on germans and their chocolate
- Co-worker: German people are awesome because they can only go one of two ways: either they're your absolute worst nightmare or they're super cool and act like they're your best buddy.
- Me: Yeah Germans kick ass. Thankfully, I know more of the latter.
- Co-worker: A German customer even brought me chocolates as a thank-you the other day.
- Me: I just hope it wasn't German chocolate.
- Co-worker: Hey, it's not *that* bad...
My Books
My Books (which do not know that I exist)
Are as much a part of me as this visage
With its grey hair at the temples and grey eyes
That I look for vainly in glass surfaces
And wonderingly run my curved hand over.
And not without some logical bitterness
It occurs to me that the essential words
That most express me are not in my own writings
But in those books that don’t know who I am.
Better that way. The voices of the dead
Will utter me forever.
Jorge Luis Borges
(via bellavita)
Who was Sexy Dynamite? CopHeaven broods over the secretive but presumably sensual coder in his short post, “Sexy Dynamite - Fixture of My Childhood”:
“Many of the games I beat as a child credited this mysterious programmer at the end. I used to wonder what he looked like and why he didn’t use his real name. Was he a genius? Why did he work on crazy titles like Spellcaster and Mystic Defender?
In the arcade (later on, in the ’90s, when you could enter more than just three initials), I would see hi-score names with his moniker and knew there were other people out there thinking about him and paying homage to him.”
Even stranger than Sexy Dynamite was Spellcaster’s director, listed only as “Dragon Wang” (no lie).
See also: Golgo 13’s ANGELA
oh man, i had way too much tuna…
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