Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Spy vs. Sim

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Vance
on July 29, 2008
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I attended Comic-Con International in San Diego last weekend and boy was it crowded. Rumors were circulating that it will be moved to Los Angeles or Las Vegas in the future and that may not be a bad plan. Even with all the masses of people, it was still pretty enjoyable. My favorite thing about the show was seeing all the clever costumes folks were wearing. In the photo, Jenn the Sim is about to get shanked by the Team Fortress 2 Spy. How tragic!

Realities of “Making Do”

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Vance
on July 21, 2008
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Vance is making do with broke-ass sunglass...-es

After watching Robert Llewellyn’s “Making Do” videos about his year-long boycott against consumerism, I thought it would be “fun” to try it myself for a month. Well, folks, here’s the first casualty: broken sunglasses. These $19 sunglasses from REI have lasted me about two years and the screws have been coming loose off and on. Today I totally lost the screw, so I could find a matching screw… but I was quite tempted to just buy another pair. I was reminded by Jenn that I shouldn’t be so consumerific, so I just popped a paper-clip into into the screw slot for the drive home.

File this under “First-world problems.” :)

BREAKING: Matt has kindly volunteered to fix my sunglasses. Woot.