Breaking Ground

Visit my city.

24 hours without caffeine

so far, so good.
update: 48 hours. spirits high.
update II: 72 hours. hittin’ hard, no obvious signs of fatigue.
update III: 96 hours. feeling small ‘n’ cozy.
final update: one week complete. whatevs. not a big deal.

Personal Services (Chin Warmer)

Episode four
Personal Services (Chin Warmer)
Mr Ventham goes to see his advisor with the dreadful problem that his chin is a bit hot. He is advised to lick his chin and stand on a tall building on a windy day until the order of a tie-mounted “chin cooling sachet” is delivered.

Easy on the Unsharp Mask filter

What up with the grossly oversharpened faux-screen images on Apple’s new Macbook Pro marketing page? Just sayin.

World Record of Happiness


100 Things to do when Ordering a Pizza by Phone

My favorites:
2. Make up a charge-card name. Ask if they accept it.
45. Ask if they have any idea what is at stake with this pizza.

88. When they say “Will that be all?”, snicker and say “We’ll find out, won’t we?”

http://www.azzit.de/humor/130.html

“Hi, this is Elaine & Bill!,” she said into her phone.

…but she was alone. Her message sounded carefully scripted. “We want to
congratulate you on the arrival of a new grandson… David Kimball
Lewis (or something) is an awesome name!” …
Messages we deliver because we have to.
Messages we deliver because it’s customary to convey them.

Like a bird chirping, with a much higher pitch

———- Forwarded message ———- From: evan cordes Date: Sep 21, 2006 3:54 PM Subject: Re: your ride is here the contextual ads in gmail [for this message] are all “white noise machine”, “heal your damaged ear” and, “mosquito ringtones.”
wwwwrrrrrrrppp! chrp!
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> ———- Forwarded message ———- > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > Date: […]

AV Geeks Need Love Too

from Jitter Recipes : Book 3

The Truth About the Blackberry 8700 - The Blacker the ‘Berry…

…the fewer the options.
I spent about six months with a RIM BlackBerry phone/pager and barely lived to tell the tale. This is my story.

Archaic ringtones. No MP3 support — This is a harsh awakening if you’re migrating from a Nokia, as I was.
No syncing with OS X machines, without purchasing buggy, third-party shareware
Connection Amnesia […]