Noah Kalina

This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen on YouTube. I feel like he's a part of me in the five minutes of pictures.

He's got a website, http://www.everyday.noahkalina.com/ , where he posts the ongoing pictures. I really can't imagine checking up on it daily to see the progress, but it's still an amazing project.

The progression of his aging is so gradual, you don't even notice it. But compare the first pictures with the last pictures, and look at the latest pictures on his website. It's stunning. Nobody notices this progression. You can't see the constant aging bringing you to the end. This is a documentary of life, and it gets the point across better than if Morgan Freeman was narrating it in full detail.

The Office

I don't have broadcast television. I don't have cable, dish, comcast, or even an antennae. I get my entertainment from rentals, video games, books, and the intrawabz.

My brother discovered "Hulu" a couple of months back. It's pretty neat. You've probably heard of it, you get to watch TV shows on the web. If not,

http://www.hulu.com/

check it out. So anyway. I've mostly used it to watch Family Guy, which is pretty much the only show I miss from TV. I'd probably watch some of South Park too if I had TV, but mostly Family Guy.

At school, I hear everyone talking about the Office. Everyone says it's their favorite show, and they make it sound like it's a laughter fountain.

So, today, I watched it on Hulu, and I'm sitting here going, "What the hell?"

I've watched two episodes, and between them, I've had two instances where I've physically laughed out loud. The show is faintly amusing, but it's overshadowed by shows that aren't even comedies. It isn't that funny, and I don't get why everybody loves it. Maybe it's because everyone at my school is Mormon, and they're deprived of funny shows like Family Guy? I don't know. But the Office doesn't deserve the kind of praise it gets, in my opinion.

The Candy Shop Wars/More crap aboot vidjagemes

I read the Candy Shop Wars recently (like, yesterday) and I liked it. Brandon Mull is a Utard (like me) writer, and he wrote the Fablehaven books, along with this stand alone novel. The book follows the seemingly standard template of having people involved in something bigger than them by the bad guys, and then they switch to the good guys. It's interesting how Brandon Mull's books all focus on children. This isn't uncommon, he's a children's author, but he writes about children in such a specific age group, which is around fifth grade.

Yeah. So I recommend it if you like fantasy and are looking for an easy read.

ENN EE WEY.

I got Mass Effect for the Xbox 360. It's pretty fun, but it seems almost... unfinished. There are no cinimatics, because the graphics are always amazing, but as a consequence of this, you can see the environment and people's bodies and stuff trying to quickly load into the detailed texture right in front of your eyes. It's kind of distracting as a space ship takes off to see the walls go from craggy gray to polished steel.

I've also been playing Final Fantasy X. It's also pretty fun, and I've had it for ages. If you've played it before, I've been stuck on the "Seymour Natus" stage. It's not even the final boss, but I had such difficulty with it. So I've restarted, and I've reached that point, so now I'm kind of nervous to progress to that point, because even the random encounters are really hard all of a sudden.

I've also signed up for Blizzard Betas. I'm hoping I'll get chosen for the Starcraft 2 beta, because that would be awesome, and the comic I submitted didn't win. D:


I will leave you with an updated version of my video game wishlist:

Bioshock 2
Assault on Dark Athena
Street Fighter 4
Modern Warfare 2
Starcraft 2
Resident Evil 5
Braid
Singularity