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February 28, 2007 @ 2:00 am

I’ve been in good spirits lately. A bit nervous, yeah, but most definitely in good spirits. Maybe you could even go as far as to say heart-fluttering. But maybe that’s going a bit too far. ;) I think I’ll express it better through a story, so expect one of some kind very soon. Maybe right after this post. Maybe. Until then, do mind the cats and keep visiting! :)


Can anybody tell me why in the world this dude did this??

Ha! I’ve been making gurns my entire life!

Dee Bus Service Inc.
How about dis bus? Eh? Eh?

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So I got this Gillette Fusion razor in the mail for free yesterday. Ahh, I don’t think I’ve bought a real razor on my own in a very long time. I don’t shave EVERY DAY like some other people, so by the time my razor blades DO get dull, another razor just comes in the mail and I get to use it (FOR FREE!). Anyway, I’m posting this specific razor because it looks cool (great color scheme) AND it has 5 friggin’ blades. So many blades that I just don’t know what to do with them! It’s like I have to learn to shave all over again (ssssaaaarrrrrcccaaasssssmmmmm tttooo tttthhhhheeee mmmmmaaaxxxxxx)!!

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This is an old Flickr photo set, but I can’t remember if I’ve posted this. So in case you haven’t already been checking my Flickr photos, here is my super-fantastic-better-than-you artwork. PWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Haha, this was kinda fun. I left a small and completely vague comment on Ashley’s wall yesterday making it sound as if something extraordinary had happened (I made it sound like she got engaged). Ashley tells me that I ended up fooling a lot of her friends. Hahaha, fantastic!

This is pretty neat. The [former] Brooklyn Industries store in South Williamsburg has turned into a contemporary art gallery. It’s open now. When I get some time, I’ll see if it’s worth my time.

Motorola, probably realizing that they are slipping quite quickly in the cellular phone market, is trying to improve profits by introducing a modernized StarTAC for today’s consumers (officially called the StarTAC III MS900). I guess it looks sleek, but honestly, it’s nothing revolutionary like the original StarTAC is known for. In fact, despite my poor observational skills, this “new” StarTAC reminds me a lot of my old Motorola V600 which I greatly loathed. Blech. No thanks.

Self-titled is the beautiful portfolio website of John Lacoviello, a web and graphic designer. The website takes a bit of fiddling around with, but once you get the handle of it all, it’s all quite nice to play around in. I’m assuming that if you’re using a computer from 1995 your experience might be a bit different, but I’m also assuming that you aren’t using a computer from 1995.

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February 26, 2007 @ 12:31 pm


Rainn Wilson was host of SNL. This is his monologue. Notice anything?

If you can count to 33, you can play Catch Thirty Three.

No picture for this week’s secrets.

Miscellaneous crap:

WEIRD! The Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendant of one of the slaves owned by the Thurmond family. This is like…I don’t even know! It’s just so weird!

Looking for a good present? How about Cacas: The Encyclopedia of Poo?

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I forget if I’ve ever linked to the work of Jill Greenberg. She’s most well known for her very stylized work of crying babies. She recently gave a seminar/lecture at Parsons. How does she make the babies cry? I’ve been told that she offers them candy and then she takes it away during the shoot. Kind of mean, I guess, but feelings are temporary right?

What a wonderful and funny looking truck!

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Cartoons in my days were so much better

February 24, 2007 @ 6:00 pm

Here is nearly 30 minutes of cartoon intros from the 80’s. I can’t say I remember them all, but I do remember a lot of them. This makes me feel good. :)

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I’m off to Boston for the weekend…!

February 24, 2007 @ 1:01 am

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…but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop updating. Well, technically I guess it does, but if you check back here at 6PM, there’ll be a special treat for some of you. Until I get back, be safe, have fun, and don’t get in trouble. :)


Terminator vs Robocop (and another small surprise). I always root for Terminator though because he’s cooler. The ending to this is kinda funny. You’re gonna need sound for this one, so if you don’t have it at your computer, don’t watch it yet.

Heh, Tetris, according to Wikipedia, is the killer app for Nintendo’s Game Boy. No doubt it could be for the DS as well. Ahh, the random things I read about at work.

Only viewers of The Office will understand this one. But here’s a blog dedicated to how much it would cost Dunder Mifflin if Michael Scott’s actions were actually done in real life at a real company. Haha, he’s so stupid sometimes! :P


Dwight Schrute music video, by NBC. Those crazy people… Gosh!

Oh my goodness, the soon-to-be Xanga front page is so ugly.

Play Virus. Very addictive. Thank God it’s the weekend!

RIGHT NOW ONLY: Target has the black Nintendo DS Lite for $120.97 shipped! OMG, if you don’t have a DS Lite, you need to jump on this deal right now. Like NOW NOW NOW! *ahem* Joe Kim *ahem* AHHH, too late! SOLD OUT!

That Godzilla game for the Wii still looks kinda neat, but why in the hell does Godzilla fight like a human being?! C’mon now…

Here’s a video of a totally fantastic type experiment using a scene from Pulp Fiction as the source of the text. I’d love to do something as fluid as this one day. :) [via]

There are PLENTY of ways to do something of this sort, but if you don’t quite fancy the Rasterbator’s dotted look, then maybe you ought to try out block posters, which basically does the same thing for you without the annoying dots (granted though, sometimes the halftone dots are cool). And just like the Rasterbator gallery, block posters has a gallery too. Heh, I suddenly got the urge to go plastering again… :) I can’t wait till it gets a bit warmer. Just a bit…just a bit.
Oh yeah, if you’re stupid enough, you could also pay to have some company make you a wall poster from your own image. But again, that’s only if you’re stupid enough. -_-


Oh my goodness, RETARDED song and videoooooooooooooooooooooo! Jared writes it better: this video feels so 5th grade.

The mysterious origins of the Autumn wallpaper image in Windows XP. A fascinating hunt for the answer to where that path lies on this Earth. Good news: they find the answer. [via]

Well, hell, somebody at Microsoft ought to know. As it turns out, if they do, they’re not telling.

Curiosity becomes yearning, and yearning becomes obsession. Several friends are drawn into my search. I no longer want merely to find Autumn and go there. I now want to go there and look for a little place to live not far from that leaf-covered path. Photo editors, editor editors, fact-checkers, researchers, computer guys and computer dolls—my motley, shifting, devoted crew come to be known as Team Autumn.

And more in the article…
Now, if you’re curious as to where Bliss, the default wallpaper/background that boots up with Windows XP is from, then you’ll be happy to find out that Bliss is from Napa County, California.

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Happy Birthday Norman!

February 24, 2007 @ 12:01 am

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Happy 23rd birthday Norman! YAY!
More pictures of Norman (and Simon and me and Steph) after the jump… (more…)

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Senses all inclusive

February 23, 2007 @ 11:51 am

Jenna Fischer is looking fantastic in these Blades of Glory movie stills.

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OOOOOoOooO! Canon is coming out with the 1D Mark III this coming April for $3999. It’s Canon’s first digital SLR to include a live preview while shooting (like compact digitals and video cameras). Dang the specs on this are crazy. But then again, so is the price. So for now, I’m just looking. :P
DP review has a few more photos and specs.

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And thank goodness Canon got rid of the nasty “round-ish” designs they’ve been putting on select PowerShot compact cameras. Those were soooo ugly. They’re back to their senses now though with the new (and totally rectangular and angular) SD1000 and SD750. More here. Yum!

Hahahahahahahaha. Fools around the world can now waste their money on the gold PSP. Who the hell wants a gold-anything?! Gold is such a nasty color. It only works well on some items (like shoes, for example), and let me tell you, it doesn’t work for electronics (ie: iPod, PSP, DS lite, cell phones, etc.).

While natural foods and organic foods may be incredibly good for you, the fact that they taste like this (or try this) can’t and probably won’t entice me enough to start eating organically/naturally. I don’t eat that unhealthily anyway and I figure that anything that doesn’t kill me immediately is good enough to eat (ie: no poison). Hah, ok, just kidding. Well, sorta. But still, organic food really does taste nasty, and I think people are starting to settle on that too because the organic/natural food business, according to this NYT article, is diminishing. That’s probably why Whole Foods just decided to buy Wild Oats (their competitor) — to decrease competition and to hopefully gain a bit more market value. [WHAT THE HELL AM I SAYING, I DON'T KNOW].
We need a Publix here in the Northeast. :)

Speaking of eating healthy…is McDonald’s about to make their breakfast menu last all day? If so, that’ll be great! I love breakfast at night! Something about eating something at the wrong time of day makes my world go ’round.

This is a fun photo. :)

Userscripts.org (the huge database of Greasemonkey scripts) has just updated the look of their website. On the front page is a link to some popular Greasemonkey scripts, one of which is the YouTube Googler. I just installed the script here at work and it does its job quite nicely. What it does is, it makes YouTube video pages look and feel more or less like Google Video pages (this means larger videos and less clutter). Try it out.

YOUR school could be on the list of top schools the RIAA thinks is involved with piracy. I am very surprised to see that Rutgers is not on this list.

Not all schools react the same way to the copyright notices, however, and some appear to take it more seriously than others. Michigan State University forces two-time offenders to watch an anti-piracy DVD by the RIAA, and three-time offenders could face suspension for a semester. Ohio University requires two-time offenders to face suspension, probation, or possibly a homework assignment on the topic (much worse than suspension). Among the most aggressive, the University of Tennessee turns off Internet connections for second-time offenders until they physically take their computers to a lab where their music-sharing programs are deleted for them.

Geez.

OMG. The Pier 17 mall (the one at Seaport) is going to be razed and talks of a newer and bigger mall are said to be replacing it!

This is just hilarious: Thanks last-minute-arrival-guy. If you ride the NYC Subway system, you’ll know exactly what this guy is saying.

My iPod is all scratched up now anyway, but if I had it new, I would totally put it in Griffin’s reflect mirror chrome-finish case ($24.99). The neat thing is that when your backlight is off, it looks as if the entire front (minus the wheel) is chrome.

Ok, there’s apparently a fire in the building. I’m going to post this and hope it’s not the last post of my life. :P

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