The Duc Pond

Tomorrow after work I will fly on an airplane for the first time ever. I’m meeting up with my parents in Atlanta. They’ve been there for a week already, but I’m going tomorrow since I had work to do. Couldn’t really afford to take that much time off. I’ll be seeing relatives and hopefully do [...]

I’m usually not cool enough to hit one bar in a night, let alone 3. Hardy organized a happy hour get-together at Copperfield’s on Friday, which turned out pretty well. I talked to my baseline (this term means nothing to anyone not on Aegis) manager Kirk. As I learned from Tony’s Halloween party he’s a [...]

Holy crap! Nintendorks is back! With the old-school layout too. Keep refreshing (F5) to cycle through all the awesome banners.

I just gave blood for the first time ever. I had forgotten about it until I came into work today and saw the Red Cross truck outside the building. It was mostly painless. They prick you once to test your blood and then of course they have to insert the needle to siphon it out [...]

I love those KFC ads that suggest that you can lose weight by eating fried chicken. Only 11 grams of carbs! Hahahahahaha. Here’s an article about a group wanting them to pull those ads.

Brian sent me an email about Revolutions on Friday. There’s some good insight in his mini-essay. Hidden text for your spoiler protection. …I came up for more reasons why it’s good. For one, if some fundamental thing turned out to be one big lie, that would be a typical sequel and THAT would be terrible. [...]

I had sushi for the first time yesterday. Real sushi, anyway. I had tried dining hall sushi at Rutgers my senior year, but that was pretty bad. All I know of sushi are the two kinds I’ve seen: One is rolled up into cylinders with seaweed and other kind is just a slab of fish [...]

I’ll admit it. I walked out of Revolutions a little disappointed. I pretty much felt that way because 1.) I had read some crazy theories about what the third movie would be about and 2.) I didn’t understand some stuff. Fortunately I had an English major (Melissa) and a film minor (Brian) with me to [...]

So it was election day. Very few people voted. I ran into Lisa Whittles (though I suppose that’s not her name anymore) at Roland Rogers Elementary School, where the voting was being held. She’s married and teaching and happy with both it seems. Anyway, yeah, a low key election. I put a sign up outside [...]

Tony’s Halloween party was yesterday. I’m told that more people came last year, but it was cool nonetheless. The best costume had to be Kirk as Duff Man. The decorations and animatronic thingies were pretty cool. Justin wore my Justin costume, so I went as Agent Smith (from Reloaded, so no earpiece or gun). I [...]