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Comment on jelly bean magic school by Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:59:57 +0000

it wont let me cast spells, or i think i have forgot them. how do i cast spells again?

Comment on One year of Animal Crossing by Martina

Martina — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:36:43 +0000

he he. i have the mansion too. it rocks!

Comment on One year of Animal Crossing by Caityy

Caityy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:52 +0000

I have this mansion

Comment on adorable dinosaurs by sboucher

sboucher — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:08:27 +0000

I have this Mystery that I don’t understand. Some day I was talking with the students and they said that they’ve heard someone has seen something looking like a dinosaure in the cave ! So I go look and I just see the Wizard language you learn for incantations and spells… The first says “Who you ?” the second ” Who you friend ?” What do I do !???

Comment on dissertation preview by Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:17:59 +0000

By the way, I put a little thought into the reading before doing it. My own reading of the poem is that the (original) speaker has freedom, and doesn’t want to give it up for an eternity of some crappy, second-rate, settled (after)life.

But I decided that the robot has a slightly different interpretation. For the robot, the poem is more about escaping from robotic servitude. The robot doesn’t have freedom to explore the universe, and thinks it sounds great. The robot also equates the ending of the poem (being “by the bridegroom’s side”) as continuing servitude and having to always be the willing friend and servant to his or her human owner. I kept those meanings in mind when recording the robot’s voice.

I think that the robot’s meaning can speak to us too, because even though we aren’t robots, we are still trapped by conventional life and maybe yearn for freedom and excitement. I think that it’s maybe a little harder to relate to the original meaning, since the poem was actually written by a man who had lived as a tramp and a seaman and already knew that freedom of rootlessness.

This doesn’t have much to do with the dissertation chapter, but there it is.

Comment on One year of Animal Crossing by ililaloveYouuu

ililaloveYouuu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:34:52 +0000

hi everyone
i play animal crossing already uh, 1/2 years and i be at the 4th..:O
iloveeeyou’rhouse(ll) i can’t wait i have one too!
(sorry my English isn’t good because i’m a dutch one too.)
kisses

Comment on Animal Crossing 3DS by Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:20:44 +0000

Actually, what I saw around on the internet is that you’ll get to be the mayor of the town. If that’s true, it might point toward some town management features, along the lines of placing bridges or choosing between the light house or windmill (which were already in the last game).

Comment on Animal Crossing 3DS by Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:59:56 +0000

Yeah, they’ll probably add just a couple of new features but otherwise just copy the previous ones exactly. I think that if they actually make a new game this time around that it’ll be pretty obvious.

Comment on Animal Crossing 3DS by metaly

metaly — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:09:15 +0000

I saw these and had a similar reaction. I’d love to play a real Animal Crossing sequel, especially on a portable, but it’ll take a lot of work to convince me that this isn’t just a port like City Folk (and I guess Wild World, for people who played the GC version).

Comment on socks by Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:25:55 +0000

Oh, and one thing about those pictures — I stretched out that first pair of socks before putting them on (because I wasn’t used to them) but now I just put them on and they fit more snugly, but still not tightly. But there would be many fewer wrinkles in the socks I’m wearing right now.