Category: Lifestyle
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More Than Meets The Wallet: Transformers Toys for $1,000,000
From eBay: “This collection consists of all mint-never-removed-from-box (listed as MNRFB below) and mint-in-box (listed as MIB below) Transformer robots and Transformer licensed products. The toys have never been played with by children (sad, I know), and weapons are still sealed inside the boxes. There are approximately 275 items total: 101 Autobots, 81 Decepticons, and…
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North Park: blacklisted!
Due to sheer hunger I forgot that I had already banned North Park and so the other day I ended up in it. After 15 minutes of waiting I really wanted to get up and leave but decided to stay out of courtesy. When the food arrived it was like somebody splashed cold water all…
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The Importance Of Client Feedback
I have had a couple of clients that are like this: You spend a lot of time working on a system design, a project study, a site map, and a wireframe. You lovingly package your work and present it to them, looking for positive or even negative feedback — something that at least acknowledges your…
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Nissan GT-R 2008 High Resolution Photos
High resolution photos of the Nissan GT-R. While it looks awesome, the front design reminds me too much of the 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse and the Bugatti Veyron. From the Wikipedia entry: The Nissan GT-R is a sports car expected to be released internationally by the beginning of 2008 as a 2009 model. The prototype which…
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Joyent / Joyeur style cartoons everywhere?
While I was moderating the submissions over at CSS Vault the other day, I noticed that the little guy up there has appeared in at least three of the websites that were submitted over the past two months: NetNova Loosers Weepers Startup Students Now I am not too familiar with this illustration style. I first…
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374 year old clam is world’s “oldest animal”
FTA: According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest-lived animal was an Arctica clam found in 1982 aged 220. Unofficially, another clam – found in an Icelandic museum – was discovered to be 374-years-old, Bangor University said, making their clam at least 31 years older. I guess the little ones really know how to…
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Black Rose Day
November 17, 2007 is black rose day. Fine. I’m insensitive, I’m a jerk, I do things on impulse, I’m pushy, and I have mood swings. So I’m not perfect. But that’s me. Do you know what it feels like loving someone that’s in a rush to throw you away. Do you know what it feels…
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White Roses / Pei Hua (poem)
Return to basics, Holding no expectations, Nothing in return, A new beginning. Mature and honest, Vulnerable yet still firm, Purity. A surrendering, To time, fate, and destiny, Honor. Loyalty. Faith. Forgetting the past, A return to innocence, A state of calmness, Sincerity. Just like my love. Wo bu ke yi ai ta ren. Ni zhi…