messausages and links - Sept 25, 2008
In my usual haste to post things really quickly, I provide you today with some interesting links.
My favorite new webistes:
www.myxer.com Because I don’t believe in paying for my iPhone to sound like Santogold. I think it should be for free.
www.hulu.com Because I don’t want to download a torrent just to catch up on TV.
News in the World:
How even immigrants don’t want to come here.
The Church finally apologizes to Darwin, for you know … not getting that whole evolution thing.
News in Technology:
Has Blu-ray really won the war ?
Finally, companies are making their sites not suck. Except for eVite, that site will always suck.
my other brother
There was a time when I tried to make this blog non-personal necessarily. I wanted this to be about life and culture, and when the two tend to collide and how it affects people. But the more I continue, the more I realize that that happens almost on a daily basis.
Last weekend I went to Seattle for my step-brother’s wedding. Bill is over 2 years younger than me. I remember going on trips to Lake Tahoe, back when he was”my mom’s boyfriend’s son” and putting him in headlocks making him chant Leyla’s good, Leyla’s great, ra-ra Leyla. Now I saw him in a 2 piece suit walking down an aisle and saying his vows to his bride.
It seems like fall 2008 will be the Leyla Pacific Northwest Tour. After this trip, I’ll be heading to Portland in October, and Vancouver in November. But this trip has been different. I got to meet the people from my step-brother’s life, those who live on Vashon Island, where he grew up. And I realize so much of me screams Los Angeles girl. Like the way I insisted on wearing platform open toed shoes on wet gravel and grass.
One things for sure, my hair is NOT suited for rain and humidity.
Congratulations to Bill and his beautiful Sarah. May you never get jaded like a 29 year Angelina with attachment issues to her dog.
fine wine
I turned 29 last week. And much like any year, it held a little bit of sadness, a lot of pride, and gallons of alcohol. This year, I asked my friends to join me at the Viceroy in Santa Monica. And as I took the time to look around and see the various people who somehow joined my life, I was thankful. Thankful for having awesome friends, family, and way more people than Nancy-What’s-her-hole who was taking up all the chaise furniture around our corner of the pool area.
Here is a recent conversation I had with a friend/client of mine discussion my new age of discovery.
That about sums it up , really.
PICS from the Viceroy…
continents and years
The past few weeks have once again barely spared me any time to write. Well, that’s a lie. I could probably have taken some time to do so, but the brain activity in my few moments of alone time was so low, I thought I wouldn’t bother with forwarded some dumb links and pictures like I normally do when I’m lazy.
Between my one week of SIGGRAPH insanity, and later having a visitor for over a week stay at my place, I think Oliver only saw one version of me - the exhausted one.
And now my life is somewhat back to normal I suppose. But that’s not to say that things won’t get hectic again.
And now, a very short pictoral retrospect of my last month.
SIGGRAPH 2008 - Los Angeles
Houdini Dinner
Drinking on the job (well, at night of course)
Anne-Laure visiting from Paris
