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Well, shit

1 July 2008 11:07pm UTC 9 comments

Yesterday while playing badminton, I ran for a cross court drop shot, slipped and jammed my right big toe into my left heel. And when I say jammed I mean, kicked the sheet out of my big toe with my heel. I thought I might have heard a pop.

I pretty much immediately knew that I had broken my toe, however, it was a ladder match and I was down 12-10. So, I tried to finish the game. But at 13-11 I had to give up and go to the hospital.

And it turns out it was broken! Yay!

I am not sure what happens next, I am in crutches and am seeing an orthopedist so I'll keep you posted!

Summer time

21 June 2008 07:06am UTC 0 comments

During the summer you know you had a good day if your feet look like this afterwards!

No more books?

20 June 2008 11:12am UTC 1 comment

In light of my recent post about getting rid of things, I have been thinking about all my books. Now, I am a pretty big fan of books. I don't read as much as I'd like, but I do know that there is nothing like getting engrossed in a good story.

These days I don't have a physical DVD or CD collection, I have a digital one. The question is, could I trade my physical book collection for a digital one as well? I mean, I am curious about those Kindles.

These are the conditions that would have to be met before I will consider starting a digital book collection:

1. A better book reader. I want a bigger display. And I want it to not be so ugly. (Though admittedly I have never seen one in person.)
2. If I buy a book it has to be DRM free in a format that I can understand. So a Text file or Latex, HTML or PDF document.
3. I want all my existing books to be available in this format. (They don't have to be free. )

Now in the age of digital piracy, I highly doubt that my second requirement will be met. But until then, I'm not interested. Which is unfortunate because books are big and heavy. Imagine carrying around a Kindle sized device with all the books you would ever want to read or need? Man, that would be awesome!

I created another T-Shirt!

19 June 2008 01:47am UTC 12 comments ★

My business partner (Dan) came up with this T-Shirt idea and I threw it together. After a lot of grumbling from other people about whether or not it made any sense we went for it.

Now the shirt doesn't get made if the members of the website threadless.com don't like it. And if it doesn't get made Dan and I can't pocket a quick two grand.

So, if you care about me at all (seriously, I mean that. If you have even an ounce of care inside you towards me. If you even like me just an eency weency bit. Or if you don't like me but hate me (and thus have some sort of opinion, ie you care)) you will go right this minute and signup for a threadless.com account and vote for our T-Shirt. Thanks, friends!

Here are the designs we decided against:

100 Thing Challenge

19 June 2008 12:11am UTC 1 comment

There's a story cruising around the interwebs today about people taking on the 100 Thing Challenge. Can you reduce your belonging to just 100 things? It was apparently started by this guy.

I am pretty interested in a minimalist lifestyle. My senior year of college (2 whole years ago, holy crap) I started pairing down my clothing. I have been slowly working on it ever since. When I went to LA I had everything I needed in my car (which was my original goal), but I still had tons of stuff in my room back home. So, while I didn't have a whole lot of stuff with me, I had my safety net back home in case I changed my mind.

But I think 100 things might be a bit too extreme. A lot depends on how you classify a 'thing', I guess. The guy I linked to above considers a pair of shoes a 'thing' (which makes sense). But someone in the comments said she considers her 20 pairs of shoes a 'thing' (which doesn't). Would a first aid kit count as a thing? Or lots of things?

Does my book case count as a thing? :)

Plus 100 is such an arbitrary number. If I were going to pick an arbitrary number I would at least pick an interesting one, like 314 or 161 or 271. Plus, it reduces being a minimalist to a game, which is interesting of course but I am more interested in having few things from a philosophical stand point. Anyway, kind of interesting to think about what your 100 things might be.