it's what's on the outside that counts

tylosand!

>:O I don't like the wind. There's not one good thing about it. Knocking down trees, making your face chap in the winter, blowing everything into your eyes, and heat waves in the summer are all not good things. And hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons are a "Hi, I'm Wind. If you haven't met me, I'm going to take your house and sink your car."

But I do like the wind because of shipwrecks and planes blown off course. The wind gave us shows like Lost and Gilligan's Island on TV.

Fame < Infamy

why does this new fall out boy cd sound so different? three of the tracks sound like p!atd. i hate p!atd.

The blazers lost 99-69 to the rockets. Zach went 5-15. The blazers face hairy gasol [IR] and hairy miller and the grizzly bears next. Now I wonder if coaches consult each other by saying "this is how i beat them by 30."

Especially if you beat the suns or mavs, coaches HAVE to be sharing information on how to bring down those power houses. like on a message board. or texting each other on their sidekicks. i wonder if any of the GMs get together and think about how to bring down those dominant teams. i wish this could happen for just ONE GAME. where all the GMs get together and strategize on how to beat the Suns [who are so hot right now - lots of pun intended]. GMs would screw their fans, owners, and just care about bringing down the Suns. All 29 GMs would combine all their players to create the ultimate line up to face the suns.

Watching the previews for the upcoming 300 movie makes me think about this.

life right after college

I was reading my friend's blog and her friend just had a baby. I'm starting to receive save the date cards to some weddings. Instead of buying music cds and video games, I'm looking for a shower curtain. Some of my friends are balding. I guess life is moving fast, but it's all relative [like everything else]. I'm sure some people are reading this and laughing like how I would laugh at an 8th grader's blog about how they feel like they're on the top of the world and want to be with their junior high friends forever. 4ever. 4eVa!

At work everyone is pretty much married, having kids, or buying new cars. I'm pretty much the youngest full-timer out of the 350+ people at my agency and don't even know how to remortgage my house. I don't even have a house. I don't even know what a mortgage consists of. It definitely slows my life down. I should thank them. I may be known as The Intern for the rest of my time here!

I hope you know what you're becoming. I think that's always important. Bonus points if you like what you're becoming.

bethechangeyouwanttosee.

alt+tab is my favorite function

I don't think I could survive in the 1700's without my contact lenses or glasses. I'd probably be begging on the streets. I would have never been able to live up to my potential in the 1700's.

We have a new puppy in our quad. It's a Westy. I love to feed it my magazines and watch it chew everything up. If he were to chew up my finger, I'd be okay with it. He's pretty adorable.

word of the year so far: overspiritualize haha.
word of the year 2006: assertive.
word of the year 2005: naive.

i'm on a macbook pro

so fluid. and i like widgets.

everytime i'm at a basketball game, they always have that half court win a car shot during halftime. i don't know why people don't practice half court shots more often. you can win cars and it's the most uncontested shot everywhere you play! Please see the March 12, 2004 Post on where Webber went 2-21 in a game.

i still like my hp laptop. it would give thieves a hard time stealing it. it's like a brick.

cingular is changing its name back to at&t. it's going to be another expensive marketing initiative.

tom brady, peyton manning, drew brees, and rex grossman - such all american names. I wish I was named Peyton or Billy or Grant. I'd probably drive a F250 and be 6'4.

If I was a football player, I'd love to play in a dome. I don't do well in natural elements. Imagine if they played pro basketball on the outdoor courts. Haha, pro rainball.

homework

what's your first name?
job:
unofficial job:
why are you dangerous?
what has dan wieden done for you?
what are you afraid of?
what's the secret ingredient?
a stupid good idea:
whats interesting about advertising?
why you hate advertising?
what makes you believe/not believe in God?
how do you know what's good?
your favorite accident:
your first pet:
what would you get in a fist fight over?
what piece of W+K work most inspires you?
something honest that would make you nervous if it were printed for
everyone at W+K to see:
a story about who you are:
why are you here?
where do your ideas come from?
what have you sacrificed?
what is important about your work?
what will you do today?
the sort of bullshit you don't need any more of:
what do people underestimate about you?
what's after w+k?
the moral of the story:

kwame stole my cake too

j: and vick is an idiot
m: he needs to hide it better
m: like in his lungs

cling onto joy for your dear life.

tonight i realized that i have some awkward IM habits.
when i am convicted of something you say, i will paste it back to you over and over again. it's because what you say is so provocative and i'm still digesting it.

if i start typing randomly and all over my keyboard, it's because you also said something provocative and i have a million responses that i want to make to it.. either i really agree or you're an idiot.. as;flkjadglkjag;ljadsf

everyone should tune into MTV's Engaged and Underage. if you start laughing at them, you should stop and look at yourself. it's like american idol but on relationships. everyone thinks they can love like they can sing. you can insert your emo joke here.

playing catch with a grenade. snowballing. failurebrokenfailure. stopbeingideal|startbeingreal - we see through it.

that's what friends are for. tomakesureyoukeepitreal. you can take it or leave it. it shows how much of a friend you are too.

good.bad.ugly

moral of the story: you'll never get it all.

23. What do people underestimate about you?

MORESNOW

a snowball fight is about to ensue.

Here's my walk to work this morning:



and here is how empty my quad is:


The whole city is going nuts. There's a good video online of cars sliding into each other on the ice.

SNOW

pictures coming.

3/30 - Roseland - Portland, OR

Whenever I'm back at home and driving the back routes to get to places I wonder if I could out-juke and out-maneuver cops if they were chasing after me. I think I can lose them in the Saleroso maze. Especially if it's at night. I'd be going down Agostino [turns into Nearbank] and make a sharp turn on Ravenfall [it's almost a 180] and swing my car into a driveway and turn off my headlights.

Saleroso Maze

But if the helicopters came out, hmm

It's the middle of the night

Right now its 25 degrees and weather.com says it feels like 17 degrees. Who's their "feels like" representative. If it was me, it would say "feels like don't go outside" , not 17 degrees. I should boil hot water and pour it on myself. I bet it would take a minute for me to sense it.

this is life:
the chaos, beauty, and simplicity all rolled into one. It was made from computer algorithms on adobe illustrator [total nerd-face i know]. I'm rewarding myself with this poster when I'm all settled down in my apartment. Or if someone has 120 euros and loves me.


would you rather have the ability to fly at 10mph or run at 80mph?

25 degrees

I wonder if the first guitars were stringed funny, like I'd love to know the process behind figuring out how EADGBE became the standard. It's kind of like our QWERTY keyboard. Imagine if all the letters were rearranged tomorrow, how frustrating that would be. We'd be back to typing with our index fingers.

They should put the D and F further apart from each other, so when you're hungry and trying to type "i'd like a juicy duck right now," it doesn't get taken out of context.

i just realized that it's a 3 day weekend

my friend says the sufjan stevens christmas songs sound like fax machines.

I have the "quad loser of the day" award sitting on my desk. If you could give a "loser of the day" award to anyone in your life, who would it be?

5. What is your favorite curse word?

mike should have patented his style.

"Sports doesn't build character, sports shows character." I could rattle off on this forever.

I'm not good at NHL 07 for XBOX. I have the biggest problem deking and turning at the right moment to avoid getting checked. Imagine if everywhere you went, there were hockey glass walls. And you could run up to people and just knock them against the walls.

We had an agency wide email that pretty much asked everyone to share stupid things you did as a kid. Here's a sample:

"In grade school I played a little game called "What will you give me if I eat that?" Pre-game, I would take my extra peanut butter cookie and shape it into a tidy little cat poop and toss it into the grass. Well one day, I got confused and ended up taking a bite out of a real cat poop."

"Stole this girl’s doll out of her little doll baby carriage. Replaced the doll with a dead mole. Hijinks ensued."

"the church across the street from our house was known for it's many rose bushes.
i cut off ALL the roses and set up a "roses for sale" booth at the playground about ten feet away."

i think mine would have been jumping out of my indoor balcony, pretending that i was batman. or superman. or lebron james. i had no sense of trajectory and set out my pillows and couch cushions too far out. i hit the ground, broke my ankle, and decided that i would not do well as a stunt man or physicist.

dentist

i feel so guilty and so irresponsible. if the dentist was some amazing, hot chick she would be so disappointed in how i took care of myself and my chances to ever ask her out would be shot because she knows about my hygiene.

they had a flat panel monitor off the ceiling where the patient could see everything. they took digital xrays and even put a camera in my mouth that took snapshots of my teeth and gums. they precisely told me everything i was doing wrong and had the proof to back it up [everytime they clicked "flashlight"].

imagine if you went to a doctor who could see your soul. and they take snap shots and play it back to you and go into detail on each one of your flaws. and then give you special toothpaste to fix everything.

Google is at it again

Mike is always coming up with ideas. You can now verify if those ideas are taken. Or find out who's going to sue you:
Google Patents Search

Celebrity Patents

becauseeveryoneispostingit!

happy 2007.

i think my 2006 was one of the coolest rides ever. maybe i say that every year but i didn't think my 2005 could be topped. 1984 was still the best ever. someone even wrote a book dedicated to the year i was born.

my metric system of cool probably changes each year but in terms of really mature/ alliterated categories such as responsibility, relationships, running the race, and stripped-down-to-your-core-shake-your-foundation self awareness [sorry i know that didn't fit], 2006 did a good job of teaching me about myself and this world. well it didn't strip me down to the core that much. i just like sounding intense sometimes.

i wish i had an ultimate highlight reel but as for now:
JAN: PANIC&RUN! and personal assting for the cindy [aww bella].
FEB: good ol HK reunion with people from all over north america.
MAR: wild spring break in minnesota.
APR: lots of hong kong workshops, freshman orientations, a chiat-day mindopening day, and being on the commencement speaker panel.
MAY: looked a lot like april - that panel was like finding the next american idol. i get to be randy.
JUNE: me not walking, asianight, realizing that college was over, many good byes, but especially one to a dear roommate of four years and friend of 21 years.
JULY - SEPT: portland. nike. wieden+kennedy. corporate housing. imago dei.
OCT: i actually got hired full time. telmar, mri, adviews, rankers, xpert, so much excel. electronic arts. this means many things.
NOV: new apt: thread count and ikea. the rain. so much rain. oh poor honda accord.
DEC: settling down =). maybe i'd come back to the bay some day. eat some hay. with green eggs and ham.

maybe 2007 will be more of surrendering myself daily. i need more of this. people who know, know.