"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." - Henry David Thoreau
Triumvirate
You haven't seen the half of it... I mean, two-thirds of it:
450w power supply
DVD-R/RW optical drive LCD monitor 500GB internal SATA HD TV tuner card laptop
optional
external HD/pocket media drive
FEED MEH!
Pray for Mojo
viernes, 7 de noviembre, 2008
Watching this, I just kept thinking of Bart's speech about island paradise with monkey butlers when they got stuck in that Lord of the Flies parody because they were going to some mock-U.N. thing.
Bart: And every night the monkey butlers will regale us with jungle stories. Nelson: How many monkey butlers will there be? Bart: One at first, but he'll train others.
Wow, I finally had some time and the energy to fiddle around with the CSS a year and a half after I made this layout, so I tweaked things around. Notably, the black member nav is no longer black. It's getting closer to how I would like it; I'd always wanted the member nav to be like, right on top of the picture, but whatever, I'm good for like one and a half years. I don't even know if I can do that correctly, but whatever, I'm too lazy to check now.
Happy Halloween, but Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is hell of better.
Edit Oh yeah, and FF still sucks at showing Nutang layouts, :((((((((((((( 19:05
Maybe she was trying out to be a snail for Halloween
jueves, 16 de octubre, 2008
It used to be that fortune tellers or "psychics" would give me a come-hither look through the glass window of their shop while curling their finger in a motion communicating that I should enter. I was but a young teenager when it first happened to me, and I shook my head so vigorously I nearly saw stars. Subsequent times, I just ignored their efforts.
But for the second time in as many weeks, a psychic outside of her (I've never seen males) domain accosted me on the street. My first experience was in Brooklyn and a woman lazily pushing a covered baby stroller on the sidewalk stopped my friend and I and offered us "ladies" a psychic reading. (Together? Apart? Who knows.) Safe to say, she was promptly denied.
Yesterday, I was walking north in the tourist trap SoHo Broadway has become, when suddenly, a woman lugging a large empty container bin singled me out and asked if I would like a reading, adding, "I'm a psychic," as if those were the best credentials ever. I stared blankly at her for half a second without stopping. I wasn't trying to be rude, but it's Manhattan. You keep moving and you don't stop till you reach your destination, unless you're a tourist. That's just how it is; if you slow down, you'll get in someone's way, guaranteed. It's probability! (BTW, go to the side if you must stop, kthx.) Anyway, I don't know if she took offense, but she remarked, "Excuse me!" as if I'd invaded her personal space and got all up in her business. I simply said, "No thanks," as I was still within earshot and I didn't even slow down, with a perfect dismount to boot.
Are high rent prices pushing "psychics" to the streets, or is the raging inflation forcing people to just take up any business to make whatever money they can? However, the most bizarre thing to me in all of this is that both women were toting large, unwieldy items. Okay, the baby carriage, I understand (though I'm not totally sure there was actually a baby inside), but the empty, lidless bin, on a crowded Manhattan street, was just so... huh? 19:08
I've not had any in years, though, and now this story is making me crave for some.
I think it won't be long till another Chinese product is tainted or something or other. Their industrialization so far has been going unchecked, and they need some hardcore regulation. All the idustrialized nations went through it, I just think this is a much larger scale. And news today travels at light speed. 22:12
She was angry for looking like a female trailer-trash version of Bob Barker
domingo, 25 de agosto, 2008
I was walking down Madison Avenue when I saw a very old woman with a very unfortunate hairstyle -- the mullet. It was a light, silvery gray and it contrasted heavily with her dark, tanned skin. I averted my eyes quickly to something else, a building or a public pay phone, I don't remember, but it's rude to stare. I noticed a movement from the corner of my eye from the old woman, but I didn't really think about it. As I approached the crosswalk, my eyes roved back to the woman because she was practically in front of me. She had her middle finger ready and poised, the nail touching the bottom of her chin as if drawing some "fuck-you" power. No sooner had I turned my attentions back to her that she just launched the finger from her chin. Was she cursing me? Madison Avenue? Manhattan? The world?
I've lived in NYC all my life and never have I received so many flipped birds from strangers before! I feel like a true New Yorker now. 17:04
Stuff for free! Staples Weekly Ad features prominently Elmer's glue, which they are basically giving away for their Back-to-School sale. Yeah, I'm not in third grade anymore, but the allure of a free product was too great to ignore. Also, it's supposed to be an inexpensive alternative for getting rid of blackheads.
I don't know if it's a regional deal (New York City metropolitan area), but still. This is literally a steal what with the price of gas and all, which doesn't apply to me because I don't drive. 19:50
