Quiet.
In ninth grade honor's English, freshman year of high school, our teacher had us write a letter to our graduating persons, three years from that moment. It would be read by none other than ourselves, or her at our discretion. The template was blank, free of use. Therein was my problem.
It was suggested we write out feelings of the time, the period. What could I possibly say? Articulating how I felt unless it was to extremes was impossible--I use past tense, but it still applies. It's a strange contrast, though, to my wife. The letter ended up being about her in its entirety, as I'd just met her and was admittedly dumbstruck. Here, years later, most all I can articulate is about her once more. She can continue on about the smallest of things, while it's a concept entirely lost on me.
There are exciting things going on, though. It's now officially one week to the North American launch of the PlayStation 3. Sony released its official manual online, giving some interesting information on features--the ability to upload and download from the web browser, for example. Information is given on the 'wallet' for the PlayStation store; one must add funds directly to the wallet in order to make purchases by default. This essentialy keeps one from spending too much, and would help monitor/limit those that intend to make purchases--the younger generation, for one. Of course, the option to automatically add funds is available, but that ruins the fun. And likely your physical wallet. The ability to set default languages for Blu-ray and DVD movies (menus, subtitles, language) before actually staring the disc up is an interesting and appreciated addition.
But I'm a nerd.
It was suggested we write out feelings of the time, the period. What could I possibly say? Articulating how I felt unless it was to extremes was impossible--I use past tense, but it still applies. It's a strange contrast, though, to my wife. The letter ended up being about her in its entirety, as I'd just met her and was admittedly dumbstruck. Here, years later, most all I can articulate is about her once more. She can continue on about the smallest of things, while it's a concept entirely lost on me.
There are exciting things going on, though. It's now officially one week to the North American launch of the PlayStation 3. Sony released its official manual online, giving some interesting information on features--the ability to upload and download from the web browser, for example. Information is given on the 'wallet' for the PlayStation store; one must add funds directly to the wallet in order to make purchases by default. This essentialy keeps one from spending too much, and would help monitor/limit those that intend to make purchases--the younger generation, for one. Of course, the option to automatically add funds is available, but that ruins the fun. And likely your physical wallet. The ability to set default languages for Blu-ray and DVD movies (menus, subtitles, language) before actually staring the disc up is an interesting and appreciated addition.
But I'm a nerd.
posted by Roddra at 20:04
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Our English teacher had us do the same thing, except it was from the beginning of our junior year to the end of our senior year. I, of course, wrote about the girl I was with at the time. When I read it almost 2 years later, I cried and burned it.
I'm never going to get a PS3. ;_;
She was talking with us about it, and we were joking about 'if we dropped out.' Because we were such good students or somesuch the idea was ridiculous at the time.
Dropped out the next year. >.>
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