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The inevitable moment has arrived. After countless attempts to give this up, I've finally found the gumption to retire this Livejournal and put it out to pasture. All the leaks, creaky floors and drafts of LJ have made staying intolerable*, so I've transitioned over to:

typefiend.wordpress.com

Thanks everyone for making my years here at LiveJournal some of the best times online. Whether we've become friends, only chatted online, debated, or even if you're a Lurker McLurkins, I thank you for giving me your time and moments of attention throughout the years, for they've made me a believer in the ideals of online community. You've all been the reason I've stayed with LJ this long, and I of course depart with hesitation and a bit of regret. But the time has arrived, and so I bid you all good people, adieu!

*You can subscribe to the RSS Feed of the new blog here.

Click on the images above if you're interested in any of these items I'm getting rid of. All funds will go to purchasing Emily a new point and shoot camera to replace her dying Canon, so you know it's going to a worthy cause :)

Easily the most awesome photo I've seen all week. I wasn't even much of a He-Man fan as a kid (I preferred Crossbows & Catapults</em> and G.I. Joe, but this kid has moxie.

Bryan's 650 square feet loft in Downtown Los Angeles was one of the recent spaces I photographed and house toured. It's like a Jonathan Adler wet dream, with vintage mixed in with modern. Check out the full house tour over at Apartment Therapy Los Angeles.

Sometimes my job is a lot of fun. Especially when testing a new toy like this Philips wireless HDMI system. I had the excuse of being able to hook up the new PS3 and "test" the system with some 1080i fun (1080p DLP projectors are still prohibitively expensive). Playing the game on a 92" screen requires some ginger or dramamine...woozy~!

Design Milk happens to be one of my fav sites to read and find inspiration regularly. I was kindly invited to share five things or people who I currently draw inspiration or joy from, and I decided to focus on the five senses (+1) for the theme of my choices. Check them out at Design Milk.

I'm honestly a Scrooge McDuck when it comes to spending money on clothes, but I splurged a little bit this evening because I'm speaking on Wednesday at Blog Out Loud event at the DWR Tools for Living store in Santa Monica and I thought I needed to refresh my wardrobe a tad bit. Been admiring these GoodFoot Adidas Rod Laver kicks for awhile now, so I only needed the slimmest of excuses to convince myself to add another adidas into the collection. Love I could literally take a stroll a block over and pick up a shoe I found and admired online.

Other exciting news is a sign next door to Secret Headquarters announcing the arrival of a new culinary spice and herb shop! Emily is sure to be very interested in this new development in our hood.

A few days back the New York Times ran a piece about individuals who've decided to live without cell phones, with a few quotes from yours truly from a phone interview I did with a NY Times reporter. Embarrassingly, the article was partnered with a photograph of me, sans cell phone, as the centerpiece image (sat ontop of the tech section online, thankfully behind the pages in print). It was an interesting piece in the fact that some of the quotes were edited in a way to portray myself, and perhaps the others, as snobbish or purposely unreachable in some superior manner because of our decision to live without the ubiquitous mobile device. I understand the reporter wanted to frame the story within the boundaries of some dramatic intrigue, mentioning the one time where a true emergency had arisen and my sister had to resort to...gasp...contacting me via IM/email. I then in turn used Skype to reach my ailing mother on her way to the hospital (though, thankfully, she had a cell phone herself). In reality, it was a family drama that unfolded as smoothly as one could hope in that sort of stressful situation and included several other modes of communication that have replaced cellular technology in life.

But I wanted to follow this all up with something that happened this morning. I received the following email from my neighbor and friend who lives just across and below our dual 4-plex units.

Hey. I just got into an accident. And I need someone to go down and get m. for me. He isn't answering his phone. I'm ok by the way :) -s
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Illustrated by my sister and offered by our good friend Sonia for her cat rescue fund:Feral for Life. Perfect for the conjoined at the elbows twins in your life!

Not such a good morning when you wake up to find your apartment is being swarmed by termites.

The keen as beans duo of Angie and Ted of POKETO sent me a set of SPACETIME wall stickers, co-curated by Poketo and Kitsune Noir. Everyone was asked to just use them in the best way they saw fit for the space they live and work within, so I thought I'd just bring a bit of colour and form onto the formerly plain white surface of the IKEA bookshelf. Check out more projects over at POKETO.



BTW, I used the Cody Hudson design above, so I still have sets of Mike Perry, Damien Correll, and Andy Miller wall stickers. I'm thinking I'd like to give each of these sets with the promise you email photos over to POKETO after you apply them also. Just leave a message here with which design you'd like and we can either set up pickup or delivery (you'll have to pay shipping)

Regretsy: The best of the worst of Etsy! And no, I have no idea what Pizza Rolls thing is all about.

Woke up today pleased knowing Emily and I will be attending the Lakers vs. Warriors preseason game at the muthafuckin' Fabulous Forum of yesteryear for a preseason game. But then I also wake up to see our President won the Nobel Peace Prize. How about that for a fantastic Friday.

After a stop in at Pure Luck for a vegan lunch of a jackfruit burrito followed by a scoop of white chocolate avocado ice cream at Scoops (where I had the joy of meeting deckeray for the first time, who was also enjoy some of Tai's creations), we headed over to the Museum of Natural History to enjoy the company of our several arachnids and insects. Not a bad way to spend the Moon Festival, huh?

Been quiet over here on LiveJournal. Not only myself, but a great many everyone else whom I used to follow so religiously just a few years back. Most of us have switched over to a life of posting via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr. I've done so myself...always feeling a little guilty I've lost interest in maintaining my LiveJournal with the same vim and vigor that came so easily before that last "Are they shutting down LJ" scare. Ever since that threat, people seemed to have weaned themselves off of posting on LJ. A little bit at a time, post by post, user by user, the vibrancy of the community here started to fade, and it became less of a necessity or urge to read and update. And at the heart of LiveJournal, the root of its appeal, has always been the interaction between readers.

I'm not closing this account...there's still too many good people, good posts still around for me to abandon to the good old L to the J. I still enjoy reading people's everyday posts...but just not every day like before. I've become a lurker. An online Creepy McCreepins. Yeah, that's my breath you feel on your neck.

But if you're curious, you can always find me over at:

Dial-A-Cliché
Twitter
Facebook
Flickr
Last.FM
And of course, Apartment Therapy LA and Unplggd.

I wonder what monthly plan she's on and whether her minutes roll over to the next month. Apple first got rid of the buttons, now the screen.

It's amazing how our brains can fool us into believing these images are of miniatures with just a blur here and there.

I guess Eero has a get out of jail card now that I put a banana on her head and had Emily snap this photo just 10 minutes ago. What's the use of having pets (or children) if you can't do things like this occasionally?

Heroine is inspired by the typeface Windsor, designed by Eleisha Pechey in 1905. Windsor is the typeface used in the titles of many Woody Allen movies. A modern interpretation of this rusty pearl is something that always have been missing in the major type libraries. But Heroine is not only an interpretation, it goes beyond that. With the addition of swashes and alternate letters in several styles it becomes very addicitve.

The typeface is due to be released on September 15, 2009.