After watching Robert Llewellyn’s “Making Do” videos about his year-long boycott against consumerism, I thought it would be “fun” to try it myself for a month. Well, folks, here’s the first casualty: broken sunglasses. These $19 sunglasses from REI have lasted me about two years and the screws have been coming loose off and on. Today I totally lost the screw, so I could find a matching screw… but I was quite tempted to just buy another pair. I was reminded by Jenn that I shouldn’t be so consumerific, so I just popped a paper-clip into into the screw slot for the drive home.
File this under “First-world problems.”
BREAKING:Matt has kindly volunteered to fix my sunglasses. Woot.
I snapped this photo of the Ubuntu Hair Studio from a San Diego, CA deals and coupons magazine. Odd. It appears Mark Shuttleworth is expanding the original Ubuntu Linux brand name to the beauty industry. Actually, this makes perfect sense. Although geeks tend to thrive in dark environments, constantly clenching their computers, they need to be treated like queens every once in a while too.
Huge coffee cups are wonderfully versatile. I like to put soup, rice, water, juice, and soda into mine. I use it for nearly any humanly edible or potable item… except coffee. It also provides a low intensity workout for us skinny-armed office-workers.
At lunch today, when I lifted the sleeve of my shirt to scratch my upper arm, Jennifer remarked at how white the clothed portions of my arms were. That quickly resulted in me and Matt comparing our Programmer’s Tans with the requisite manly scowl.
Flight of the Conchords - truly the best thing that has come out of New Zealand since, well, Lord of the Rings. Ashley, a fellow New Zealander has posted up a moving rendition of “I’m not crying” from ep 1, season 1. Take a peek
I’ve finally uploaded the photos from the Laguna Campgrounds, Cleveland National Forest trip. Also, while we’re on the topic, I’ve decided to plunk down the 25 dollars a year and go Pro with Flickr.
I just came across the strangest, oddest, least-thesaurus-using, product description ever. A link sent by Matt brought me to the DeskLickr download page.
On the surface, it’s an idea I can get behind - dynamic wallpaper that is pulled automatically from everyone’s favorite photo site, Flickr. Upon further examination, I found the description rather off-putting. This guy used “sexy” four times in that tiny block of text describe software. Someone, get this man a Roget’s!… or some female companionship.
I doooooooo~
On Saturday, Matt, Annabelle, Julie, Richard, and I made the Simpsons fan pilgrimage to the Kwik-E-Mart in Burbank. There was a line that wrapped around the store, but it was worth the wait. I’m impressed by the effort taken to decorate the 7-11. They even had ‘El Barto’ graffiti on the wall.
I just got a 3-pack of Buzz Cola while Matt went all out and purchased the Pink Donuts, Buzz, and Radioactive Man comic.
I highly recommend seeing the movie if you get the chance! I caught the midnight showing on Thursday and was thoroughly satisfied - it was much better than I expected.
I just came across the strangest, oddest, least-thesaurus-using, product description ever. A link sent by Matt brought me to the 
