In our school, in order to graduate, all grade 11’s must take a Career And Personal Planning Course, aka CAPP. However, in this article, I will refer to it as CRAPP.

CRAPP is a mini course that takes half a semester, and is bundled with another mini course, the one that I signed up for was photography.

That was cancelled because not enough students were interested in it. When we had to choose a different mini course, I decided to choose… “Creative Wood” since i needed 2 Fine Arts Credits to graduate, and was not willing to sacrifice Calculus 12 for… say… Yearbook 11. It turns out that Creative Wood is a lot worse than CRAPP, which is quite an accomplishment considering how CRAPP requires us to plan the rest of our lives at 16.

Woodwork is AWFUL. I’m given a set of pieces of wood to get to finished length, width, and thickness. Once that is done, I am given a drafting drawing. That’s it. Here is how I figure out what to do next:

I can do it by experience. I was in Woodwork 9 after all. However, in Wood 9 I sliced the end of my finger off with a Jointer. No, that’s not a typo: A FREAKING JOINTER. I’m obviously not proud of this.

I can see what other kids are doing and ask them. After all, they know what they’re doing, right? Unfortunately, I now have two big ugly holes in the back of my project from this method.

I can ask the teacher! If he was there. Which he is not. He hasn’t been there for the last week and a half, instead we have a sub that doesn’t know what we’re doing, and it seems doesn’t need to know because I’m the only one lost AND showing up.

So the entire point of Woodwork is to find out what to do through trial and error, and if you get the latter, you lose marks. I CAME TO LEARN HOW TO WOODWORK! Not to be given a project that I am expected to know, and make it, and get marks! The entire system is simply flawed.

If you were recovering from the crap that was Episode II and the not-so-crap-but-still-only-okay Episode I, I am happy to say that Episode III is the best prequel yet. The reason? Not much talking.

There are TONS of really cool lightsaber battles in it. And I mean tons! I can think of… 3 major ones at least. The movie is mostly action. No corny love scenes. And some of you (though not me) may be happy to know that Jar-Jar does not speak a single word in Episode III. Plus the plot was actually really interesting. Interesting! Very very dark, though, but is that a bad thing?

The movie is obviously a lot darker than the others. It is the only movie to grab a PG-13 rating (whereas the others were only PG). It is also very emotional. I probably would have cried if I was a girl. But I’m not. So there.

One thing I don’t get though… at the beginning of A New Hope, Obi-Wan tells Luke that his father “wanted you to have this when you were old enough.” as he hands him the lightsaber, when in fact he said “I HATE YOUUUUU!!!!!!!!” Perhaps Obi-Wan misheard him.

I’m keeping updated on this constant E3 coverage on G4.

The PS3 is beautiful! The controller is redesigned (although the same) and it… it just looks so cool. Much better than that ugly XBOX 360 (Although the XBOX 360 is better designed than the XBOX 1)

Now I’m not excited about any of these, I’m excited about the Revolution, but since it’s not revealed until tomorrow morning, I’ll voice my opinion about these two contenders over here.

Is it just me, or have XBOX and PS switched places? In this generation, the PS2 came out first, and (technologically) it sucked. It somehow destroyed the dreamcast, despite the fact that it had (key word HAD) sucky games to start with. Then the XBOX came along about a year later, and it didn’t manage to dethrone the PS2. However, it did have better graphics. Now here’s the thing: Now the XBOX is coming first, with a lot of interesting games (not to say PS3 doesn’t have them) but not much power, and the PS3 is coming later, with theoretically more power. Interesting…

I’ve been playing Resident Evil Remake for quite some time now. I recently rented it and fell in love with it, and soon afterwards I saw it at a garage sale.

I know I’m late to the party. While everyone is playing RE4, I’m still on the remake.

BUT THIS GAME IS AWESOME! Let me show you how the awesomeness is awesome:

Atmosphere:
This game is SO scary. Freaks me out. And everything is perfectly aligned, the camera angles, the music…it fits together so perfectly to make you soil your pants. It surpasses even the Myst games.

Graphics:
Since everything is pre-rendered… it looks gorgeous. I mean…I haven’t seen a game that looks this good…period. Every detail… the moths around a lamp, the shadows… everything is so amazing!

Controls:
Errm…okay the controls suck. Really bad. But here’s something good: The zombies are as badly controlled as you are.

Creatures:
Yes the creatures are really really scary. After seeing nothing but zombies for so long, you’re suddenly exposed to zombie dogs, tarantulas, crimson heads, and sharks just to name a few. (I haven’t gotten further than the sharks yet…I’m guessing there’s more.

Puzzles:
The puzzles are some of the most interesting I’ve seen in a long time. They remind me of one of my fav. games: The Day of The Tentacle. Item based puzzles that fit perfectly with the atmosphere.

Now I’m guessing pretty much 95% of people who are on 1up have played resident evil at one time or another. But those of you who don’t, and have a gamecube, I highly recommend you pick it up (especially since its so friggin cheap…RE4 is full priced) Maybe the RE games will keep you busy until Zelda comes out.