its been over a week since i last posted and i have no good reason for my lack of verbiage.
well actually i do. extreme laziness followed immediately by intense work.
but i’m catching up now.
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
taken for granted
sometimes i forget how lucky i am to live in this corner of the world. spent the weekend in whistler keeping the girlfriend company while she did some work up there and we got bored and decided to head up top for something to do.
there were literally squeals of delight from the tourists up there. they were so happy at seeing snow and taking in the views. whereas for us it was just “meh”.
its been a while since i’ve gone on a big adventure trip and it was always fun to look out the window on final approach and compare it to where i’d just come from. each place i’ve been is beautiful in its own way but we just seem to have something special here.
waddle
those fat cats up in ottawa in my bed have it too good these days. this is what happens when you’re the building slut. you get fat and get waddle. Leon used to be a nice lean cat. now he’s a lazy fat cat ready for a cushy politician’s job.
here we go again
if you bought an ipod (or any other mp3 player, or even blank cd’s) in the past you probably paid a levy/tax on it. then after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the levy was repealed. well guess what? its back. boo-urns.
ummm….
yeah i’ve fallen off the wagon… sorry about that. i’ll be posting more regularly now.
internet echo chamber
as an apple fan, i’ve obviously been following all the hype and press around the impending iphone launch. i want one but unfortch i’m stuck in canada with ass-raping cell phone rates. nevertheless, the level of vitriol and buffoonery in the interweb never ceases to amaze me. you can almost break down the types of conversations into groups.
preachers:
“i pronounce that the ipod doth sucketh” despite never having actually used one.
economists:
they’ll usually point to the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). “WTF $600 + $60/month for 24 months!” ummm…right because every other cell phone you buy gives you free usage for two years.
feature-geeks:
“it doesn’t have (insert feature here) that a freebie phone has!” right. and how many times have you used the pickle jar widget? oh what’s that? you can’t figure out how to find the widget buried 30 menus down? oops.
brand haters:
closely related to the feature geek. hates on the iphone cause its apple and would rather have the Chi-Tai-Soo brand phone they picked up for $2 but then had to take 6 months of language lessons to learn some obscure dialect of Mongolian Highlands Chinese to read the menus.
microsoft schills:
“apple sucks microsoft rules!” – um, i didn’t get my check from microsoft last month.
apple fanboys:
“steve jobs! woo!” – ’nuff said.
oh and then there’s the asshat (Dvorak) who’s comparing the iphone to hitler.
there’s more but i’m getting bored of this already. i want to play with an iphone and once i do i’ll let you know what i think (although you don’t care).
link dump
YASB (yet another streetwear blog)
vancouver restaurant reviews
fake steve jobs too funny (if you’re a geek)
poor guy – read this then go watch “goodbye lenin” or vice versa.
how to swear in any language
electronics rant
why does it have to be so hard? i’m talking about connecting modern consumer electronics. i’ve had several friends and family acquire new tv’s, dvd players and other assorted consumer electronics recently and each and every one of them has contacted me for help in setting up their new gear. they’re all intelligent people. they’re not techno-newbies. yet somehow, the electronics industry has made it impossible for normal people to use the equipment they’ve spent thousands of dollars on. it doesn’t have to be this way!
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seuss cat
just like the dr. seuss song, the cat came back the very next day. this is Leon the allergy furball.
king of the castle
that would not be me. recently that title would fall upon Leon. the orange cat that belongs to a neighbour. Leon likes to walk into our house either through the front door or an open window and poke his way into every corner of the house. a few days ago, i was in a strata meeting next door and he came waltzing in the window to say hello. today he decided to plop on the couch and watch Heroes with me. i’m very allergic to cats. he knows this. bastard.