Just so you pplz checkin here and being not on my contact list know - most of my pics are "friends only". If you add me as a contact and have some pictures up here on flickr you will probably be soon on that list.

"Snow Crash. Tear this card in half to release your free sample.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street cimre. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

HIRO PROTAGONIST

Last of the freelance hackers

Greatest sword fighter in the world

Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation

Specializing in software-related intel

(music, movies & microcode)

On the back is gibberish explaining how he may be reached: a telephone number. A universal voice phone locator code. A P.O. box. His address on half a dozen electronic communications nets. And an address in the Metaverse.