My IMAX Experience

As my summer winds down, a startling fact has made itself evident: my employment at the aquarium is close to over. In two weeks I will pack my life into a variety of brightly colored bags and embark upon the next step of my collegiate experience. While this job has provided its share of stress, it has also helped me to figure out some things about myself. Some examples include:

1) Dealing with people is easier when you don't have to deal with like 10 billion of them.
2) Chaperones are utterly incompetent. It's just their nature.
3) When dealing with money, its best to feel absolutely paranoid and insecure at all times, to save yourself the trouble at the end of the day.

However, I think amongst all of the things I learned, one stands above all the rest:

Call of Duty 4 is a hella fun on IMAX.

That's right folks, yours truly got the chance to battle it out in an epic showdown with four of his compatriots after work one quiet Wednesday a week ago. This experience was without a doubt, the most awe-inspiring thing I have seen since the Grand Canyon (and even that seemed to lack something in the masculinity department). The person who got all of this started was our fun loving projectionist Dave who, between sky diving trips, managed to convince the aquarium administration to let him hook up an Xbox 360 to the smaller projector in the IMAX theater. When I say smaller, I mean in the sense that it does not fill up the entire screen. Rest assured however, that when I calculated the square footage of the screen we were playing on, I found it to be comfortably larger than, say, any of the Baltic states.

A minor problem with this setup is that the game is also wired through the theater's 10 channel sound system that sounds as if its powered by that big glowy thing that Han Solo blew up inside the Death Star in Return of the Jedi. However, and I think any guy between the ages of 12 and 30 will agree with me, punctured ear drums is a small price to pay for such an ridiculously fun experience.

We hope to play again this week, maybe I can get some video. Updates to come.