sombreros rule!

Yo soy un hombre muy guapo!

go speed racer, go!!

i've never ridden a segway before.

they're pretty darn cool.

there are moments when work is very fun.

it's like looking into a living mirror...

olivia drew this beautiful picture of me as a merman the other day.

the stubble is right on.

but my favorite part is how she drew lines indicating 6-pack abs, then apparently remembered how tubby i am in real life and then erased them.

it's sweet that she thought i was ripped, even if just for a moment.

what a deal!

from a local restaurant in kettering, ohio. i've never had a spankopita before but the waitress tells me that $7.95 is a steal.

of course...

because i just got my car paid off 3 days ago.

my wounded psyche

i realized the other day that my low self-esteem issues run very, very deep.

i had a dream that i was on a white sand beach with a beautiful latin woman in a yellow bikini.

she snuggled up close to me, batted her beautiful brown eyes and rubbing my stomach she said, "y'know noah, you'd be pretty cute if you got in shape."

the next day i pleaded with my parents to give me their unused treadmill.

it's four days later and i still can't believe that even in my sex dreams i'm not getting any play.

one toy i can afford, the other i cannot

i saw a picture of this new playskool batmobile toy and was reminded of something else.

must-see bollywood classic

a co-worker clued me in to a bollywood remake of "seven brides for seven brothers" from 1982.

I MUST SEE THIS FILM!!!!

it's called "satte pe satta."

here's the description from imdb.com

After the passing away of their parents, Ravi Anand, the eldest of seven brothers, takes it upon himself to raise them - albeit a little wild and kinda animal-like. The brothers all sport long beards, hate taking showers/baths, and above all hate Ravi bossing them around. When Ravi tries to convince Nurse Sheela to marry his friend, Shekar, he mistakenly lectures the wrong girl, Indu, and as result Ravi falls head over heels in love with her. But Indu is not available to marry any stinky creep, who has not washed himself in weeks, so Ravi shaves, washes, dresses up smart, successfully woos Indu and marries her.

After the marriage, Indu is shocked when she gets to meet the rest of his terrifying brothers, all the more when Ravi did not even mention that he had more than one brother. Nevertheless, Indu decides to make a go of this marriage, instills some sense and responsibility amongst the brother and soon becomes pregnant. Then her wheel-chair bound friend, Seema Singh, and five of her girlfriends come over to stay with them, resulting in some more changes taking place, this time with the rest of the brothers - who too smarten up like Ravi and start wooing Seema's friends.

One day Ravi is abducted by Seema's paternal uncle, Ranjit Singh and his men, and held in an underground cellar on an isolated island. The person who takes Ravi's place is his look-alike, an ex-convict, Babu. His mission to find Seema and kill her so that Ranjit can claim her inheritance, and if necessary, kill anyone else who dares to oppose him.

mistaken identities!

underground cellars!

conspiracy/murder plots!

i thought the original could never be improved on!

if the poster doesn't convince you, i don't know what will!!!

designer office pranks

lately leo the animator has been giving the four designers on our team at work a hard time about our mac computers.

he is strictly pc-based while we designers are mac-based.

the g4s in the office have been having difficulties recently that stem from the age of the machines as well as abuse by previous users.

this lead to a debate that lasted for no less than two hours.

leo blamed the machines and contended that if we were all on pcs we wouldn't be having any of these issues.

we mac users argued the overall stability, ease of use and security of the platform.

when he suggested that we would be better off converting to all pcs, we countered that he should bite the bullet and switch to a mac.

"conform to the standards of your peers!" i shouted at one point.

but he would not budge.

the more he argued the more irritated he would become.

so naturally, we prodded him some more.

this finally culminated in us taping dozens of tiny apple logos in his cubicle.

quoting bugs bunny, leo said, "of course you realize, this means war."

pictured below is the victim in his now beautified cubicle.

how amazing is this?

i was checking out corbis.com (a stock photo site) and found this amazing watercolored photo postcard.

anybody out there speak french?

i think it says something along these lines:

"the kiss, it's the smell
of flowers in bloom.
it is the ecstasy of the world,
the dream of beauty."

i tried tracking down a print online, but to no avail.