<p>I was going through some <em>old</em> backup cds and found mostly useless stupid shit, but I also found a few good photos. This is one of them. It was taken in the summer of 2000 in rural Missouri, near <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rutledge,+mo&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1">Rutledge</a>, on my way to <a href="http://www.dancingrabbit.org/">Dancing Rabbit</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1571251329/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/1571251329_0b4df754a1.jpg" alt="gas station in rural missouri in the summer of 2000"></a></p>

<p>...And I hate Comic Sans a lot. Like a lot <strong>a lot</strong>.</p>

<dl>
  <dt>Bauhaus 93</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1545667513/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2003/1545667513_765f74ed97_o.png" alt="bauhaus 93"></a></dd>
  <dt>Courier</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546536590/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/1546536590_e002aa0821_o.png" alt="courier"></a></dd>
  <dt>Curlz</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546536730/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/1546536730_92be05dbbc_o.png" alt="curlz"></a></dd>
  <dt>Hobo</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546536878/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/1546536878_213b818459_o.png" alt="hobo"></a></dd>
  <dt>Impact</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546537010/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/1546537010_d80373698b_o.png" alt="impact"></a></dd>
  <dt>Marker Felt</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1545668627/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/1545668627_2d3b672376_o.png" alt="marker felt"></a></dd>
  <dt>Monaco</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1545668771/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2363/1545668771_12f4ce3ac4_o.png" alt="monaco"></a></dd>
  <dt>Papyrus</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546537760/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2078/1546537760_290cc22b1c_o.png" alt="papyrus"></a></dd>
  <dt>Sand</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1545668989/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/1545668989_f05dff3098_o.jpg" alt="sand"></a></dd>
  <dt>Wide Latin</dt>
  <dd><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/1546537986/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/1546537986_fb983724c5_o.png" alt="wide latin"></a></dd>
</dl>

<p>I'm sure there's more. These are just the guiltiest offenders. I've been thinking about this list a lot lately so I wanted to get it out of my head.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thekingdommovie.com/" title="The Kingdom Movie Trailer">The trailer is a total turd</a>. Absolutely typical. </p>

<p><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thekingdom.html?showVideo=1" title="the Kingdom Movie's first four minutes">The first four minutes</a>, however, are gorgeous. Really gripping. Super dense information packed into those 180 seconds (the first bit is just studio logos and intro credits). Watch it a few times. It's worth it. Though, instead of watching it on the Yahoo Movies site, download the Quicktime movie stream file and watch it full screen. Much better. Here are the different sizes: <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/hdtrailers/universal/thekingdom/480/?http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/process/qtlHD.qtl?node_id=4259075&amp;hdtype=480p">480p</a>, <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/hdtrailers/universal/thekingdom/720/?http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/process/qtlHD.qtl?node_id=4259075&amp;hdtype=720p">720p</a>, <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/hdtrailers/universal/thekingdom/1080/?http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/process/qtlHD.qtl?node_id=4259075&amp;hdtype=1080p">1080p</a>.</p>

<p>This is a great example of how badly the studios represent movies in their trailers compared to what the director themselves would do.</p>

<p>[nod to <a href="http://hivelogic.com/">dan</a> and <a href="http://daringfireball.net/">john</a>, a la <a href="http://thetalkshow.net/">the talk show</a> <a href="http://thetalkshow.net/#11">ep 11</a>] </p>

<p>I interviewed at a startup today to do front UI kind of stuff within a rails web app. I feel like i totally tanked it. Mainly, because my javascript is absolute total shit. It's too bad. They seemed like nice people. The office was a nice environment. Their domain has some interesting problems that they're setting out to solve. It was the longest interview and by the far the most technical that I've ever gone through. Lots of dry erase board time. They really grilled me on my javascript. Ouch.</p>

<p>The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.</p>

<p>The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.</p>
<p>False.</p>

<p>The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.</p>

<p>St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business there.</p>

<p>In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years.</p>

<p>Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.</p>

<p>Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.</p>

<p>Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.</p>