Casio G Shock 25th Anniversary

Date:: 3/22/08

Time:: 6:39 Pm

Location:: iMac

To further tribute Casio G-Shock's 25th anniversary, an incredible partnership with Nissan's in-house tuner brand has resulted in a special edition G-Shock x Nismo Fairlady Z. Commonly known as the 350Z elsewhere around the world, the car features obvious Nismo branding and parts as well as the addition of a limited run MRG-8000G G-Shock. This project is exclusive to Taiwan according to

Bracketology

Date:: 3/18/08

Time:: 11:42 Pm

Location:: iMac

First thing is first. I do not follow NCAA basketball in any way shape or form. I enjoy and appreciate the game to an excessive extent but I just simply do not have the time to follow so many teams and so many players.

The one time I do follow though for sure is when I can make some money off of it. NCAA March Madness pools are great. It gives me a routing interest into the game and makes it way more interesting to me.

More then likely I will choose the favorite rather than the underdog but I will thorw them ina s winners just to spice it up.

Last year i did decent, i believe  coming in second place. 

Lets see how I do this year. Lets go Kansas.

Sneakerology 101

Date:: 3/12/08

Time:: 11:33Pm

Location:: iMac

Who would have thought? An entire semester on sneakers wow, someone pinch me.  When will NCC add this class to the curriculum?

Pennsylvania's Carnegie Mellon University has added a class that is an introductory into the sneaker culture. the course is simply titled Sneakerology 101. 

The course starts off with topics such as the ranging routes of sneakers in the late 70s and continues on to explain things such as the shape it has now taken with the impact of hip hop. Other details of the course go into the internet influence, basketball factors and the overall impact the sneaker culture has had worldwide.  One of the biggest references in the class is Bobbittio Garcia's book 'Where Did You Get Those'. 

Evaluations of students include projects about sneaker design and a mid term,

Now I shall look for some sort of online course.

18-1

Date:: 3/7/08

Time:: 9:17 Pm

Location::iMac

I got a real kick out of this t-shirt. I saw it as an advertisement on  a website. 

I just made all of memories of this past Giants season. It was such an intense roller coaster ride. My emotions and feeling about the Giants were at all time lows when they started off the season at 0-2. I was cursing Manning even during mid season. Even making the bold statement of " I will never give Eli the benefit of the doubt". He was an absolute superstar to end off this season and will be a historic Quarterback.  He really bitch slapped the shit out of all the fans and critics who wnated nothing to do with him, including my self.

I really can not wait until next season. Should be real interesting. 

Peace

OMG! There's So much Blood!!!!

Date:: 3/4/08

Time:: 1:27 Pm

Location:: iMac

The smallest cut in the world cause such excessive bleeding?!?

So this morning I nicked, the bottom of my nose this wound bled as if I has a huge gash worthy of at least 25 stitches. It took me a total of two and a half hours to stop the bleeding.

In my attempt to stop the bleed, about an hour and a half in, I tried the old Google search. Plenty of interesting suggestions, everything from Eye drops to Chap Stick on the wound. After those two failed, I made my way to CVS, with a wad toilet paper infested wiht blood.

So after scouring the aisles of CVS i decided to purchase a product by barman or something that was intended to cease the bleeding immediately. Also I picked up some liquid bandages and hydrogen peroxide.

$11.50 later I arrived home ready to go to war. First I started off with "Nick be Gone, followed instructions properly and it didn't even phase me. My next step was the hydrogen peroxide. I soaked a Q Tip in the peroxide and then went  to work. 

Ahhhhh. finally the bleeding slowed down. Slapped some liquid bad-aid on it and sealed the deal.

Craigslist Sucks

Date:: 3/2/08
Time:: 11:52 Pm
Location:: Meeps

I have been trying to sell these rims on Craigslist for about a week now. They are 19 inch Foose Speedsters, with Toyo Proxes tires. Brand new these rims and tires will run you at least $1,700. So with me asking only $750 for all four you figure I would have no problem selling them. Wrong!

All I have received is bullshit. From the emails to the phone calls. A complete waste of time. Everyone wants to just call me up and see how much of my time they can waste away. Some of these questions are answered on the listing itself. But some people can not take the time out and actually process what they have just read.

This has been such a frustrating process, even more so because potential buyers want to call me up and try and negotiate on the price. What the fuck? You haven't even made an effort to come and actually see them. Would it make sense if I was buying a car that I saw on the internet to call up and negotiate the price even prior to even seeing it. Why would you tyr and negoiate on something you have never seen before. So annoying!!!

Peace

Prudential Center

Date:: 2/24/08

Time:: 7:21 Pm

Location:: iMac

Made the trip to Newark yesterday for Islanders at Devils. Unfortunately the Islanders win streak was put to a hault at the game I attended, figures. 

Anyhow, an excellent facility. I really believe that they did a great job on the construction and the atmosphere during the game was real intense. I saw a ton of Blue and Orange in the crowd which was assuring. One of my favorite aspects of "The Rock" was the size of the hallways. in between periods navigating the halls was not a a hassle.

Considering it is in my nature to pick out all of the negative things that I noticed, I will now begin my nit pick. The biggest one was the bathrooms. To enter through the bathrooms there was two entrances. This was causing much confusion at the urinals with people entering from two different angles you spent half of your time in the lavatories deciding who was next up to bat. Now after you finished doing what you had to do, I looked down to notice no automatic flushers? That seems odd. 

My next bog flaw of "The Rock" was the "Beers Of Newark" stand. About a 20 minuet wait on line to get up to the register and realize only one type of beer on tap and no Bud Light. Not only were they serving the beers in cups but the process went something like this:

Me: "I'll take two Coronas and a bag of Peanuts"

Underpaid Worker: "Not a problem"

My Thoughts: Actually this is  going to be a problem because I have noticed you actually have to sit here and pop the top to each of these beers and actually pour it into a cup. This will take some time, you have to wait for all the foam to go down and the 3rd period is about to start.

Now this process took a total of about 5 minuets, for just 2 Beers and a bag of peanuts.

Underpaid Worker:: "That Will Be $25 Dollars"

As I sulk.

Overall the facility was far better then it was worse.  I just felt like the cheaped out on a few things at the arena like the Bathrooms Flushers, like the only 3 taps of beer that no one has ever heard of at Beers of Newark. Also i noticed things like poorly designed signs for sections and other things that probably no one else takes into consideration. 

Bape x Spongebob

Date:: 2/20/08

Time:: 10:34 Pm

Location:: iMac

In the past we have seen Spongebob Bapestas. Who would have predicted this collaboration on anything, ever. It is still ahrd to believe that Nigo commissioned a Nickelodeon series for some Bape collaboration.

Now next up is the collaboration between he two in the form of a plush toy. The toy is available in the Bape Store and also at Cliffs Edge. The toy features Bape Baby milo sitting on top of the Nickelodeon character.

All is interesting to me. Sort of cool in a weird way. certainly not something I would ever own. But I can appreciate the creativity.