Pictures. Like, with a camera.

During this week I was planning sometime to write a journal on the ten things I liked most about Ryerson and the ten things I disliked the most. To do this, I was going to go downtown today with the exclusive purpose of taking photographs. Of course, I would probably have gone to a music store while I was down there, and I even checked with Mr. and Mrs. Clayton to see if they were busy... but then the weather got very suddenly bad for a while so I decided to abort that plan.

There are two things that are the direct upshot of this abortion:
  1) I'm wearing actual pants instead of pyjama pants.
  2) I spent a whole bunch of time in the early afternoon finally resizing and renaming digital photos I've taken in the last couple of months.

Ultimately this decision to take photos either tomorrow or the next day probably ends up making more sense. There's a new Nine Inch Nails album out as of tomorrow, I believe, and while I don't consider myself a very active enthusiast of Nine Inch Nails anymore, I still appreciate it when I listen to it. Plus I've got the first 17 halos, why not make it 18? That'll give me something nice to do.

I hadn't done any resizing, renaming or organizing to any of my digital pictures since mid-December. As far back as Christmas I had to fix all the pictures. There were a lot of pictures in some months this year, and furthermore my computer is being made very slow by a pair of extremely slow torrents... so doing my pictures was very slow. I guess it was something I had to do eventually -- I ended up sending people pictures that they asked for in January, heh. Among the cute things I found were a few pictures of Jaime and Ryan, including this one. I was asked to show it to my dad a week ago so he would know what he missed when he was away for one of my sister's visits. He got it today. There was also this nice picture of Georgina.

Coping with my computer pretending that it's very slow, obsolete hardware wasn't so bad because of an episode of Mythbusters and all of the good music I've acquired lately. One strange thing I've noticed is that the stack of CDs on my right slides slightly. In particular, there's the new Ben Folds album with my headphones on top that seems to be sliding a great deal. At first I thought it was pretty interesting and that it might be caused by being next to the speaker box, but now I realize that it's more likely from me accidentally wiggling the desk when I sit down or stand up. Another thing about last night and earlier today is that I spent some time "electronic-messaging" with Sean Giles, the guy who is Wholesome Reading for the Profoundly Bored's official interviewer (whether he knows it or not). We talked a bit about the robot masters. I asked him who his favourite was, and he said Skull Man. I made a case for Skull Man not being very cool, but he didn't seem to care. When he returned the question, I answered that I like the ethnic robot masters like Pharaoh Man and Flame Man.

Here's the thing with Skull Man: his weapon is an invincible barrier of rotating skulls. Wood Man has an invincible barrier of rotating leaves, Star Man has an invincible barrier of rotating stars, Plant Man has an invincible barrier of rotating flowers, and Junk Man has an invincible barrier of rotating garbage. These other four masters of barriers can also aim and fire their barriers at enemies. Admittedly some of them suffer from cripplingly obvious weaknesses, but Star Man doesn't. I'd have to say Star Man is stronger on the whole, and then all Skull Man has going for him is his coolness. Skull Man's non-throwable barrier is very bad. It makes the fight against Dive Man much harder than it perhaps could have been.

When I said I liked Pharaoh Man, there wasn't much disagreement, but Sean did say that he had a so-so attack. Come on now! The Pharaoh Shot is an incredible attack! And he wields it so much more effectively than Mega Man... he comes jumping at you hurling Pharaoh Shots over his head, and the Flash Stopper becomes nearly necessary to avoid his very quick shots. Once Mega Man actually earns the Pharaoh Shot, it is the only weapon in the series that you can both aim (in 7 directions) as well as charge up. Pharaoh Shot is among the very best. I made my case, and I don't think Sean is going to mess with me again.

In short: Pharaoh Man's sunballs could kick Skull Man's useless heads' asses any day. And if it were an RPG, it would be even worse because the undead are weak against daylight.

Mr. Giles also told me about KingdomOfLoathing.com... that wasn't an unpleasant waste of time.