wow what a weekend... I wish I had more time to recover from it ( Read more... )

mwahaha, I have ascended into the ranks of those who own bikes! It took a combination of peer pressure (all the cool kids are doing it) and the not so sudden realization that both cars, and also transit, suck ( Read more... )

I normally avoid coffee and/or caffeine like the plague, but... As the large amount of caffeinated beverage I recently imbibed started to kick in, I realized something fairly horrible ( Read more... )

wow what a weekend.

steph's party on friday was awesome. we should definitely do that again sometime.

on saturday, we hiked up Mount Gardner on Bowen Island. It was epic, and incredibly awesome. The summit of the mountain had the the most spectacular view of the lower mainland, you could see a decent portion of the sea-to-sky all the way to ( Read more... )

soooo, it seems plugging my SD card reader into it's USB receptacle was not the cool thing to do, because I now have 4 less working USB ports on my computer than I previously did. This means I need to buy a new motherboard and/or a new case sometime soon, or maybe a USB hub, but since my motherboard sucks and for whatever reason dual channel doesn' ( Read more... )

my landlord woke me up at 10:30 to deliver a notice of rent increase in November. 10:30! that is a sacrilege. no human should ever wake up before 11. it's only by $15 and there hasn't been one in the ~3 years i've lived here so it's not that bad ( Read more... )

Wow. Never before have I spent so much time chilling on a beach and actually enjoying it, enough even to want to go back for a third day. Despite some social drama/segregation, it was generally awesome times. Two days at wreck beach with a techno/dubstep/drum&bass party and drunken debauchery in between is how I like to spend my weekends. There was ( Read more... )

I might be going to Shambhala this year. It's going to kick a hell of a lot of ass.

http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com

Ed Rush & Optical are playing, and also Anahata.

Literal zombies, of course, are also zombies ( Read more... )

What do you think is the biggest of the following problems in society (ie the one that is the most threatening to the survival of humanity):

1. Capitalism (ie, the me-centric screw everyone else attitude)
2. Overpopulation
3. Mass Media/Advertisement
4. Governments disregard for human rights