Although I have yet to do more than two hours of work here in my home office, I have it all set up for me to be productive. It’s very apparent which side of the office is my side and which side of the office is Michelle’s side.
This is a set of items I have on my desk. They are my Star Wars bobble heads. Except for the egregious error of placing a Boba Fett name plate onto a Greedo figurine, these are perfect. I know they’re both bounty hunters that chased after Han Solo, but seriously George Lucas. Get your product marketing shit together.
This is the other toy I have sitting on my desk. It’s called O-no Sushi and is based off this artwork by Andrew Bell, the artist behind The Creatures in my Head. I don’t know why I like his artwork so much, but it’s captivating to me. I’m glad his company is the one in charge of making the Android figurines. It’s just too bad I can’t get my hands on these damn things. They’re sold out everywhere.
Two days before my birthday is Harrison’s birthday. Harrison is one of my best buddies and a Los Angeles Wedding Photographer. You can check out his own recent engagement on the website. To celebrate his 30th birthday we went camping at Malibu Creek State Park.
Here are the Boy Scouts working to put a tent up. Harrison is earning his hipster merit badge.
I thought we were going to do this all weekend.
I got a Gorillapod for my birthday, and this is my first use of it. This is what it’s like to be my beer bottle.
Instead we were tricked into going on a hike.
Blue skies over golden fields of fuel for the next fire.
Boooooooooring!
Men cooking meat over the fire.
Hanging out by the fire.
Roasting marshmallows over the fire is a must for camping.
My birthday celebration spilled over into Harrison’s a little bit. These light sabers proved to be great lanterns.
Michelle threw a surprise birthday party for my 30th birthday. I use the term “surprise” loosely. We are good at the communication thing, so we know what the other is up to most of the time. I knew something was going down. I just kept my nose out of her business the best I could, because I knew she wanted to do something special. The day of the birthday I knew Michelle needed time to prep things in the apartment, so I told her I’d go out for some drinks for a couple of hours.
Two hours is a long time, and a lot of whiskey can be consumed in that time. I walked back to my apartment with a note on the door that read, “Sit down and play the DVD.” My first thought was, “She got me porn for my birthday!” Nope. What I got was way cooler! In my intoxicated excitement I do drop the F-bomb at least once in the video, so play at your own risk.
Yes, Michelle got my friends to dress up in masks and parade around my living room with light sabers! That’s just the start. It kept getting better and better!
Why is that Clone Trooper giving the Star Trek “live long and prosper” sign?
Everything was Star Wars, right down to the plates.
After eating some food and having some beers, we walked over to Backstage to do some drinking and karaoke, but there were more surprises in store for me there.
“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi! You’re my only hope.” Yes, this is my birthday cake! Be jealous little kids!
Let me show you again. This is my birthday cake. R2-D2! Red Velvet R2-D2.
I wish I had more photos from my birthday, but six Jameson on the rocks before dinner and the party begins will make you forget to take your camera and other details throughout the night. I am waiting for some more photos to come from friends that had cameras during the night. I’m still debating whether to post my karaoke video, because I drank A LOT. I scream the F-Bomb at the beginning of the song, and then it goes downhill from there.
Michelle really outdid herself this time. I definitely don’t feel old after having a birthday party like this. I love it! You can bet she’s going to get the best Avatar surprise birthday party next time around.
Google just announced some official features that will be released on their next version of Android. Versions 2.2 will have, among many other cool features, the ability to turn your phone into a wireless hotspot and Flash support. While all the cool features are impressive, individual features aren’t what make Android better. What makes it better is the development speed. Every software that comes out leapfrogs another piece of software in becoming the leader, but with the Android developing so quickly, there’s little chance for other platforms to keep up. Plus it helps that I don’t have to have Safari and iTunes to use the damn thing.
The iPad? Well that’s a whole other ballgame. We will see what Chrome OS has to offer.
I ran across this service through a link shared by my cousin Trevor. Fancy Hands is a service that allows you to have a personal assistant for $30/month by sourcing it to the cloud. It goes beyond the step of just getting information for free on the Internet and actually has someone do things for you. I wonder what accent your personal assistant will have, because they’re sure not going to use American labor for this. Sanjay, Ping, or Shamus will have to do for making my plans.
Let me know if you try this out and how you like the service. I’d be curious. I don’t need this service, because I’m getting married. I have a personal assistant, chef, and maid.
I’ve been keeping some form of blog for about ten years, way back when I had to edit HTML by hand and upload it every time I made a change. Back then it wasn’t even called a blog; it was just called a website, and I was the only one that really kept a personal one amongst my friends. I was kind of the (Internet) world.
Then came Michelle, and by comparison I got a lot less cool. I bet 80% of my readers are actually her readers first. I get the collateral traffic. Take today for instance. The day isn’t even over, and she’s spiked my traffic just like she did five days ago.
I guess I’ll just have to stick with being the cool one in real life.
If you’ve read Michelle’s post you already know. Yup! I’ve moved out of my parents’ house before thirty! We’ve nailed down a place to live, right next to Downtown Culver City. I can now go to happy hour any time I want and stagger home. There’s a down side to this. All this going out costs money.
Life without all the responsibilities of adults is what we wanted to start with, so we decided to rent. While rent is significantly cheaper than the chunk of mortgage I was paying on my parents’ place (nice way to dodge some taxes), I am having a minor freak out about money right now.
Michelle is probably annoyed with me questioning everything we are spending. Do we really need brand new furniture? There’s plenty of good stuff on Craigslist that might not have bodily fluids on it. Do we have to do laundry again? Turn your underwear inside out and backwards at least once before washing it. Dinner? We ate yesterday!
Still, even though it’s an apartment I’d like our place to feel like our first home. That’s why we will be decorating like this.
It’s like having porcelain dolls all over the house but a lot less creepy.
Nothing says good morning like Emperor Palpatine and Darth Maul side by side.
I’m working from home, because I am under the weather. I don’t feel so great, but it’s not a bad day to stay home. It’s cold and wet outside, and then a package arrived. I wasn’t even expecting anything, which is even more exciting. I opened the package to find two Android t-shirts.
Thanks to my people at Google for these lovely shirts. Yes, I said I have people at Google.
Google just made clear it’s stance on national broadband. I agree with Eric Schmidt and his giant company. Let’s bring our countries infrastructure up to speed and jump start our economy. Maybe then I will get my flying car…
Hello, there. My name is Matt, but on this website I just refer to myself as m@. I love all things Star Wars, food, beer, and music, especially The Beatles. I'm one who likes to be noticed and will sometimes say or do inappropriate things to get your attention. I'm perfectly complimented by my online and real life partner Michelle.
Hello, there. My name is Matt, but on this website I just refer to myself as m@. I love all things Star Wars, food, beer, and music, especially The Beatles. I'm one who likes to be noticed and will sometimes say or do inappropriate things to get your attention. I'm perfectly complimented by my online and real life partner