ThotLog

I was thinking a bit just now about the proliferation of text-related crutches. Spell check, punctuation check, word prediction, auto-complete, auto-correction. While I won't tell people they have to use a QWERTY keyboard, I see something sad about how most of the aforementioned tools are used. Typically, whatever works is acceptable, but the goal is convenience.

As such, using conveniences that cripple our minds due to giving over part of our own thought processes to machines, will eventually become an inconvenience. All thinking is interconnected with other types of thinking. They work together, strengthen each other. There's kinds of logic and meaning and concepts that are crippled when one cannot form complex sentences on their own. If you use an auto-thesaurus to weed out excessive use of a certain word or phrase, do you really understand the nuances of the language you are using? Can you really converse with others? Can your brain really form two similar yet not same concepts?

I ask the four or five people who might come across this to abandon all such tools. If you aren't sure on the spelling or meaning of a word, go to dictionary.com and learn it. Don't let your typing program suggest the next word, or complete your thoughts for you. The goal is the true easy path, not just what is most immediately easy. To really learn the language and how to type is the easy way.

Weight: Was much lower today than I would have ever imagined, given how stubborn it's been this last week. However, it's likely dehydration from how much running I did yesterday. Plus I am going to pig out today, so I won't see that number again until this Saturday, and that's only if I'm lucky.

Boredom: I don't know what I'm going to do until about 4:45 PM. That's over three hours away. Fallout 3 held my attention for an hour or two. Don't feel like playing Starcraft 2. It's too dang hot to go walking (ok maybe it's not, but I am tired of going out in the hot sun). Not sure what to do with myself. That's why I'm blogging. Maybe when I'm done I'll feel like doing something.

I should really try to start up Dragon Age again. Great game with a sequel coming next year. It has an expansion pack for 40 dollars on the playstation network. What a ripoff. I mean really. Maybe if it goes on sale for 20 bucks I'll grab it, but there's almost no chance of that. If I had bought the PC version I could probably get the x-pac for 20 bucks right now. I hate mouse and keyboard controls.

Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine

Sadly a lot of the jokes fell flat, and even when I was much younger I never cared for gross out humor. Just not my thing. It's more a cute comedy outside of those parts than truly funny. It resonated with me a bit though. I wonder if the guys in this movie are supposed to represent a minority of people who's life is boring and crappy, or if everyone feels this way as they get older. Anyways, it's an alright movie.

Movie Review: Armored

This is one of those movies where you are talking, if not aloud than to yourself, about how the characters are doing all the wrong things. The plot is flakey, the characters were okay I suppose, and the action was passable. But it just seems like every move that kept the plot rolling was moronic. Start with the premise that this group of guys thinks they could ever in a million years make off with 40 million dollars they are tasked with guarding and get away with it. And please, for the love of god Morpheus, lose some weight.