Recent Updates

3/09 – Top Thrill Dragster is now posted, click the banner below. I rather think this is one of the better reviews on this site so far, more concise and also deserving of the title “roller coaster philosophy”… Kant’s Critique of Judgment is directly discussed as part of the analysis. Meanwhile, the very latest the Voyage will be uploaded is early morning on Friday the 19th. That evening I leave from Rome for Paris for the first part of my twelve day spring break I detailed in the update below including nine days at seven different parks, and I need to have all of my planned 2009 reviews finished as I will be swamped with new material afterward. Also be sure to check out the photo collections I’ve gathered so far from Italy on Flickr (non-coaster related).

2/22 – Wow, that was a long time between updates! Thankfully I haven’t disappeared completely and have been working hard on new content; you may have noticed a text-only version of the Raptor analysis has been posted for a couple weeks. I sat down this weekend and finally sorted out the whole problem with articles displaying photos incorrectly depending on the browser you’re using by simply going through each individual page and reformatting all of the photos so every page should display properly in both Firefox and Internet Explorer now. I also wrapped up a review on two more of the Point’s attractions, Wicked Twister and Mantis. As for Voyage… I really shouldn’t be surprised that a ride like that is going to take me longer to adequately analyze. I’ve got about eight pages done on it so far and need another five at least before it’s publishable. I’m still mostly on schedule, as I only needed to finish both Voyage and Top Thrill Dragster before I’ll tour (and subsequently start reviewing) my first European parks once spring break rolls around in late March. The plans are ambitious enough: five days in Paris, three of which will be at Disney with a stop at Jardin d’Acclimatation, then flying over to Vienna for three days including time spent at the Wiener Prater, and then wrapping up with a rail tour in Germany that will involve a day at Tripsdrill, a day at Holiday Park, and then finishing with two at Europa Park. I’m excited, although I’m not sure if my bank account will be after it’s all over.

1/19 – Quick update, I am moved in comfortably in Rome and am having a great time exploring the city; too bad my proficiency in the language is still mostly limited only to ‘ciao’, ‘buon giorno’ and ‘grazie’. I have a lot of walking to do daily to get to and from my apartment to classes, but it’s a great walk (it literally is a short cut to walk through St. Peter’s Square every day!) For anyone interested I have a growing collection of photographs you can view on Flickr. I also wanted to mention I noticed some big formatting problems with most of the pages that suddenly developed; turns out it had something to do with the most recent update of Firefox. I downgraded to v.3.0.17 and that seemed to fix everything, but it still doesn’t solve the problems for other Firefox users (I don’t expect anyone out there would want to do the same just for the sake of getting all the pictures to line up correctly and the top menu bar to have the proper text). However both time and internet connectivity are limited here so I’ll just have to wait and see if Firefox releases any more updates to fix these problems since I really can’t deal with reformatting all my pages (besides the fact I have pretty poor tech skills and wouldn’t know what to do anyway). In the meantime, if it’s a problem for other people I guess I can advise to use IE (haven’t tested Chrome and don’t know what Safari looks like for Mac users either).

P.S. I really really really want to finish Voyage soon but unfortunately I have had zero energy left after my days to get it done.

1/10 – Well that took about a week longer than I wanted. Not much of a surprise given how many movies I gave myself to review. The next update you see here will be for Voyage, which hopefully won’t take too long but it will be hard to say with any certainty when I’ll have time to devote to the site any more in light of the fact that I’ll be living in Europe with limited internet access for the next six months starting on Tuesday. Holy crap.

1/1 – Big update today. Seeing as we are now exactly one decade since the turn of the millennium, a Millennium Force analysis seemed particularly fitting to me. Not only that, Raven and Legend have been uploaded. They actually have been up for several days, but are now complete with photographs. Plus I am very close to getting a long article about the 21 best movies of the last decade published as well, check back before the weekend for an update. That’s not all, a short film based on a screenplay I made a few years ago is also online, Criminals Anonymous.

12/25 – While I wish I could deliver a nice Christmas present for everyone, today’s update is more of a black coal. Read the Holiday World review below to see what I mean. Raven and Legend are both done and sitting on my hard drive as final drafts, but I didn’t get enough photos of either myself so am waiting on a friend who kindly agreed to let me use some of his to send them my way. Hopefully that’ll be before the end of the weekend. Voyage will be a bit later, but only by a couple more days. Check back January 1st as well since I’ve got a few special things planned to ring in the new year.

12/16 – Quick update, I finally got through the bulk of my exams today, which provided the opportunity to do some quick write-ups of two more 2009 movies, the Fantastic Mr. Fox and Thirst. Expect to see some Holiday World content within the next week or two, I’ll have plenty of time over Christmas break to get caught up.

Update: Also added a review for Avatar.

12/05 – First of all I want to thank Screamscape for honoring me with a link on their Kings Island page. The amount of readers I’ve had over the past 24 hours has been nearly ten-fold the total number of readers I’ve had since I started the site several months ago. (If you’re looking for the Kings Island material, check the update below.) Actually it’s a weird feeling knowing that people will actually be reading whatever I’m writing because before I could write whatever off-the-wall crap I wanted and it’d be okay because I knew the only people that would ever read it would be myself and whatever friends I linked it to, plus some random Google traffic. Now I’ve actually got some responsibilities to myself and the rest of society to not appear completely delusional.

Unfortunately, today’s update may prove just that, as not only is the coaster that I spend a good deal of time analyzing (and give a positive rating!) an SLC, but I also spend parts of the article writing only in adverbs.