⇒ on the outside

it finally happened! got my lease, got my tenancy agreement, got my keys! I'm a new man! Check that one off my list of goals for the year. I think the first 2 months will be really tough but after that I'll be all settled and OK.

I really think this could be something good. It's like those times I leave Sydney--I have lightning bouts of homesickness and my mood swings from jubilant to panicked in seconds. But I gutted it out. In minutes, I was feeling better and havin' a great time. In the end, everything will be ok...it's only money, right?

I just need to put on a brave face for now...'cause I'm stoic like that.

now, bring me that big desk

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⇒ more things of dreams

40 years of mouse action and a new way to use the mouse. Vintage computing and Gaming blog

20 best iPhone games

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/street-fighter-iv-character-roster/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/nanotouch-like-your-parents-lucidtouch-but-now-with-more-nano/


more crazy DIY M A K E projects:
homemade Aircon here and here
MAMEBOOK cocktail cabinet here
secret hollow book here
Invisible bookshelf here
turn a flashlight into a burning laserhere!
build a hackintosh here
reverse osmosis filter here
soda bottle safe here












that's papercraft!

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⇒ fucking sick!

i usually try to abstain from heavy language on this blog but the coolness level of this forced my hand: laser flashlight!


Laser Flashlight Hack! - video powered by Metacafe
source: lifehacker

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⇒ web things to create

blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/makes_lockpicking_gift_guide_2008
blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/kite_aerial_photography_gift_guide
blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/vector_snowflakes
blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/fritzing_open_source_pcb_design
blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/cs_193p_-_stanfords_iphone_application_programming_course
nada_art_fair_miami_2008

Membrain pretty
Antique sock knitting machines



http://lifehacker.com/5113372/most-popular-diy-projects-of-2008-and-all-time

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⇒ please

praying sucks but i feel the need to (my hands are extremely tied at the moment):
Am I supposed to suffer forever? How long can I endure? Sometimes I convince myself that I can live like a monk but I know that other times I will need nice things to distract me from the emptiness of my life. What is this burden I have? Timing blows...economic uncertainty and recession right at the wrong time in my life. I see plenty of people propped up during these tough times by loved ones...hurts me even more


Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds
Dreaming aloud
Things just wont do without you, matter of fact
I'm on your back, I'm on your back, Im on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

If you'd accept surrender, Ill give up some more
Weren't you adored
I cannot be without you, matter of fact
I'm on your back, I'm on your back, Im on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

Another heart is cracked in two, I'm on your back

I cannot be without you, matter of fact
I'm on your back, I'm on your back, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

Another heart is cracked in two, I'm on your back

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⇒ beneath a steel sky

free game! Beneath a Steel Sky.

here's some background on the game:

Robert Foster is an innocent outsider stranded in a vast city where oppressed civilians live and work in soaring tower blocks... while the corrupt, covetous and rich lie underground, shielded from all pollution. Alone, save for a robot circuit board, Foster must fight for survival... and discover the sinister truth behind his abduction...

Paranoid population. Psychotic criminals. Power hungry corporation. Big Brother government. Haves and have nots.

In the not so impossible future. In the melting pot of Union City. All man's social problems are coming to a boil. Under the claustrophobic lid of a steel sky.

From the pit of the industrial level to the belly of commercial sector, to the spheres where the rich and powerful play. It's Man against Man. Man against Machine. Man against Time. In an urban hell only you can liberate... Maybe.

Featuring Revolution's Software innovative Virtual Theatre system, Beneath a Steel Sky is a gripping science fiction point and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. Over 100 locations designed and art directed by award-wining comic booc author Dave Gibbons (Watchmen fame). His comic book, inspired by the game itself, is included to complete the content.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.

...Windows only? Nooooaaaw!

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⇒ the hardest part

moving! I'm finally getting on with my life...unblocking that chi. Poverty is damn near impossible to break free from but I will persist. I gotta do what I gotta do. No amount of governmental hand-tying or cornering will keep me in this rut forever. It's my time.


And the hardest part
Was letting go not taking part
You really broke my heart
And I tried to sing
But I couldn't think of anything
And that was the hardest part

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