Cafe mccoll

Downstairs at the school i go to. Studying through lunch. Yow!

Om Lakshmi

Never seen these Hindu comix before? You're missing out! They're called Amar Chitra Katha and it's amazing that Cartoon Network hasn't ripped 'em off yet. Enjoy!

In the woods

At a coffeeshop, reading that made to stick book i blogged about earlier. I love reading books immediately after i get them. Hope i can finish it before classes start on monday!

Many new ideas

I have a lot on my plate right now. I am writing this on my phone because i need to hide from my computer for a moment and think. I'm amazed that i am blogging again, for the first time in years!

Here i am at a bar

What's chapel hill like? Nothing much to report. I'm bored!

A new year's resolution

Just got this book from amazon. It's funny how the ecommerce lag of a few days that elapse between placing and receiving an order can generate that strange schizo time travel whammy you encountered in movies like Memento. Basically, i have no recollection of having ordered this book, and it's utterly perfect for me to read right now. It just showed up today, and not remembering having ordered it, i am a little awed at how perfect it is for me. Like i have some benefactor who knows me so well as to get me a book that's this well suited for me? As if! But if you can surprise yourself... Then you yourself can play God for your future self. Weird theory, eh? I wish i could flesh this theory out further because i intuit that i'm onto something!

Urban outfitters

So here's the way they're displaying the book in the local branch. I'd love to see every store the book's in display it like this! Have you encountered it yet? I am going to start working on the next volume, there's a new year's resolution for ya. I can't believe how awesome this blog is going to be. Thank you, blogger !!!

been a long time

i just got a new phone which has a camera on it. i haven't played with blogger in a long time. i've just been too busy to blog, and i didn't feel like i could keep up. but now with this new phone, it's a blast to blog !!! i can even write text on my camera phone that posts onto the blog.

i'm going to try to use my talents at writing to try and sell my sticker printing service to the world. i think this is the most dynamic capability i have - i'm a damn good writer, and i experience many things worth writing about. for instance, i just got back from a long drive to new york city in order to party it up for new years' eve. and now with the cameraphone, i can create a GENUINE record of my experience as it happens.

The fact that I can add text to images posted through this phone means that I can go through my day and record it on this blog. And the fact that I run an awesome and interesting e-commerce company means that I will continually have stuff to write about. In the past, I either:

- didn't have a digital camera (the nineties)
- didn't really USE my digital camera (early 2000's)
- finally found a good digital camera (2004: the sd10, since upgraded to an sd30, by canon)
- but didn't bother uploading many pictures because who could be bothered.

Before now, if I wanted to post a photo to a blog, I'd have to:

- download the photo onto my hard drive by taking out the SD card, plugging in my adapter, creating a folder on my hard drive, copying the files from the card, cutting, pasting them onto the new hard drive folder, and waiting)
- that's usually as far as i got
- then select a photo, open up photoshop and change the size settings to something appropriate for the web (crop it, etc)
- then open up an ftp program and upload the photo
- then log in to blogger and knowing the html to add a link eventually add a link
- and FINALLY write something witty to go along with the photo.

As you can understand, I almost never bothered doing this. As a result, the last six years of my life are digital dust - almost nothing published, because it just took too damn long. So finally the technology has shown up to let me get out of this jam. right on to the big corporations who have created this synergistic publishing process for me at long last !!!