Say What You Will About Their Smell and Hygeine Choices, You Have To Admire Their Efforts.

Yes that is right I’m talking about the French. and I’d like to applause their latest effort to stop “Banalization” from taking over some of their most cherished locals. In effort to stop corporate giants from moving in on the Champs-Élysées the french have simply said NO! Their reasoning to keep uniqueness and culture is something that seams to have been entirely forgotten in the Western United States as local diners make way for bajio’s and cafe rios, Wal Marts, and designer outlets.

This is the real war we should be fighting the War on Banal. Slowly and surely we are marching ourselves into concentration camps, and every-time a giant pyramid or dream mine is closed the banalist win another battle. I make, right here, a call to take a stand for original, lets fight for it. This won’t be the last article on myself declared war on banal.

Lets pick up our arms and fight it, applaudissez les Français!

Long Bets Dot Org

Reading through my blog role today I came across a bet about the survivability of the human race, so I followed a series of links and eventually came to the this page Predictions . If you have some time to spare I recommend checking it out.

FILM FESTIVALS FREEGAN MEALS AND SHARKS

Well Sundance almost came and went without me being a part of it, but Friday night I came in the possession of some free tickets so I went and I really quite enjoyed the film Eagle Vs Shark. I fell in love Lily the main character during the opening scene and was routing for her throughout the entire film. The film seems to come as a Kiwi answer to MTV’s hit Napoleon Dynamite and shows a love story on the edges of popular culture. The dialog is quite interesting and has some real likable characters. though the stop motion apple story felt a bit contrived and lacked refinement making Eagles Vs. Shark an independent film for a reason.

I recommend this film if you are or have been considered a geek, worked at a fast-food establishment, are an orphan, like sharks, mortal combat, human hamster wheels, num-chucks, horses.

I don’t recommend this film if you where ever cool, liked incubus, know any football trivia, or think all you can eat brazilian food is a good idea.

Is Yoga Constitutional?

This is the title of a post in the NYT about yoga check it out.

Somini Sengupta Article

Haven’t You Always Wondered If You Or Someone You Love Is Tone Def

I found this test that will help you out. test

I planning on retaking it because I failed, but honestly I had like a million other sounds demanding my attention including an iron maiden album playing in the background.

Frank Gehry Does Utah

This morning at the office I was informed the the world famous Frank Gehry is planning on doing some work for Utah County resident Brandt Andersen. Upon first hearing about the plans I thought cool it is about time that Utah steps into the post modern world of architecture with such eyesores as the Newways, and Tahitian Noni dotting the valley landscape. But after reading more about the proposed project I’m left wondering if this new project has potential. After all Andersen list his hobbies as Wake Boarding, Basketball, and Money. Can Gehry make something beautiful from something so, well bland; Bilbo Spain was easy. Surely this will prove to be an exciting challenge.

I do have to give Brandt some credit for bringing such a big name in to Utah. I know that if I had the money I would bring Gianni Versace back from the dead and have him make socks for me.

T.B. D. Lecture

Last night I went down to SLC to grab a bite to eat and check out a lecture from the AIGA. I was fearful since the last lecture proved to be a complete bore, but hey I said it can’t get worse so I forked over the dough for some vermicelli and fish sauce only to receive a fortune that reminded me the best things in life are free. Okay back to the lecture, this month It was T.B D. A small firm based in San Francisco that primarily work for large branded corporations. They presented some great information about research inspiration and insights into their design process. The lecture included 1 million slides about their effort to win over pepsi co for their new product fuelosophy, which in-turn prompted me to buy another product, probably their competitor today at lunch cute red bottle taste like crap. Am I a victim of advertising? I asked myself, in part, yes; but on the flip side I still like to feel like I’m in control, after all if I know their tricks and that makes me different?—I think.

Life_Elevated

While sitting at my desk today I looked down at the new Utah Travel Guide and got to thinking about our pretty great state. With temperatures shivering around -15° at night I have found it harder and harder to wake up each morning, and just last night I forgot to turn on my clothes dyer and found my bath towel frozen inside of it today. Is this what life elevated is all about?—hardly this is what it is like to be one of the many weekend warriors who battle the office life 9-5 everyday so they can enjoy a few brief moments basking in the sun of southern utah or catching a ride up to our plentiful powder in the Wasatch. I really can’t complain after all utah is like the billboard outside Fillmore says a land of four seasons including a really cold one from January through February.

Adobe Illustrator The Most Unusable Software!

With the new year my places of employment have upgraded to the new faster intel based macs, which are faster, but I have noticed a marked decrease in my performace while working with adobe’s products. That evil monopolizing corporation is now my number one enemy for 2007. Should I point a finger only at Adobe? No clearly they are not the only problem apple is also to blame since its latest update to Tiger only compounds the problem, but I’m going to still point my blame towards adobe since their latest products have been less than satisfactory and I’m forced to use their products. Check out this solution to the Illustrator problem.

Support Knowledgebase

Error “The application Illustrator has unexpectedly quit…” when you use Pathfinder commands, the knife tool or other operations in Illustrator CS2 (Intel-based Mac and Mac OS X 10.4.8)
Issue

When you use Pathfinder commands, the knife tool, or other operations in Adobe Illustrator CS2, the application crashes with the following error message, “The application Illustrator has unexpectedly quit. Mac OS and other applications were not affected.” Other operations could include Copy and Paste, scaling, moving, or others.

Details

You are running Illustrator CS2 on an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.4.8.

Solutions:

Do one of the following solutions:

Solution 1: Restart Illustrator with the Appearance palette hidden.

1. Start Illustrator.

2. Deselect Appearance from the Window menu.

3. Quit and restart Illustrator.

Note: You can show the Appearance palette after you have restarted Illustrator.The adverse behavior may re-appear in subsequent working sessions and you may have to repeat Solution 1.

Solution 2: Run Illustrator in Mac OS X v10.4.7 or earlier.

Google Patent Search

Could google patent search be the new awesome