Archive for March, 2007



Chinese Trademark Laws = My Hero!

It’s hilarious what they can get away with. Seriously. I ordered a $2 toy for my iPod (nothing special, just a little speaker that plugs into the top of the player.) from a Chinese electronics shop and look what I got:

One of my roommates actually thought I got a nano. It’s seriously that convincing. They [...]

1) They will arbitrarily charge extra “convenience fees” no matter the convenience. I’ve seen charges range from $6-$10 on shows at the exact same venue on the exact same time just due to the popularity of who is playing. How does the popularity of a band change how convenient it is to pay extra to [...]

Spring Break - Universal Studios

Ok, I was lazy when it came to posting over spring break and had pretty much no internet connection at all in Florida, so I’m going to post the happenings in chunks over the next few days if I can get around to it - if not, it might take a bit longer.
Universal Studios was [...]

Road Trip - Leg One!

Ok, nothing eventful really yet of course, although we’ve just reached Tennessee. We’ve been driving since 6:00 A.M. and it’s absolutely freaking beautiful on the road. Stuff to see everywhere. I’m not going to write long since we’re just hanging out eating, but here are some photo updates on what’s been going on. No time [...]

As always, Chicago was amazingtastic. It was great hanging out with a few of my friends again - Andrew and Cristin are always amusing and I hadn’t seen Nate forever - and of course Elise, but that’s a given.
Nothing incredibly exciting happened, but I documented it with a lot of pics and as always had [...]

Ok, just got accepted into the beta test of this program and so far I love it.
Basically, it’s like free OnDemand for your computer. So far, they only have deals with National Geographic, MTV, and a few others, but I’m sure they’ll be cutting deals with more companies as time goes on.
The picture quality is [...]

PS3 Home

As few of my friends are interested in this, I’ve decided to blog about it anyway.
- It’s called home (As noted before)
- You’ll have your own house in a “neighborhood” of your friends that is part of the total population of the world of PS3.
- Friends will be able to “visit” your house on their [...]

My tire exploded.

Ok, so there I was, speeding down I-65, suddenly, *boom!*. Auuuugh! My tire literally blew up! So yeah, I handled that - stopped, pulled over as quickly as possible, and just sat there stunned for a second - and lucky me - there was literally no shoulder on this stretch of highway for what [...]