blurry night...

roommate...found passed out in the living room after partially completing his late night burrito.
the next morning i find a flattened + half-eaten burrito on the carpet and John's shoes with the laces tied together. i pick up the pieces and collect the burrito back onto the plate before heading out. the sad part is i come back an hour later and see an empty plate, a happy John, and no sign of the burrito.

Pistol Camera

someone get me this camera and you will be my pal forever.
it's a 16mm film camera issued to police in Japan.

funny sign...

saw this at a KFC drive-thru in LA. i guess it's easier and cheaper to keep trimming the tree instead of moving the sign.

result of poor planning

Betty Brown really grinds my gears

this bitch is Betty Brown...for those who don't know, this Republican House Rep from Texas is suggesting that Asian-descent voters (even 2nd and 3rd generation AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS) should adopt names that are "easier for Americans to deal with"

and she's talking about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc...she states that rather than having everyone learn Chinese, if "we" and "our citizens" could change our names to something easier for people here in the states to deal with.

OUR CITIZENS? WTF...like we're not equal in some way? WE HAVE THE SAME CITIZENSHIP DUMBASS...

you're like that old white lady that told me i could make sushi when she saw me and my friends fishing. you idiots.

read the full article here...

twins

so it looks like my roommate John and i each have a matching twin/doppelganger on the loose somewhere in California.  below are 2 photos...the 1st being an old photo of me and John with our pals Pam and Ana, the 2nd being a photo sent to me from a friend of mine asking if i have ever seen these guys.  could it be that we are being imitated?  

the real deal

knock-off versions

you'll notice the asian guy with his black frame glasses, straight teeth, and smile perfectly executed.  he outdoes me though with that bead friendship necklace.  but what i find to be the crazy thing is the mixed white/asian dude on the left making a face similar to John's pose in the 1st photo.  that is effin' hilarious.  i hope we get to meet these guys one day.

the future doesn't look pretty

so as you all know, the new DSLR's on the market will have the ability to shoot HD video and store clips onto the compact flash cards. ::whoopdee frickin doo:: Zacuto, maker of handheld rigs for video cameras, is about to release the same version for the DSLR. this is ridiculous. nowadays where everyone is a "photographer", now every "photographer" is a "cinematographer".

first Prop 8 passed, now this. the future does not look pretty.

see her? shes a "cinematographer" now

shame on you shady parkers

what is it with people and their imaginary right to hog parking spaces? so we have street cleaning every week on our block...this means everyone has to park on one side of the street the night before. "certain vehicles" every week hog the middle of the curb space when there is clearly space for two cars...this extends the length of the whole damn block and forces people (like myself sometimes), to park hella far or to wake up early and move your car before the street cleaners come.

so i made these neat little cards thanking these people using a combination of MS Word, a paper cutter, the laminating machine at Kinko's, and an hour of my time well spent. the first batch went out tonight to a lucky few.

one grin and two dimples come free with each of theseseriously, what the hell dude

what the hell Spain...

- Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes behind the image of a Chinese dragon, a move that could offend its Olympic hosts in Beijing. The ads appeared in the largest Spanish-language newspaper La Marca.

It's baffling that nobody involved in the picture from the photographers to the players even seemed to consider that this ad would be looked at negatively. Did it not occur to somebody that it might not be a good idea to mock an entire continent before the world's largest athletic competition that, by the way, happens to take place on that continent. Were they not aware of an invention called "the Internet" that allows pictures taken in Spain to be transmitted all over the world for the eyes of everyone? -

And now I'm reading that even with all this controversy, they still defend the photo...not even giving a simple apology saying it was done in poor taste.

I can't wait to watch your team lose. No bueno Spain...shame on you.

Sourced from Yahoo/MSN