Month: August 2004

This lil lady didn’t stand still long enough for me to focus.

BFTP^*

I’ve been going out of my way to sort of “catch up” on all that I believe I’ve missed in my life so far. I wish it were easier done than said. I think, after a certain point, you’re pretty much stuck in your ways and there is little you can do about it.

But that’s not very fair now, is it? What if circumstances drove you to a certain kind of lifestyle and you missed out on the simpler pleasures in life? It’s not like I am not happy now, don’t get me wrong. It’s about what ifs. Or is that greedy?

Anyway, it’s hard enough having to deal with this and attempt to force change without being constantly reminded of things by people (and it’s not even their fault really, our brains work in mysteriously stupid ways) who played a part in putting you in that state in the first place.

Courtesy of newly found lyrics from punk-pop bands, (I’m thinking (hence being?) young remember?)
  – “I saw you again and again and again – there’s no room to move on, to move on, to move on.”
  – “Don’t waste your time on me you’re already the voice inside my head.”

^*BFTP – Blast from the past. This is yet another buffer purge, like so.

And before you know it, it’s facial hair week.

The astute will notice the bling.

the language edition.

1. People who misspell “definitely”.
“I must defnately be stupid.”
2. People who mispronounce “congratulations”.
“CONEgratulations on your promotion. I am from the north see, this is how I say things.”
3. People who genuinely don’t realize the differences between, it’s and its or <insert-word-here>s and <insert-same-word-here>’s.
“Todays special’s.” Arggh!
4. People who use comparative forms without giving A BASIS TO COMPARE WITH.
“It’s a good thing Tums works faster.”
4a. People who do give something to compare with but don’t know the difference between “than” and “then”.
“It’s a good thing Tums works faster then Brand-X.”
5. People who in general sound like so.
“We ain’t no major airline, however we here at jetairways are happy to be provide you the oranjuice excetera in a glass supposably ducktaped to your hanrest for safety during the turbulence.”

Arggh.

Since there is absolutely no way you can be tired of this sort of thing, I now present to you the next iteration of delineate. It now has many more shadowy thingies and proposed round button sorts of things.

I know you’re going, “But this rocks and he’s awesome. How does he do it? What sorts of tools does he use? How does his work environment look?”

There you go.

“Oh-my-god oh-my-god oh-my-god! That’s like so sweet. I wonder how the real site will look. I can’t, you know, like wait. It is so going to rock.”

No, not really. And you can stop sounding like a teenage girl.

You’ve gots to love dem.

Foxy nurse. [mpeg ~ 2.03 MB] – Schiesser, apparently of their underthings fame.
Tidy up. [mpeg ~ 1.12 MB] – IKEA, I won’t waste my time describing the company.
The art of war. [mpeg ~ 875 KB] – Cossacks, a game maker, apparently.

Yes people, this is an all new level of low. If you’re somehow unable or incapable of coming up with your own fresh content, just host funny videos made by other people. They’ve been arranged in no particular order, or so you’re supposed to assume.

I’ve oft been accused of posting random pictures “just because” instead of actually exerting myself saying something real, insightful, deep, funny etc. I usually decry such criticism with some random comment like “how I choose to express myself is none of your business”. But yes, sometimes that is true. To minimize occurrences of this in the future, I decided to put up an independent photo log. It’s called Delineation (or Delineate, I am not sure yet) and here are some preliminary mock-ups of the design.

A rough start.
The first iteration.
Some more refinement.

The deal here is to work with this image until I come up with something I really like, and then code it up in XHTML/CSS. I guess the reason I am posting this here is that anyone with suggestions/brilliant ideas/criticisms can have their say now, if they’re so inclined. I am also contemplating removing the XML feeds for this web log. If nobody objects in a week or so, they are going down.

OK, you got me. This has been one of those posts where I choose to say nothing while saying something “just because”.

Yes, it’s true.

Well, not yet, but I am trying. I need to break free. I can’t imagine living my whole life wondering what it would’ve been like if I’d ever experienced youthfulness.

Curious?

are plain gifted.

The others,

well, they just fool themselves into believing they can fake it.

I morphed myself into this teenager yesterday and ended up watching a couple of hours of MTV 2. (Yes, it was hella fun.) Anyway, I happened to see this sequence of “The History Of” documentaries – one on tattoos and the other on body piercing. Apart from being informative (in the most useless sort of way), they inspired some thought. If you aren’t really the talented sorts and are unable (or even if you are and able) to express yourself the way you want to through traditional media, like art on paper, music, or words – you’ve still got a rather cool option. Thinking of something cool to say and having someone else do you. (Yes, I do choose my words with care.)

So, the rough approach to all of this seems to be:
1. Don’t give a rat’s posterior as to what anyone thinks or says to you.
2. Work out and so on, so when you are worked on, you won’t be embarrassed to show skin. (Of course, if you really got past 1, this doesn’t matter.)
3. Remove unnecessary body hair. (Painful, yes. And just what is unnecessary? I don’t know, ask a polar bear.)
4. Remember what you wanted to say. Have a grand, coherent master plan involving:
  – length, color and styling of hair,
  – number and positioning of piercing, and the corresponding bling you want hanging/sticking out
  – and finally, but just as important, position and nature of (oh-so-painful and irreversible) artwork.
5. Inform professionals of your vision in 4, and watch them try, hurt you, make you scream, and occasionally screw up while implementing 4.
6. Repeat 5 until ideas in 4 are complete.
7. Endure weeks (or months) of physical pain while wounds heal.
8. Stop bleeding.
9. Grandly show yourself to the world.
10. Get kicked out of home and written out of the will.
11. Look like (but not be) a crack head and realize you’re finally cool.

Why? Because you finally said what you wanted to. Who cares if you had to use someone else’s skill and you were just the canvas.

Now all I need is something to say. Hmm.

Ah yes, commitment, every man’s dream. Look he’s smiling from ear to ear.

Erm where his ears would have been, anyway.