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  • I Want These For My Birthday

    Okay, these are too funky. I want a pair of them for myself. I may just have to break down and buy them for myself.

    Heelys hidden-wheel skate shoe

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    A few days ago I saw a little girl skate across the floor of a department store. I saw her head glide by but what she was actually skating on was obscured by racks of clothing. She noticed that I was watching her and when she got to the end of the aisle and I could see her feet, she was walking normally on what appeared to be regular sneakers. I thought I was crazy but a few minutes later I saw her do it again. This time, when she popped out of the aisle, I had caught up with her and saw her gliding and then coming to a sudden complete stop before walking again…

    [via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]

    Yeah, they’re kinda silly, but they look fun.

  • Taking a Hint

    In the last five days or so I’ve run into at least as many references to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Mostly it has been via mentions in various weblogs. It had actually made it onto my list of books to check out. So today I get home to find that my mom just got it from Amazon. I think the universe is telling me I should read this book.

  • What Should I Do

    Coming up soon is the six month anniversary of my lung transplant (Oct. 14th). I’m trying to figure out just what I should do for this. Maybe some kind of get-together that weekend or maybe something this weekend. I definitely want to do something. Leaves look like they’ve got another few weeks so I’m putting that on hold. Maybe a fall BBQ? A nocturnal party with some music? Anyone up for actually coming down?

    I’ve been feeling really good lately. So I’m up for something fun.

  • For the Handyman Who Has Everything

    I personally think it should come in a big roll. It isn’t really duct tape if it doesn’t make that noise when you rip a piece off. It also needs to be multipurpose. You should be able to use it to build some bizzare contraption with it, like MacGuyver.

    Duct Tape Band Aid

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    I am a man’s man. Nothing hurts me. I am pretty much invincible, except when my kitty scratches me. The worse thing is going to the construction site (work as I call it) and getting ridiculed by all of the other guys, and even the women for wearing a daffy duck band aid. This is a duct tape band aid for the most hardcore people out there. No longer will people think you are a baby. I mean honestly, nothing says hardcore more than having duct tape wrapped around a boo-boo. Maybe dipping said boo boo in motor oil and wrapping a used diaper around it is harder core, but not by much.

    The Duct Tape Band Aid [OhGizmo!]

    [via Gizmodo]

  • Because I’ve been crappy about remembering

    I’ve been real bad about remembering this year, but this morning I remembered!

    RABBIT RABBIT

  • Shining

    Shining looks like it could rock. Check out the trailer.

  • Just in Case You Were Wondering

    Here’s a list of 1,159 naughty words according to the NFL. These are not allowed on personalized jerseys from the NFL Shop site. There are some interesting ones in there.

  • Colorize Me

    As seen over on Swirlychick’s LJ, the ColorQuiz. Give it a try.

    200509281758 Gregory+Blake took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

    “Takes easily and quickly to anything which provide…”

    Click here to read the rest of the results.

    As usual with these quizzes I take things with a grain of salt. I think the one thing that really rung true for me was the line “Anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to explore all its possibilities, and to live it to the fullest.” This has definitely been a big issue for me post transplant. And I’m still kind of rediscovering myself too, the whole experience has definitely changed me a bit.

  • Off to Boston for the Day

    Off to Boston to pick up some drugs, get my hair done, and maybe visit with some folks. I really should see who is in the cambridge/somervillish area during the day. Anyone up for lunch someday? Now that I’m feeling more mobile I am hoping to get up there more often (hopefully gas prices will come down some to help make that possible).

  • Win a Lobster!

    We need these in the US. Some of the other vending machines linked to are cool too.

    Japanese lobster-vending machine
    Cory Doctorow:

    ~Edjacob Lobster

    Earlier this week, I blogged a great collection of Japanese vending machines, but this one is even better, sporting, as it does, a coin-operated live-lobster vending machine! Link

    (Thanks, GenkiGecko!)

    Update:Here’s a commercial supplier of coin-op lobster game/vending-machines (courtesy Daniel Drucker)
    [via Boing Boing Blog]