Another Californian Adventure

It's been a while since I last changed the photo of the header. In celebration of Disney's California Adventure's expansion, I decided it would be fitting to change it to a photo of the front entrance which will eventually be gone (around October/November of this year) to make way for the new entrance. The concept art is below. The concept is turn Sunshine Plaza into Buena Vista Street and to evoke Los Angeles as Walt Disney saw it when he arrived in California in the early 1920's. There will also be a 1920-style red trolley traveling through Buena Vista Street and Hollywoodland (current Hollywood Picture Backlot). Be sure to catch the current entrance before it disappears in October!

American Idiot Sound Check

The 'Idiot Interns' posted a video of the opening number of American Idiot from today's sound check. The show starts previews tomorrow (March 24th) and opens April 20th at the St. Jame's Theatre. According to Playbill's twitter account, they are allowing filming and photo taking during the invited performance. I've noticed a few differences from the Berkeley run:

• Lighting has changed drastically...it's been amped up and now more colorful
• Johnny no longer sings the opening lines from the song
• Will, Tunny, and Johnny are no longer watching individual TV sets. Rather, they're facing the back wall
• Slight costumes changes -- Brian Charles Johnson now wears a red shirt
• TV placement on the back wall seems similar
• No major changes in choreography or blocking

Wondermazement

Through my Twitter feed, I am always finding random, hilarious, weird, interesting content. There was no way to collect these things in case I wanted to refer back to it. Thus, Wondermazement was created. I try to update from time to time, but it all depends on how often I find stuff to post.

One of Those Nights

Tonight is one of those that I feel like staying up. The coffee might have contributed to my alertness and I have been fairly productive. This semester has been a drastic change from the previous one...seldom am I pulling all-nighters and rushing to finish assignments. Now, my body just shuts down on me and I fall instantly asleep. How convenient. This has contributed to more than one incomplete assignment, mostly those for programming.

Matlab (programming in general, rather) is not any easier the second time around. I still have trouble grasping various concepts such as recursion and least squares regression. Programming is basically conceptual math and physics. We have to spend countless hours writing functions that calculate fairly simple tasks such as matrix multiplication and solving linear equations. It just does not interest me whatsoever. At least now I know I hate two things with a burning passion: organic chemistry and now programming. At least my engineering graphics design class is somewhat fun.

On a different note, I haven't been very successful in keeping with my New Year's goals/resolutions. My plan was to work out at least once every two weeks...at the time it seemed like a practical goal. Even then, I haven't exercised once since the new year began. In the past, I've been fairly good with keeping up with my goals, but after entering college, I have been much lazier. I would much rather watch a TV show or movie for hours on end than spend just 15 minutes running. My lack of motivation is also very evident in this very blog. Posts are few and far between. This is all going to change (I hope). I will try to update more often and start exercising...soon.