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Finding Inspiration (or how I went to NYC and all I got was this lousy alligator head)

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Gator

I was recently going through my bookshelves at home, trying to find some books I could sell or donate. After scanning past titles like The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan and Bitter is the New Black, I came across all my old textbooks. It got me thinking about my days in college and all the people I used to look up to when I was a student, people like Molly Holzschlag, Dan Cederholm, Elliot Jay Stocks, Derek Featherstone and Jason Santa Maria. I looked up to these people as mentors and inspiration, hoping that one day I would be just as bad-ass as they were. I remember asking myself on every project “How would Dan build this?” or “Would Molly be satisfied with how my site validated?”. At some point, I became out of touch with these people. I didn’t have enough time to keep up with their blogs. I didn’t read their new books. I lost interest. And during that time, I had somehow become ok with it.

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Obesity, Survivor & All Things Grand.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Oh. My.

Just got back from Las Vegas and here are a few things I never want to experience ever again:

1. Spending money – The whole idea of just spending money makes me feel really awkward now, and frankly, I’m tired of it.

2. Buffets – Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting.

3. Total disregard for personal health and hygene – After spending a week walking behind obese smokers and sitting down at a restaurant to see someone order 2 main courses followed by 1 litre of soda and dessert, I have the sudden urge to spend the next month at the gym.

4. Complaining – I’ve spent the last week with someone who could not stop complaining about every single thing. In turn, John and I complained about him – in fact, I’m still complaining. Sigh.

5. Addiction – Just because you’re playing a Survivor themed slot machine, does not make it ok to spend all your money in the first day of your trip.

I’m sure I could go on… but it’s my birthday and I’m tired – photos up on Flickr.

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Aww Shit.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

GTD

I’ve gone done something foolish and made myself a blog.

Over the past month, I’ve spent time humming and hawing over potential themes or topics I could bitch about – I mean, write so eloquently about, not only for my first post, but as a reoccurring topic. I’ve thought about gaming, thought about movies, thought about code, thought about fashion – anything that interested me really. In the end, I’ve decided to not really pigeon hole myself, but to keep things open to anything I really feel like talking about.

I’m not going to try to be someone I’m not, nor will I pretend to be an expert about anything, and you can be rest assured that a post about social media and how great it is will never grace this HTML. I’m going to be honest, opinionated and I’m going to talk about things that I want to talk about, and if that interests you, then fantastic, we’ll be BFFs.

I’m eager to get people’s feedback and read your comments. Naturally, trolls will not be tolerated as I am, in fact, a Lvl. 29 Paladin and will exercise my mana if necessary.

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