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ever see a new gadget and you think to yourself, “it’s the future!” and get all misty eyed about the days when there were two star trek shows on the air at once? no? well, maybe this will change your mind.

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redTaction is at the forefront of a new kind of data transfer technology. the data is transferred…with your body. redTaction and similar technologies take advantage of the human body’s own electrical field to send data at up to 2Mbps.

» reprinted article via liberypost.org (couldn’t get the original to open)

i decided to take advantage of borders’ buy 3 get the 4th free dvd deal. i got the ultimate edition (2 discs, superbit) of ‘the fifth element,’ ‘hero,’ ‘kindred: the embraced’ the complete series and the first season of ‘jeeves & wooster.’ so far eric and i have gotten through 3 episodes of ‘jeeves & wooster’ and it’s great. it’s a series from the uk that was on in the early ’90s. it’s based on the p.g. wodehouse books and stars stephen fry and hugh laurie (star of my new favorite show ‘house’).

saturday night i went to conrad’s 21st birthday party. lindsay made a delicious chocolate layer cake, but due to circumstances beyond her control the top split in half. eric made little warning signs (danger, delicious, unstable, quake zone) for the cake and lindsay added a lava flow made of red hots. it was pretty sweet.

eric and i watched some of the super bowl but ended up order thai and watching ‘american psycho’ during most of the middle of the game. after the game and ‘the simpsons’ we watched the preview of ‘american dad.’ ‘american dad’ isn’t the best show ever…in fact it’s eerilly similar to ‘family guy,’ down to the anthropomorphized pet who is in love with the family matriarch…but i still managed to laugh so hard i cried when the son (is this what eric looked like in high school?) tries to be smooth and hits on a popular girl by snapping her bra strap through her cheerleading sweater and asking slyly, “did that hurt so good?”

at work i’m sort of between projects – one is almost done and others are all queued up, ready to tackle me all at once. in the meantime i’m doing mood boards and trying to pin down our grant’s target audiences and whatnot. thus…

link-o-rama

  • cartoons from spam subject lines – link
  • css design showcase @ css beauty – link
  • the panasonic x800, the cell phone i lust after – link
  • a drug deal i totally missed the first 2 times around – link
  • the happiest i’ve ever been for someone i’ve never met – link
  • eye candy – link
  • natural 20 – link

crap, who let the cat out of the bag?? the proof via craigslist…click the link to see a full size version.

today i read this issue of quantz and my mind was blown. this is the kind of creepy shit that i think about all day long. it’s like t rex can see into my thoughts!

after seeing the incredibles i really debated whether to give her that cape or not.

build your own superhero

the trip was awesome, but exhausting. we walked everywhere and all day for a week and a half. when we first got to amsterdam there was a mishap with some boiling+ temp water and my hand and fingers were burned. thereafter followed encounters with rude dutch workmen and a really nice dutch doctor who, after bandaging me up, basically told me that i would feel better if i went out and smoked up. at amsterdam schiphol passport control the lady asked me if i spoke dutch and if i lived in italy. i was confused until i remembered this. the hotel in amsterdam was really cool and the city is beautiful and so laid-back. we saw the van gogh museum but not the rijksmuseum due to time constraints and construction. in london we hit a museum almost every day and had some delicious food at restaurants and homemade by brook and will. i got to know the admiral and kittybuns, brook and will’s roommates and learned that home design (particularly kitchens) in london is leaps and bounds ahead of anything i’ve seen in the states. i had a full english breakfast and saw the imperial war museum. we took a day trip to greenwich, had delicous pasties at goddard’s pie house, was the national maritime museum, climbed the hill to the royal observatory and stood on the prime meridian. eric and i went to a movie at the clapham theater – layer cake, a london gangster film that was really good – lots of twists and turns. i shopped in covent garden – bought a load of stuff at muji including a nice teapot and went to the tea house for some unique herbal teas and whole leaf teas. we ate at neal’s yard salad bar and i had some incredible vegan food including a chili-sort of stuff that i would’ve sworn had meat in it. we saw the graphic design and liebskind exhibits at the barbican and an exhibit about the history of optical illusions and the moving image at the hayward. tea every day all day in london and great architecture everywhere. i would love to live in either of these cities!

oh thank you airbag. thank you thank you thank you!

i don’t know if i’ve ever read something that better describes how i’ve felt for the last year. the entry starts with ‘most of my life…’

feeling icky so i’m at home today (also yesterday). spending my time trying to find a position to sit/lie in that doesn’t exacerbate things, but i’m telling you -it’s not easy. mostly i’m trying to distract myself with some work-at-home tidbits like little html changes and stuff, or yesterday i played syberia for a few hours but then i eventually got tired of having to run back and forth back and forth so many times so i had to stop. i’d cross stitch some more but i did so much earlier this week (3 nights in a row for like 6 hours at a stretch each) that i started to feel pain in my wrist so i thought i’d better cool it for awhile.

in the mean time, ben has sent me this page of circuits sexin’. woo hoo!

well…it would explain a whole lot, wouldn’t it? jump over to isbushwired.com for the full-on ‘conspiracy’ theory.