Musings of a Vulcan Philosopher

23rd of September 2009

Let’s Get Nostalgic

This is my “Let’s Get Nostalgic” segment. I am going to try and post these types of blogs every week if I am thinking about a particular item or story from my past.

Anyway, is anyone familiar with these guys?

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Probably not. I was introduced to Victor Vector and Yondo games for the MAC when my friends were playing Wolfenstein 3D on their PC’s. Yes, I was playing games on a MAC back when MAC’s basically sucked big dinosaur balls. Speaking of dinosaur balls…

The first Victor Vector and Yondo game I ever played was “The Last Dinosaur Egg!” Victor Vector was a super-scientist hired by a science foundation that sought to better understand science stuffs! His sidekick, Yondo, was a St. Bernard who was as intelligent as Victor Vector and could talk. They would go on adventures and I believe there were four Victor Vector games. Each game had an educational spin to it.

This particular game was aimed at traveling back in time and obtaining a Tyrannosaurus Rex egg to bring to the present so it could be examined and better understood. Victor Vector had to travel to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods in order to find the dinosaurs. On the way you meet Delta Mode, another time traveller who befriends you and helps you on your quest.

As many times as I played this game when I was little, I only remember beating it once. There were puzzles I could not understand and it took me forever to realize that Delta Mode was actually working for the evil Ram Axis, the arch-nemesis of Victor Vector. I eventually had to have picked up a chicken egg earlier in the game and then switch it with the real egg while Delta Mode was holding me at gun point. If I had picked up the chicken egg, then she would go back to the present with the fake egg and I would win the game by returning to the present with the real egg. It was hard, but I was seven lol.

It was a great game to me and I loved playing it and learning about dinosaurs. Although, I probably would have rotted my brain with Wolfenstein 3D, as I currently rot my brain with Half Life and Call of Duty :-P

18th of September 2009

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain… but why?

17th of September 2009

A Unique Sense of Humor

Today, while at my field placement, one of my field instructors was speaking to the class when she read a quote from the group devotion book.

It said something like, “The key to power is understanding your own emotions.”

When I first read this, it kind of made me laugh a bit inside. I personally thought it sounded like something from a Saturday Morning kid’s Superhero cartoon that teaches good values and how to be a good person. I had this image of a badly drawn cartoon superhero dressed in tights, holding the bad guy by his collar and looking down at the children with his chest all puffed out. Then he says the quote,

“The key to power is understanding your own emotions!”

And then the children clap and cheer and the superhero flies off into the night sky.

The field instructor went around the room and asked us all what we thought of the quote. When it came to be my turn, I decided to express my amusement with the quote. After my explanation, she looked at me, laughed, and told me I had a very likable and unique sense of humor.

Those of you who know me would understand that I took great pride in this comment. I am proud of my unique sense of humor and I feel it defines me. Even though, in a random time, I might announce, “When life hands you lemons, make PUDDING!” just to get a reaction. I not only enjoy a good laugh, but I like creating a sense of amused confusion to accompany my innane comments. I have been called odd before and have been compared to Luna Lovegood on several, separate occasions. Even still, Michaela loves my odd sense of humor, mainly being that she has a similar sense of humor as well. I find that brings us closer together :D

Afterwards, I did, in fact, explain my real thoughts about the quote. Perhaps knowing and understanding our feelings gives us the power to control our emotions. Just some food for thought :D

16th of September 2009

This is the Prince and Elika from the new Prince of Persia video game. I really like this picture :D

“

Logic is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom. ”

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Vulcan Proverb