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| From Dictionary.com, color is mine: nice –adjective, nic⋅er, nic⋅est. | 1. | pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit. | | 2. | amiably pleasant; kind: They are always nice to strangers. | | 3. | characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis. | | 4. | showing or indicating very small differences; minutely accurate, as instruments: a job that requires nice measurements. | | 5. | minute, fine, or subtle: a nice distinction. | | 6. | having or showing delicate, accurate perception: a nice sense of color. | | 7. | refined in manners, language, etc.: Nice people wouldn't do such things. | | 8. | virtuous; respectable; decorous: a nice girl. | | 9. | suitable or proper: That was not a nice remark. | | 10. | carefully neat in dress, habits, etc. | | 11. | (esp. of food) dainty or delicate. | | 12. | having fastidious, finicky, or fussy tastes: They're much too nice in their dining habits to enjoy an outdoor barbecue. | | 13. | Obsolete. coy, shy, or reluctant. | | 14. | Obsolete. unimportant; trivial. | —Idioms | 16. | make nice, to behave in a friendly, ingratiating, or conciliatory manner. | | 17. | nice and, sufficiently: It's nice and warm in here. |
I know that some definitions that I don't like are obsolete, but there's an aftertaste. Of course Urban Dictionary beats all. To me, not being nice does not mean being the opposite of nice. I tell you, in my Engineering group, there are about 50-ish people. At this point in time, I am the only female there. When they are talking about me, the one thing I don't care if they say is that I'm nice. "Good engineer" and "takes charge" would be better. The same with the people I don't particularly like. I don't care if they think I'm nice. I care more if they are polite to me. And chances are they will be more polite if they don't think that I'm nice. I'm plenty nice to the people I like and the people I have to like, my in-laws, for example. | |
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| I just talked to Alla. She lives in Australia seeing as she's married to an Australian and stuff. They are moving to Sidney next weekend and she's kind of happy about it, with the exception of the price they will be paying for their apartment there - she says it's really expensive. I said, well maybe there are more Russian immigrants there, so you could make friends. And she said, you know, I don't make friends with Russian immigrants very well. They are kind of mean. I thought, amen to that. Just wondered for a second if I was mean. I don't know if I'm mean, probably not, but it took some courage for me to stop being nice. I am not nice anymore. At least most of the time. | |
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| - The Andromeda Strain
- This is not the old movie, which my husband thinks is very good and which I haven't seen, this is a new mini-series. I liked the idea a lot - a satellite brings a virus, then it turns out that the virus came from the future. The humans themselves sent it back in time because to defeat it one needs bacteria that will have been killed off by global warming. Kidding, by pollution. But that's the idea from the book, the movie itself is so-so. There was a journalist who was threatened and almost killed by the military, but who still was bent on telling the truth to the people. That, I thought, did not look realistic. At the end, there was the usual five minutes before an atomic bomb comes off tension scene that everyone is bored with. Oh, I don't know. Meh.
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Brand Upon the Brain!
All about my mother
- The Andromeda Strain
- This is not the old movie, which my husband thinks is very good and which I haven't seen, this is a new mini-series. I liked the idea a lot - a satellite brings a virus, then it turns out that the virus came from the future. The humans themselves sent it back in time because to defeat it one needs a bacteria that will have been killed off by global warming. Kidding, by pollution. But that's the idea from the book, the movie itself is so-so. There was a journalist who was threatened and almost killed by the military, but who still was bent on telling the truth to the people. That, I thought, did not look realistic. At the end, there was the usual five minutes before an atomic bomb comes off tension scene that everyone is bored with. Oh, I don't know. Meh.
Appleseed
Flight of the red balloon
City of Ember
Cloverfield
Dragon wars Let's see if it's as bad as they say it is.
Flash Gordon
The Fall I hope this isn't another Pan's Labyrinth.
Journey to the center of the Earth
Ghost Town I see dead people.
Grindhouse Rodriguez and Tarantino horror. Hmm.
Jumper
The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold
Let The Right One In
Man with the Screaming Brain
A Lobster Tale
Southland Tales
Penelope
Speed Racer
Synecdoche, New York
Teeth
Tin man
Youth without youth
Zombie Strippers!
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| I felt like crap yesterday and instead of doing what I had to do I watched 3 doomsday movies, partially in fast-forward mode. As a result, I'm in no mood for anything today. Nothing at all 1.
And the movies are:
- Shaun of the Dead
- British comedy zombie horror. It was too long to be funny. Apparently, this is the first movie of the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy of which I might watch the third movie when it comes out on DVD. Maybe.
- Dreamcatcher
- Considering the luck Stephen King had with the movies made based on his books, this one is not bad, and I have read the book and actually liked it. It becomes a tad long in the second half, but so do King's books. What needs to be disgusting is very disgusting, by the way. Disgusting and realistic. I found one of the characters doable. Guess which2.
- 2012
- Has spectacular special effects and and makes no sense whatsoever. John Cusack needs to make money too, you know, and he knows I'll love him anyway.
- I Am Legend
- OK, this one was a disappointment. And the worst thing is that I did not expect much from a Sci-Fi flick with Will Smith in it, maybe another I, Robot. And in the first 10 minutes it was, but then for a whole hour it was good! I suspected Will Smith could act, he just needed a chance to show it. And it was interesting and unusual. And then boom! crap again. I wouldn't have been disappointed if there were no good piece in the middle. On the other hand, from the comments on IMDB, I learned that there is an original book and that it might be good, so it's been added to my wanna read list, even though I'm not particularly fond of Sci-Fi/horror/vampire books.
Crap, I watched four doomsday movies yesterday! I must be crazy, no wonder I had a dream that the civilization is coming to an end and a guy I know is downloading cartoons off the web and not sharing them with kids. And I think I finally understand what discipline is. It's when you do what you have to do, not what you want to do. Unfortunately, I never have time to do what I want to do which is nothing. So how does one decide when it's time to stop doing what has to be done and have a break and do what one wants to do? How long can the break last? 1 This phrase is from Courage The Cowardly Dog, one of my favorite cartoons of all time. It's often repeated by Dr. Vindaloo. 2 You do not actually have to guess. | |
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| That's it. I'm not arguing about politics outside of my own journal. Cross my heart and hope to die. | |
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| Oh my, very interesting: Sociological Images blog. For example this post about the right color of butter. Or this post about child pageants. And much, much more. | |
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