Squirrel Roommate

This is pretty great



Also, I have teh fluenza

Official Gmail Blog: Russian Gmail art

Official Gmail Blog: Russian Gmail art

Yesterday was my twenty-first birthday...... But that is unimportant.... Check out this video, created by the Russian Google Office in Moscow. That's how we roll, through procrastination.

Russky 1: "Hey guys should we work on this new code for improving Gmail? So as not to wallow in misery over the failed and rigged presidential election."
Russky 2: "Nah, how about making a really time consuming, impractical, but cool-looking commercial"
Rusky 1:"I'll get the hockey stick!"


With subtitles

I am in the process of reading Eavan Boland's collection of poetry and while simoltaneously falling in love with her poetry, I fell in love with the font. This is not a common occurence, and I am not some type of font fiend (o the puns...) but for some reason something about it just clicked. I love the way the capital A overextends so slightly, how the printed g has that beautiful shape, how the posts of the b, d, f, h, k, and l are all slightly too long, how the j, p, q, and y and are slightly stunted. There is a general feeling about this font that I can't quite describe, but I love the feeling it conjures. Partly it is because it fits Boland's poetry so well, I don't know if I would have noticed it unless the two went so hand in hand. What a perfect presentation of her poetry, and I love how there is still time in my life for me to notice such things as font distinctions and revel in their uniqueness. Synergy! Where is that word from? Sounds like something from Office Space....

My favorite (boy) toy

I was also going through my flickr page and found this. I think it's pretty damn awesome.

Caturday adventures

I was looking up a place called "Cafe Illusions" in Des Plaines, IL and the almighty googled came up with this curious gem. An optical illusion called the "cafe wall illusion." It's pretty great, check it out here. http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ang_cafewall/index.html

Will be making my favorite beet salad today. Beets+walnuts+garlic+(vega)naise= fantastic

Write!

A few weeks ago we had an assignment in a Theory of Writing class about "writing as punishment." We had to create an imaginative representation of writing as punishment and something that created a new insight into the whole subject. So I made fortune cookies...... which I called unfortunate cookies. They were filled with all these rather discouraging messages such as "Your GPA is too low," "You will never fit in," etc. Just things kids might hear in high school that would really screw with their self-worth and idea of self.




People brought up some really good things in class about how for some reason we see writing as way more authoritative than speech, because supposedly we have to pause and think before we actually put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, whatever the case maybe. People also brought up how the "destiny" aspect of picking out your own cookie, made it seem like that cookie was meant for you, and maybe your GPA is too low. The comment I liked the most was that you can't talk back to a written message like that, just a terse line about your failings. There is no explanation on the part of the writer and no ability to defend yourself on the part of the reader.

I'm too pretentious to live

This VD card created by R.Stevens of DieselSweeties is so appropriate in so many ways...