our house

steph is watching bram stoker's dracula on the big tv while painting and singing along to whatever is playing on her ipod.

i am working on the imac and my powerbook with headphones on while the mighty spectacle that is english premier league football unfolds on the small tv to my left.

this may explain why we have the top tier internet and tv packages...

twitter in plain english

not meant to be

we went in for an ultrasound today and sadly discovered there was no heartbeat. a better ultrasound on a gnarlier machine in the afternoon confirmed that the embryo had stopped developing.

so, no new thompsons this year but it's good to know we're capable of conception. here's to "trying" again soon...

for my wife

clarified

got a new case for my iphone, the griffin clarifi. it has a little slider macro lens for the camera that allows you to do this:



it should also make the snappr app work INFINITELY better.

neato.

yes!

how to be a jerk:

just as someone in the office announces that they are going outside to feed the meter to avoid a parking ticket, delay them with a long-winded and wholly unnecessary story about how you thought you were going to be ticketed earlier that morning but were lucky enough to arrive just ahead of the parking enforcer, thereby insuring that the other party will, in fact, be ticketed.

best license plate ever

look what i made

erik's octopus. 2008.
spray paint on gesso board.
secret santa gift for erik wolsky. all rights reserved.

an illustrated guide

by request: how to make an awesome image like the one in the previous post...

step 1: become friends with jon whitmire in college.


step 2: give jon whitmire some beer and let him start getting super psyched about partying on new year's eve.


step 3: get your canon G9 with a speedlite 430EX flash and take pictures of jon whitmire windmilling his arm around cuz he's so psyched about partying.


step 4: download and install gifbuilder.

step 5: ????

step 6: PROFIT!