“There he was, OBL, all tan and rested and on videotape (hey, did you get the feeling that he had a bootleg of my movie? Are there DVD players in those caves in Afghanistan?)”
— Michael Moore, admiring his admirersMy tastes diverge mightily
Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution links, apparently approvingly, to someone’s list of the 200 best action movies of all time.
I could eat a pile of VHS tapes and puke a better list than this. Some of the movies do belong on the list, but in wildly different positions; others are, um, kinda sorta not action movies, or kinda sorta not good.
Rewards
So after many delays, we finished moving the company to the new building. We had a few small issues to work out Monday morning, and I spent the evening on the phone with someone in China who needed to bring up a new VPN connection, but All Is Well.
My reward, apart from an Amazon gift card, new business cards, a coffee mug full of candy, and a Blu-ray box set, was that on Tuesday night, our Shinkendo dojo did tameshigiri for the first time.
Nothing like cutting up targets with a katana to take your mind off of work!
K-pop girls teasing...
heLOVEnus continues to taunt fans with pictures; there’s a new album, you just can’t have it yet!
The more usual form of k-pop tease (aka “cute girls doing cute things”) can be found here.
And then there’s the unfortunate phonetic problem with the group’s name…
Essential iPhone apps...
Fukuramase-kata!
Meet Ren. She’s an alien slave girl with a brain the size of a walnut and a heart the size of, well, something big and chest-related.
This is one of the postcard-sized bonus items included with the deluxe edition of the DearS PlayStation 2 game. Notice anything odd about it, besides her rather distorted anatomy?
Let’s take a closer look:
SAO Physical Therapy
Here’s what I like to imagine Stephen’s post-stroke physical therapy is like:
Dear Apple,
Long strings of digits pasted into the Notes app on an iPhone are not necessarily phone numbers. Do not immediately start autodialing when I select them. That’s fucking stupid.
In this specific case, they were product serial numbers pasted from a barcode scanning app (of which the only useful one appears to be ZBar; all the rest auto-search shopping web sites and refuse to just give you the contents of the goddamn barcode).
