You know you're an utter geek when you use a VPN to log into your work's network, ssh into your box (named after a transformer), go to the library, and then write a foreach loop (on the remote box) to parse your e-mail so you can find a particular number!

OMG. I've been corrupted.

filmmaking ristretto

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery quoted, strangely, in an article talking about ristretto coffee but it applies to all things, especially storytelling. Then again, I'm a freak who has double ristretto flat whites where possible.