (Eastin & Griffiths, 2006).
Hm…..I wonder what the percentage is for girls to play healing classes. I’m not so sure about the same-gender avatar business though. I don’t think it matters. I don’t think a guy who chose to play a female avatar is going to be any more competitive playing a male avatar.
I don’t like research. I don’t like citing. This is tedious. Why can’t I just go to school and learn. Must I prove what I’ve learned (and then promptly forget a week later anyway)? Or show that I know how to follow rules set by people I don’t care for?
Found at Disneyland
A certain rubbery balloon-like *prevention* article was discovered on the floor in the corner of a store at Disneyland.
Scandalous!
Out of the package, but in unused form at least @_@
“Look, Dad, I found a balloon! Can you blow it up for me?”
Irked at the SonyStyle Store
I was at the SonyStyle store today, and there were a lot of new stuff! They had two working models of the new Mylo that I played around with for about…mm…20 seconds. Still a little too gimmicky, even for me. It looks awesome, though. And feels yummy.
And…they had the new OLED super super flat screens! The XEL-1. It was playing Pixar’s movie, Cars. To me, playing an animated movie to show off a screen is kind of cheating…but woooow it looked reeeeally good. I happened to watch the part where he was racing, and all the lights were going off from taking pictures of him. It reeeally dazzled. Soooo crisp. Sooooo bright.

Anyhow, the main point of my story, is that as I was oggling this, another middle aged woman had been watching the movie on this screen. Then she motioned to her (I assumed) daughter, to come and see the screen. Her daughter walked over (in her YSL sunglasses perched on top of her head, LV bag, and I didn’t have time to see anything else) and the lady asked her daughter in Chinese.
Mom: Look, what is this?
Daughter: Oh, it’s just a DVD player.
Mom: Oh?
Daughter: 2,499 dollars. Hm.
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@_@! Just a DVD player?? Firstly, it was wrong, though I could understand it looked like a portable DVD player because of its stature and size. Some people just don’t get it. Or don’t know to appreciate something like this.
Needless to say, I was annoyed. On top of that, she had a horrible Beijing Chinese accent, and the way she said it was like…”Pft, whatever”. Because that’s how the accent all sounds like. Either “Pft, whatever” or “I’m talking very loudly because it’s better this way!!”.