What a long strange trip it’s been… not really.
So I’ve been gone yet here the whole time, I’ve been updating the sites in ways most wouldn’t notice (blog rolls, cleaning tags, removing spam, etc) yet not posting anything new. I’ve gathered content and tried to post but fallen short everytime, mostly due to the fact that half the relevant shit I would post I throw up on Twitter and/or Facebook so odds are anyone that reads this crap already has seen me post about it in some form or another already. Twittering everything I do (bowel movements, waking, sleeping, eating, etc) is so goddamn easy it almost makes blogging irrelevant, almost makes me want to move to a Tumblr where shortform posts are king. Turns out that even Tumblr requires some work, work that even in the Big Black sense of “Do work son!” I don’t want to even fucking bother with. So here I am, long winded already and nothing relevant to even speak of, ugh.
To keep you entertained I’m going to go ahead and point out some of the links on the side (via the blogroll) that you should probably read since I lack severely in the whole ‘new content’ department.
8380 Laboratories - The fools @ 8380 Labs have been putting VW related shirts on my back for the better part of 5 years now and probably will on into the next century or something like that. Design master flex Ethan has updated the site to being more than just a forum link and even blogs semi-regularly about stuff unrelated to the actual brand (mostly), Ethan’s a cool cat and owes me a tattoo design, tell him Brandon sent you if you buy a shirt.
Kyu Ball Designs - Kyu Ball Designs is home to O’ahu based tattoo artist Ronnie Yamada. I met Ronnie via his wife Denise who used to work at Apple and later again through my tattoo artist Jenn Hardin at 808 Tattoo in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Ronnie has never tattooed me personally but I have watched him work up close (while getting work done myself) and seen what he can do, he blogs often and includes his personal work and that of others that are a part of the 808 Tattoo ohana. If you need Japanese themed tattoo ideas or inspiration, Ronnie is the man for sure, he also excels in various other tattoo forms as well too but is pretty fucking awesome when it comes to the JDM stuff!
Shoyu Burner - Shoyu Burner aka K3V1N, my long lost filipino brother who blogs about life and uhh… life. Kev is a close friend from the Kailua/Kaneohe Mk3 crew of old on O’ahu, when hes not rocking a traitorous xB hes also a fixie nerd as well. Was supposed to link Kev a long time ago but I kinda forgot, go read now!
Hm, for some reason I thought I had added more links, I sure as hell know I removed a few (and as I was writing this removed a few more) so wtf am I going to entertain you with now? Ah! Recycled content, again with the whole thing about me updating my life ridiculously with Twitter most’ve you have probably seen all of this but wtf lets throw some Flickr stuff up here for good measure.
I’ve been pretty lax with the whole photo thing, haven’t been doing much hiding behind a lens for awhile, turns out that there was a sweet ass aircooled VW show in May that I attended while The Ambassador was visiting myself in Oregon which put me behind a lens and a massive chub almost immediately! Click and be amazed!
After my aircooled stint I kind of got the ‘bug’ so to speak, also having Mk3 guru’s The Ambassador and K3V1N here for a visit to egg me on I finally bit the bullet and dressed the bunny up.
Coilovers, polished wheels and motor mounts oh my! It took almost a year, and those two idiots brow-beating me, but I finally did it with the help of Futrell Autowerks! The bunny has more in store with some factory textured skirts arriving on Friday and the possibility of a GTI lower rear valence in the following weeks as well, I’m excited again. Haven’t been this excited since the day Jeff, Jason and myself installed my euro radiator support in my Mk3 (Jay, Kevin and Troy helped drink the beer), it’s great to look at my Rabbit and get immedia-stoked on it.
Speaking of instantaneous stokage, I bought two new computers this year… Two?! CRAZY! As always I did my usual two’ish year upgrade and got the latest and greatest 24″ iMac which aside from being black and aluminum is just a fancier version of my old 24″. The real deal of the two purchases is about 9″ long, 2″ wide and is sadly made by Dell
fear not for it is a hacked Dell, a Hackintosh if you will.
Thanks to some of the wonderful geniuses over at My Dell Mini forums the process is pretty straight forward and very rewarding. Its a wonderful twitter, email, IM, forum browsing machine and is pretty damn capable of more (door stop, cake cutter, book shelf bookend, etc.) Sadly the poor beast has been discontinued by Dell, short lived but definitely adored by the e-masses as one of the most easily hacked netbooks on the market. So long as it boots (faster than my 24″ I might add, yay SSD) I will run this thing into the ground!
If you’ve managed to stick with me this far not much else to do but close the post out, categorize it and throw in some tags for good measure… but wait, I’m still not done yet! Summer is upon us, concerts, VW outings, drinking and more will ensue for sure, will I blog about any of those? No, fuck that, that’s work. Yeah I’m done, thanks for reading.
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