A Monday Afternoon Haiku from the Asian Timezone

Spot FX broker Lonely wail down the line, “Four-five small? Four-five?”

FF7:AC’s dirty little secret

Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children (now on DVD at any self-respecting video store) is not telling a story. It’s not a demonstration of Square Enix’s CG movie capabilities. And it’s not about closure. It’s an open letter to Generation Y: Hey youngins, THIS IS WHAT NOSTALGIA FEELS LIKE!! YOU’LL BE FEELING THIS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

SF Day 2 - By the Numbers

23.5 - Kilometres walked 1 - Hawaiian pizzas eaten 1 - Cups of coffee drunk 216 - Photos shot 136 - Photos inexplicably unrecoverable 4 - Letters in the word I used Update: Got ‘em! The camera and card reader don’t cope well when a single photo is corrupted… deleted it and the problem went away. 216 - Photos shot 128 - Photos deleted straight away 88 - Photos remaining, of which… 45 - Photos marked for upload I love shooting digital.

Overheard in New York

And submitted to Overheard In New York: “See, the rule is that a guy can’t have both hands full. A guy’s gotta have one hand free so he can punch people.”

From SFO

I’m in San Francisco! I think I’ll start a Web 2.0 flipmeat company and make ten million dollars before they call my flight. Wish me luck. Update: If this page is to be believed, Telstra postpaid customers get unlimited global roaming access to T-Mobile’s hotspots… and all it costs is a dollar or so per session for an international SMS. Bargain of the century! (Especially when you consider that T-Mobile’s rates are nearly as usurious as Telstra’s.