short fitted jacket and straight leg jeans
Sooo I can’t help but have noticed a visually pleasing but still kind of depressing trend in women’s clothing — the above named short jacket and straight leg jeans combo a la every single style program to hit the cablewaves since, I dunno, when did this “What Not to Wear” thing start? Granted, the new uniform is a heap easier on the eyes than most people are dragging out of their pre-makeover wardrobes, but it’s so eye-pleasingly boring in it’s endless variations, I think it might be somehow worse. I don’t know…I kind of like seeing the scary funny things people crawl out of the house in. And I respect their right to have impeccably bad taste. I guess at the end of it, it’s the homogeneity that depresses me. I just get bummed out when I see people mindlessly mirroring these fierce fashion trends. Kitsilano was rife with it. I could walk down the beach and see a hundred copies of the same airbrushed look. Do these girls look at each other and realise that they are wearing identical clothes on identical bodies and are swishing around identical haircuts? I mean it. I don’t think they do. I guess we all dress to show our affiliation with our ideas, whatever they may be. In this case “my ideas are exactly like everyone else’s”. What then of the anti=hero? The lone wolf who sees the world his own way, on his own terms, with his dyed blue hair, studs in his ears, nose, elbows, and throat. Well, I guess he’s screaming too. But it’s a different kind of scream.
In summary, the straight leg jeans + jacket thing — it’s gotta go. Thank you.
blast from the past: Evel Knievel
I used to have this game on our old Apple IIe that used to entertain me endlessly. It was a frighteningly dull game by today’s standards — no graphics whatsoever — just a cursor flashing on the text entry line:
Choose number of buses (0-99)? 99 (duh!)
Choose ramp angle (0-180 degrees) ummmm how about 45
Choose speed (0-100mph): okay, 100?
You were then invited to press the spacebar, which would compel our intrepid hero, Evel Kneivel, to race at whatever breakneck speed towards a ramp positioned just so, with a hope that he and his motorcycle would clear the 99 buses that you set up in his way.
Regardless of what combination of buses, speed, and ramp angle I chose, I would invariably crash and burn. So what exactly made this game so much fun? Why, the MEDICAL REPORT, of course! After every failed attempt, the program would calculate the extent of your injuries:
You have broken both arms, both legs, fractured your skull, cracked 5 ribs, and crushed your pelvis.
Would you like to try again?
For all of you out there who always answered a resounding YES!!, have I got some great news for you. Evel Knievel did not go the way of the Apple IIe. He still exists in collectible form, and is waiting to perform whatever cunning stunts you can contrive for him, in full 3 dimensional plastic glory.
Check it out: Evel Knievel
Things you should know about cellphones
Well this is very very interesting indeed. Who would have thunk it possible to use the humble cellphone in place of the mighty and technologically advanced key??
Read on: cellphone tricks via shorttext
