I have minimal-to-casual interest in sports, so March Madness doesn’t mean much to me. I would much rather bet on this bracket:
(From Indexed.)
Zombies all the way!
This particular bracket reminds me of a random Tweet I made a while back about how
Zombies:Vampires::Science:Religion
Feel free to wrap your head around that as you study for finals. 
If your Latin is rusty, that phrase means, “Who watches the Watchmen?” (From Least I Could Do.)
I just saw it today, and before I went into the theater, I sent out a Tweet that said, “On a man-date with Will N to see glowing blue penis.” And now I think one of my old friends thinks I’m gay.
Anyway, I don’t want to get into too many specifics, but I feel like the movie was enjoyable, but it was a cleaned up version of the comic.
The fights pushed the limits of human ability. (Remember, everyone is just a normal person in a mask until Dr. Manhattan came along.) Rorschach was definitely glossed up to make more sympathetic; a lot of his ultra-conservative/vulgar material was cut. A lot of the little touches that built specific characters weren’t really there. The climactic attack was changed, and I’m not sure why. It changes the dynamic between the Watchmen, though, and I didn’t hear one of the most important exchanges in the story. (It is mentioned by another character afterwards, though.) So as not to spoil it for people who haven’t seen or read it yet, I’ll put the quotes without the speakers.
“The ends justify the means.”
“Nothing ever ends.”
I feel this quote is so true, too.
Also, I read the book so I knew the story already, but if you saw the movie without reading it, did you know who the villain was ahead of time? I felt like it was so obvious.
So yeah, if you haven’t seen or read it, I would recommend both, but if you had to do only one, definitely read it. There is so much more depth, it’s amazing.
Guys love to rate girls on attractiveness.
We’ve got everything from the basic 10-point scale to some pretty complex coordinate systems:
And we’re constantly creating and disseminating new ones because we’re afraid the “code” has been broken. (If only we had hotty windtalkers.) I’m reminded of a quote from a TV show I saw a long time ago when two guys are rating a particularly hot co-worker. They agreed she was an 11. A third guy comes over and says he would rate her 8.5. The first two turn to him incredulously and he explains, “I use the Richter scale.”
Of course, some scales (like the above graph) were created because guys felt the need for more information that just appearances. Don’t hold your breath though, ladies, this added information is usually still pretty shallow. Consider the Hot/Crazy Scale or the Attractiveness/Accessibility Scale. A while back, Jeremy J told me about the “Area Code” system, too.
We also try to make games of it. Will N introduced me to “Color/Time/Number”, where you name the color of the shirt, the clock direction, and the attractiveness of a given target.
So now that you know all this, I wanted to ask… do girls have a rating system? I’ve seen when two (or more) girls will spot a cute guy, share a knowing glance with each other, giggle, and lean in to whisper. What is it that you whisper about? And is it in Gibberish?
