for felicia: here is the House Party Gallery and here is a picture of you.

and from Garrick, I learned an important lesson — “A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer.“

“Good Charlotte? More like Mediocre Green Day!” — Chris Rock.

It wouldn’t be so funny, if it wasn’t so true.

I’ve leafed through a couple of issues of AdBusters magazine a couple of times, and have always been intrigued by the layout and the complete deconstruction of branded® America&tm;. How should I best explain AdBusters? Well, I think they do it best:

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.

Yeah, pretty much. So are there ads in the magazine? Nope. The layout is fantastic and entertaining, but they somehow manage to stay away from having a “brand” themselves. I really don’t know how they do it, but they seem to stay on that razors-edge of having a good, gripping, competent design, but yet don’t fall into the trap of “no image as an image”. Also, culture jamming is a great idea (not to mention a great name), and I suspect that Warren Ellis knows well these busters of ad.

I do believe I will subscribe.

Jackson recommended that I:

A: Go here.

and

B: Watch the linked video.

I did both, and both were awesome. I’d heard that Junior Senior song a couple of times, and liked it — but combine that with a wacky/awesome 8-bit likeness of a squirrel et alia, well… I don’t think I need to explain that to you.

This just about sums it up…

(10:03:04) powerofmicans: mayumi just turned 25
(10:03:10) benATthelocust: yaaay!
(10:03:14) powerofmicans: she says hi
(10:03:17) benATthelocust: like just now?
(10:03:23) powerofmicans: yeah
(10:03:28) benATthelocust: this very hour?
(10:03:33) powerofmicans: flip of the switch

Happy 25th Birthday, Mayumi!

It’s Jackson Cooper‘s 24th birthday today! WOOOO!!! A special day for a special boy.

I just heard that my buddy David G. broke both of his arms last night in a high-speed bike-related accident. hit a big bolt lying in the road somewhere downtown. well, David is OK now, save for the two slings around his neck. get well, david!

Birthday Gallery is up! Pics of Kelly’s cake for me (tasty!) and pics of Kelly, mum, brother Nick and I at the Bats game!

Yeah, i’ve looked at most of the PHP open-sourced content management systems out there… PHPNuke, PHPWebsite, PostNuke, none of them! I mean, PostNuke even has “Post” in the name! If they do have PostgreSQL support, then it’s either half-baked or in a state of disarray. It’s damned depressing as Postgres is very stable and has a lot of things that MySQL doesn’t have… ah well…

I give unto thee a Funny parody of those Zoloft commercials with that little dumpy, depressed black and white ovoid creature…

Thanks be to Charlie for that one…