Aftermathmatics

First off, I apologize for that excuse of a bracket I put up last weekend. Up through the sweet 16 it was decent, but after BC and Duke made early exits it was wrecked. That's what I get for having an ACC bias.

I bought a new computer, an Averatec 3715-EH1 laptop. Some quick pros and cons:

Pro: light, fast, good price, 80gb HDD, DVD burner
Cons: keyboard placement was designed by morons, terribly placed touch pad is "the devil"

After blasting terrible XP Home off and putting XP Pro the machine's been treating me better. I tried my hardest to get OSX on here, but it's been an uphill battle. I'll stick to Windows for now. This thing looks like an iBook (which honestly, I would rather have - but I'll wait till the 2nd generation Intel ones) and weighs 3.8 pounds, a good 5 pounds less than my old Dell Inspiron 1100.

In order to finance this operation, I turned to eBay. To raise the 850 so far I've sold an old cable box, a GPS device, an old pocket pc, a bluetooth presenter, and (good riddance) my PSP - I'm strictly a DS man now. The old Dell laptop will follow once I've got all my crap unloaded off it, shred the HD, reload windows and office - THEN I'll list it. I'm $300 short of the goal so far, but I should be able to get that much for the laptop.

Speaking of DS, I picked up Metroid Prime Hunters and Tetris DS today. I'll let you know how they are once I play 'em more.

I'm pretty sure I've got an unhealthy addiction to watching that Shakira/Wyclef "My Hips Don't Lie" music video. I've seen it WAY too many times. Can't help it though - Shakira is ridiculously hot and the song is a good one too. Yes, I like her music. Bite me.

Hotter beat conundrum: Dr. Dre's "Still D.R.E." (with the pianos) or Ciara's "1,2-Step" (with the synth). Tough call, but when I hear "D.R.E." start it just does something to me. I guess it's just still Dre Day.

Movies I have watched since the last time I posted:

Domino (2005): This movie wasn't the complete and total garbage that it was made out to be. It wasn't a great movie, but was mildly decent. One of those "comes on USA or TBS late night and I guess I'll watch it because there isn't shit on and I'm bored and too lazy to get off my ass and do something better" type movies. Come on, you know you've sat through some bad movies on late-night TV too. We're all guilty.

Bloodrayne (2005): DING DING DING! We have a winner! This trash has proudly bumped "House of 1000 Corpses" from my All-Time Bottom 5 Movies list. I can't even describe how much I hated this terrible movie. Sure, there was one fairly hot (but honestly it was really weird/funny) sex scene, but that doesn't make up for the rest of the movie being complete garbage. Oh, and it had Meat Loaf and Michelle Rodriguez (whom I can't stand) - now what kind of an on-screen dynamic can you expect with a cast that has those two? Exactly. Garbage.

The Island (2005): Not as bad as the reviews said. A good watch, a fairly mindless but good action flick.

Walk The Line (2005): Now I like Johnny Cash, so I really liked this movie. Reminded me a lot of "Ray" (both are music-based bio-pics) but I liked "Ray" too. This movie comes highly recommended.

Munich (2005): Another good movie, tells the story of 5 Israelis charged with assassinating the masterminds of the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy. A good, compelling story with a decent ending - something I honestly didn't know that Spielberg knew how to do. (Yes, I'm still mad that he brutally butchered A.I.)

Just Friends (2005): a decent comedy. Rentable or tv-able for a few good laughs. No need to buy the DVD for this one though, it wasn't that good.


The MCAT is April 22nd, a month from today, and I'm feeling pretty ready for it. Still a bit lacking in physiology and I need to review some biology, but I'm ready to go in physics and general and organic chemistry. Verbal reasoning section shouldn't be too bad either.

{This computer's retarded placement of the Control and Shift keys is killing me, but I guess that all laptops have a learning curve when it comes to the keyboards as none are the same. Dammit. I made like 5 corrections in that last sentence.}

Anybody been watching Sopranos? Great show. I missed it.

5 Songs that I haven't been able to stop listening to lately:
1. Dead Prez - Turn off the Radio
2. Shakira - My Hips Don't Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean)
3. Ciara - 1,2-Step (featuring Missy Elliott)
4. Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs [possibly my favorite song of all time]
5. Metallica - Die, Die My Darling

[Quick shout out to Kelli, Sugar Britches, and the rest of my old ER peeps]

Oh, and anybody seen "V for Vendetta" yet? I need to get off my ass and go see it. Maybe I'll do that later tonight.

[LSU over Villanova for the national title. That's what I'm picking right now, before Nova/UF and UConn/GMU have played]