Last Post

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And so this is my last post. (ominous)

The last few days have been some of my best here, saying goodbye and seeing people I've accumulated over the year. Korea's okay. I wouldn't want to live here long term. It's a good place to visit, just not work.

Now I've got to finish packing.

I'll pick up the blogging thing again real soon.

Think of me and wish me safe passage in crossing the vast ocean.

Bogart

Know what I've watched a lot of this year? Humphrey Bogart films. Here's how I rate what I've watched or rewatched this year:

1930
Up the River - D+

1936
The Petrified Forest - C+

1937
Black Legion - C
Dead End - C+

1938
Angels With Dirty Faces - C
The Oklahoma Kid - C

1939
The Roaring Twenties - B

1940
They Drive By Night - B

1941
High Sierra - B-
The Maltese Falcon - B+

1942
Across the Pacific - B+
Casablanca - A

1943
Sahara - B

1944
To Have and Have Not - A-

1945
Conflict - C+

1946
The Big Sleep - B+

1947
Dead Reckoning - B+
Dark Passage - A-

1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - A+
Key Largo - A

1950
In a Lonely Place - B

1951
The Enforcer - C+
Sirocco - B+
The African Queen - B

1954
The Caine Mutiny - B-
Sabrina - C

I'd like to see the rest of his films and read a good bio.

I Can Almost See America From Here

Went up to the roof of my building for a final view of drab-colored apartment blocks and the New York Wedding Hall. It's my last full day in Korea!

Ray Bradbury: "Fuck the Internets"

The Internet? Don't get him started. 'The Internet is a big distraction,' Mr. Bradbury barked... 'Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,' he said, voice rising. 'They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.'"

The Long Goodbye

Is it over, really? Am I really done? Can I go home now?

I'm kind of drunk from dinner with the co-workers. But it won't seem to hit home that I don't have to go to work again. I'm sure it will kick in in a few days.

Last night I watched The Long Goodbye, a weird Raymond Chandler story that Robert Altman moved into the 1970s and changed the ending for. Every shot has the camera moving, supposedly.

Ha ha. The Long Goodbye. Funny, that.

It's the Final Countdown

Well, tomorrow I start my last week of work. When it's over we begin a new chapter in the Ninja-tek Chronicles.

Did I say a new chapter? I mean a whole new volume! If this were a software update it wouldn't be like 4.0034 - it would be an entire new number with a zero behind it.

Ninja-tek 1.0 was from my birth to about the 7th grade. This was a period of vague innocence.

Ninja-tek 2.0 was from 7th grade to moving out of my parent's house in 2001. This was a period of useless schooling and war against the world.

Ninja-tek 3.0 was from 2001 to the present. This was a period of lots of struggle and stupid jobs.

But on Friday...

Ninja-tek 4.0!!!!!!!#@$!!#$@#$@!#

Can't you feel the excitement?

I could try to define Ninja-tek 4.0 but I think I'd rather let it speak for itself and continue the tradition of overblown Ninja-tek rhetoric.

Your Daily WTF

I skimmed this article at first not realizing it was from the Onion:

"Besides setting the literary community abuzz, Salinger's decision to come out of seclusion has allowed scholars access to his massive archive of unpublished work for the first time. So far, critics have examined three never-before-seen novels, eight novellas, and more than two dozen short stories—all of which appear to be Terminator fan fiction."

Update

Seven more days of work!!!!!!

There, I blogged.

Man, I can do anything right now. But I can't do everything. Figuring where to live is complicated.