I thought the folding bike was the coolest invention in the world – before I figured out how to use a blender that is. I was working for an engineering company a few miles from my house when I first heard about folding bikes.
I lived in a house in the suburbs and really didn’t need the space-saving bonus that the bike offered, so I guess I kind of suck for having it in the first place.
But I must say that after about a month of use, the bike started to wobble and weaken at it’s joints. Then one day the bars actually collapsed on me while riding. So I say this: if you don’t have a big enough apartment to store your bike, get one or plan to pay for the medical bills when your crappy bike collapses on you. And that is the end of my story.
A big “duh” here. I told my mom this back in the early 90s when everyone started buying those god awful satellite dish devices. We’d sit in the car and as soon as a signal would come in, my head would start pounding like crazy. It’d start to hurt before the damn thing would start ringing. She’d laugh at me and say I was imagining things, but I could even tell when she was facing at me or not with my eyes closed.
A few years later, I like the sheep I was, ended up getting one like other kids my age. That thing would give me HEADACHES like hell. But I kept it like the good little consumerist I was.
Now I’m stricken with a full blown iphone addiction and my senses to the radiation have all but dulled. Well they’re publishing all these studies and dumb shit like that. Any study that says other-wise is dumb, and so is anyone who doesn’t believe they give you cancer. We just haven’t had them long enough to see the long term effects; in about 20 years I’m going to be laid up in a hospital bed with a tumor the size of a watermelon in my head on one of those commercials talking about how I would’ve had a brain if I had just put that evil iphone down years earlier. FML
And anyone who says otherwise, again is dumb. Those same “agencies” that say that it’s harmless just like they did back in the 1940’s when doctors used to prescribe cigarettes. Mhmm…
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My first job in advertising was a train wreck mashed up with a slave ship or something like that. I remember being required to lay out magazine ads, code php tools, be an actionscript assassin, amongst other things.
But at the time the style of street art fashion photography mashed-up with vector artwork started to come into vogue. In our office we all laughed about it and called it a passing fad, but now a few years later I’m seeing that it definitely stuck.
I think the thing that is most attractive about it to people is the juxtaposition of two idealized states. The made up girl is just as unreal as the artwork that surrounds her.
Escapism at it’s best I guess, but I might give the style a try.
Well folks, I am happy to say that it is indeed 1999! AT&T and Apple have announced that MMS is finally coming to the iPhone on September 25th!
I must say that I don’t think I have ever loved and hated a gadget as much as I do my phone. It’s the perfect paradox of language learning, great game playing, puzzle solving, no copy & paste having for 10 years, attention to detail-less, wonderful, hated device.
The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One,” AT&T said. “We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end.
Well tell Doc Brown he was wrong about the hoverboard being invented before the iPhone got MMS. And I thought that guy was always right…
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Some of these are funny and definitely expose the intense dependancy that we’ve formed on our technology interwebs gadgets. It’s kind of sad when you think about it…
I should probably unplug and head outside…
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I was reading this article over at unwrapyourmind, Normally I’m really for and into this self-help stuff, but this article just rubbed me the wrong way.
Like many people, I’ve had a history of procrastination. I’ve gone through the guilt and self-destructive feelings that come with being a lazy sloth. I’ve sat and wallowed in my own self-pity and made tons of excuses for why I wasn’t getting anything done. My mother used to tell me that it was when I was bullshitting and procrastinating that I got the most philosophical. I feel this article, like many other self-help guides and such, romanticize the subject of productivity.
Most people want some feel-good formula to distract them from the fact that they just need to get it done. Just do it. That’s my formula. Now I definitely agree that a mother managing 9 kids at home, or a high powered CEO might need a system a little bit more complex than a calendar and a to-do list, but most people don’t.
I remember seeing this skit on Mad TV about this woman on an infomercial who was trying to lose weight. The announcer built her up about this new revolutionary 2-step system to lose weight. He goes on and on about how it’s changed the lives of countless people etc. So finally he tells her the secret 2-step system. 1. Eat less 2. Move more. After he tells her, he’s unable to convince her that it works. She is suspicious because there are no books, she doesn’t have to pay anything, and that there are no pills or anything like that involved.
I thought the skit was genius and showed how here we are obsessed with creating systems around getting things done. So my system is get a to-do list and a calendar, write your tasks down, and just do them.
What do you think?