Good things:
The KI Circle
Never had I dreamed that one day I would stumble upon a group such as this. It, of course, began when I decided that I was good enough to handle the intellectual demands of Knowledge & Inquiry. I suppose I just wanted to know if I could be considered a cut above the rest. So I took the test, went for the interview. It was probably one of the better decisions I had made the entire year. If I had not chosen to step up, I'd have taken GP and dealt with boring news articles and mundane topics, never meeting this group of wonderful people that I now miss very much.
Also, if it were not for KI, I might never have discovered the concept of eugenics. At least, not for some time. And donuts. I probably would not have come to enjoy donuts as much if it were not for that one night.
Come to that, I'd never have attended a choir concert if it weren't for the KI circle. In short, I'd have missed out on a lot.
My O'Level Results
My results were basically a permission slip to go just about anywhere I wanted. Like a Wild Card in a game of Uno. Like an infinite improbability drive. I could have done anything. Well, except maybe a few things, but I ignored those options, and I am still choosing to ignore them now. Chinese, my bane.
Games With my Friends
Could there be anything more enjoyable? We played card games, we went bowling. In June, we played Halo 2 throughout the night at a chalet. We set stuff on fire. We scraped the potassium nitrate oxidiser off sparklers and made a nice little bomb.
On the Origin of Species, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life
Yes, when I got my hands on this book, I was happy. Everyone taking biology should read this one. It's simple enough, doesn't contain too much jargon. The layman could read it with some effort. It can be a bit dry, seeing as that there are no explosions or end of the world plots. It's a scientific journal, so you can expect it to be slow reading.
Another book, Guns, Germs and Steel. I hadn't even heard of this one until Hongjie told me about it.
Diablo III Announced
A day of cheer and joy for all fans of the series, including I. I've long stated that the best dungeon-crawler has always been Diablo II. Few other games of the genre can compare to its addictiveness. So I'm waiting for the next installment of the series...
Oh, another cool thing is that I probably watched my first live streaming of anything on the internet. I watched a good section of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. Live. That was pretty cool all in itself.
Comic Book Movies
Iron Man, The Dark Knight. To some extent, The Incredible Hulk. It is rare that a new work of fiction is really good, so for now, I am content with these live-action remakes of old pieces of fiction.
Spore
All hail Will Wright! With Spore, we can now smite our enemies before they evolve! And we can bring our own little creatures to colonise the universe. You can be The Ellimist, or you can be Crayak. Or you can be a little of both, saving one planet with one hand, while using the other to crush someone else.
Sure, I got kinda bored of Spore after a while. I suppose the main reason for that was that at the highest stage of the game, you control a spacecraft with many functions. As opposed to being an actual galactic god.
Has the LHC destroyed the world?
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And more.
-Joe