So I’m nearing the end of my first major project. Well alright I’ve had many projects in my life, but this was my first professional project. I was … many things in my project: Lead Developer, Lead Architect, Psudo-Business Analyst, Negotiator, Trainer, Mediator, Whip-cracker. The list goes on.
As the project is finally winding down, I feel it prudent that I write down some of the nuggets of information that I have gleaned from the experience.
Follow along and learn with me as I half-rant life tips.
I recently got around to reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I remember picking up the book a long time ago and only putting it back because I didn’t have the money to purchase it right then and there.
The next time I find the book, it’s a best seller across the world, and Mark Haddon has already written another novel. I could have been there in the beginning! Ah well, I picked it up, and once I started reading, I found it hard to put down.
The more I watch Ryan Gosling, the more I like him. He started off as Sean Hanlon from Breaker High, and that was a hard image for me to break. Thankfully he’s gone on to do a wide variety of films, and pulling them off with impressive results. Lars and the Real Girl is just such an example. Not an award-winning movie or performance, but considering his “girlfriend from the internet” is a Real Doll, I’m impressed he didn’t break down laughing in almost every scene.
I don’t know what to say about The Nines. I’m not even sure whether I liked it or not. Theresa and I watched it this afternoon, and It was going well right up until the end. Then I didn’t know what the hell was going on.
I apologize in advance, but in order to review this movie, there are going to be spoilers.
Okay, maybe I’m just going insane, but I’m pretty sure there has been a sharp increase in raspberry-flavoured goods.
I have a problem.
It’s silly, I know, but I have a problem with brain teasers. I can’t put them down without getting really angry at myself for giving up. I will constantly think about the problem until I’ve answered it. It’s really quite unhealthy. So what do you think happens when I come across a game like Professor Layton and the Curious Village?
I lose sleep.
I read Gods Behaving Badly in three days.
The only reason it wasn’t read in one is because I have to work during the day. Truly a fun book to read, Marie Phillips does a fantastic job of detailing the lives of the Greek Pantheon. Granted it’s a humorous view and takes light of the fact that the Gods are losing their powers are slowly slipping away, but it’s a hell of a humorous view.
Another Doctor Who adventure comes and goes, and I’m once again left wondering how this got to print. Sting of the Zygons wasn’t a bad story by any means, but the new novels just aren’t doing it for me. With the original Doctor Who book series, the authors were writing stories that were so epic that they simply couldn’t be done on screen at the time. Stories so fantastic that imagination is a requirement in order to read them. This is a quality that I find lacking within all of the new novels that I have read thus far, with exceptions being made for The Last Dodo, Stone Rose, and The Clockwise Man.
Panic! At the Disco actually made a second album? I totally thought that they were going to burn out after their first album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” but apparently I was mistaken. I mean the first album was self-contained, and it’s fairly obvious that you can’t really go anywhere from it. If they released another album that sounded like it, they’d be accused of repeating themselves and it wouldn’t have the impact that the first CD did. Tack on the fact that ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ got played to death, and you get a mixture for disaster should they continue on the path they were on.
They didn’t, which shocked me.
I very recently came across Ben’s Brother due to Dentynes newest commercial. I like many, many others were drawn in by the addicting song selected. ‘Stuttering’ is the name of the track, and it’s performed by Ben’s Brother. I’m sure this track alone will launch them into new realms of stardom. As I tend to give bands the benefit of the doubt, I decided to get my hands on their latest (and only) album “Beta Make Fairytales”. As it turns out, they are not a one-hit-wonder. They are, in fact, a rather talented band that reminds me faintly of Coldplay, Maroon 5, and even Snow Patrol.