I still have a cold. Since Monday, February 11th.
I have blown my nose almost every hour for the past 2 weeks. And honestly, the amount of crap coming out of my nose the past few days is starting to impress God.
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I was driving to work this morning and I got passed by the official Bossin’ Up ride. In my amazement, I noted the URL and went to it’s bossin’ up myspace page to get a feel for how Boss this guy really was. Obviously, VERY BOSS.
Check out a video of the bossin Bossin Up ride:
Here’s a photo showing him and his bossin up dollaz:
Legit.
How in the world am I friends with this guy.
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in wanderthoughts. 0 CommentsSo, my bestest friend in the whole world is currently living in Rome, studying at the Vatican archives while working toward his Ph. D. in History from Oxford. I was chatting over IM with him, and he sent me a little snippet of what he was writing for his presentation in April.
In contradiction to the normative definition of nationalism as a primarily secular, de-sacralized replacement of local, traditional, and religious identifications, these Latin American Catholics drew their civic and political affiliations from marian religious traditions such as the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico, the Virgin of Carmen in Chile. Moreover, newer christocentric models of devotion brought into focus the Vatican’s increasing opnennes to engage the modern world. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the femininized late-nineteenth century Sacred Heart Jesus grew into the manish Christ the King, reconquering society through the organization of an army of active Catholics.
Wow. I know someone that can make me want to fall asleep faster than the history books I read in college. I love him. He’s also one funny bastard.
Cheers to you Standes.
Will Farrell and Heidi Klum swimsuit gallery
Published by February 14th, 2008 in awesomeness and funny. 0 CommentsEverything about this is right… and wrong. It’s also another step in the commercialization and cross-promotion of everything. Who would have thought, years ago, that we’d be presented with a swimsuit issue, featuring a comedian pitching his most recent movie, and we’d eat it up? If it wasn’t Will, I’d hate it, but I love it.
So, not only am I dumb, and a geek (dumb geeks are the worse), I’m a bragging, ‘look-how-funny-i-am’ dumb geek.
So, when our favorite intern ever IM’d me this morning to ask for help on something he was working on, I gave him a little hell, and thought I was pretty funny. So, I’m posting that conversation here for your viewing pleasure… Please forgive the desire for you all to think I’m funny.
Intern: you got any ideas slick?
Jason: for what?
Intern: how for why not my g-maps work
Jason: ?
Intern: (links to development site)
Intern: how for why not JS work rite?
Jason: you ever see Pulp Fiction?
Intern: yes
Jason: if so, i assume you'll recognize my paraphrase
Intern: amirite?
Jason: "when you came in here this morning, did you see Javascript Programmer written above my desk?"
Jason: "DID YOU?"
Intern: hahhahahhaha
Intern: ha
Jason: "NO. NO YOU DIDN'T. BECAUSE WRITING F*CKING JAVASCRIPT AIN'T MY F*CKING BUSINESS"
Intern: haha
STOP THE PRESSES - Best video I’ve ever seen
Published by February 1st, 2008 in BEST VIDEO EVER. 3 CommentsThis is without a doubt my new, all-time favorite video I’ve ever seen on the internet. I was embarassed to be laughing so hard in my office.
Dear Loving God that was amazing. Please. Stop. Watch this with the volume up.
I always knew there was something wrong with Cowboys fans…
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME.
Awesome Prank - Freezing in Time at Grand Central Station
Published by February 1st, 2008 in awesomeness. 0 Comments207 people just stopped and, well. see for yourself.
This is wild. I’m almost surprised people didn’t freak out. I love it though and wish I’d been there.
iPhone Copy and Paste; A proof of concept
Published by January 28th, 2008 in awesomeness and funny. 0 CommentsThe Unofficial Apple Weblog has a piece about the lack of copying and pasting today, and as such, linked to this brilliant little demo of how it might work to copy and paste on the iPhone (which I really wish was in there). It’s pretty funny, and the end makes watching so worth it. However, it’s also a pretty cool idea on how to pull it off, and I already wish my iPhone had this feature.
iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich on Vimeo.
Again, the end was worth the minute of watching.
So, I recently got turned on to this video two different ways. One, I heard some people talking about CSS because of the iPod Touch ad (which was originally made by a kid on youtube and then was flown to California to help make an official version). The song is Music is my Hot Hot Sex.
Then, I heard about this awesome videographer/film/puppet designer named Jared Eberhardt who is working alongside us on a project for Burton. (You got to watch some of his shit, it’s amazing). And he had done this CSS video for them. So, since I love the song, and love the video, I give it to you here.
And to take it up another notch, how they got their name is pretty much the coolest ever:
CSS known also by Cansei de Ser Sexy, is a band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed by the end of 2003. The name is Portuguese for “Tired of Being Sexy” (taken from something Beyoncé once commented to the press; “I am tired of being sexy”).
So, some of you may or may not know that I’m working out at a CrossFit gym (CrossFit H.E.L.). There we do pull-ups (kipping pull-ups* more often than dead-hang pull-ups) pretty often. Yesterday I did 45 along with a plethora of other activities as part of our morning workout. Crazy. (keep in mind that I didn’t do them all at once, but that’s still a ton of pull-ups).
Today our gym posted this video on their website. It’s frickin’ crazy. A couple of urban workouts performed on kids playground equipment, doing things I’ve never seen. Well, I’ve never seen it because I’ve never gotten to see video of myself pulling these moves off that is…
* A kipping pull-up is a gymnastic move, description taken from here.
“Short version: Kipping allows more work to be done in less time, thus increasing power output. It is also a full-body coordination movement when performed correctly, which applies more functionally to real-life application of pulling skills. Last, but not least, the hip motion of an effective kip mirrors the motion of the olympic lifts/kettlebell swings, adding to it’s function as a posterior-chain developer.”
