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Of small note

It was cute to see Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida doing an impression of Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, but using an Incredible Hulk figure instead of Blanka.

The fourth

Happy Fourth of July everybody!  Have a hot dog and blow off some fireworks, or something.

Updates, right?!

Man I hate updating the CMS.  Not that it's difficult -- actually, it's rather simple -- but it rattles my nerves everytime.  I just expect the update to fail midway and then needing to go to a backup copy and restore everything.

This update is rad though as it resolved that bug that was bothering me.  Yea for bug fixes!  Kudos to the development team at Bolt!

The cutting room floor

When I wrote that Beastie Boys feature a few weeks back, I originally wanted to use an animated gif for the music video "An Open Letter to NYC."  Instead, I opted to create a still image that shows multiple scenes of said music video.  What you see above is the animated gif I was gonna use.  I never really created an animated gif before, but it was a fun learning process.  So fun in fact that once I started, I couldn’t stop.  This blog post will be used to showcase them all.

Also, there seems to be a void of animated gifs of the Beastie Boys (or poor quality ones with watermarks), so I’m doing my part to fill in that gap.  You’re welcome, internet.  See the rest after the jump.

The Sherlocked effect

Apple unveiled their soon to be released version of OSX called Yosemite.  While I don’t really care for the name compared to Mavericks (even though I realize the name was coming because it’s a popular spot in California), I love what they are adding to the OS.  The only problem is my MacBook is long in the tooth and would be crushed under the weight of hardware requirements needed for Yosemite.  I’m saving up the cash to hopefully get a new MacBook later this year.

As a side note, due to Apple recently announcing it would buy Beats Electronics and having Dr. Dre make a small appearance at the WWDC keynote, I thought it was funny that someone noted they should’ve named their next version of OSX, Compton.  The OS would have come "Straight Outta Compton."

This is the end, beautiful friend

Well, after an impressive near 13 year run, my wallet finally gave up on life.  Heck, this wallets been with me for around half my life.

It’s from Alien Workshop, a skateboarding company.  It was the perfect wallet that included a pouch for everything you’d need.  I expected it to last around five years, but 13, man that was money well spent.

I kept the tradition alive by getting another wallet from Alien Workshop.  I love the raised lettering and the sweet design on the outside of the wallet with the crow and spirograph like patterns but I’m bummed it doesn’t come with a zipper coin pouch.  Oh well, here’s hoping for another 13 years.