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Ok, so I’m back from Boston. Sorry for the lack of updates that have seemed to plague the month of January thus far! I swear, as soon as school starts and I get into the swing of things, rampant procrastination and updating will abound (only a few more days left — school starts this coming Monday!).

I have so much to write about my time in Michigan. And now I have Boston on my mind as well. But I won’t write about those trips because I don’t quite feel like I’m in the groove to write about it justly. But I will tell you this! I love how my new apartment is so big that I can literally run from my room to the kitchen and back again ALL THE TIME! It’s so fun. I’ll be in my room and I’ll think, hey, some food sounds good right about now, and I’ll get up from my chair and run to the kitchen. It’s so much fun just running around the house. I hope it stays this clear forever! :)

Stephen Colbert is genius.

Mmm. I’m happy.

It was good enough for its own entry, but in case you missed it, read Things My Boyfriend Says, a very hilarious blog.

And Steph sends over My Boyfriend Is A Twat.

Every day we move closer to having computers like those in Minority Report. MMMMMMMmmmm!!!! I think I’m just as fascinated by the touch-screen capabilities as I am with the large screen to stand in front of!

Citigroup is about to abandon their ubiquitous red umbrella logo for something more stylized (here is the red umbrella logo with Citigroup and here it is as Citi with just the red arch). What in the world is going to happen to the Citigroup red umbrella in front of company headquarters??!!
By the way, I have a red Citigroup umbrella.

Here’s a rather slow but extremely cool video from Uniqlo Mixplay. Just note that you might find be slapping yourself for wasting 5 good minutes of your day by the end of this video. :O
In other thoughts, I think Uniqlo’s website is utterly useless. It’s so user unfriendly. What the heck, for real.

The Jawbone is a wireless headset device for mobile phones that can cancel ambient noise so that the person you are talking to can hear you no matter what kind of noise is around you. If the videos aren’t doctored in any way, then it looks like the Jawbone just may be one of the best and coolest wireless headset devices ever made for any mobile phone! The device not only does an amazing service by canceling out ambient noise, but it looks great too (and comes in 3 tasty colors). The Jawbone can be found at your local Cingular Wireless store for about $199.99. Kinda expensive, but hey, can your current headset do what it does? Thanks Yelena for the link!

I was already pretty psyched about streaming music through my Wii with Finetune. Now I’m even more psyched that I can stream YouTube and Revver videos through my Wii with SofaTube. This is awesome. If you have a Wii and you have downloaded the Opera browser on it, do bookmark those two sites.

Why is the new BMW X5 so beautiful? Check out the all-new BMW X5 microsite if you’re interested in seeing more.

“People keep asking me questions about life…”

Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.

Heh, this video is awesome. And the narrator is the perfect blend of boring and interesting if there ever was any. Here is the official website for this video. [via]

This makes me so sad: The war in Iraq is now a $1.2 TRILLION war.

In the days before the war almost five years ago, the Pentagon estimated that it would cost about $50 billion. Democratic staff members in Congress largely agreed. Lawrence Lindsey, a White House economic adviser, was a bit more realistic, predicting that the cost could go as high as $200 billion, but President Bush fired him in part for saying so.

But the deteriorating situation in Iraq has caused the initial predictions to be off the mark by a scale that is difficult to fathom. The operation itself — the helicopters, the tanks, the fuel needed to run them, the combat pay for enlisted troops, the salaries of reservists and contractors, the rebuilding of Iraq — is costing more than $300 million a day, estimates Scott Wallsten, an economist in Washington.

That translates into a couple of billion dollars a week and, over the full course of the war, an eventual total of $700 billion in direct spending.

The New York Times also puts up a simple graphic illustration to show us just how much $1.2 TRILLION is.
And if you aren’t scared by that NYT graphic, maybe visualizing large numbers in the form of pennies will be easier.

Ok. Hello. Goodbye. The end. I sigh!