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It's been a busy week. I'm tired. Here's some pictures.



















and thats all i have to say about that...


have a great weekend. I need some fucking coffee.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

You know what was weird? There was tomatoes in my burrito just now. Every where I go there's tomato epidemic posters like it was the plague or something. So I was kind of taken aback that I was actually eating tomatoes in a restaurant.

This is how it begins people. Just like in all the crazy sci-fi horror Armageddon movies. First theres innocent tomato warnings and before you know it 3/4 of the human population dies or turns into a tomato zombie.

I ate the tomatoes tho, I hope I dont die or turn into a ketchup bleeding zombie. Just my luck I'll be immune and die trying to cure the remaining tomato zombies.

Post Op.

Surgery went well. I now have a screw in my hand. Here's the actual xray photo.

Its' sore. I'll probably have a cast for another fuckin month. When is this shit gonna be over?

Firefox 3 comes out today.

Today I get a screw drilled into my scaphoid.

Happy Friday the 13th. I heard that our oil supply is fine and that demand is down. So what the fuck oil companies?

here's some visual regurgitation.

this came in the mail. Five Points Skateboards graphic by Kirk.

you mean I cant keep my cup and bring it back next time? what is this 1989? Do people really not grasp the concept of free refills? fucking bums.

taco bell has done it again! huge box of shit for under $6. thanks guys.

last day with this little guy. screw surgery today (more on that below)

tshirt art for the band Omissa


more skateboards

my dad bought a 68 VW bug.

me too.

lefty art.

So I go under the knife today.
this is a diagram of what they're doing. Screw, meet Mr.Scaphoid.


whatever you do, dont click this link. (you will anyway)
DONT CLICK HERE
thats is the HARD way of fixing this bone.



I'm getting the easy way, seen below. If you looked at that last link you'd know why this is better.

here's some more info about my fracture.
http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/105_scaph/duquennoyus.shtml
stop scrolling when you see this pic.

after this is more of the other not so nice way of fixing it.

OK, thats all for now. If anything bad happens, thanks for reading.

Garbage Man Shuffle

With gas prices at an all time high, and everyone is trying to cut back I was surprised to see what I saw yesterday morning.

I was putting my pants on and heard the garbage truck hissing and squealing and barreling towards my house. I was running late and I'm usually gone before they come. I glanced out and noticed that we forgot to put the trash on the curb the night before. Missing a week of trash pick up sucks as most of you probably know, so I ran down barefoot to put the trash out. I get back inside, with this sense of relief from just averting disaster and start putting my socks on. The closer the noise got it turned into pride. I looked out to affirm the fruits of my dashing save and saw the hulking blue and white mass right outside the window... and keep on going. What the hell? Why didnt it stop? Was it some sort of sick reciprocation for me not getting my trash out early enough? Did I not put the trash receptacles the proper distance from the curb? was the blue one too close to the brown one? Did I mess up? Why didnt he stop?!

Then,as I'm pondering this while finishing getting dressed I hear it again...the trash man, he's coming back! He'd realized that he skipped us by accident! So I look out again and zoom.. thundering blue and white mass just keeps on going. If not to pick up my trash, which he's drived passed twice now, where was he going? Why didnt he stop again?

Now It's about 5 minutes later and I'm pouring my coffee and grabbing my bag and ready to go and what do I hear? ...Yes- Mr.Not-picking-up-our-trash man... Again. By now I've seen and heard stink face trash head drive passed, forward and beep in reverse passed my blue and brown waste and recycling. I ended up leaving but I was baffled. Did I fuck up...would they still be there hot, full and stinking when I got home?

Fast forward to 5:00. I'm pulling onto my street and I see them sitting there still. Oh no! I think to myself "that bastard trash man didnt empty our trash to spite me". I park, and go check the trash bins. They were empty. What a relief. But if I didnt screw up, if I didnt put them out too late, or not position them correctly for the automated robot arm that does all the work now, what the hell was the garbage truck doing driving around my block and passed my house forward and backwards all morning?

What kind of screwed up route does he have? Is the driver just an idiot and cant plan out a route that doesnt require back tracking and retracing the same path? Just seems like an awful waste of fuel and man hours to be doing that. Not to mention noisy. Diesel engines, reverse beebs and hydraulic lifts is not something the average person wants to hear for 20 minutes at 6:30 in the morning.

Does anyone else have a retarded garbage situation like me?

I'm getting screwed

Quite literally.

I had my, what I'd hoped would be my last doctor visit last Friday to get my cast removed once and for all. They did remove my cast. Then took X-Rays. Unfortunately the bone isnt healing so this Friday, I have surgery to put a screw in to secure the bone.

artist rendition

So, this week I have a removable brace, which has been really nice instead of a stinky cast. I can bathe again, and wash. But then a new cast and stitches next week...for probably another 2 weeks. That is going to be the ultimate suck.

On top of that, my car is wrecked and the insurance co is putting the blame on me, so I have to pay to get my car fixed. Meg is starting school and quitting her job in August. I might start bagging groceries in the evenings to make ends meet.

I hate 2008.

Extreme Close Up

Folks, I know they say to not write down passwords but fucked to hell if I can ever remember them. In light of that pay-per-use web thing I posted before, I was trying to secure my wireless network at home last night and for the life of me couldn't remember my network password. I had to completely reset the whole shebang and it sucked. Then last week I forgot my network password for my work and that was a huge pain in the ass too. So, write that shit down and hide it.

oh yea and Happy Birthday Mom!!

here's some photos

this is hopefully the last of the Lefty series. I go to the good doctor today.

skate art and logo for Manhattan Skateboards (click for big)

this was scrawled on some display in the pharmacy line at Walgreens. It's as if someone was practicing their forgery while in line to get drugs. funny.

...please!

Thank God!

wtf giants?

Berkeley/Oakland

wasabi nuts.

ok thats all kids. go home and ride your tricycles and drink your Kool-Aid

Documentaries

Documentaries are cool. It's like learning for people who hate to read.

Here's a few documentaries that I've watched recently and recommend for all of you.

In the Realms of the Unreal

By day, Henry Darger was a reclusive janitor who had few -- if any -- friends. But at night, he became a literary artist with a unique vision. Darger's 15,000-page novel is a wonderland of imagination as it details the exploits of seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against child-enslaving men. Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning and Larry Pine and the work of talented animators, this film tells the story of Darger's hidden world. - trailer

My Kid Could Paint That

Amir Bar-Lev directs this thought-provoking documentary about a precocious 4-year-old artist whose abstract works have drawn critical comparisons with modernist greats such as Kandinsky, Picasso and Pollack -- and whose talents have already profited her more than $300,000. Is her gift with a paintbrush just an illusion, or is she truly an artistic visionary trapped in the body of a child?
-trailer

Popaganda The Art & Crimes of Ron English

In this critically acclaimed documentary (filmed in an appropriately guerilla style), director-producer Pedro Carvajal captures vigilante artist Ron English as he makes a series of thought-provoking -- and sometimes just plain odd -- statements. The film also serves as a biography, chronicling English's evolution from a simple painter to an activist-instigator who skewers just about everything -- from Ronald McDonald to the war in Iraq. -trailer

Born Rich

The heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire, Jamie Johnson, points his documentary lens in the direction of some privileged children who stand to inherit millions in the not-so-distant future. Johnson manages to pry revelations from heirs with some famous last names -- Trump, Bloomberg and Vanderbilt, to name a few. They speak frankly about money, family pressure and their often extravagant lifestyles. -excerpt

and a few notable ones from the past year or so.

Iraq For Sale (the war profiteers)

Private contractors are getting rich while everybody else is suffering: This is the point director Robert Greenwald makes -- passionately -- in this 2006 documentary. Using whistleblower testimony, firsthand accounts, financial records and classified documents, Greenwald levels charges of greed, corruption and incompetence against private contractors and shows the subsequent devastating effect on Americans and Iraqis. -trailer

Who Killed the Electric Car'

Amid ever-increasing gas prices, this documentary delves into the short life of the GM EV1 electric car -- once all the rage in the mid-1990s and now fallen by the roadside. How could such an efficient, green-friendly vehicle fail to transform our garages and skies? Through interviews with government officials, former GM employees and concerned celebs (such as EV1 driver Mel Gibson), Chris Paine (former EV1 owner) seeks to answer the question. -trailer

Jesus Camp

This riveting Oscar-nominated documentary offers an unfiltered look at a revivalist subculture where devout Christian youngsters are being primed to deliver the fundamentalist community's religious and political messages. Building an evangelical army of tomorrow, the Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, N.D., is dedicated to deepening the preteens' spirituality and sowing the seeds of political activism as they're exhorted to "take back America for Christ." -trailer

Helvetica

We use it every day on our computers, we see it on street signs -- and we take it for granted. Now, Gary Hustwit's unique documentary introduces us to Helvetica, whose readability has made it the most popular font in the world. Interviews with designers and artists offer insight into the development, use and universal acceptance of Helvetica as the typeface of choice for everything from writing letters to creating corporate logos. -trailer

and these are all available on Netflix. Most of them you can watch instantly online.
www.netflix.com

also if you are not a netflix subscriber, sometimes you can do a Google video search and find full length versions.
Google Video

pay-per-use web? no please.

Ugh, surfing plans? are you out of your mind?

"Beaumont TX....Giving new cable modem subscribers a bandwidth allowance and charging for overages -- begins this week, the AP reports.

Time Warner's tiers will range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap.

Uploads and downloads will count toward their quotas, and subscribers will have a two-month grace period to figure out how much bandwidth they're using before getting charged extra. Overages will cost $1 per gigabyte."




while this article talks about whats wrong with it and why they think it will fail, I'm afraid that this is the way shit's gonna be in some way or another.

One thing that is kind of dumb tho is that a lot of internet businesses like Youtube and Netflix and sites with heavy downloads that rely on an All-You-Can-Eat unlimited type of internet will suffer if people simply, cant afford to use it. They will suffer in advertising etc with less viewers.

They say they're trying to get the 5% of "heavy" internet users or "hogs" to pay their fair share. This is bullshit. They shouldn't charge per use, and have overages. The base price should be the same, and they should, if anything, have cheaper lightweight plans for old ladies or tailored plans for myspace whores. but its all about making more money.

But what this is going to do is divide internet users by income. And the internet, as a free for all type place is going to suffer and become this controlled elitist environment. Hogs are often beta testers or developers who help the web, and may not be of the income bracket that can afford the "platinum" internet package.

Your internet is going to be like having Verizon Wireless as your cell carrier.

dark times. don't they know everyone is poor right now?

read the whole story:
why pay per use internet will fail