I just heard about the possibility of a Twilight Cookbook via The Office. Pam was talking to Kevin, who said he was cooking from it (Edward’s Cornflake Chicken). I didn’t want to believe it was real, but knowing Twilight people, well… it probably was. I looked it up quickly, and bam!
“Love at First Bite”
There wasn’t even any food in those effing movies! Let alone food that Edward would eat! Unless we’re talking about Kristen Stewart, then maybe Kevin is onto something…
beep beep boop beep beep fart
Little things like this just make my day. It’s not an amazing photo or anything, I just wanted to document what happens when the sun is low, and the light beams in through the cut glass in the front door all the way to the back of the hall. Pretty.
It’s always a difficult decision. Should my applications be web based or local? Should I try to keep most of my computing in the cloud so that everything can be synchronized, and have some server do all the hard work? Should I keep my apps local and potentially redundant of resources available online?
I never know the answer to any of these questions. It’s ridiculous. Although, from the evidence, it would appear that cloud-based computing would be ideal. Some web apps, though… well… they just don’t work as well as I would like them to. Case in point : WordPress. Don’t get my wrong. WP is an excellent “CMS”, but I’m getting tired of all the hoops I have to go through to publish new content. What I’ve done instead is purchase a program called Ecto. It allows me to manage all of my blogs from one location. I login, see all my posts, have the ability to edit any of them right there, and do whatever else I need to do.
This will be my first post from the app, so we’ll see how it goes. Goodbye for now. Too much other crap to do.
- Brandon
You can see Batte shooting the car from down the river.
Alright, I’ve finally moved ahead with this freaking landing page idea. Landing pages are usually a pretty big problem (see also: waste of time). They’re commonly Flash-based, useless pages with a company’s name on it and a stupid, effing “Enter” button. What the hell is the point of that?! I wanted to “Enter” when I typed in your freaking URL! Ok. /rant. The point is that my landing page does not suck.
The background is a full-screen, scalable image of well, me. Who else’s picture would I put up there?! They’re my freaking sites. Anyway. The links on the left are legible, well-organized, and do one thing… exactly what you would expect them to do. I just figured that since I am now managing (see also: slacking) six sites, I needed a way to get them all tied together and easily accessed without having to jump through other sites. Also, I hope to drive up traffic to a lot of the other sites. Doing something like this, will make that happen. Someone should come to my site, see something like Aural Eleven and think, “Wow. Where’d that come from? I should go check it out.” Exactly like that. Also, there are ads on a couple of the sites… that should be clicked… by you… and everyone else you know. I thank you in advance. Alright, well there’s the update. Good night. 
Brandon
Ben : I’m hungry
Jan : Got ten bucks?
Ben : Yah. Why?
Brandon : Any size, any topping pizza from Pizza Hut for ten bucks.
Jan : I have a few bucks, too. We should be able to get three large pizzas..
Brandon : Why don’t we get two large pizzas and a 12 pack of PBR?
Ben : Give me a backpack and I’ll go get the PBR.
Jan : Let’s do it!
So I just found this nifty little Java app that tracks your mouse movement around the screen. It’s called Mousepath and it is available here for Windows + Mac. This is my mouse path while working on a quick little Photoshop file. Maybe 15 minutes.
So I wanted to rent a hybrid to visit family and friends in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Gas mileage is an estimate based on manufacturer information and my driving habits.
Budget.com Prius Rental
• 150 mi. per day without fee
• 7 days = 1050 miles = $385 (rental fee / week)
• $3.50 / gal. (14 gal. tank) est. 45 MPG
• $49 = 630mi. / $98 = 1260mi.
• $385 (fee) + $98 (gas) = $483
Fee + Tax + insurance = $513.13
+ Gas ($98)
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$611.13 [ shit ]
I think I just may end up taking the train. 
This is the cutest (see also: nerdiest) apology ever. The only way this could be any better would be to replace the “ctrl” with a “cmd”.
<3
Sing this to any tune you’d like…
Don’t think you’re alone. Don’t play dead. Don’t think about me. Don’t let them get into your head. Find yourself outside a place that belongs to someone else. Let your life wash over you. Embrace it all with open arms. Find inside you someone else that will love you like they should. Don’t spend space or time looking for who you used to be. Move forward always. Never mind those who talk. Don’t cry yourself to sleep tonight. Tomorrow’s just a minute or two away.
This is kind of old, but I still can’t get over its all around bad-assness. Lame song remixed by Barker and make into excellence.
It’s 0920. I’ve been up all night with a short nap that I took during the middle of Kid A. Perfect album to fall asleep to until the end of Motion Picture Soundtrack sneaks up on you after a minute or two of complete silence. I love that song, though so I’m happy to say I was awake for the whole thing. On top of totally failing at sleep on my own, I have a friend over which means I have to share my bed. I’m particularly terrible at catching my Zs when I’m not alone. Vassili is the only company I need. I think I was ultimately torn from my bed when a sink got clogged upstairs, and it needed a metal snake rammed down its throat. It wouldn’t be a problem usually, but the drain pipe for that sink runs right above my ceiling. The sound was just so effing loud. It sounded like it was just going to work its way through and poke me in the face.
Today’s going to be a good day. I get to reconnect with my cousin tonight at her friend’s birthday party taking place at The Belmont on La Cienega. I don’t think I’ve ever been there. I’m really looking forward to it. So rarely do we get the chance and actually look forward to seeing someone who we’ve removed from our lives. Also, I get to pick something out to wear! Haha. I’m thinking my R&R jeans for sure, but for the top I don’t know if I want to go with the pink button up with black tie, or the pinstripe white button up with a vest and black tie. Then there’s the matter of a coat. Oh dear. Haha.
I don’t really know what I’m going to do until then. I’ll probably go out with my friend and enjoy the town. Maybe get some food. I’m still waiting on four freaking EDD checks. That’ll be nice to receive. Finally get some money, take care of some shit, and then visit my friends in Colorado, and maybe even wonder up to the Bay Area and Sacramento to see friends and family. I looked into renting a hybrid and those fucking are expensive!! You’d think they’d be cheaper, being friends with the environment and all. I should really look into the numbers, though. With the very little money I’ll spend on gas, it might work out to about the same.
Alright, people. I’m off. I’m showered, laundry is going, and I’m going to play around on the web for a bit. Good day to you!
- Brandon
PS: I changed the layout of this effing thing AGAIN. It’s ok, though. I’ve been meaning to use a layout with a sidebar. Now I’ve brought my Flickr and Twitter account in there. I also have some Google AdSense going. I was weary about having that crap cluttering up my personal blog, but the analytics show that this gets more traffic than any of my other sites. Haha. Alright. I’m out for real. Peace.
Last night after the party departed, Jan and I went into our usual, drunken fighting mode. I decided that with my reach, as long as I can stay on my feet, I’m alright. Well, he seems to be a pro at negating that theory. Every second or third punch I threw, he had me on the ground. We started out on concrete and moved to the lawn. Learned a lot about being taken down, and then gaining control of the situation. With a competent instructor such as Jan, I feel that with practice, I could really get the hang of ground fighting tactics. He’s so big, though. He’s got a lot of muscle mass for a short guy which makes it really difficult for me to get him off of me. Practice makes perfect, and as long as we keep drinking, I’ll keep learning. Haha.
- Brandon
Yesterday, I wrote about my cousin. Today I am here to say that I’m feeling optimistic. We had a good conversation on the phone last night, and will be hanging out soon. Tomorrow night, actually. She explained what had happened, and I actually understood. It wasn’t anything that I thought it was. She didn’t hate me or anything like that. She was just in a different place, and at the time I wasn’t someone who appeared totally stable. I think that’s the most detailed I can be online. Either way, it’s cleared up.
Speaking of writing online. I’m opening up another blog on Tumblr. I’m considering using it as a mirror for all of the LB10 sites. My portfolio, my Design Blog, this blog, and a couple other things will post in their respective places, and then copy over to a single Tumblr. I’m going with redundancy here because I need to get my information to as many web locations as possible. MAYBE I’ll be able to drive up those numbers. We’ll see. Alright. I have to go plan and work on that for a bit. Adieu.
- Brandon
So I used to hang out with my cousin all through my childhood. She’s five years older than I am. Every time we had a family get together, she and I hung out. We always had a good time and as I got older, we got closer. It was great. I always thought she was amazing. She lives in Santa Monica. I moved to LA about three years ago, and was totally stoked because I knew someone down here and thought we could hang out. I called her maybe once a month for two years, and not once did she return my calls. There was no explanation whatsoever. She just totally blew me off. I got to a point where I was changing my phone plan and getting a new number. I called her one last time before I did. I told her that I would be changing my number, and she wasn’t going to be able to get ahold of me. She still didn’t call back. Without any sort of explanation, I just accepted that she didn’t want anything to do with me, so I stopped trying.
I got an email from my aunt today saying that my cousin wanted me to come to her 30th birthday party next weekend. Umm.. what? This person who totally blew me off, now all of a sudden, she wants to talk to me. My first response was dude. Fuck that. Whenever I have a relationship where I get to only see the other person on their terms, I end it. I don’t need people like that weighing me down. I was just like, fuck it.
So I spent the better part of today with that on my mind. I was just so confused. It just made no sense whatsoever. I just called her maybe fifteen minutes ago and she answered her phone. Shocking! She said her boss is taking her out for her birthday tonight, but she would call me back later. Should I go to this thing? Should I try to reconnect with her? I mean, if it works out, I’ll have someone back in my life that I’ve missed for a long time, but I’ll also have someone back in my life that totally dissed me. I don’t know what I should do. I guess I’ll just wait for her call and maybe find out why all of this happened to begin with. I can’t think of a single, acceptable fucking excuse, but we’l see. Wish me luck.
- Brandon
Ugh. I spent another night awake. I got some stuff done, though. I’ve moved the Design Blog to a new template that will accomodate my Google Ads. I’ve been trying to get this sorted for a few months now, but haven’t had the time to or even the motivation to get a theme all modified for it.
Either way, that’s done and my ass hurts like hell. I broke my coccyx when I was a little kid (fell out of a tree and landed ass first on a brick wall), and now when I sit for extended periods of time, it gets so effing sore.
Alright. I’m going to go do something other things. I will talk to you all later.
Special Thanks to : John Batte for inviting me along, and Adrian Baldieri for owning such a beautiful car and letting us shoot it.
As a notebook user, I am so tired of having to manually eject all six connected volumes. I needed a way to eject all of my connected disks quickly and automatically. I present to you Ejection Seat. This does exactly that. Written with a little bit of AppleScript and packaged for you into a nice little 512k application.
Free download, here!
It’s a very simple and clean process. Launch the app, it will find all connected drives USB and Firewire, eject them, and then it just goes away. Simple. Perfect.
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