iTunes tip

Ho--if you have itunes, if you select a song and then hit the "option" and "i" keys you pull up a useful screen

This is real, unfortunately

New Zealand I think

http://www.onickz.com/surf/camp02L.jpg

Nuts

This is how crazy Aussies are:

http://www.coastview.com.au/images/uploads/richie_croc.gif

That guy is holding an inflatable crocodile pool toy.

The Numbers

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4235&page=0

Bl..bll....bllllo......blllllooooogggggg. Excuse me.

Got your message(s).  Good stuff.  The architecture of blogs is not conducive however.  Anyway, haven't you heard Ted Stevens?  Its not a truck!  Its a series of tubes.  Its not something you just dump something on.  Its tubes, tangled up tubes!!  I guess I feel like a blog is the 1950's Chinese gray workers tunic of the American 21st century hipster.  And thats my nice interpretation.  I don't want to drag Kierkegaard or Sartre into this or mention screaming into a void for recognition.  Uh-oh, too late...does that mean my digitally archived echo will now forever be screaming into a void...into a void...into a void...void...void...Okay, orancha glad I said banana.  

You see the problem is a fundamental--truly fundamental--one.  Its really like the back-burner, subliminal crisis and root of all neuroses.  No one writes letters to their friends.  They write blogs to the void.  Hoping for response.  Its like a SETI program for an affirmation of personal worth.  To cut out the next 500 pages, I think people need to recognize that the goal is not to be famous or powerful--leave that to the unfortunate people who have subliminated their discontent into a need for externalized affirmation--but to be happy.  Its good that there's a CIA, cause they do all the shitty, borderline immoral stuff so we don't have to.  So too with the people who sacrifice themself  for conditional love--and by the mob (not the twisting-thumbs mob, the great unwashed mob) no less.  Let the neurotics become hollywoodstarlets, corrupt (but effective) politicians, consultants at McKinsey, corporate lawyers working 90 hours/week, investment bankers.  The end-game for democracy and capitalism should be to effect utilitarian outcomes by employing efficient and practical mechanisms--meaning those who want to work 100 hours a week or wait tables for 20 years waiting for their big break should have that choice, but their fringe decision should add value to the quality of life of the person who lives their life well--i.e. balanced (is balanced or well a subjective judgement? of course, there's no other kind).  

Who cares if people see your blog?  Unless its a way to get in touch with people who share your interests.  That would be efficient.  Besides--maybe I just don't want to be another number in the Matrix.  Better to have idiosyncratic dreams than say jinx on another persons long-thought philosophy.  And besides, I want to be an investment banker.    

I assume I've sent this already?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2354431414349847737&q=in+the+name+of+the+father&total=5138&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

bless the Irish.  All of me except my left arm. (and my right hand)

Whhhaaapp, ouch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9601980@N02/758547239/

I would destroy that...car, I mean.  And then get that poor girl some clothes.

Greetings and Salutations

Any suggestions good salutations for formal/relatively formal emails?  

I hate saying "Dear" unless I'm writing to my Grandma you know?  Especially  when you're writing to like "Filing and Collating Department."  Dear, DEAR, filing and collating department.  It sounds retarded.  I've been rotating through "sincerely" "respectfully" and "regards" for sign-offs but they all suck too.  We gotta get rid of that shiite.  Our generation should institute the "Hello" and "Thank You" for salutations, even formal.  Concurrence?

From ear to ear, left to right

The Freemasons supposedly have some phrase like that to describe how they would cut someone's throat if they were to expose their secrets.  

just remember that Teddy Boy.

secret invention of the day: two ultra-flexible mousepad-like rectangles of material.  One is the size of a small keyboard, the other is the size of a lap-top computer screen.  They can be rolled up, packed away, dropped, doesn't matter.  When all applications move to cloud-based and wi-fi is everywhere, you'll just carry these two "mousepads" with you, throw one up on a wall, and the other down on a book and you have your computer.  all it is is a screen and keyboard cause everything's on the web already.  

okay I'll get my construction paper and gluesticks, you get the crafting scissors and crayons.  Lets do this!!

ps.  I heard Gates talking about moving everything to cloud-based, but he  was talking about having computers everywhere (i.e. cafes, on the street like atm's, in taxis etc.) why not just carry your own?

Hunger of many men

I'm going to the gym pretty much everyday and running for a little, lifting weights etc.  The muscle is still there.  The problem is, the rest of the day I'm just sitting on my bum and I'm still eating like I did inHawaii.  If you're only going to the gym for an hour a day there's really no need to be consuming a whole steak, a whole cherry pie, half a loaf of bread etc.  you know.  Ha.  My stomach hasn't realized that yet.  In Hawaii its like I couldn't consume enough calories most of the time.  Different in flabby mainland.

Future Man

kinda funny (and catchy, wheres the MDMA?):  

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-160367156484681413&q=series+of+tubes+remix&total=36&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1-
 
watch this (senator Ted Stevens):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9214170709324600529&q=the+internet+is+tubes&total=1299&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
 

What a girl wants?

yo is it normal to have that song "what a girl wants, what a girl needs" stuck in your head even if you haven't even heard it recently?  Naw, didn't think so.  Yup, definitely don't have that song stuck in my head.  I was just checking. 

Cougar action

Are you serious beginning your email to me with "so."  I'll get you for this Theo.  

Did you ever hear the story of the 40 year old (not virgin I'm guessing) lady I "met" at Charlie's the first year I was on Maui?  It was...interesting.  We had the same birthday--I mean come on, thats fate right?  It had to happen.  

Anyway, got your text.  I'm just smoking lots of cigarettes and doing a bunch of coke to stay svelte.  No, actually I'm not drinking (meaning one or two a night as opposed to my standard 5-10) and I've been hitting the gym prob. 5 days a week.  Usually run a half mile, lift, then either hand bike or run another 3/4 mile.  So far so good.  I try to go hard on the hand-bike and just pretend I'm stuck inside with a 6 foot set about to come down on my head.  Sometimes it works but sometimes I open my eyes and see a 50 year old misshapen lady in a purple airbrushed wolf-howling-at-the-moon t-shirt (you know exactly the one I mean) with a bad red-hair dye job lackadaisically pumping a 4 pound dumbell and reading Cosmo.  Hard to pretend you're at Noriegas after that right?  Definitely not so tan anymore though.  That sucks.  aight homeboy.  Whats going on out there?

Don't say it ain't so!

Have you guys noticed that academics and internet-developer types always (or frequently) start their sentences with "so".

Like someone will ask them a question such as "Where do you think the internet will be in 2020 blah blah blah." And they'll answer either "So, the internet in 2020 blah blah blah" or "Yeah, so the internet in 2020 blah blah blah." Fucking drives me crazy.

They'll say it before like 75% of their sentences sometimes. There's no reason to say "so" to begin an sentence like this. Its like a passive-agressive condescending thing. Its like they're explaining to you where your belly-button is but in a slightly ironic way because they don't want you to punch them in the face cause it'll remind them that they used to be chubby and wear black socks to school. Fuck! I'd say I want to burn them in the face every time I hear somebody say it but that would make me sound unreasonably violent. So pretend I didn't say that.

By the way, this isn't just a rant. I'm actually curious, do you/have you heard when people say this? Ted I know I asked you already. Have you noticed it more? And please don't tell me you're saying it too now.