:: The Blurst of Times ::

:: 9.17.2002 ::

Alright, the ol' blog was fucking with me last friday, which discouraged me from adding any to it the last few days, but I'm ready to get back into the swing of things.

Here are the movies I have seen in the last week: SLC Punk, Swordfish, Hearts in Atlantis, Men of Honor... hm, it seemed like a lot more, but nothing comes to mind. But I now understand how my friends who constantly see movies and are constantly telling me how many movies they are seeing do it - if you have HBO it is just like watching TV. So I can flip back forth between say, a shitty Nebraska football game and the shitty movie Hearts in Atlantis, and feel like I just saw both of them. That's efficient TV time.

Here is what I did in studio this last week: Finished that damn group project, outlined a program for the creation of a mixed housing development, created a program analysis, performed a site inventory and analysis on the proposed site, drank some beers, cut some sections on the proposed site, and got an hour of my life taken away by allowing a single person to debate the symantic difference between "environmental" and "ecological" (environmental is the surrounding forces, ecological is the interrelationships).

Now we have the assignment to play SimCity3000 for a week and study the way people come to live in places. Here is the flaw in that, which I think will become my thesis when I have to write a paper on this: SimCity3000 is a computer program that is based on a highly European dynastic city philosophy that Growth =Progress =Good, that the faster a city grows the greater it will become. In the game, when an area gets filled, people don't stop coming, they keep coming and building unti the density is unhealthy. In someways this lemmings mentality is very realistic because there aren't the kind of sustainability laws that are necessary to regulate the population. There is also the beleif that Industry can shirk taxees in SimCity3000 that cannot be overridden. Let me tell you that if I was mayor, there would be no polution in the water or the air near residential areas because industry woul dbe cleaning it up - in fact, I doubt there'd be industry because I'd rather live in an area of low prodction rather than grand wealth. There are also guff I have with public transportation, power sources, and auto traffic, but hey, no need to bore you.

Here is what I did in my free time in the last week: went to the bars, drank brews, watched football on TV, slept and ate, went out to dinner, played soccer, ran, and went to a city planning meeting. Qualtiy.

Here is what I didn't do that I should have done: Called my friend in South Carolina who works at a vinyard, called this friend to make sure he's still alive, called my friend because her team lost, bought socks for soccer before now, written out that planning paper, and read my site analysis chapters. But I got four crosswords totally done.

Fred out...
:: Freddy F. at 11:09 AM [+] ::