View From the Bushes

A day or two ago I saw what may have been the funniest video clip ever (it's on waxy.org the April 29th entry). It's a clip of a young, overweight kid in junior high (or possibly high school) pretending to be Darth Maul with a curtain rod or something similar. He's akward, unathletic, comically serious and completely lacking anything that could be mistaken for grace. In other words he's me, he's you. He is, in fact, Everygeek.

I can only comment definitively on my own akward adolesence, so when I say that's he's you, I may be wrong, but certainly he's me (though to be perfectly honest I had a much bigger problem with being unspeakably ugly than being fat). The key difference is that I never videotaped myself, and the internet was just a barely legible scribble on one of Tim Berners-Lee's notepads when I was in junior high. So there aren't any embarrassing videos of me on the internet, at least I don't think so; there was the five months I lived in Amsterdam...

In other news, it's now less than a week until the Matrix Reloaded hits theaters. I've got tickets for a 10 pm showing on the 14th. Of course I'm supposed to be publishing the next installment of Wil Upchurch's Adventure Path series on the 15th, so the end of the week may see me functioning on very little, if any, sleep. I've been staying on top of the reviews (mostly those at Ain't it Cool News) and they've been mixed. Does that mean I think I won't enjoy it? Let's just say if all I got to see was the stuff I've already seen in trailers on a big screen with THX sound then I'd feel like I got my money's worth.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross