Archive for August, 2007

Dear Hotmail
Friday, August 31st, 2007

Dear Hotmail,
Why does my Hotmail window always give me the page loading symbol?
Is it supposed to be constantly checking for new mail like my gmail account does? If so, why doesn’t it automatically load the new email.
Why doesn’t it allow me to mark messages from friends as “safe”? Instead, it tells me I have too [...]

Hella 200
Friday, August 31st, 2007

Today I reached the halfway point of my weight goal. After floating around 201-203 lbs for a few weeks, I finally fucking made it to 200.
That’s officially 16 lbs lost since July, leaving 15 more lbs to lose by.. I dunno… January? I actually dropped weight a lot faster than I expected, but then have [...]

MC Slutsky in the WSJ
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Man, I was stoked to be a reference for a Wall Street Journal piece, but Irina “MC” Slutsky got huge press in todays article on web advertising and vlogs.
She even got a photo in the actual paper. Damn that’s impressive! In case you haven’t seen it, check out the Video Deathmatch entry we made together [...]

It’s like a holiday in the Bay
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Damn I love the entire week of Burning Man! It’s the best time to live in San Francisco. Street traffic is down and lines are much shorter. Today I took advantage of the situation and went to Tartine Bakery, one of the few bakeries we have in the Mission. It didn’t go to well. As [...]

Risky Busine$$, $elvage Holster
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Anti-Yo will soon be releasing their newest yo-yo, and they have asked me to design and manufacture the bags for it.
The “Risky Busine$$” should start shipping this week. It is an updated version of “The Busine$$” that is made from X (wherein X represents some ungodly expensive rare metal that I can’t recall the name [...]

Scott McCloud’s stop at Google
Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Scott McCloud, author of the Understanding Comics series and Zot!, has taken his family on a 50 State book signing tour. The tour, which started a year ago, has taken the McClouds to 49 states with only two more stops before it ends. Scott is traveling with his wife, Ivy, and his two daughters Winter [...]

Charlie’s Mustang
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Have you ever looked at a car and said.. “Man that is one nerdy automobile… I totally need it!”
For me, the Mustang II has always been one of those cars.
Often considered the black sheep of the Mustang family, The Mustang II was much smaller than it’s 70’s muscle car predecessor. It was a mediocre performer [...]

DenimLife
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

The crew at LoveLife are my heroes. They make these fantastic messenger bags made out of re-used vinyl signs and upholstery.
I really credit LoveLife with getting me into working with scraps and apparel, check out my ScrapLife series of blog entries.
Well for half a year (or longer) I had been talk with Roxanne at LoveLife [...]

Recap of the WYYC’s Yo-Yo Modifying Contest
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

In case you missed it, be sure to check out Eric Wolff’s fantastic photo set from this year’s World Mod Contest (as well as his excellent summary of the entries here).
Eric, an amazing yo-yo modifier in his own right, has been one of the Mod Contest’s judges since it’s first year and posted a brief [...]

My brush with the Wall Street Journal
Monday, August 20th, 2007

Last week I started receiving correspondence from John Jurgensen, a staff writer with the Wall Street Journal. He was asking me questions regarding musical genres and the letter writing campaign I started to get MySpace to add a Nerdcore genre to their site.
The emails got pretty lengthy and I started to wonder if the whole [...]