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November 11, 2008
Secrecy in the '90s
It's a good day when your 16 year old cousin leaves this message on your Facebook wall:
what up my man give me your number i have sensitive information we must discuss
I sent him the number, and I am through the roof excited for the phone call.
what up my man give me your number i have sensitive information we must discuss
I sent him the number, and I am through the roof excited for the phone call.
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November 10, 2008
Ready to ROCK (or ready for bed)
My lead developer told me in an email this afternoon that he is a ninja. Which is exciting. For him. And for The Carrot Project. I think.
I read the email again a few minutes ago, and I thought of realultimatepower.net. Most people have seen Real Ultimate Power, right? In college, drunk and/or stoned, late at night? If you missed it or forget, get drunk and/or stoned some time, and have a look. It's a classic.
I think someone first showed it to me in 2002. I wish I could remember who. I do remember that I coudn't get enough. And I definitely remember when the movie scripts first came out. They absolutely knocked me over. Tears. Screams. Pains in the stomach. Exhaustion. Wailing guitar in the background.
And I still think it's brilliant. That facts section on the first page gets me every time:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
There's something about that grammar that I absolutely love. And I also love that when I copied that text over from Real Ultimate Power and pasted here, both instances of the word Ninjas disappeared. White font. Attention to detail.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I'm curious about the historical significance of Real Ultimate Power. Significance in terms of the disproportionate prominence of ninja conversation in our live