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This man looks pretty sweet -- Just as sweet as the MacBook in front of him.
I would like to be his friend.

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"Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for like an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or are you out?"
--Bill Murray, Lost in Translation

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HAHA.

KITTENS! -- inspired by KITTENS!

(i’m not sure how late i am on this, but i love it)

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Text Conversation -- 8:54 am


?: It is sarah's birthday

ME: Yes i know this. Who is this?

?: Her mom.

?: Good morning charlotte.

you have been served

YOU HAVE BEEN SERVED
BY : BRANDON

I will be at Denny's every Tuesday night for the rest of the semester --
preferably around 3am. Never have I encountered more interesting characters.

good day today.

MY BOSS IS ADORABLE.

So a little back story --

Bill & Alex have this whiteboard on the door so that people know where they are at all times, in case someone may have a question. And they always give me a hard time and hold it over my head that they have space on the whiteboard, and I don't. SO I leave work Sunday night writing my name and status on the board in marker as a joke, and I come into work today and Bill and Alex had made me a little name tag on the door so that they can know where i am at all times.

sdkfjlsakjdkd!!

you have no idea how happy that made me. they're so cute.

Stars & Stripes

uhh.. is it wrong that i'm kinda pumped about this?

Download it here.

scheming

i just went halfsies on a lock picking kit with my new accomplice.
i am too excited to finally become a certified BANDIT.

yeee

i want to ride mine.

and then crawl in here.

and maybe do some of this.

Findings

They totally used the typeface that I used on my zine -- unplanned.

Bill Cosby has large hands and a tiny head -- your argument is invalid.

DJ Mike Relm

gorgeous weather.

I took my bicycle out for the first time since winter
this morning to run some errands around town.
SO EFFING LOVELY OUTSIDE.

Then i came home, and received a demand from
Tuesday to take another ride out to Lake of the Isles.
How could i refuse?

i hope it stays like this, if so, we should soon
resume the midnight bike rides -- yes, yes we should.

TOKYO!

Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho

A THREESOME OF AWESOME
-- this looks promising

ZINE!

i am quite pleased.
:D :D

(you want a hard copy? it can be arranged.)

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“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. Certain people, certain events have all left scars on my hands. " - JD Salinger

not enough

TIME

i need more of it.
i also need a Segway.
i want to be as carefree and happy as this guy.

fartwork

For your viewing pleasure, some drawings i did for class last night.
Pretty pleased with the first two -- I got pretty restless after that.
The image quality is poor -- sorry folks.

R.I.P.

Notorious 'Christopher George Letore Wallace' B.I.G.
(Business Instead of Game)

May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997

last one for the night.

Oh man.

I could eat a few boxes of these right now.
And by “a few” I mean “forty six”.

168. PEELING THE LABEL OFF OF YOUR WATER BOTTLE MAY SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, BUT YOU'LL REGRET IT. AND DON'T THINK "NAH, THIS TIME I WONT GET THAT STICKY SHIT ON MY HAND", YOU WILL, DON'T DO IT.

NEW RED HOODIE
i feel awesome when i wear it. like, i have pep in my step when i wear it.
WATCHOUT for the girl in the red hoodie radiating PIZZAZZ.

zooey deschanel

GIRL CRUSH
GIRL CRUSH

love this guy

i want to be your bff seth rogan,
so we can blow smoke rings together.

my tummy is aching me tonight.
questionable burger = poor decision

the thought project

This is beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

Over a period of 3 months Simon Hogsberg stopped 150 strangers on the street, took their photograph, and asked them what they were thinking before he stopped them.

LINKAGE

sneaky

i love extremely elaborate sneak attack plans.

s'been stuck in my head

Robot Love

Robot Programmed to Love Traps Woman in Lab, Hugs Her Repeatedly

Kyoto, JP -3 March 2009- Staff. Researchers at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute were thrilled ten months ago when they successfully programmed Kenji, a third generation humanoid robot, to convincingly emulate certain human emotions. At the time, they even claimed that Kenji was capable of the robot equivalent of love. Now, however, they fear that his programming has taken an extreme turn for the worst.

“Initially, we were thrilled to see a bit of our soul come alive in this so called ‘machine,’” said Dr. Akito Takahashi, the principal investigator on the project. “This was really the final step for us in one of the fundamentals of the singularity.”

Kenji was part of an experiment involving several robots loaded with custom software designed to let them react emotionally to external stimuli. After some limited environmental conditioning, Kenji first demonstrated love by bonding with a a stuffed doll in his enclosure, which he would embrace for hours at a time. He would then make simple, but insistent, inquiries about the doll if it were out of sight. Researchers attributed this behavior to his programmed qualities of devotion and empathy and called the experiment a success.

What they didn’t count on were the effects of several months of self-iteration within the complex machine-learning code which gave Kenji his initial tenderness. As of last week, Kenji’s love for the doll, and indeed anybody he sets his ‘eyes’ on, is so intense that Dr. Takahashi and his team now fear to show him to outsiders.

The trouble all started when a young female intern began to spend several hours each day with Kenji, testing his systems and loading new software routines. When it came time to leave one evening, however, Kenji refused to let her out of his lab enclosure and used his bulky mechanical body to block her exit and hug her repeatedly. The intern was only able to escape after she had frantically phoned two senior staff members to come and temporarily de-activate Kenji.

“Despite our initial enthusiasm, it has become clear that Kenji’s impulses and behavior are not entirely rational or genuine,” conceded Dr. Takahashi.

Ever since that incident, each time Kenji is re-activated, he instantaneously bonds with the first technician to meet his gaze and rushes to embrace them with his two 100kg hydraulic arms. It doesn’t help that Kenji uses only pre-recorded dog and cat noises to communicate and is able to vocalize his love through a 20 watt speaker in his chest.

Dr. Takahashi admits that they will more than likely have to decommission Kenji permanently, but he’s optimistic about one day succeeding where Kenji failed.

“This is only a minor setback. I have full faith that we will one day live side by side with, and eventually love and be loved by, robots,” he said.

Crotchety Old Man Lingo

-nincompoop
-flabbergasted
-ninny
-rabblerouser
-hooligan
-whippersnapper
-lollygagging
-hootenanny
-patoot -- example: "Billy needs a kick, right in the patoot!"


I've decided I need to incorporate these words into my daily vocabulary.
I think patoot and whippersnapper are my fav's -- along with crotchety.

Any additions to the list?

NETFLIX

I LOVE NETFLIX.
So how many of you remember 'A Troll in Central Park'?
I totally scored it in the mail today -- i'm extremely excited.
That movie along with 'We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'
and 'FernGully' were such pivotal movies for me as a kid.

too adorable.

YAY

i just quit one of my two jobs! YEEE MOFOKA!
time to celebrate by doing some homework, or maybe take a nap.

Elif Sanem Karakoc

Found this marvelous person via Flickr, here's a link. They have some really lovely photos.

In other news, I would love to chuck something at my roommate right now.
Maybe like, a tiny dodgeball. Not a regulation sized dodgeball, those aren't as easy to throw, go nearly as fast, or hit nearly as hard.

I mean business. I mean a tiny dodgeball.