My buddy Adam sent me this – I don’t know if that’s Japan, Korea, China, or someplace else, but we never saw anything like this in Japan. That’s a good thing too, because if someone started pushing me like that, I’d start throwing some elbows! 😉
Winner For Most-Creepy Online Ad Ever
On the left is what you see when the ad loads, on the right is what you see when the ad loads. Dermitage, you’ve officially made the most creepy ad I’ve ever seen. What kind of marketing executive would approve something so…bizarre?
(and yeah, it bothers me that the ad on the right is one pixel shorter than the one on the left)
We’re Back! We’re Live!
It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum – and I’m fresh out of bubble gum. All Thoughts Media sites are back online, and here’s the explanation of what happened.
I Needed a Laugh…and Found It
Since my past 48 hours have been pretty hellish (and the smell of burning flesh continues), I needed a laugh and found it in this incredibly campy video that’s being featured on the YouTube home page.
If you can stomach it, pay attention at the 1:16 mark where the woman wearing green practically vanishes. Hilarious! Didn’t the people making this know that if you’re doing a green screen video, your actors shouldn’t wear green? 😉 In other parts her legs look like they’re stuck in a transporter from the original Star Trek series. I can’t tell if this is a parody of some of the political videos we’ve seen (such as from Obama Girl) from or a truly earnest but off-key group of ladies who really do support McCain. Politically, I lean more toward the right, but with friends like these, McCain doesn’t need enemies. 😉 Earnest and quite musically good? Found here. I was always quite impressed by Huckabee.
American politics are so much more interesting than Canadian politics!
What a $@!*&ing Crappy First Day Back at Work
It’s so nice to be home – we got back on Friday night, went to bed early, and at 7am on Saturday morning I was up and feeling great. Then by the afternoon I was barely able to stay awake – it’s been hard adjusting to the 15 hour timezone difference. What’s even harder is having easily the worst first day back at work that I’ve had after a vacation – ever. What happened you might ask? Server hack – again! This time someone decided to be really nasty and not just add some spam links to our site – they took down our forums and put a graphic taking credit for the hack. Jorj, Janak, Darius, and Fabrizio have spent hours today trying to get things up and running again – it’s pretty incredible how much damage one person can do. It’s been an ugly day, and I’m stressed out and angry about what happened. I love what I do for work, but sometimes I wonder if the headache is really worth it…<sigh>
All Thoughts Media sites are currently down and I have no ETA on when they’ll be back up.
My Tattoo: “Samurai” in Japanese Kanji
Since a few people have been asking and must have missed my photo comment with what the tattoo is…it’s the Japanese kanji character for “Samurai”. And if you’re wondering why I got this particular kanji, you don’t know me very well at all. 😉
Japan 2008: Day 5
Our fifth day in Japan was a busy one – we did our first full-day tour, which had six stops, including Nijo Castle, Kinkakuji Temple (also known as the Golden Pavilion), Kyoto Imperial Palace, Todai-ji temple, Deer Park, and the Kasuga Taisha Shinto Shrine. Many pictures were taken, and there’s a video showing several of the sites as well.
On a photographic note, I converted a few more of the photos in this set to a high-contrast black and white…I like the way they look, but I’m still trying to hone my own type of B&W look for post-processing.
(I’m writing this sitting on the floor of the Vancouver airport…back in Canada! Almost home…so sleepy.)
Getting Inked in Okinawa
Guess who got inked in Okinawa? Check out the pictures (with a video)…
Japan 2008: Day 4
Day four in Japan had us doing our first tour – we spent the afternoon at several historical spots in Kyoto. The temples and shrines are beautiful! We celebrated Jason’s birthday by going out for some delicious food…Chinese food! 🙂 Pictures published in the fourth Japan gallery (sadly they had to be down-sized a bunch before uploading…the Internet access here on Okinawa at the Zanpamisaki Royal Hotel is really slow).
Japan 2008: Day 3
Our third day in Japan had us waking up in Tokyo, and checking out of the very lavish Prince Sakura hotel to start our walking tour of Tokyo with my friend Andrew Shuttleworth. We saw a variety of places around the city of Tokyo, and by the end of the day we had the blisters to show for it! Warning: many of these pictures are of technology, which some of you may find boring – but I was in geek heaven. Check out the photo gallery…(comments have been enabled on the day three gallery, as an experiment, so if you’d like to comment on the photos, please feel free).
