It’s different from graduating from high school, but there’s a common thread of not feeling like anything’s different, at least at first. Written at the end of the week of commencements.

What do you say at graduation?
Besides the usual congratulations
When everyone’s gotten their commendations
But what you’re grateful for are the stories.

“What was your biggest take-away from UC Berkeley?”
Hellos; goodbyes
Beginnings and ends
Some two or three hundred new Facebook friends.
Thirty-two-some classes
Projects, performances, professors
Or what I wrote on my card:
“There is no magic; we create the magic.”

But what do you…

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Two independent devil’s-advocate-sy thoughts, which I hope get imported to Facebook before tomorrow… Either way, these are more musings than structured posts, so you might need to get some context before responding to these.

There’s been a big brouhaha over Portal 2’s use of adoption as an insult. This is nothing new…it came up in the original Portal as well. This time, however, two characters consider it an insult. Hm.

I have adopted friends and adopted family, and it seems like one of those things that isn’t really an insult at all anymore. At least not in America. Now, clearly…

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My mom refused to see Source Code. “If they got the title wrong,” she said, “how can the rest of the movie be any good?” As for me, I expected to say, “It wasn’t Inception, but it was pretty good.”

So, it turns out it was pretty good, but definitely not great. On the positive side, it felt nothing like Inception and I wasn’t tempted to compare the two. On the negative side, the technobabble was worse than I expected. TLDR: it’s a premise-driven movie with a story that hasn’t been done before, but as a movie it’s just okay.…

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