after a nice extended jaunt through the EU and months away from blogging, the need to ramble seems to be making a return. the first manifestation of which is this little blog refresh (inspired by snow-mag.com) we’ll see how long the motivation lasts. oeuf, 12 posts in the 2009, weak. hopefully we can beat that for 2010.
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
the unanswerable question
what is more extreme?
‘XXX’
‘xXx’
‘XxX’
your tailor is not your friend
they gleefully point out the inadequacies of your aging body that they must cover up and hide.
so self conscious right now but too lazy to do anything about it.
tax dollars at work
for the first time in my life i feel like my tax dollars are actually doing something.
i complained to the city about some holes in the dog park that Santos hurt herself in and several days later they were filled.
i can just picture a bunch of grumpy, burly dudes in safety vests cursing under their breath while navigating shovelfuls of dirt through doggie landmines.
i’m shocked. really i am.
social media bullshit
Rant Alert
This social media crap is really getting out of hand. Twitter especially. Its like a bunch of girls at a pajama party telling each other how great they look. Seriously, somebody writes a blog post, then auto-tweets it and then a bunch of their friends retweet it. Think about that. Republishing a piece of auto-generated content when said content is only a notification. Bring that out to the real world. That’s like getting a text that your parking meter’s about to expire and then your friends all tell their friends that your parking meter’s about to expire. What the fuck!
Write some real goddamn content and tell me something interesting or don’t waste my time.
Oh and big deal if you have a gajillion followers. You didn’t even have to spend any cognitive energy to make that happen. Its like those people who collect curios. Their house is just a giant clusterfuck of knick knacks that you can’t do anything without knocking one over. I got one word for you…’edit’.
Year of the Ox
Its almost the year of the Ox and as you can see Ox is letting it get to his head. Elbowing his way in front of Jeero, asserting his dominance. I can tell already that its going to be rough year with him and his sense of entitlement. But at least our new puppy has him on his toes now fearing for his life.
new year same shit
ha. might as well live up to my moniker and start off the year all bitter. although i have nothing to be bitter about. its not like i made a resolution to be more or less bitter. in fact i made no resolutions at all. why? because i don’t believe improving yourself should be limited to once a year. it should be an ongoing process.
pretty long winded start to this post huh? well get used to it. since i’ve been using twitter, its been taking up the more frequent posts leaving me with less to say here. so i think i’m going to try to write more lengthy and hopefully more insightful posts here in exchange for reduced frequency.
i have to say that after keeping this little blogging thing going for a long while, i have much respect for people that can keep up the dialogue. it requires a level of commitment that is commendable. even if all you’re writing about is what you had for breakfast and an indepth examination of the end result of that meal’s travels through your digestive system. (that was a round about metaphor for shit in case you missed it).
but back to writing and motivation. what motivates people to write? excess creativity? idle hands? dreams of financial windfalls? creation of a false persona? self-brand management? something else?
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screw it. i had cheerios for breakfast…
denim lust… again
i forgot about this pair of jeans that just wasn’t meant to be that i found in Japan. we were wandering around in Laforet and found the Nudie store where i found these. a recent post on slamxhype reminded me about them. they were part of the nudie lab collection and were selvedge, hand distressed with a tinted wash. they were pretty hot but also worked out to about $750! eek.
i am still looking for a pair of thin finn’s though. i think i need a pair that are in a lighter distressed wash. i’ve gotten lots of black and uber-dark denims lately so i need some balance. when i was in uniqlo buying the T-000’s in black, there was a sale on (buy 2 get the second half off) i hesitated cause i wasn’t sure how they would break in and now i’m regretting it because they fit awesome now and the other pair i wanted was just the wash i’m looking for now. boohoo. woe is me.
pigeon holed
i love this photo (via hypebeast) and it made me investigate the jacket itself which i thought i liked but i’ve since been shot down by a comment of “for you?? really??”
i guess i’m stuck in a zoolander-esque ‘one look’
geeked out
been posting less lately now that i can do quick tourette’s blasts via twitter. cleans out the pipes. you don’t get that yucky buildup that suddenly just lets go…
except for now. had one very lame, geeked out weekend triggered by spending money.
been thinking about upgrading ye olde macbook for a while now but was holding out to see what apple came up with. frankly, not impressed. prettier package but more expensive and not the features i wanted. as a result, kept my eyes open for a deal on a new drive. lo and behold ncix did a black friday special. seagate momentus 7200.3 in a monstrous 320GB for $90! who can resist? of course while the actual physical install took less than 5 minutes, the data backup and restore took about 8 hours. woke up saturday morning to an upgraded laptop that vibrated like a motherfucker. stupid new drive was wonky and vibrating way too much. so back to ncix for a replacement and reinstall and data restore and finally success.
with that out of the way it was time to turn my attention to upgrading steph’s macbook pro to leopard. of course that means another multi-hour backup prior to upgrade but at least that went smoothly. or so i thought.
turns out the backups are now corrupted due to some stupid error with our NAS box. i hate the lacie etherdisk mini. its a pile of junk. slow, noisy, crappy quality and poor design choices. this is our second one (first one mysteriously died) and this time the file directory structure got corrupted which means you can’t reliably access files. even dropping into unix commands couldn’t solve the problem. which means formatting and starting all over again. bullshit.
now that just leaves dropping the old laptop drive into the ps3. i’ll leave that for next weekend after we go to the christmas tree farm…
i’m such a lame-o