Geek Chic

So after the show, I was walking back through Brooklyn and came across this amazing antiques store called Junk.

I have never felt lust for furniture before. But I guess there’s a first time for everything.

It wasn’t even that they had anything particularly mind-blowing. Or maybe it felt like everything they had was nibs-bowing. I’m not sure.

What I can definitely tell you is that i’ve never felt that strong a nesting impulse before. The overwhelming desire to buy an old loft way off the beaten pathname furnish it entirely with cheap, worn out, mismatching antiques.

God. Is this what it’s like to be a hipster?

I’m waiting for the Regina Spektor concert to start. I’m sitting in McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn and I swear it has never looked more like the sky could open up at any second.

Rain or shine baby. Rain or shine.

PS – there’s not anything particularly geeky about this post except the fact that I wrote this post from WordPress’ iPhone app. Including the pic. Pretty sweet if you ask me.

… Meanwhile the opening act (some wanker from The Strokes) == tres boring.

And now … It’s raining. Maybe if it keeps up we’ll be able to swim in the pool!

So a friend just sent me a link to this blog dedicated to the worst possible tatoos.  Some of these can be excused by late-night liquor-driven decision-making.  And others… who knows?  Like this:

Oh! Chewie is Irish! That explains so much!

What?

There’s more.  It really just keeps getting worse as you go.

Check it out: Awful Tatoos

Ok.  I know.  This shouldn’t be my own personal reading list — I don’t want this blog to turn into an interminable list of ‘The Books Jeff Wants to Read But Probably Won’t Get Around To For Like 5 Years’ … but if this blog were to turn into such a list, this book would be it.  Sounds cool:

The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor

You can read more about it on VSL

Ok.  So because the 2nd Gen iPhones were so ‘affordable’ some developer out there made a completely frivolous show-off app called I Am Rich.  It costs the maximum application cost in the iTunes store ($999.99) and it’s only purpose is to let people know you have money to burn (when you start the application all it does is display a cheap looking glowing ruby).

I Am so totally Rich

Now it’s time for you to decide which is more ridiculous:

1. 8 people purchased this application — 6 from the US, 1 from France and 1 from Germany.

2. Apple was so offended by the application that they removed it from the store, even though it didn’t technically violate any terms of the iPhone Developer contract.

I’m still trying to decide myself.

Anyway, it’s gone now.  So all of you fat cats out there will have to sling your money at something else.  Too bad you didn’t get a change to download it in time.

And you thought you lost out when Apple pulled down the NetShare tethering app.

Read the full story on I Am Rich on the LA Times

I saw this on VSL yesterday and didn’t get a chance to fully appreciate it until today.  Wow.  So this guy Spencer Green basically created a satire of the entire movie industry by making a wikipedia based parallel universe of sites like IMDB.

The result is hilarious.  Check it out.

The Parallel Universe Film Guide

It’s fast becoming one of my favorite pastimes at work to browse through this and see if I can figure out which real movie they’re mocking (although films like ‘Big Ass Monkey’ and ‘Ow, That Shark Bites’ are pretty straightforward).

What’s also amazing is how insanely intricate the site is.  Stars and directors are cross-referenced.  Plot descriptions, movie quotes and fun facts are fully fleshed out.   This whole thing is slowly becoming its own comic book universe.

After our company has basically reduced our benefits package to approximately “you’re on your own, bitches” — it’s good to know there are still some viable 3rd party alternatives out there.

For example:

via FFFFound

thanks FFFFound