jibber jabber

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.

Published on December 5, 2008 11:45 pm.
Filed under: babble

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’

Published on December 5, 2008 11:33 pm.
Filed under: babble

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

Published on December 3, 2008 1:08 am.
Filed under: babble, geek

home

on another note, the day we got back from tokyo, we picked up the keys to our new place and the movers moved all our crap in the next day. we’ve been settling in and unpacking ever since. eventually i will post some pics of the new joint. its damn nice to settle in after being homeless for almost six months.

(also part of the reason why updates of been lacking)

Published on November 1, 2008 10:15 pm.
Filed under: babble, events

one more thing

we’ve finally got a house to move into when we get back from vacation!!! by the time we move in it will have been almost 5 months of homelessness. blah!

Published on September 27, 2008 10:27 pm.
Filed under: babble

update-aru

la dee da dee, we like to partee..

i thought after working an almost 60 hour week to wrap up all my work shit before i go away i’d be relieved and ready for my vacation but somehow i’m not. if anything i’m filled with a sense of foreboding dread of the shit storm i’ll likely have to come back to. being an Account Manager sucks that way. everybody else is relying on you in order to do their shit.

anyhoo, the countdown is on, 2.5 days till i’m on a plane to the land of the rising sun.

filled up the iphone with subway maps from these guys. downloaded some extra iphone apps (lonely planet japanese phrasebook and chalkboard) to help with communicating with the locals. also grabbed a bunch of the superfuture maps and just emailed them to myself. sucks that the photo app can only handle pics up to 640×480.

we’ve done a bunch of research on getting around and talking to some friends about getting around there but i’m a little worried ’cause there’s some pretty obscure stores we’re trying to find and the addressing system there isn’t very easy to understand. but hey, isn’t that half the fun of travelling.

i hope to update via twitter and possibly photoblog to here from the iphone so stay tuned.

Published on September 27, 2008 10:23 pm.
Filed under: babble, travel

politics

so there’s a Canadian election coming up. i can’t say any of the candidates are remotely interesting. there’s something wrong when your vote is going to be for the least evil of all options. contrast this with the US election where Obama is so engaging and charismatic. can’t really speak to his party’s actual platform but damn if it isn’t so much more interesting than ours.

Published on September 17, 2008 10:27 pm.
Filed under: babble

life imitates art?

if you’ve been following the news at all you’ve likely heard about the US economy and its meltdown and the impending fear of rising inflation. we’re at 2% or so and headed towards 4% or something like that. think that’s bad? how about poor old zimbabwe. their inflation rate? 2 200 000% yup you read that right 2.2 million percent. obviously if you grocery shopping, $100 bills aren’t going to get you very far so the government has just introduced the hundred billion dollar note. that’s $100 000 000 000. that’s a lot of zeroes but it’ll only get you a couple of oranges. suddenly mr. burn’s trillion dollar bill makes a lot of sense.

Published on July 19, 2008 10:08 pm.
Filed under: babble

political activism

this is still really making me angry. mad enough that it will actually, for the first time ever, move me to take part in the political process. i rarely vote, especially civic elections, but i will vote over this issue and may even email my local MPs about it. goddamn lobbyists…

Published on June 12, 2008 8:01 pm.
Filed under: babble

what’s in a name

i wonder how far you could get only shopping in stores ending in:
-barn
-safari
-mart
-galleria
-hut
i’m sure you could end up with some pretty sweet style…

Published on June 5, 2008 10:05 pm.
Filed under: babble