I finally got to watch Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence last night. It's a very nice movie. I realized something kind of interesting in that by living in a boring part of the US that is completely not cyberpunk at all, it makes movies like this just that much more surreal. If you actually live in Tokyo or Shanghai or Hong Kong or Taipei, you'd have ( Read more... )

And this following a fairly good weekend. Friday night, I was getting my hermit on, and missed the simianpowerween celebrations. However, the adventures that were had probably would have exceeded what I could handle. I can't now remember what I did but it seemed to have not involved dancing or spoooky people ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that technolope, capital_l, and I were the new Secretary of Treasury (yes all three of us at the same time). The only thing we had to do was sign some new $20 bills. The first few were normal. Then there were a bunch that we signed "Cool Dude". Toward the end, we started drawing pictures of animals, like frogs and rabbits, instead of signing ( Read more... )