2600: Winter Edition Released
So the Winter edition of 2600 is out. Some people have already recieved them, I have not. Hopefully sometime this week.
New Firebird, too. They renamed it to FireFox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Fear and Loathing
I finished reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas last night. That’s a damn good book, in an LSD-induced sort of way. I Think the New York Times Book Review quote on the back does a good job of summing it up
The best book on the dope decade.
Speaking of the back, here’s the excerpt they put on it:
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge...
I can’t wait to see what traffic Google is going to send my way because of that quote.
But, yeah, good book. And short. So read it.
Philip K. Dick
I finished Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick last night. It’s a very good, highly recommended book. My favorite story is the Electric Ant. Go read it.
Pi
- Mathematics is the language of nature.
- Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
- If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
Mass for the Dead
I’m addicted to the Requiem for a Dream theme.
Snow
Yesterday was a snow day. It was fun. I went over to Tina’s (yeah, driving was fun). We had a snowball fight (although the snow didn’t pack), went sledding (curbs hurt), watched Ice Age (strange movie), and played Lunch Money (a card game where you beat up christian school girls and steal their money). When I finally left I had to scrape my windshield, but it was raining so as soon as I scraped a spot it would freeze over with ice again. Oh well. It was dark so I ended up just looking for tail lights and, well, I’m still alive.
School is cancelled again today because of the ice. I’m just laying in bed with my laptop. Quite enjoyable, actually. It doesn’t look like I’ll be driving anywhere today (not quite ready to die yet).
New Fax #
I just setup a new fax number: 206-339-HACK or 1-206-339-4225 Actually, it works as voicemail, too. But if you want to leave me a voicemail, you might as well just call my packet8 number: 1-206-384-4309
Requiem For A Dream
I just watched Requiem For A Dream. It’s directed by Darren Aronofsky, the same guy who did Pi. It’s a very good movie, in the same fucked up way that Pi was. Pretty much it’s about four drug addicts and the movie just follows them around as their lives are destroyed by their addictions. So, yeah, go rent it. I highly recommend the soundtrack, too.