the north face 404 page is so metal

christo lite

someone is wrapping stuff and locking it up around levi's plaza:

i wonder if it's a tribute to jean-claude...

encryption

i was cleaning off the top of my dresser and found the weirdest note ever. i can not, for the life of me, figure out when i wrote this or what it refers to:



seriously, why was steph fighting a boat and who on earth is brian?

rental car review

SUPER RENTAL CAR LAZY LATE POST REVIEW BATTLE START!

last month's car, chevrolet HHR:



this "car" was one of the most confusing machines i've ever interfaced with. from a distance, it looks like some old timey ice cream truck kind of thing so it was a little weird to walk up and discover i'm about a foot taller than it. upon closer inspection, it looks like the hideous result of a PT cruiser copulating with a scion XB... ex pee tee bee.

once inside this blocky little minivan, you are confronted with a full-size truck steering wheel and console and pickup-truck seats. seriously, the wheel was bigger than the one in my old ford ranger, it took 45 minutes to turn the wheel enough to pull into a parking place. my mom's old '76 coupe deville had a giant steering wheel but it was to scale... i miss that big, beautiful boat.

also, the windshield was about six inches tall. honestly, who's designing these things? sacrificing visibility for a hideous "look," sounds like a great plan! one out of five stars.

this month's car, honda civic:



japan wins. this car doesn't look so stupid that i'm embarrassed to step out of it, it drives just fine and the interior didn't cause confusion and discomfort. if i had a kid in high school and they graduated with a 4.0 and saved up money to put as a down payment, i would totally buy them a civic. the only real negative: road noise was loud enough that i couldn't hear my phone on speakerphone. i'd actually request this car again, four out of five stars.

new hat

i came back to the plant after dinner tonight and found something amazing hidden under my stack of OK'd sheets:



apparently one of the dudes on press has a side business...

dunkin'

i reeeeeaaaaaally wish we had dunkin' donuts in the bay area. sure, the donuts are great, blah blah blah, but it's the coffee that turns my frown upside-down. i think when you order your coffee "with milk and sugar," that's secret code to "sprinkle a little crack dust on it."

i've never been so happy for a buck sixty nine...