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Just when I didn’t need another hobby: hacking the XBox Kinect!

An equation is especially sexy when it doesn’t fit in one line. The feeling is similar to the 50 pt bonus for using all your Scrabble letters.

I live right by a monarch butterfly preserve. Every year the butterflies come from Dec - Feb along their migration and settle into the protected eucalyptus grove by my apt. There are thousands of them, and most sit perfectly still on the leaves and branches of the trees in huge clusters. I think to gain energy for the rest of their migration. 

Strangely, no butterfly lives long enough to make it through the annual migration. The longest they live is 8 months. Somehow they all know where to go, and they keep coming back to the same spot every year.

I went to Oahu, Hawaii about a month ago and have been too lazy to update this damned blog!

The only thing I can remember is that Jennie and Mish are awesome. Oh, and sea turtles. And something about stairs, lots and lots of stairs… and cracked out jumping dolphins, giant stingrays, being called gay for trespassing on a holy buddhist temple, Jennie’s innate suspicion of malls and all things touristy, watching those suspicions immediately dissolve once food is involved, ruining Thanksgiving for Jennie’s roommate within seconds of meeting her, and lots of hookah.

Oh and fresh coconuts! Which made Jennie into the bubbliest person ever. Then ruining the coconuts by putting them in the freezer because I thought that’s what an “ice box” meant. This made Jennie very upset.

I refuse to buy this apartment! It has no cold storage!

[All the good-looking pics above were probably taken by Mish]

A few months ago my friend Kevin showed me this awesome 21st century music video by French DJ extraordinaire The Toxic Avenger. The video fuses my two passions: French DJs and Facebook. It is no surprise, then, why I used this video as the motivation for my halloween costume. 

The key elements of the costume are

• NES controller necklace, blinged out with gold spraypaint and giant beads
• Uber-trendy unishade eyeglasses which I bought at Home Depot and used electrical tape to create the shade effect. I could barely see anything with them on, which made me even more trendy looking.
• Facebook paraphernalia: I made individual ‘poke me’ and ‘like’ stickers to slap onto people during the halloween “parade” that occurs here. The idea was they would be my friends and join my entourage of beautiful women, just like in the video. Didn’t quite work as planned.

Unsurprisingly, my costume was a but too esoteric. Most opted instead to compliment my friend Jordan’s classic viking costume, but had little room in their hearts for 21st century french DJs. C’est la vie.