Posts from ‘August, 2006’

long read

Here is a bit of a recap for the week Wednesday I went down south to the Electronic Arts Campus in Redwood Shores to eat lunch with my buddy Nick. I got there an hour early and went straight to the free arcades. After half an hour of Tekken 3, I started practicing the game [...]

Bum Valet

If you drive in the city often looking for parking, you’ll often see those people that stand in good parking spots and flag you in, as if you never would have found the spot without their help. So you pull into this spot and they are waving you in trying to make it look as [...]

Scrap life #4: Sonny’s Bag

Sonny got a Lovelife bag! So of course I had to get the scrap from Roxanne and make as much as I could with it. This is the first Scrap Life article I’ve written not using that coveted green material from my bag. I surprised Sonny with a wallet and yo-yo bag made out of [...]

Have you seen my invisible jet?

Last week I was playing a role in The Go Game at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. Of course I was doing some yo-yo character, but there was also a girl in the game playing Wonder Woman. The game ended and I walked back towards HQ with Wonder Woman, when we noticed the park’s “Lost [...]

Earthquake

Wednesday night was my first earthquake. Of course it was pretty scarey. At first I thought someone was just sort of jumping on the floors nearby. That was the first four seconds, then it got much bigger. Not “shit falling off the tables” bigger, just more like these steady waves rolling through the floor. The [...]