Robert oh now your ignoring me eh? 6:31pmDestiny I had to make soup and no i have not I don't like paying for movies only if a boy takes me 6:32pmRobert classy lady i miss you when i come visit 6:32pmDestiny Yeah one who hasn't seen a movie in a while lol 6:32pmRobert wanna go see a movie? 6:32pmDestiny You're visiting??!!! And of course! 6:32pmRobert in a month or two or less 6:32pmDestiny woohoo!!! 6:32pmRobert its gonna be a surprise well go out to dinner and laugh laugh 6:33pmDestiny well december 19th is my birthday 6:33pmRobert 6:33pmDestiny it could be a birthday surprise!!! 6:33pmRobert hmmmm i just might do that... gonna put it in my calender right now 6:34pmDestiny 6:34pmRobert so are you dating anyone? how are things with aaron? you guys still talk? 6:35pmDestiny well... it's more like... He knows how passionately I feel about him so he avoids me.. hahaha. I mean, like I asked him to avoid me if he wasn't going to be serious although he texted me on Friday randomly, he was drunk. I guess it's nice to be thought of. However he's just... a hot mess. 6:36pmRobert ahhh no matter your a fucking rockstar everyone knows it animals know it 6:36pmDestiny :DDDDD 6:36pmRobert people in chicago think your a hott mess they tell me "that girl is fucking hottt" girls and guys 6:37pmDestiny LOL! 6:37pmRobert i just laugh although its true. 6:37pmDestiny I had to tag you in that photo of liz and I We were all spicy and such for halloween 6:38pmRobert i loved it i didnt know what to say! 6:38pmDestiny hahahaha you were in the middle of us, like our little love child, buwhaha 6:39pmRobert i just wanna live in there!!! build a little kitchen and cook juevos and chorizo and read children stories to my stuffed animals next to a roaring fire 6:39pmDestiny Hahahahaha I love it 6:40pmRobert i gotta take another shot brb 6:42pmDestiny 6:43pmRobert were going to a bar. this guy wants to get me REALLY drunk for some reason I love you so much ill talk to you soon 6:43pmDestiny mmkay! have fun! be safe 6:46pmRobert not leaving just yet so i came back 6:46pmDestiny lol:D Are you guys walking?? 6:47pmRobert yeah i live in like pb but in chicago 6:47pmDestiny hahahaha awesome! that sounds sick. what did you take shots of?? i'm jealous. being sick and not drinking SUCKS. 6:48pmRobert 99 black cherries 6:48pmDestiny never heard of those...

At the mountain trip, we had DirectTV, so obviously we turned it on all weekend to listen to XM Radio's '90s channel. Man, that brought back some memories!

I continued the 90s kick back here; I even started watching some really old music videos. Remember this one?

A couple of thoughts after watching this video:

• I didn't realize All-4-One was so ... unphotogenic. These guys would never be a group today. Unless they won some TV talent show.
  
• In that video, four guys run after a single girl and accost her. Is there something not creepy about that?! And even worse, as the video progresses, it looks like the four guys are hitting on her. I can tell you, in real life, if four guys were all trying to hit on the same girl, they wouldn't nearly be as friendly and break out into harmony.

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A hilarious comment posted on reddit with regards to Apple/Flash: (don't know if it's true; emphasis mine)

About six months ago, a friend who was working closely along side adobe's flash application development team told me that they received a prototype of Flash for iPhone. The prototype allowed the iPhone to have less than half an hour of battery life using flash. They then sent the prototype to apple and suggested incorporating this prototype iPhone flash into the iPhone OS in the next update.

Apparently apple sent this letter back thanking them for being interested in developing a working version of flash for the iphone but because the prototype is so processor intensive, and awful for battery life, they would not include it with their OS because it is just not good enough. They suggested using the gpu instead of the processor to render flash. Then they suggested building a seperate app for flash and web browsing because there was no way apple could endorse flash integration on the iphone in its current state.

Adobe apparently didn't want to release the app under their name either and it never showed up in the app store.

A long story in short: Adobe sucks at programming, then apple told them they sucked at programming. If they want to release that shit under the name adobe so be it, but it sure isn't going to be endorsed by Apple.

That was the last they saw of that prototype.

There's always been something very ... amateruish about Microsoft's web properties. Even today, something about bing.com's homepage bugs me - the logo reminds me of those times when I hook up my laptop to a project for a presentation, and the projector only projects at some ridiculous resolution which distorts my screen. Or when people insist on watching 4:3 aspect ratio television shows on HD TVs without switching the ratio accordingly (just because you have that real estate doesn't mean you need to use all of it)

Anyways, the new MSN.com homepage was the first MSFT property I saw and said: "Wow, they're really getting their shit together."

Check it:

Beautiful use of white space - incredibly content heavy, but doesn't feel like it. Great use of accent lines (I'm a sucker for that style). Fantastically clean ... wonderful use of grid design! 

And the logo is even passable for me! (It still feels a bit far to streeeetttched for me)

So much I want to write about, especially with regards to Crisp's comment smackdown, but this other thing is really bugging me.

Does anybody remember me writing a post about the idea for a browser game I posted a couple of years back? I can't, for the life of me, find it anywhere. I vaguely recall it was like Gazillionaire for the web.

I've been offline since Friday - had the yearly trip up to the mountain cabin with some friends. Just got back tonight - feeling rather exhausted (I had a fantastic time). Jane, the budding talented photog, took this wonderful picture that I absolutely love:

. . .

Catching up on the internets is hard, even after only three days!

Tomorrow afternoon I fly out to SD - get in pretty late. On Tuesday I start the grind again. Better get ready!

Next week. I am so fucking excited.

Finally, after a year of bullshit at the lob, I get down to the nitty gritty at Hooters.

... <3 YAYYYYYY

PS HALLOWEEN WEEKEND WILL BE EPIC! <3