2005

It baffles me how a company as big as Microsoft can have loopholes in their activation process that are really simple to exploit. I guess with deadlines and such a huge undertaking they can slip by. Then again, maybe someone intentionally snuck it in?

Can't get enough of the Comedians of Comedy.

Panic.com's Goods Section has a really cool interface for buying their t-shirts. You drag them down into the bar at the bottom, and drag them out if you've change your mind. Sort of like the OSX dock. I played with it for a good five minutes.

The "Heard 'Em Say" video is out. And although the first time through I was left a little let down. I watched it a few more times today and noticed a few things that made me smile, and I think it's growing on me. I thing the cardboard "house" in the very beginning is great and I loved the kids jumping across the mattress piano keys. With a little imagination I think you can turn this video into what it was intended to be.

From the article "There Is No God":

"Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around."

-Penn Jillette

When someone says they'll watch over somebody's __________, I wonder to what extent the average citizen would go to in order to ensure the safe keeping of that thing.

Start.com is an interesting idea. I bet there are other sites like this. I wish it was more graphical though.

A CIA operative trained in handwriting analysis is discharged due to unorthodox maneuvers. She moves to some small mundane central US town and becomes a grade school math teacher. Using her training she is able to determine if the children actually do their work or simply copy it out of the back of the book. Forced to actually learn, the kids are quickly revealed to, with the exception of young Marcus Sniggerbottom, all be exceptionally bright mathematicians. Together they form a group to take part in math competitions and quickly excel to the national level. Under the guidance of their teacher, the group utilize their public recognition and mathematical genius to solve the case she was originally discharged from!

One of my classes is mixed with both deaf and hearing students. The particular professor tends to throw in a vulgar word every now and then to keep things interesting. I wasn't sure if the translator was signing them, but I noticed today that they were, which is good.

So this "blog" is mainly for me to keep track of really awesome things I find on the internet and random unpersonal thoughts I have. I also think it's good to share such things with others in hopes that they might do the same. Anyway, this post is about a "comic" I found a long time ago and recently rediscovered. It's by the artist David Choe, not to be confused with The David Cho, and it is pretty vulgar. It is about very sexually explicit material, and I only post it because some twisted part of me deep down inside thinks it's hysterical and want to keep a tab on it so I can stumble across it later down the road. ENOUGH! Here it is: Pisstorm.

Dannon "Fruit On The Bottom" yogurt has ceased putting the plastic lids on top of the container. They've had a message warning of this drastic change for the past couple months, however today was the first day I have bought a yogurt without the plastic top.

A few years late on my part, I've been listening to The Distillers. My sister put one of their songs on a CD she made me and it quickly topped my most played. I just really like her voice.

Totally sweet 35mm camera made out of legos here.

Northwest Airlines gave me two 5-minute phone cards for missing my connecting flight. In an age when everyone and their mom (even mine as of a few months ago) these do me absolutely no good. They really need to update this outdated compensation.

I'm not sure if I ever posted a link to this realllly awesome animation ever, but just in case. Click Here!

I hung out with two guys (Isaac and Matt) tonight and we looked through this website of Matt's friend. Solid gold. Link.

I have flown Independance air a lot in the past two years and took the excellent service/flight experience for granted until today. I'm flying home on Northwest Airlines and the whole thing has been an annoying ordeal.

I think the way hip-hop artists honor their dead peers at basically every performance is really awesome and admirable.

The textbook buyback is the collegiate form of sucking dick for crack money.

I like how the movie Magnolia uses music.

Close != Clothes

I think if you want to get good at something, no matter what it is, you have to do it everyday. I guess that's pretty obvious... haha. Nevermind.

I wonder which is worse. Ignorance or indifference.

I might need to investigate the origin of them, but high-fives given by geeks seem really ironic to me. (As I am posting this entry from my Sidekick into a blog I coded myself from scratch, I think I am alright saying that). I think they/we should make up a new co-operative hand gesture to express our excitement.

I think if someone gave me a copy of Madagascar I would take it as an insult rather than to stanrdard joy felt when receiving a gift. Something about that movie did not rub me the right way. The penguins were pretty funny though.

DJ Riko is a mash-up DJ. I downloaded one of his CDs last week and had mixed feelings. However, after listening to it off and on the past week a couple of the tracks have really grown on me. Download the .rar file of the whole cd here.

If you brush your teeth with Crest toothpaste, then drink red gatorade 10 minutes later, it tastes very similar to watered down orange juice.

Karen reminded me about Egon Schiele recently, an artist she told me about this past summer. I think he is tremendous and he has inspired me greatly the past few days. Here is a link to a ton of his work.

The project I'm working on for class is going tremendously well. It has turned into a SUBMARINE ADVENTURE!!!! Still a lot of work to do, but I'll post it up soon.