PotD – Triforce
January 30th, 2009 ryan
Beware of This and That
PotD – For Sale
January 24th, 2009 ryan
Finally listed this bad boy.
There was snow on the ground 10 years ago when I acquired this tank but I still managed to work up a sweat securing what I could of the massive end sticking out the trunk of my ‘86 Chevy Celebrity. Over the years it’s housed turtles, snakes, monitors, frogs, plants, and an alligator. It’s survived the trip from Chicago to Tucson to Chicago to California to Chicago to Storage.
Kinda sad to be ditching it but for a person that moves every year practicality must outweigh want.
HUZZAH!
November 19th, 2008 ryanBuy this shirt!
Lens flare is included with every purchase.
So grab one and have this adorable sunshine vomit adorn your pasty flesh to the approval of all you meet.
PotD – Strider
October 18th, 2008 ryan
At the Lego Store
September 20th, 2008 ryan
Yes, that’s a wall of parts. A thing of beauty.
Forgot to see if the Metroid setup was from a kit. Kind of doubt it.
Easily my favorite toy growing up, expensive enough that getting anything new was a huge deal. I think that I followed suit with everyone else of that generation by first building what was on the box then breaking down to parts for custom creations.
God. Blacktron and M:Tron were such huge influences. It is immensely satisfying to see all that info archived.
Having gone off my radar for a while I was pretty impressed with how the toys have come along as an item that can be slotted for ages 2 to 12. Tons of movie tie-ins now, of course, but they still had generic Medieval and Pirate themed setups as well. Not to mention a $500 Millennium Falcon.
I know a lot of geeks my age wax nostalgic for Transformers, Voltron, and G.I. Joe but screw that. Nothing holds a candle to LEGO.
This is Halloween
August 30th, 2008 ryan8 weeks to go and yet, here we go.
So kitsch, so trite, encompassing quite a bit of what I can’t stand of the American upper white middle class (where I grew up, for the record).
But truth be told I love this crap.
It’s likely produced in some horrid sweatshop, mouldering in musty warehouses for the off season only to be reborn as soon as summer starts to strain. No clue how the holiday’s origins have mutated in to the animatronic orgy you see above but pirate themed miniature haunted houses? A campy Egyptian roundabout?
I mean, damn, they have me pegged.
PotD – Inspiration!
August 6th, 2008 ryan
NAKERS!
Inspiration strikes at unlikely times, the above is an ode to this small moment in time. A veritable pillar of… um, accomplishment.
Perhaps it was the purging process of sweat seething in its evaporation as I ran in the humid dark, or possibly the addled vibrations of my electric toothbrush – cyclic thrashings loosing some creative clog in the nearby cerebellum. Either way I put a few thoughts down whilst towel-clad and followed up with the photographic masterpiece you are certainly still in awe over. I’ll disclose the contents of said writings at a later date. Hopefully.
Took an impromptu day off, again, and it was everything I could have for.
- Slept in
- Returned extra respirator
- Acquired new headphones (pseudo impulse buy, but hey I use the things 15+ hours/week)
- Exercised splendid OCD, telling the electronics store clerk that someone had mis-boxed a similar pair of headphones. I could tell by the pixels.
- Bled for my mistress, Beatrice Kinkaid. (Just hit 10k miles after 3 years of ownership. I spoil her so.)
- Got food for the miscreant, ornery feline.
- Forcibly isolated myself at local bookstore, internetless, to hammer out an application type thing I had been putting off.
- Put a few miles behind me during an uneventful (see: not hit by car) night run. PROTIP: ingested bugs = free protein.
- Subscribed amount of protein was consumed (1g per 1lb body weight)
- NOT violently ill from massive whey consumption
- Organized mountain of paperwork / 401k / insurance dealings for upcoming career change and relocation.
PotD – Monster
June 17th, 2008 ryan
Haven’t been savvy to the recent energy drink scene (in my misspent youth fevered insomnia was fueled by mountain dew and jolt) but I can’t argue with a lifted pickup parked in a commuting hub, green on black advertising like a light bulb to the caffeine-starved moths we are.
Needless to say the bed is brimming with chilled 16oz cartridges of the latest flavor, freely distributed.
PotD – Friends don’t let Friends
May 29th, 2008 ryan…cruise e-bay.
Comic-con cosplay countdown commencing.