Facebook Tetris is fun. The colours of the L pieces are different from what I am used to though.
I should probably not have been playing Tetris, given that I have not even come close to finishing my revision. I do have an entire week off next week though. Still, knowing myself, I won't use that week very well.
However, you can't fault me. I have reasons. First reason is that on the 12th, it is Darwin Day, when people commemorate the naturalist's bicentennial. I think. So, as a supporter of teaching evolution in schools, I am taking that day off to demonstrate natural selection. This will be done by slacking around and making myself appear to be a poor reproductive partner, thus lowering my chances of having progeny for the day.
Not that I have a very high chance of having progeny on regular days.
Or maybe, I will spend the day imagining how it would be like if I could segregate and breed humans in different manners, hopefully one day creating a race of super-human, who are smarter, faster, and are able to tell jokes without laughing uncontrollably themselves.
Hmm. Maybe those two activities could be performed at once.
Unfortunately, it is far more likely that I will spend the day lolling around in a metaphorical tar-pit of boredom. It is also likely that I will spend some time imagining what it would be like to be a wizard.
See, the whole problem with wizards in the movies is that they never use the full extent of their powers. Gandalf is a very good example of this. Gandalf, a Maiar of Valinor, possessing the ring of power Narya, is supposed to have god-like wisdom and magical prowess. He does slightly more magic in the novel, but the only key instance that I remember clearly was when he set a forest on fire to scare away some wolfy beast things.
You'd think that a wizard of such power could have done something else, less destructive and more useful. Like maybe make a dinner of wolf meat.
The problem lies in that an all-powerful, nigh invulnerable adventurer makes for an extremely dull story. It would be fun at first(at least for RPG mage fans) to watch a wizard blow stuff up with relative ease. But then he will just stroll along smiting bad guys and saves the day, without any proper climax or risk of an apocalyptic event coming to pass.
However, people like their heroes to be powerful. So, the story-writers try to fulfill this requirement without turning the plot into an ass-kissing tale about the protagonist. When your main character is an unstoppable force, your bad guy needs to be an immovable object. Enter Superman and kryptonite.
I have a theory. Lex Luthor is not the main villain of Superman. The villain is really kryptonite. Lex Luthor is just an enterprising businessman, who happened to see the value of the green meteor rock. The fact that he does villainy things like stealing cakes is irrelevant. You can say that the kryptonite business made him so rich that he was bored enough to do things like that.
My point is, that whenever Superman faces Lex Luthor, Lex just throws a glowing green rock at him and the actual fight happens between Superman and the kryptonite. They don't actually show it on the screen, but I'll bet that there is some intense mental battle between Clark Kent and the green crystal.
Ultimately, Superman always loses, until some other event occurs that breaks up the fight between him and kryptonite. Even though Superman loses, he never dies. Thus, it can be said that the battle between Superman and kryptonite is ultimately never resolved either. There you go: Unstoppable force and Immovable Object.
...man, what am I talking about?
-Joe