Some Generals Believed
SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rap#
You can call me Aaron Burr with the way I'm droppin' Hamiltons.
Nights Into Dreams was amazing. Comix Zone was good. Kid Icarus was awesome. Chrono Trigger is love.#
While cleaning up my room the other day I came across a copy of my will. A document that I wrote in a somber mood, thinking of my own death, now seemed hilarious to me. All of my petty knick-knacks meant for one friend or family member or another. I remember just what I was thinking when I wrote it, that I might not make it out of this and that I wanted one last way to tell people back home that I love them. I'm not really sure why that seems funny to me now. Maybe because I did make it through and that a particularly large weight has been taken from my shoulders. We no longer have to worry about people trying to kill us. We're going home. Now the only thing I need to worry about is the infamous "ironic death." We've survived a year in one of the most dangerous places on earth; now we just need to avoid choking on a hotdog back home or getting hit by a garbage truck. Other than that, the ever present feeling of danger and uncertainty has taken its leave. Now I can concentrate on less weighty issues like the high price of fuel or the girl drama that I will inevitably get my self into. Back to life as usual and damn does it ever feel good.
Maciej Ceglowski on Paul Graham. Quite good.#
Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do. Even not-so-great paintings - in fact, any slapdash attempt at splashing paint onto a surface - will get you laid more than writing software, especially if you have the slightest hint of being a tortured, brooding soul about you. For evidence of this I would point to my college classmate Henning, who was a Swedish double art/theatre major and on most days could barely walk.
Also remark that in painting, many of the women whose pants you are trying to get into aren't even wearing pants to begin with. Your job as a painter consists of staring at naked women, for as long as you wish, and this day in and day out through the course of a many-decades-long career. Not even rock musicians have been as successful in reducing the process to its fundamental, exhilirating essence.
It's no surprise, then, that a computer programmer would want to bask in some of the peripheral coolness that comes with painting, especially when he has an axe to grind about his own work being 'mere engineering'.
Lance Arthur reviews Lestat: The Musical.#
Tyler Cowen asks, "How quickly should I go through my stock of Battlestar Galactica?"#
I thought about this recently with regards to Alias. Alias seasons have a standard structure: First disc on new season clears up the previous season's cliff-hanger. Next three discs have a mix of non-story episodes and story/build-up episodes. The next disc is pure build-up, but doesn't have significant cliff-hangers. Then, the final disc is all cliff-hangers as the final story is carried out.
I think it is a wise strategy to not watch the final disc, and maybe the final two discs of each season, and start the next season with them. This way you never have to deal with annoying cliff-hangers, but you get a significant chunk of interesting story and closure.
Obviously this implies you are only watching DVDs and that you don't like cliff-hangers.
Julie Leung links around for presentation tips.#