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It came! It came!

xian — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:44:24 +0000

Yeah, check that out. After calling myself lame, look at that – three posts in less than a week. Go me!

So after a long wait (super-saver shipping is slooooow!) my new CD finally arrived:

You’re jealous. I know it. We all love track 1, Britney Spears’ immortal (You Drive Me) Crazy. And of course this CD has the rare “The Stop!” remix. Wow, right?

Personally, I just had to buy it for this song:

Another shirt

xian — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:12:44 +0000

It’s only $11. I don’t know if I would wear it, though. Still, pretty funny concept:

Handy info to have nonetheless. Here if you wanna buy it.

I just bought two shirts for myself. The second one would make be perfect for a certain little boy I know whose first birthday is coming up…

Color-coded criminals

xian — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:19:07 +0000

Threadless is having a spring cleaning sale, and I found this little number for $9. Not my favorite part of the movie, but still the looks on the crayons’ faces is great. I’m still browsing through the catalog for more hipster-wear, but I did find this one that would make a good present for someone I know. This one’s another possibility for me…

756*

xian — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:35:55 +0000

Hammerin’ Hank has been relegated to second place. Supposedly. Depending on what version of the story you believe, Barry Bonds may or may not have had pharmaceutical assistance in surpassing Aaron’s record to become baseball’s home run king. As a Braves fan, and more importantly someone who thinks Barry knew exactly what he was doing, I have pre-ordered this shirt.

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Obligatory iPhone post

xian — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:02:23 +0000

The iPhone arrived! It’s either a sign of the apocalypse or the second coming, take your pick. I don’t know why but I’m just not all up in a bunch over the thing. As far as I can tell, there are four things it can do that my really old Treo can’t: visual voicemail, multi-touch display, auto sensing vertical/widescreen screen orientation and YouTube. The visual voicemail is about the only really useful thing in that list, and it’s very cool. The multi-touch display is nice, but it’s only useful when you’re working with an interface designed around it. My Treo doesn’t really need it. The widescreen display is beautiful and makes the iPhone a nice media player. My Treo has a square screen – no real need for the auto sensing stuff. YouTube, while nice, isn’t exactly a deal breaker since I can put YouTube videos on my iPod as well as my Treo. The iPhone lets you browse the site, which is nice, but that’s not where the real power lies. You can upload your own videos to YouTube and show them to people on your iPhone – which is extremely handy. While that’s handy, I can put personal videos on my Treo via my expansion cards (which the iPhone doesn’t support).

I won’t lie, the iPhone is one sexy piece of kit, and the price isn’t really that bad when you consider the RAZR sold for about $400 when it first launched a few years ago. Treos still go for around $400 unlocked. But I can do more on a Treo than I can on an iPhone. I can create, view and edit Office docs whereas an iPhone can only view them (I’m sure Google docs integration is on its way). I have an IM client on my Treo. I can send multimedia messages on my Treo. The iPhone, for some reason can show video, but it can’t capture any on its embarrassingly underpowered camera. Seriously, Sony has been making a 3.2 megapixel cameraphone that takes beautiful pics for almost a year now; what’s with the crap-tacular 2 megapixels, Apple!? Google maps? Available on the Treo along with gmail. Safari web browser? I have a choice of Palm’s native Blazer of the free Opera mini. Let’s also not forget the thousands of other apps available to the Palm OS and specifically written to enhance the Treo. Needless to say, I’m waiting for iPhone v.2.

But, as I found on YouTube, there are some fun things you can do to an iPhone:

My favorite part is when the container turns completely black. I like to think that’s when the phone’s evil was released. You can buy the blended iPhone, evil and all, along with a brand spanking new blender over on eBay.

Oh, and speaking of blending things, I am totally buying this shirt!!

Price be damned… must have….

xian — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:27:31 +0000

Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon (Lego Store) – So who cares that it’s $499? I know Icertainly don’t. This would more than make up for the fact that my original Falcon (the much smaller, early 80’s toy) was sold at me parents’ garage sale long long ago.

Finally, the fart pad

xian — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:56:45 +0000

Sitting in a cube farm the morning after happy hour at La Herradura can get interesting. The slightest peep from my posterior regions can be heard as far as 2 or 3 cubes away. Somewhat embarrasing, but really more funny than anything. I’m a guy. Farts are funny. Not long ago, I had the room my cube’s in all to myself. That was flatulence paradise. Nobody around to hear the auditory evidence of carnitas, chori pollo or queadillas.

Enter the Flat-D Chair Pad from Flat-D Innovations, Inc whose tagline is, I kid you not, "The #1 name in flatulence odor control products." Talk about an untapped market. I mean Beano pretty much has the anti-fart market cornered what with George Kennedy shilling for them and all. What a genius idea to develop products that allow guys to do that which we love doing without introducing the rest of the office to our butt-tastic smells!

They recommend taking it with you on the plane or bus too! Imagine that conversation with the stranger seated next to you:

Stranger: What’s that?
You: It’s my Flat-D pad.
Stranger: Oh, what’s it for? Back problems or something?
You: No, it’s for farts.
Stranger: …
You: Yeah, I fart a lot.

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