When I was in middle school, my life revolved around the Super Nintendo for a short amount of time. My parents, being intelligent and responsible, hooked the system up on their bedroom TV, so that they could monitor my usage. I didn’t even realize it at the time. Super sneaky ninja parents!
- Tree goats - Yes, you read that right. Goats. In trees. I thought it was a joke at first but Google says it’s not. I can’t think of anything funnier, except of course if they were wearing pants. That might actually too much to handle, though.
- Shuffleface - Even the name is hilarious. From the firm mono-1 comes this new year toy. Mix and match employees features to create some really funny images. Beautiful photography/Photoshop work.
- Monsterpod - This monopod looks super high-tech. I love the fact that it’ll stick to virtually any surface. And while I would be mere seconds away from ordering one, I fear my D70 is a bit husky for it. But if I had a point-n-shoot, you can bet your ass I’d have one of these!
- Getting your ass handed to you by the treadmill - OK, so I know it sounds like something I shouldn’t love, and ask me about it again around 4:30pm EST and I might change my tune. But the new year has brought a refreshed dedication to being healthy, which included adding an extra mile to my daily run, and slowly increasing the incline to 80% over the 4 miles. Needless to say, my body is in misery right now trying to adapt. But dammit it feels good to be sore.
- Return of the Yuppie - A sad read, but mildly enlightening nonetheless. It’s true that the yuppies of the ’80s would blush at the gargantuan scale to which Western culture has embraced much of what was once ridiculed. We all consume far too much needless crap. Guilty as charged.
Unfortunately, I had also learned to express frustration in the form of a few mild expletives around this same time. And once, when I saw the videocamera in my parents room, I was convinced that they were spying on me. Ninja style. I was so paranoid that they had caught me cussing that I watched the entire tape to make sure. Turns out my dad was merely taping blank space over old tapes to reuse them.
