loose ends

this is from lufthansa’s ticket purchasing thing.
1. i like the setup. no clicking and guessing.
2. i don’t like how stupidly expensive they are. klm, here i come.

just booted and clicked all apps i wanted to open.

we, as a society, have started caring too much about too many things.

so we got two nice, new antique clocks earlier today. they’re ticketytacking behind me. driving me slightly crazy because there’s three now, one on the wall, and these two new ones. ticketytacking ticketytacking. poe’s bells, anyone? ticketytack. all three of them. no sync at all. tick. tack. tick.

i’m trying to renew my xbox live subscription.
try the link: its CSS is completely broken in any gecko browser, which eliminates using it in camino. i try it in safari, and it acts all silly, too.
oh! i got the macbook pro to run IE! IE should work, right?
hell no. crashes and burns after logging in.
i feel compelled to say something nasty about microsoft, but it feels redundant. agh.

…or rather, the lack of it.

i feel stuck in ten-word expressions. everything longer is pushed away, and i keep resorting to the short, inconsequent, and uncommitted ideas. annoying. for once, i want to study and understand something bigger , but i feel terribly out of shape for the task.

loose ends is of course a lousy outlet for elaborate thoughts. i’ve bent it into squibs and witty images — and given up elaboration. somethings needs to be done.

I soooooo prefer cursing in chinese to “fracking”. “Fracking” sounds silly.

So, in a bigger-picture-kind-of-way, is it “better” to come home and watch five episodes of BSG or 24 than it is to spend four hours channel-surfing? Which of the above adds brings more reasoning? More meaning? Which of the above makes one happier and more intelligent at once? I dare say it is not the same, but I might be wrong.

Despertador. Muda o horário. Despertador de novo. Abro os olhos. Fecho. Acordo de novo. Tento levantar. Sento no computador. Emails do trabalho. Gmail. RSS. Levanto. Água no rosto. De volta ao computador. RSS. NYTimes. Levanto. Café. RSS. IHT. Ligo música. Email. Gmail. Backpack. Trabalho de verdade.

friend, not enemy.

Sharing is caring: is anyone looking for any of these?

it is difficult not to objectify.

nothing here. move along, please.

(Since I’m only posting screenshots anyway)

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you tell yourself that you are better than them.
know better.
above their foul tricks and wretched ways.
you told them it would be like this, they decided not to listen.
now you’re paying up.
for their stupidity.
their errors.
their mischievous ways.
and hollow ethics.
and misguided beliefs.
and empty, empty values.

but you’re better than this.

don’t worry. deep down inside, we’re all just faking it.

as you know, we hunted far and wide for the premier edition of monocle, and ended up finding it only last week. by now, i’ve read through more than half of it, and am loving every bit. i’m no jetsetter, but still connect to what the magazine is purveying: brief, readable, insightful pieces about the world.

as is being discussed elsewhere, monocle.com is still far from complete. up until the day of the launch, they provided little less than a countdown and an advertising rate sheet. now, they’re slowly getting somewhere, and from the look of it they know where they’re heading.

here’s what I hope: that monocle.com actually becomes the first and only magazine website to live up to it’s printed counterpart. wired.com has failed (promises, promises). so has wallpaper.com, metropolismag.com and just about every other site i can think of.

good riddance.

This is where I link to someone who is much funnier than I, and something you will surely laugh at, too: Not Getting Things Done.

i don’t know why we’re still surprised when the rain and bad weather spoil our travel plans. it’s no fun going to antwerp and brugges when it’s this wet.