A friend of a friend, not pleased with the number of Obama fans on said friend’s Myspace page, decided to post a link to The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Hmm, what do you think they’d have to say about Obama’s tax plan? Something, non-partisan, perhaps? Right. Anyway, I was in a writing mood [...]

Filed under: politics, rants on September 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

How is it that I have not read anything from Thomas Pynchon yet? The guy’s like the Radiohead of post modern authors, and the entire literary community basically comes every decade when he writes a new book. Here’s a quick summary of The Crying of Lot 49 from the Wikipedia entry on him:

“…its labyrinthine plot [...]

Filed under: thoughts on September 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

I love it when I find unintentional robot faces in things. If you’re not sure what they are, think of your average three-pronged electrical outlet. Here are two examples I found from Target:

Filed under: design, humor on September 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

There sure are a lot of VWs around here., originally uploaded by ASurroca.

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Another weekend, another small improvement project. This time I decided my master bedroom’s boring beige wasn’t befitting of the colorful artwork I’ve got hanging up there. Here’s what it looked like before:

I painted one wall a charcoal gray color and the rest of them a normal shade of gray. That little contrast helps keep things [...]

Filed under: living on September 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s Labor Day weekend, and that means it’s time for some house work. This weekend, I focused on my quasi home office room. I got wood flooring and paint, which I’ll use later. For today, I upgraded my workspace.
Here’s what it looked like before

I got this desk probably a decade ago and used it for [...]

Filed under: living on September 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »