February 15, 2006

Bits and Pieces

The Polish have made some amazing movie posters, some of which have almost nothing to do with the movie they're representing. If we had posters like these, I'd see a lot more movies.

Speaking of movies, Nightwatch finally comes out this week. About time.

Thanks to my holiday trip back to Pennsylvania, I learned that Radio Shack is phasing out their budget line of Perfectly Fine Cables and starting to carry only their Eight Hundred Percent Markup Gold Tipped Cables. Thankfully, the internet has come to the rescue.

A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible is a fantastic web comic.

Zebomedia is home to someone who likes to take great photos of New York at night. It's a good gimmick, and he's better at it than I am. Speaking of cool photographers, Shivy has set up a photoblog, and I'm loving the work. Check it.

I'd like to thank headline aggregator Fark for making me remember one of my favorite quotes from Snow Crash, a classic of western literature which everyone should read:

"Until a man is twenty-five he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."

Well, I'm twenty-five now, and I'm definitely not the baddest motherfucker in the world. But I'm almost certainly the baddest motherfucker I know.


Oh, and one last thing, considering the day that it just ceased being a few hours ago. I'm totally in love with a girl, and it rocks.

Life's pretty good right now, which probably means that the ground is about to fall out from under me. I hope it happens after I get health insurance again.

Posted by Jason at February 15, 2006 02:16 AM to Misc