Fuck me, haven't been this creative in years =)
*mental note*
finish lexho before she kills me. Finish e-flyer for RnR before noon tomorrow. Fix jkrate and make it not 90 bazillion megs big. Re-design hr-concepts and CFTC.com.
ooof, gonna be a busy month.
p.s. special thanks to momma and poppa for finding typos and to my e-boyfriend matty for finding a bug with jkrate =)
*mental note*
finish lexho before she kills me. Finish e-flyer for RnR before noon tomorrow. Fix jkrate and make it not 90 bazillion megs big. Re-design hr-concepts and CFTC.com.
ooof, gonna be a busy month.
p.s. special thanks to momma and poppa for finding typos and to my e-boyfriend matty for finding a bug with jkrate =)
Biggest website in the history of websites. Oh well. I make things pretty, not code efficiently.
(Full launch party hoopla thing coming in the next few weeks. Feel free to email me with bugs.)
Hope you have high-speed =)
http://www.jkrate.com/
(Full launch party hoopla thing coming in the next few weeks. Feel free to email me with bugs.)
Hope you have high-speed =)
http://www.jkrate.com/
Who gets arrested for walking around an abandoned mental hospital now a days?! Really.
Happy birthday jailbird ;)
And you know what? It's playing a tape. I am listening to an "audio tape" or "cassette" as some people used to call them.
Double sided, 45 mins on each side. Plastic with moving parts.
I'm so oldschool it hurts.
Should be 100% tomorrow. Too much coding. Urgh.
*knocks wood
*knocks wood
MAN! If I only had pink pubes, my life would rule so much more!
1 Comments Published by JKREW on at 10:18 AM.
I know want a gyro in a bad way. Supposedly, there is a place in america that makes a GYRO PIZZA.
God that sounds magical.
God that sounds magical.
Well, that's a pretty nice costume
1 Comments Published by JKREW on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2:03 PM.
Uh kate? Got a credit card handy?
Folks,
I have a little request campaign wise: I need to get my web site up as no 1 on the list when it is googled. I'm assured that the only way to do this is to keep hitting the web as the order of the google list is entirely dependent on the number of hits. therefore could I ask you for 2 weeks at least to hit on my web - 4 times once a day - you don't have to look at it just open if for one sec and that it. It should take you no more than 1 minute. YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE
I have a little request campaign wise: I need to get my web site up as no 1 on the list when it is googled. I'm assured that the only way to do this is to keep hitting the web as the order of the google list is entirely dependent on the number of hits. therefore could I ask you for 2 weeks at least to hit on my web - 4 times once a day - you don't have to look at it just open if for one sec and that it. It should take you no more than 1 minute. YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE
woooof. It burns so good. *cough
Kate and I are having a scary movie-off tomorrow and she's choosing Event Horizon which makes me poop my pants.
I need suggestions so gimme yer top favs based on scary or grossness etc etc.
I need suggestions so gimme yer top favs based on scary or grossness etc etc.
The image is the "Vita di Cristo" or Christ’s Passion, a fresco on the partition ("Parete Gaudenziana") of the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Varallo Sesia, Italy, painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari in 1513. It depicts the life and death of Christ in 21 panels, with the crucifixion prominently displayed in the center.
This is probably the largest digital image on the web: A total of 1145 frames were taken by digital camera and assembled into a final gigantic 8.6 gigapixel by HAL9000 S.r.l. (no, not that HAL 9000)
You can zoom in to your heart’s content, up to a close-up distance of 1.71 cm (a little more than half an inch)!
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Well, I just got back from the dentist and I must say, he and his lovely assistant gave me the most pleasurable dental visit EVARR. Like ever ever.
I got to the office, was greeted by this overly french woman who briskly handed me a mountain of paperwork to fill out. I then sat on the couch resisting the urge to vomit on the carpet and then the dental assistant suddenly vaporized out of thin air to walk me back to the pain chair.
"I have to tell you, I'm gonna just say this now and get it out in the open. My mouth is a festering pile of horse feces that has been sitting in the sun for three months. If you feel the need to vomit or scream or recoil in general horror after looking at my grill, feel free to do so. Also, after looking at said grill, you wish to refer me to your dental enemy, I won't mind that at all either."
She sat me down, took a look at my split tooth and took a digital picture. I know! Digital x-rays whee! The last time I was at the dentist, they used a pointy stick and a heavy rock to etch away at my teeth.
Doctor Dodrill finally came in, gave me a hearty handshake and took a seat. Dr. D (for short of course) was a kind looking man in his 60's with a low and calming voice. Almost as if God himself was speaking to me himself. He took a look at the tooth and held in his recoil as best he could and started jibbering off dental jargon to his assistant.
Minutes later, I had a t-clamp, 8mm 1/4 socket and something called a DDR or a DDT or something in my mouth. He took out this thing for which looked EXACTLY like a needle syringe-thing but coyly distracted me by telling me something about cars and 30 seconds later, he had the syringe thing in my mouth and was massaging my gum. Bam! The fucker stuck me with a needle without even telling me or me actually feeling it. I wanted to fellate the gentle dentist right then and there for his understanding that I'm a dripping teenaged girl when it comes to needles.
So, we took some more x-rays, found out I was .0000001" away from getting a root canal. Thank goodness. Nooo root canal. I'm babbling.
Anyways, all in all, it was AWESOME. My tooth is back to normal. It cost me a whopping 68 bucks and I even set up an appointment to get two more teeth fixed on Monday. (I told you my mouth was fuX0red...)
Let this be a lesson to you folks. Get your teeth checked out. Spare the drama. I waited several years to go to one and yes, I'm sort of paying the price for it but some people just have to go at their own pace and well, yeah, this was my own pace.
I got to the office, was greeted by this overly french woman who briskly handed me a mountain of paperwork to fill out. I then sat on the couch resisting the urge to vomit on the carpet and then the dental assistant suddenly vaporized out of thin air to walk me back to the pain chair.
"I have to tell you, I'm gonna just say this now and get it out in the open. My mouth is a festering pile of horse feces that has been sitting in the sun for three months. If you feel the need to vomit or scream or recoil in general horror after looking at my grill, feel free to do so. Also, after looking at said grill, you wish to refer me to your dental enemy, I won't mind that at all either."
She sat me down, took a look at my split tooth and took a digital picture. I know! Digital x-rays whee! The last time I was at the dentist, they used a pointy stick and a heavy rock to etch away at my teeth.
Doctor Dodrill finally came in, gave me a hearty handshake and took a seat. Dr. D (for short of course) was a kind looking man in his 60's with a low and calming voice. Almost as if God himself was speaking to me himself. He took a look at the tooth and held in his recoil as best he could and started jibbering off dental jargon to his assistant.
Minutes later, I had a t-clamp, 8mm 1/4 socket and something called a DDR or a DDT or something in my mouth. He took out this thing for which looked EXACTLY like a needle syringe-thing but coyly distracted me by telling me something about cars and 30 seconds later, he had the syringe thing in my mouth and was massaging my gum. Bam! The fucker stuck me with a needle without even telling me or me actually feeling it. I wanted to fellate the gentle dentist right then and there for his understanding that I'm a dripping teenaged girl when it comes to needles.
So, we took some more x-rays, found out I was .0000001" away from getting a root canal. Thank goodness. Nooo root canal. I'm babbling.
Anyways, all in all, it was AWESOME. My tooth is back to normal. It cost me a whopping 68 bucks and I even set up an appointment to get two more teeth fixed on Monday. (I told you my mouth was fuX0red...)
Let this be a lesson to you folks. Get your teeth checked out. Spare the drama. I waited several years to go to one and yes, I'm sort of paying the price for it but some people just have to go at their own pace and well, yeah, this was my own pace.
I'm going to the dentist in 2.5 hours and I am starting to poop myself. Seriously. I have fecal matter in my underwear as I type this.
I LOATHE dentists. They hurt. Why do people pay money to these people to sit in an uncomfortable chair and get poked and scraped at by sharp metal instruments? Oof. So yeah, 2.5 hours. I may not return. It's going to hurt. And I will bleed. A LOT.
I haven't been to the dentist in over well, many years. Many. Not one or two. Many.
I blame no health insurance, my inability to make appointments and my general fear of dentists. I'm going to get a tooth filled in because my filling came out. Last year. hahaha whee!
I won't be surprised if they have to pull it. I shouldn'ty have waited this long to go but well, I have to pay the price now. I just don't want them to pull all of my teeth out.
It's so bad that the first thing I said to the dentist was the following conversation:
me: hi, is this doctor dodrill?
evil pain-giver: yes it is, how many I help you?
me: you really have the word "drill" in your name? That's pretty ironic eh?
evil pain-giver: yes, my parents sort of doomed me to this profession since birth.
me: wow, well, um. I hear from my office pals that you are a good dentist. I need some work done.
evil pain-giver: what kind of work will you be needing.
me: Lets just say that if you choose to help me out, you are going to earn your money.
evil pain-giver: *nervous laughter* Can you tell me in what location you are having problems? Is it the right side, left side...
me: *interupts* all
evil pain-giver: all?
me: yeah, all sides
evil pain-giver: wow. Can you come in tomorrow?
*sigh
I LOATHE dentists. They hurt. Why do people pay money to these people to sit in an uncomfortable chair and get poked and scraped at by sharp metal instruments? Oof. So yeah, 2.5 hours. I may not return. It's going to hurt. And I will bleed. A LOT.
I haven't been to the dentist in over well, many years. Many. Not one or two. Many.
I blame no health insurance, my inability to make appointments and my general fear of dentists. I'm going to get a tooth filled in because my filling came out. Last year. hahaha whee!
I won't be surprised if they have to pull it. I shouldn'ty have waited this long to go but well, I have to pay the price now. I just don't want them to pull all of my teeth out.
It's so bad that the first thing I said to the dentist was the following conversation:
me: hi, is this doctor dodrill?
evil pain-giver: yes it is, how many I help you?
me: you really have the word "drill" in your name? That's pretty ironic eh?
evil pain-giver: yes, my parents sort of doomed me to this profession since birth.
me: wow, well, um. I hear from my office pals that you are a good dentist. I need some work done.
evil pain-giver: what kind of work will you be needing.
me: Lets just say that if you choose to help me out, you are going to earn your money.
evil pain-giver: *nervous laughter* Can you tell me in what location you are having problems? Is it the right side, left side...
me: *interupts* all
evil pain-giver: all?
me: yeah, all sides
evil pain-giver: wow. Can you come in tomorrow?
*sigh
And the best quote of the day is...
0 Comments Published by JKREW on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 10:46 AM."one time while trying to get rid of her
I started explaining how I was gay and
described licking my friend's mustache
after a makeout session...
after that she left me alone for awhile"
The Shaun of the Dead soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks to come out in a looong time. I highly suggest stealing buying it (*snickers) today.
Oh and do yerself a favor, if ya haven't seen the movie, get it today. Just saw it again for the bazillionth time last night and I love it more than the first time I saw it =)
Oh and do yerself a favor, if ya haven't seen the movie, get it today. Just saw it again for the bazillionth time last night and I love it more than the first time I saw it =)
Sony assassinates amazing etailer Lik-Sang
via http://boingboing.net
Lik-Sang, an amazing e-tailer that specializes in importing Asian electronics to Europe and the US, has been forced out of business by legal threats from Sony Europe. Lik-Sang's customers were true technophiles -- my household got its Japanese Katamari Damacy game, a limited edition Nintendo DS, and numerous accessories from Lik-Sang -- the kind of people who are fantastic customers for the likes of Sony.
This is part of Sony's ongoing, suicidal war against its own customers -- from installing rootkits on CD-buyers' PCs to threatening hackers with lawsuits over teaching new dances to their Aibos to re-crippling the PSP to lock out homebrew software. Great companies like Lik-Sang that exist to serve an early-adopter, passionate user niche are collateral damage in the war.
Thanks, Sony. I hope you lose a shitload of money on Blu-Ray.
Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang's sales of PSP consoles unlawful...
A Sony spokesperson declined to comment directly on the lawsuit against Lik-Sang, but recently went on to tell Gamesindustry.biz that "ultimately, we're trying to protect consumers from being sold hardware that does not conform to strict EU or UK consumer safety standards, due to voltage supply differences et cetera; is not - in PS3's case - backwards compatible with either PS1 or PS2 software; will not play European Blu-Ray movies or DVDs; and will not be covered by warranty".
Lik Sang strongly disagrees with Sony's opinion that their customers need this kind of protection and pointed out that PSP consoles shipped from Lik-Sang contained genuine Sony 100V-240V AC Adapters that carry CE and other safety marks and are compatible world wide. All PSP consoles were in conformity with all EU and UK consumer safety regulations.
Christ, it's hilarious to see Sony wringing its hands over its poor customers! These are the people who compromised 500,000 computer networks with their rootkits and spyware!
via http://boingboing.net
Lik-Sang, an amazing e-tailer that specializes in importing Asian electronics to Europe and the US, has been forced out of business by legal threats from Sony Europe. Lik-Sang's customers were true technophiles -- my household got its Japanese Katamari Damacy game, a limited edition Nintendo DS, and numerous accessories from Lik-Sang -- the kind of people who are fantastic customers for the likes of Sony.
This is part of Sony's ongoing, suicidal war against its own customers -- from installing rootkits on CD-buyers' PCs to threatening hackers with lawsuits over teaching new dances to their Aibos to re-crippling the PSP to lock out homebrew software. Great companies like Lik-Sang that exist to serve an early-adopter, passionate user niche are collateral damage in the war.
Thanks, Sony. I hope you lose a shitload of money on Blu-Ray.
Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang's sales of PSP consoles unlawful...
A Sony spokesperson declined to comment directly on the lawsuit against Lik-Sang, but recently went on to tell Gamesindustry.biz that "ultimately, we're trying to protect consumers from being sold hardware that does not conform to strict EU or UK consumer safety standards, due to voltage supply differences et cetera; is not - in PS3's case - backwards compatible with either PS1 or PS2 software; will not play European Blu-Ray movies or DVDs; and will not be covered by warranty".
Lik Sang strongly disagrees with Sony's opinion that their customers need this kind of protection and pointed out that PSP consoles shipped from Lik-Sang contained genuine Sony 100V-240V AC Adapters that carry CE and other safety marks and are compatible world wide. All PSP consoles were in conformity with all EU and UK consumer safety regulations.
Christ, it's hilarious to see Sony wringing its hands over its poor customers! These are the people who compromised 500,000 computer networks with their rootkits and spyware!
Oh and to make myself feel better
3 Comments Published by JKREW on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 4:07 PM.
I bought the coolest jacket EVER today. Is it meant to be worn by a 17 year old? Yep. Am I holding on to my angst-ridden 20-something years with a kung fu grip? You betcha.
Behold:
Behold:
I don't know what is wrong with me lately. I have been seriously doubting my relationship with kate and it is scaring the crap out of me for almost a month now.
It's not that I want to leave or to date someone else, it's far from that. It's mainly the fact that I am feeling the same exact way after I got back with my ex-girlfriend some years ago. It's the feeling of insecurity after being dumped but then struggling to win her back and that feeling of impending doom of breaking up again. It's the feeling of doubt. It's the feeling of waiting for the shoe to drop.
I guess the relationship got boring or stagnant at one point. Maybe it's because the summer is over and that all of the cars and projects and summery-goodness is over. It's probably because I've been drinking way too much in the past few months. It's because I'm depressed, taking pills for it and still drinking.
Not the smartest thing to do I know. It's a weakness and I'm lame for doing it.
I don't know why I'm feeling this way but it fucking sucks feeling it. I don't want to lose kate and I know she loves me to death but it just sucks. It's a new feeling and I absolutely hate it. Maybe it's because she is the first girl I have given 100% of my heart to since my last real GF. She has the power to destroy me and now I know it and I think I am worried she will leave me. Maybe she is the first girl I have gone out with where I think I am the lucky one to date her instead of the other way around. Maybe because it's the fact that in the beginning I was the mentor in the relationship; while she was worried about the unknown of a long-term relationship, I wasn't worried because I had been there before.
Now it's in the long stretch. Our relationship isn't just a passing fancy. Talk of marriage is really becoming a truth and a real possibility rather than just something that is said between two people in lust.
But again, I have much to fix before this takes a new step. I won't keep repeating myself regarding my health and my bills etc etc. I know those are my issues and I am finally trying to fix them for once.
It's just that I have gotten so lazy in the past few months. I simply just don't care about a lot of things anymore. Turning 30 sucked. Being stuck in VA sucks. Wanting to get rid of both of my vehicles and just have a normal car is starting to annoy me. Being lethargic in this relationship is really taking it's toll on me too. It's always the same things. The same restaurants, the same trips to Target, the same five-line phrases when I say goodnight to kate over and over again.
It's almost robotic. "Ok boo, I'm gonna go pass out. Ok, love. I love you. I love you mostest! Sleep well. You too... Bye. Bye. Click."
I know this is what happens. I know this is a rut. I don't like ruts though.
I just want to go back to the point where I didn't have to worry. I want the feelings back that I felt when kate did something that was so alien to me. I want to feel like I was the luckiest man in the world again.
I don't want to feel married.
It's not that I want to leave or to date someone else, it's far from that. It's mainly the fact that I am feeling the same exact way after I got back with my ex-girlfriend some years ago. It's the feeling of insecurity after being dumped but then struggling to win her back and that feeling of impending doom of breaking up again. It's the feeling of doubt. It's the feeling of waiting for the shoe to drop.
I guess the relationship got boring or stagnant at one point. Maybe it's because the summer is over and that all of the cars and projects and summery-goodness is over. It's probably because I've been drinking way too much in the past few months. It's because I'm depressed, taking pills for it and still drinking.
Not the smartest thing to do I know. It's a weakness and I'm lame for doing it.
I don't know why I'm feeling this way but it fucking sucks feeling it. I don't want to lose kate and I know she loves me to death but it just sucks. It's a new feeling and I absolutely hate it. Maybe it's because she is the first girl I have given 100% of my heart to since my last real GF. She has the power to destroy me and now I know it and I think I am worried she will leave me. Maybe she is the first girl I have gone out with where I think I am the lucky one to date her instead of the other way around. Maybe because it's the fact that in the beginning I was the mentor in the relationship; while she was worried about the unknown of a long-term relationship, I wasn't worried because I had been there before.
Now it's in the long stretch. Our relationship isn't just a passing fancy. Talk of marriage is really becoming a truth and a real possibility rather than just something that is said between two people in lust.
But again, I have much to fix before this takes a new step. I won't keep repeating myself regarding my health and my bills etc etc. I know those are my issues and I am finally trying to fix them for once.
It's just that I have gotten so lazy in the past few months. I simply just don't care about a lot of things anymore. Turning 30 sucked. Being stuck in VA sucks. Wanting to get rid of both of my vehicles and just have a normal car is starting to annoy me. Being lethargic in this relationship is really taking it's toll on me too. It's always the same things. The same restaurants, the same trips to Target, the same five-line phrases when I say goodnight to kate over and over again.
It's almost robotic. "Ok boo, I'm gonna go pass out. Ok, love. I love you. I love you mostest! Sleep well. You too... Bye. Bye. Click."
I know this is what happens. I know this is a rut. I don't like ruts though.
I just want to go back to the point where I didn't have to worry. I want the feelings back that I felt when kate did something that was so alien to me. I want to feel like I was the luckiest man in the world again.
I don't want to feel married.
B002
BIFOLD BIBLE COVER
Be prepared - Everyone will be asking - Where did you get your Bible cover? Click on the photo to see description.
Available in the Desert and Red/White/Blue. SIZE LARGE AVAILABLE ONLY.
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BIFOLD BIBLE COVER
Be prepared - Everyone will be asking - Where did you get your Bible cover? Click on the photo to see description.
Available in the Desert and Red/White/Blue. SIZE LARGE AVAILABLE ONLY.
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Here's some stuff from the trip up to NYC on Saturday with the lil' lady. I dunno, I'm in another building phase I guess...
Because I will most certainly fuck with you ;)
(thanks for the help kate) *kiss*
(thanks for the help kate) *kiss*
Someone just emailed me this pic from Colorado hahaha
So Nick (the lovely roommate of mine) got me a gig re-designing his work's website.
Going from this wonderful thing... www.rnrdc.com
to this:
Hopefully he will accept my price and then most (all) of my bills will be gone.
crs fngrs pls
Going from this wonderful thing... www.rnrdc.com
to this:
Hopefully he will accept my price and then most (all) of my bills will be gone.
crs fngrs pls
A few months back, the making-of video was all over the int0rwebs but this is the first time I've seen the final spot. Pretty cool except for the creepy clown coming out of no where of course...
Click me
Click me
• Let's all welcome my mom to the Verizon family (hahaha, now Kate, myself AND my mom have a Chocolate)
• I got screwed by United this morning on my way to Detroit. Fuck a United.
• I'll be busy busy this week finishing up stuff on Lexho.com, jkrate.com and vwfeatures.com. Who woulda known I'd turn into a web boy?
That's all. Kisses!
• I got screwed by United this morning on my way to Detroit. Fuck a United.
• I'll be busy busy this week finishing up stuff on Lexho.com, jkrate.com and vwfeatures.com. Who woulda known I'd turn into a web boy?
That's all. Kisses!
Who remembers this little gem? Hot damn. I feel like I'm 6 years old on saturday morning again =)
Here's the one with the wink =)
Here's the one with the wink =)
JKREW vs. Bank of America Round Two
1 Comments Published by JKREW on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 3:39 PM.
jkrew: hi, just calling to check up on my current investigation where you guys were trying to find my missing check as well as see if you can refund me for the 19 overdraft fees you charged due to your bank losing my check?
bank lady on phone: oh, wow, um, one moment please
... 2 minutes pass...
bank lady on phone: Mr. Kress, your account has been refunded $589 dollars, can I help you with anything else today?
jkrew: that's it?
bank lady on phone: yes sir
jkrew: I waited an entire week, called almost every morning to get the runaround and you just fixed it in two minutes?
bank lady on phone: yes sir
jkrew: well, um, I guess that's it. I love you.
bank lady on phone: *giggles* Thank you for using Bank of America. Have a good day!
And all was right with the world again...
bank lady on phone: oh, wow, um, one moment please
... 2 minutes pass...
bank lady on phone: Mr. Kress, your account has been refunded $589 dollars, can I help you with anything else today?
jkrew: that's it?
bank lady on phone: yes sir
jkrew: I waited an entire week, called almost every morning to get the runaround and you just fixed it in two minutes?
bank lady on phone: yes sir
jkrew: well, um, I guess that's it. I love you.
bank lady on phone: *giggles* Thank you for using Bank of America. Have a good day!
And all was right with the world again...
LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Best ad in a long time.
So yeah, kate and I made the switch from Sprint (finally) to Verizon (hi!) and we got the same phone because we are the ghey couple (duh). Now we just have to learn how to pick up the right phone when they are both on the table.
Anyhoo, we've had Verizon for close to 8 hours now and it's wonderful. Clear(er) reception, no dropped calls, speed is at least 4-5x faster than sprint and the phones have a 1.3mp cammy which is double the quality of the best sprint phone has to offer under 200 bucks.
So, pardon my blog margins being thrown off until I get to code it to accpet the horizontal pics now. Still trying to figure everything out with the phone and service but I'm excited with a new gadget that has nothing to do with cars.
You should make the switch today folks. Sprint is ghetto without a doubt and our plan is 20 bucks cheaper with the same amount of doo dads.
Anyhoo, we've had Verizon for close to 8 hours now and it's wonderful. Clear(er) reception, no dropped calls, speed is at least 4-5x faster than sprint and the phones have a 1.3mp cammy which is double the quality of the best sprint phone has to offer under 200 bucks.
So, pardon my blog margins being thrown off until I get to code it to accpet the horizontal pics now. Still trying to figure everything out with the phone and service but I'm excited with a new gadget that has nothing to do with cars.
You should make the switch today folks. Sprint is ghetto without a doubt and our plan is 20 bucks cheaper with the same amount of doo dads.
Man o man. What a day. Anyhoo, I am sleepy, I miss my boo already and I lost a few friends today so I suppose it's time for bed.
But before I go off to dream of Kate, let me depart with a message... sometimes, after a year or so of simply becoming complacent, one day, you may just very well accept it as normal and commonplace.
Sleep well dear readers.
But before I go off to dream of Kate, let me depart with a message... sometimes, after a year or so of simply becoming complacent, one day, you may just very well accept it as normal and commonplace.
Sleep well dear readers.
Please see below.
editors note: if you involve yourself with me and my life in any way whatsoever, do know that it will probably be shown to the world. (If it's entertaining of course.)
editors note: if you involve yourself with me and my life in any way whatsoever, do know that it will probably be shown to the world. (If it's entertaining of course.)
I don't really know what I've ever done to you or Kate that would make you both defriend me, but I didn't really question it. That in itself is insulting, but nothing to really bring up with you or bother either of you with. However, when you get involved in my life by going to my GF, the woman I devote everything to and who I see a future with, and tell her that I'm terrible for her and I have changed her (and for the worse, through implication), that's just absolutely infuriating. I know my GF vents to you and I'm sure not all of it is necessarily great, but who do you think you are to get involved in our relationship, and my personal life, without knowing a single detail of the intimiacy we share or the incredibly high regard in which I hold her? How would you respond if I talked to Kate from time to time and one day up and told her she's changed and that you're a terrible thing in her life? I suppose you'd thank me for being so brutally honest to my semi-friend (and with reference to "semi-friend", perhaps I should bring up how you'd feel if I had pictures of Kate in her underwear and decided to throw it up on my group's website without asking her, all so that complete strangers could make little comments that subjugate her and make her feel uncomfortably exposed? I'm sure you'd thank me for that, too).
Next time you want to interject your opinion into someone else's relationship, one in which you know virtually none of the true details besides the occasional venting, maybe consider what conseqeunces it will have. Please don't respond to this, I really have no desire to maintain any sort of relationship with someone so wildly ignorant and judgmental.
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Hahaha immature guys who are emotional retards are funny sometimes. Oh well, not like I was looking for any new friends anyhoo.
Who's next!
Next time you want to interject your opinion into someone else's relationship, one in which you know virtually none of the true details besides the occasional venting, maybe consider what conseqeunces it will have. Please don't respond to this, I really have no desire to maintain any sort of relationship with someone so wildly ignorant and judgmental.
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Hahaha immature guys who are emotional retards are funny sometimes. Oh well, not like I was looking for any new friends anyhoo.
Who's next!
Wheee, you can make photos look like fake little train dioramas =)
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This is the story of how Jason almost went on a killing spree due to Bank of America being a corporation made up entirely of cockhats.
Sunday, I deposited my roommates rent check at a Bank of America location on my way to breakfast with the little lady. Bank of America (BOA for short) decided it would be a great idea to change their ATM's to no longer need to use envelopes for deposits. The idea is that you just slide the check in the slot and blamo! it's mysteriously gone and deposited.
They hadn't counted on the fact that a) the idea is fucking retarded and b) they should all die a death fit for a baby molester.
The check got jammed (of course, what a surprise) and the door shut down. Oh and to make it all that much better, the machine was unable to produce a receipt for my transaction. Just fucking great. Anyways, off to breakfast.
Monday was a holiday for that Indian killing drunkard Columbus so nothing was done.
Tuesday rolls around, I call the bank and get no where. A file was started and an "investigation" was opened. Of course, the check is now AWOL and I have overdrafted 19 times. I'll just bold that for ya 19 times because I use my check card like cash and the check was supposed to fill my account up again until I got my expense check back from work after spending close to a grand on the last pitch.
So yeah, 19 x 33 = a lot of fucking money.
I call BOA for the third time this morning and ask to remove the fees. They say no until the investigation is cleared up. I ask why they are charging me fees due to their mistakes and also, why am I paying fees while the investigation is still open? Wouldn't I be charged after a decision of who's fault it would be? Yeah, I thought so. So after yelling at one lady, I asked for her manager. Miss Sunshine came to the phone profusely apologising for her companies fuckup, promised me the fees would be removed and I would be on my merry little way.
Nah, not that easy. I am still 400$ in debt due to these fees that have yet to be removed.
Oh and it's been three days since I've taken my meds due to being fucking broke. I don't want to even get out of bed anymore.
My mom's birthday was last night and her toast for the evening was pretty much "appreciate your birthdays you have when you have parents around because it sucks when they are gone." Yeah well thanks, now I have to think about losing my mother eventually too.
Fuck that noise. It's time to invent an age reverser because I don't want her going anywhere.
Ugh, I want to go back to bed until springtime.
Sunday, I deposited my roommates rent check at a Bank of America location on my way to breakfast with the little lady. Bank of America (BOA for short) decided it would be a great idea to change their ATM's to no longer need to use envelopes for deposits. The idea is that you just slide the check in the slot and blamo! it's mysteriously gone and deposited.
They hadn't counted on the fact that a) the idea is fucking retarded and b) they should all die a death fit for a baby molester.
The check got jammed (of course, what a surprise) and the door shut down. Oh and to make it all that much better, the machine was unable to produce a receipt for my transaction. Just fucking great. Anyways, off to breakfast.
Monday was a holiday for that Indian killing drunkard Columbus so nothing was done.
Tuesday rolls around, I call the bank and get no where. A file was started and an "investigation" was opened. Of course, the check is now AWOL and I have overdrafted 19 times. I'll just bold that for ya 19 times because I use my check card like cash and the check was supposed to fill my account up again until I got my expense check back from work after spending close to a grand on the last pitch.
So yeah, 19 x 33 = a lot of fucking money.
I call BOA for the third time this morning and ask to remove the fees. They say no until the investigation is cleared up. I ask why they are charging me fees due to their mistakes and also, why am I paying fees while the investigation is still open? Wouldn't I be charged after a decision of who's fault it would be? Yeah, I thought so. So after yelling at one lady, I asked for her manager. Miss Sunshine came to the phone profusely apologising for her companies fuckup, promised me the fees would be removed and I would be on my merry little way.
Nah, not that easy. I am still 400$ in debt due to these fees that have yet to be removed.
Oh and it's been three days since I've taken my meds due to being fucking broke. I don't want to even get out of bed anymore.
My mom's birthday was last night and her toast for the evening was pretty much "appreciate your birthdays you have when you have parents around because it sucks when they are gone." Yeah well thanks, now I have to think about losing my mother eventually too.
Fuck that noise. It's time to invent an age reverser because I don't want her going anywhere.
Ugh, I want to go back to bed until springtime.
So all that fucking work I put in last week was completely overlooked by the head guy in NYC when he sent off an email:
Thank you all for the effort you put into this. Once again you guys have proven why Proxicom is great. Everyone did a great job in tight timelines. Thank you for working late and on the weekend to get this done everyone.
Thank you.
Yeah, who stayed and worked over the weekend? Not one person from the list of 20 people in the email.
Who really stayed late and worked the weekend? The only person not on the list: me.
*sigh
I forgot what it felt like to get overlooked once again. I understand that one should be modest in times like these but in this world, modesty gets you fucked up the ass over and over again.
Well, in retrospect, this photo makes me feel a little better. But not much.
Thank you all for the effort you put into this. Once again you guys have proven why Proxicom is great. Everyone did a great job in tight timelines. Thank you for working late and on the weekend to get this done everyone.
Thank you.
Yeah, who stayed and worked over the weekend? Not one person from the list of 20 people in the email.
Who really stayed late and worked the weekend? The only person not on the list: me.
*sigh
I forgot what it felt like to get overlooked once again. I understand that one should be modest in times like these but in this world, modesty gets you fucked up the ass over and over again.
Well, in retrospect, this photo makes me feel a little better. But not much.
We have to re-pitch VW corporate each year to pretty much give them a temperature check of how we are doing and to see if there are any newcomers out there in design/code land who would be willing to answer the RFP from VW etc etc etc
Anyhoo, we were pitching them for two things this month; 1) to suggest full hosting on a new server/host and 2) to try to fit the bill to develop the new redesign that's coming.
It was our offices job to come up with a nice design solution to package the final proposal that would be in word doc forms. But here's the rub... there are west coast offices and east coast offices. East coast has been mainly known for coding and what not, west coast was known for the design. I am the first and only designer on the east coast as of now.
Here's the bigger rub... we had until friday to get this mailed to detroit michigan.
So, last-last wednesday I start brainstorming with my mentor and we decide to make a semi-western theme to go along with the site's future "re-branding" by ordering 8 custom real-deal cow brands with the VW logo as the brand. By thursday afternoon, west coast found out and took the design-aspect away from us. It was re-assigned rather, to be polite =)
Friday passes with no solution from them and the brands will be here by next friday (last friday). Over the weekend, I built a box to hold everything from scratch. I weather it to look like an old western crate etc etc.
I come into work monday and see this:
I am still not feeling very comfortable with how far the cowboy theme is going. I get the one-liner of the branding iron, but to build an entire western theme around the re-branding of a contemporary German automotive site is risky. If you take this idea of the western theme and place it next to Crispin's offline brand direction, there is no synergy...which could very well work against us. Let's keep the branding irons...they are great! Let's loose the western theme and replace it with urban style and fun. Think Men in Black with contemporary branding irons as their weapons. I will be meeting with the creatives working on this first thing in the morning to discuss in more detail.
Ok, so I'm floored. I wasted my sunday making this fucking box for nothing. Oh well. In retrospect, I agree 100% with the creative director on the west caost who I later met last week and talked everything over with.
So... we scrap the western theme and focus on a cover design as I went to a nice designy-package store the night prior and picked up some nice boxes.
I come up with this but we scrap it because it still looks too western and I think I'm forcing the idea.
Then I do this to bring the western feel to the contemperay look of vwfeatures.com
But that gets scraped too because the concept is still too much of a stretch i.e. Branded cows in pasture/passats getting branded.
Sooo, now I'm just pissed. I've been wasting an entire week of my life for nothing all because of this stupid brand we ordered a week ago that we are forced to use due to the cost of making it. (It's actually not stupid, I'm just completely fried out by now haha)
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Anyhoo, we were pitching them for two things this month; 1) to suggest full hosting on a new server/host and 2) to try to fit the bill to develop the new redesign that's coming.
It was our offices job to come up with a nice design solution to package the final proposal that would be in word doc forms. But here's the rub... there are west coast offices and east coast offices. East coast has been mainly known for coding and what not, west coast was known for the design. I am the first and only designer on the east coast as of now.
Here's the bigger rub... we had until friday to get this mailed to detroit michigan.
So, last-last wednesday I start brainstorming with my mentor and we decide to make a semi-western theme to go along with the site's future "re-branding" by ordering 8 custom real-deal cow brands with the VW logo as the brand. By thursday afternoon, west coast found out and took the design-aspect away from us. It was re-assigned rather, to be polite =)
Friday passes with no solution from them and the brands will be here by next friday (last friday). Over the weekend, I built a box to hold everything from scratch. I weather it to look like an old western crate etc etc.
I come into work monday and see this:
I am still not feeling very comfortable with how far the cowboy theme is going. I get the one-liner of the branding iron, but to build an entire western theme around the re-branding of a contemporary German automotive site is risky. If you take this idea of the western theme and place it next to Crispin's offline brand direction, there is no synergy...which could very well work against us. Let's keep the branding irons...they are great! Let's loose the western theme and replace it with urban style and fun. Think Men in Black with contemporary branding irons as their weapons. I will be meeting with the creatives working on this first thing in the morning to discuss in more detail.
Ok, so I'm floored. I wasted my sunday making this fucking box for nothing. Oh well. In retrospect, I agree 100% with the creative director on the west caost who I later met last week and talked everything over with.
So... we scrap the western theme and focus on a cover design as I went to a nice designy-package store the night prior and picked up some nice boxes.
I come up with this but we scrap it because it still looks too western and I think I'm forcing the idea.
Then I do this to bring the western feel to the contemperay look of vwfeatures.com
But that gets scraped too because the concept is still too much of a stretch i.e. Branded cows in pasture/passats getting branded.
Sooo, now I'm just pissed. I've been wasting an entire week of my life for nothing all because of this stupid brand we ordered a week ago that we are forced to use due to the cost of making it. (It's actually not stupid, I'm just completely fried out by now haha)
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