A tale of two things I saw yesterday:
Drainpipe from bath makes IDM rhytms
It’s snowing just when I’m getting used to the whole global warming thing.
Now use up a bit more of that precious energy by watching the result:
Update 2012: Revver.com has folded and so has all the videos I hosted there
At the moment I’m reading ayn rands’ Atlas shrugged. I’m one fifth into this epic tome, and the main reason I’m going through it is because it’s one of those bestselling “classics”, and is widely hailed by those on the slightly right-ish scale of politics.
It reads like shit, honestly. All the characters that have appeared so far are either strong-willed, skilled and focused people or weaklings that simper about public good but have no balls to do anything. It reads like the rantings of a 13-year old that’s stumbled upon an op-ed by friedman for the first time and seen a quote of nietzsche in the bathroom stall, trying to sound like an adult.
I know I sounded like that. I wrote a flaming condemnation of Saddam Hussein at the time of the whole Kuwait intermezzo, comparing him to Hitler. I was 12 years old and was paraphrasing one newspaper or another – I would like to hope that I’ve matured somewhat since.
Then again, Ayn did state that she was writing a book to put flesh on her theories on objectivism. Basically, she’s an über-capitalist (there’s this retarded notion that the term “anarcho-capitalism” has any validity and should be used on objectivism. “Bah” I say), and this might be one of the redeeming qualities of the book – science fiction as a political manifesto. (Doesn’t come close to Ursula Le Guin, obviously)
As it goes: “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
The audio-book version is available at thepiratebay.org in case you feel like it.