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On a different eargasmic take, check out one of Olga’s tunes:

Find (ft. Shipwreck)

Smooth.

[ inspired by Shawn's list ]

• riding in the passenger seat of Tiffany’s car
• running down Bernal Hill and Mt. Davidson with Jennymaphur and Cinnamabon
• wandering through the Presidio
• spontaneous ferry rides
• Mom’s breakfasts
• Nina
• Thursday Night Curry
• being in a band, even if we didn’t get much done
• when Lori’s Diner didn’t have sucktastic food
• Daria and Invader Zim
• eating at George’s Greek Cafe and Long Beach Cafe
• The Allaways and JeezieChreezie
• SGOC Brunch at Shore House
• Chipotle & Starlight Karaoke nights
• skateboarding to and from work
• taking a bow onstage
• Ocean Boulevard

Of course these kinds of lists are never final…

Tomorrow

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It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything with a good ol’ pen. The stuff I use at work, like our company’s ball point pens and some colored Papermate Profile pens are all OK for making notes and correcting invoices and whatnot. But when I need to write a letter or card or in a journal, I typically enjoy writing with something more smooth. I like the strokes to have a consistent flow. There are these $16+ pens at Mai Do that write with a nice fluid touch, but I wasn’t ready to drop that kind of money on a single pen.
These pens are awesome! They come in that handy little easel case, and they don’t take up a whole bunch of room in my backpack or messenger bag, or whatever I’m using to haul my crap to work. I like the way my penmanship looks when I use these; bank deposit slips actually look clean and concise as opposed to my ballpoint-pen scribbles. Plus, since my boss and I make notes all over our files, the different colors are way useful in differentiating who wrote what.

Thank you, Staedtler, for reaffirming my belief in knowing I’m not permanently tethered to the computer when it comes to illustrating my thoughts in print.

San Francisco, CA
Jessie St. hydrant hit by truck
(off 1st St. between Mission and Market)

Canon IXY Digital 900IS

This new layout doesn’t quite work with the two posts prior to this one, but I’ll change it when…ever.

Went to Lori’s Diner tonight before Celina’s interview. Something was lacking. Or maybe everything was leftover from lunch. My garlic fries were soggy. My grilled cheese was alright, but something tasted…off. I can’t really describe it. At least my frosted root beer was delicious.

Work is going well. Should have more updates soon.

The Nokia 5190 was my first ever cell phone, year 1999. I put an Emily Strange faceplate on it. (Prior to that, I was using my mom’s phone, but I can’t remember what model it was…maybe a purple Nokia 918, but with a keypad cover…)

My 2nd cell phone was the Nokia 3310. This baby was practically indestructible. I dropped it and threw it around (sometimes on purpose, just to test the durability).

The Motorola T720 was my third phone. I actually inherited this one from my mom when she upgraded her phone back in 2004. This was my first color phone, as well as my first clamshell phone. I remember trying to put a purple full-housing shell on it, and breaking the wire that connected the screen to the phone, so I had to buy another screen. Shortly after repairing it, I upgraded to another phone. I should actually say I downgraded, because my next phone was not great at all:

The Motorola V220 was my 4th phone, a craptastic one at that. I rarely got reception anywhere with this thing. The image quality was pretty lackluster, and I wasn’t able to store many ringtones or images on it anyway. I did end up painting it with some pretty nail polish I had sitting around. It had bits of red, blue and silver glitter shimmering on it before I gave it to my little sister, who also found the phone useless. You get what you pay for - I’d only spent maybe $20 for one of those “free” upgrades from Cingular (before the whole AT&T is Cingular is AT&T thing).

After the sucktacular V220, I did another one of those “free” upgrades to the Nokia 6102. While this phone also had very little space and distorted my high-quality ringtones (that I’d made using my own songs), it was a bit of an improvement from the last phone. The color quality was decent enough, and the design was smooth, but I couldn’t help feeling like I was using the Motorola T720 again, in a thin, more compact design.

Nothing was physically wrong when I stopped using that phone, but the fiancé had upgraded his own work phone, so he gave me his nifty, stock Sony Ericsson p910a:

Ah, the smartphone beast. Yes, it felt like putting a calculator to my head at times, but I loved this baby. It recognized my handwriting, so I didn’t have to use those crazy “Graffiti” characters like on most PDAs. I used the Jotter a lot, sometimes for doodling cartoons and using Bluetooth to send them to my friends on the train during work commutes, and also for my shopping lists and planning trips on public transit. The QWERTY keyboard took some getting used to, as I have fat hands, but in time I was able to send messages pretty fast. (That came in handy because up until just a few days ago, I absolutely sucked at using that predictive text thing. Yikes.) If I didn’t want to use the keyboard, I could use the stylus or the numeric keypad. The camera was decent, and even took videos, even if the quality wasn’t so great after uploading one to YouTube. The storage space was awesome: a 1GB Pro Duo card was pretty useful for my mp3s, some of which I used as ringtones or alarm sounds. The problem was that the fiancé pounded pretty hard on the return key before he gave it to me, so it ended up being more and more difficult to get back to the previous screen. I had a secondary return feature by using the jog dial, but that annoyed the heck out of me. This was my phone up until a couple of weeks ago, when the fiancé had purchased a nice little Nokia N95 for himself and gave me his rad-but-camera-lacking European Nokia E61:

I only had this more-calculator-like-than-the-P910a phone for a mere week or so, because my jealousy of the N95 made me purchase my shiny new Sony Ericsson T650i:

As of 2007, that’s 9 phones. Holy crap.

When the fiancé said he’d purchased the European Nokia N95, I made poked fun because it looked like a giant clunker of a phone. But when it arrived, I whined about wanting one for myself.

The N95 comes packed with features, including a pretty snazzy 5.0 megapixel camera. It even has a secondary CIF camera on the front for video calling, but unfortunately US carriers don’t support this feature.

(Yes, that’s my face on his screen…he insisted on putting one of my images as his wallpaper. Ain’t he sweet?)

Vertical slide: access the phone’s keypad - it automatically locks/unlocks between slides

Horizontal sliding feature showcases the media center

Rubberized casing on the back and sides. This is the silver/plum version, but it also comes in a sand color

Not as gigantic as I’d imagined:
* Volume: 90 cc
* Length: 99 mm
* Width: 53 mm
* Thickness (max): 21 mm

Weight: 120 grams

2007 winner of the TIPA Award for Best Mobile Imaging Device in Europe

Power:
* Battery: Nokia Battery (BL-5F) 950mAH
* Talk time: up to 160 min (WCDMA), up to 240 min (GSM)*
* Stand-by time: up to 200 hours (WCDMA), up to 225 hours (GSM)*

Memory functions:
* Up to 160 MB* internal dynamic memory for messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications
* Memory card slot supporting up to 4 GB microSD memory cards

See the entire specs list

He’s pretty content with his purchase. He’s even set a Catch 22 song as his ringtone, using his own music collection. Maybe he will give me his 5th-gen iPod if he decides to use the phone as his main music player!

(If you’re wondering which phone I ended up getting, see the Sony Ericsson T650i.)

I have a new phone:

It’s packaged kinda like an old skool iPod!

Thin. 104 x 46 x 12.5 mm, 4.1 x 1.8 x 0.5 ”

Only 95 gr, or 3.4 oz

Nifty illumination effects through the front buttons. The back lights also glow when I receive a text, MMS, or email.

You can see other features demonstrated, or view the official Sony Ericsson overview and demo.