get an rss reader (aka, use an rss reader)

this is a story about using an rss reader. They are great. You don't have to go to the website anymore, just sit back and have it download new articles for you. Pretty much all blogs and websites provide rss streams for you now. You can even follow comments without needing to refresh

for osx: Use NetNewsWire
It's fast, configurable, looks nice, lightweight, rad

for win: use NetNewsWire for osx on the mac you are going to buy, or use google reader with some kind of notifier. Or I think firefox can act as an rss reader. use that

Congrats grad, you now will waste more time watching your rss reader and immediately switch from whatever you are doing to it when you see a new article has popped up.

Oh, and..


I'm Back!

closing shop, opening a new store, free churros this friday

as some of my most avid readers may have noticed, i have disappeared.

Well, the story is a long one, but i'll give you the short version. I bought an iphone. I only paid 300$ I sold my nokia for basically what I paid, then I was attacked by a terodactle, it was at least 10meters wide. Really


So here's what I need. I already have a site ready to go for my new blog, but I need an idea. What should I write about? What makes you return to my stupid blog to read it? Would you like to laugh? Have me ramble about business plans? Maybe a blog about tech? How about my thoughts on some news story each day. Should I talk about kittens, or maybe avoid them? Should I ever mention myself in the blog, or is this a disconnected thing? Should I have an image in every blog? A photo? Should it be a photo blog alltogether? Should I write about bFit tests? Did you like my blog before? Why do people write blogs in the first place?

ttyl

freakin weekend, gonna have me some fun

Things to remember for the weekend:

1. Get bioshock. It's just good
2. Did anyone get Metroid? Yeah.. Don't know if I'm excited about that one
3. I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man.. Well, this goes without saying
4. Think of better theme for a blog
5. Convince Friends to help with it
6. Get people to read it
7. ...
8. Profit!

This concludes week 2

tuesday morning

3:16 am PST

as seen from

my driveway.

a total eclipse of my heart

week 1, v2

so, where were we.

global warming, as sensationalized by any douchebag who wants someone to listen to them, is retarded.

I'm not saying that it's impossible the earth's average temperature is increasing every year. I'm not saying that it's impossible that humans could change the earth's climate. I'm saying, that any scientist, worth being called a scientist, would not give a definitive answer on this concept. They might say something like, if you take a small sample of recent history, blah blah blah. But if you hear "we [humans] are causing the earth's temperature to increase," seriously?, just laugh. What scientist makes a call without a control variable? Without a reasonable sample? I mean.. Come on? Really? Douche

Ok. So here's what I don't understand about this whole affair. They say that people claiming global warming isn't true, are big corporations that don't want to loose money by having to recycle or not dump waste into lakes. Ok, that might be true. I'm sure they don't want to loose money, sounds reasonable, they have something to gain by it being untrue. So you have those dudes on that side of it. -- Now, Who's on the other side? Hippies? Environmentalists? Where does this idea come from being for the idea that global warming is a reality? Do people side with this idea because there is no big company behind it; therefore, it makes them look good? Wait a second. What about the douche who's selling some lightbulb that "saves" a bunch of energy. Maybe it's huffy, who wants you to ride bikes so you'll buy more bikes. Maybe nike wants you to walk so you'll wear out your shoes faster. Maybe it's some solar panel company who wants to sell more of their product. Has anyone noticed, that no matter what side you pick, you are still going to "ruin" the planet?

a solar panel costs way more of the earth's resources, and way more money, that you will ever save during the entire lifespan of that solar panel (* I made this up, but it's probably true ) You burn more of the earth's fuel (food/food production) by walking to your destination that it costs to drive (car/gas/production) *

No matter what you do, or how you live, you are going to ruin the planet. No matter how much of a douche you are, you are doing something wrong, according to someone out there. So do you really want to spend your whole life walking around wondering what you are doing wrong, or would you rather make a few "earth friendly" choices when you can, and keep it to your freakin self

alpha omega

so anyways. Nikon just announced the d3 and the d300. What is it about these things that makes me say "yeah, I'll buy that." I have a d200, which does everything the d300 does, you know, minus maybe 3 features, that for some reason, I really want. Full frame? Self cleaning? Everything else? Sign me up. d3x has 9fps of 12mp, 25,600 ISO (so you can take pictures in a blackhole). What the heck.

what's the deal with taking on jobs that don't pay me. I typically get involved with stuff that never will pay me, but I think "hey, this is a future investment, and someday I'll be really rich because of the time I'm putting in now." 3 weeks of being up until 4 and not a dime in my hand is a little frustrating. I keep going to meetings where we talk and talk. "Would it be great if.." "Wow, we could really sell this if..." wtf guys. show me the money to quote the late cuba gooding jr.

and why do I bother with photography anyways. nobody pays me for it and if you want to be a pro, you have to start wearing a bandanna and buy a really crappy flash template website that every single other photographer out there is using, and for some reason everyone thinks they are hot shit when the one image fades to the next, but they don't even think that maybe the website could be a template. It's like buying a honda and telling people you made it, and for some reason, everyone says "how the hell did you fit all these injection molded parts into the engine? you must be hot shit"

i guess working for nothing, but doing something I like is better than making money, getting a d3x, hating myself and being miserable every second of my working life.

follow your dreams kids

wheat

so

samuel adams makes over 1 million different types of beer and every single one of them is touched by a hard working middle American man who is this guy on the right here.

none of the beer makers have good commercials. Corona is just some dude and a girl on the beach drinking away with some shiteating grin all over their face and a big ol lime next to their bucket. what they didn't remind you about was when you just paid 30$ for that beer in the Caribbean and it probably had a sip taken already by the bartender who before letting you take the beer, tried to sell you some poorly crafted home-made bracelet, where you were all "oh man, this is just what i want to remind me about this trip. a shitty bracelet and a beer to forget about the bracelet"

the best commercials by far are budweiser. Most, if not all of their commercials don't even have people drinking beer in them. They are just like "hey, look at the bud logo shown in different ways, because we have drilled this logo so far into the base of your skull that you don't even need a reason to like the drink other than the fact that you like this logo. Have a look at this horse, or maybe some stupid frogs. Are you drinking yet? Have some more. Man this logo tastes good, eh?"

you know, if drinking beer makes me look like grizzly adams, I think i'll have another