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  • [Australia Open 2011] Federer v. Simon

    I should’ve gone to bed earlier but I had about 2 hours before I got up at 5am to watch this match. It looked like I could sneak in some more sleep after The Mighty Fed dominated Simon in the first 2 sets. But it just had to go 5 sets. Sheesh.

    Before that match I was nervous because Simon is 2-0 against Fed. He runs really well and his counter-punching game bothers Federer. But after those first 2 sets, I never expected this. Boy, it was nerve-wrenching in the 5th set. Whew, but Federer pulled it out. It’s a good test for Fed. Now he’ll just need to rest and recuperate. Actually I need that too.

  • Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill

    I just installed Photoshop CS5 over the weekend and the new content-aware fill feature is just freaking amazing. I mean really. I saw the videos before but you have to put it in action to believe it. I’m sure it has its limitations but in the different cases I tried it on, it was completely seamless and you really couldn’t tell the photo was manipulated.

    This feature really does save a crapton of time for certain tasks that would’ve been incredibly tedious and time-consuming before. This one feature practically makes CS5 a worthy upgrade.

  • Federer Tweener at Shanghai 2010

    Between the legs. Again. Seems like he wants to do this every tournament or every continent. This is quickly becoming one of this trademark shots. The amazing thing is that he keeps winning these points.

  • Gap Reverts Back to Old Logo

    So not too long ago, Gap unveiled its new logo and brand identity, only to recently just switch back in response to overwhelmingly negative public response.

    Gap Logo Before and After
    Gap Logo Before and After

    Personally I think the new logo is horrible and like the old logo much better. They switched to plain Helvetica font and a little blue gradient box in the top right. Their reasoning was that this logo change reflected a more modern, updated brand image. Apparently no one likes it though, and the logo got a real bashing online, particularly in the design community.

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  • Summer’s Over

    Wow, haven’t posted in a month. I don’t know if I’m going to keep blogging actually. This site is here just because. Anyway, lots of stuff going on. Summer vacation and other stuff. Then my PC crapped out for a whole week. This caused all kinds of havoc with my work and I’m STILL catching up right now. Because not only did I fall behind on deadlines, a ton of new work typically comes in this time of year.

    Far East Movement’s Like a G6 is #1 on iTunes! Wow, music by Asian Americans in the mainstream, nice. Speaking of music I’m listening to some stupid Kate Perry song – “let me see your peacock your peacock peacock” – wow seriously? SKIP.

    What else… you know what I hate? When people tag every single email as important. It’s completely meaningless when you tag EVERY single email as important. I use Outlook so there’s this exclamation mark for important emails. I’m completely blind to it now – that mark has absolutely no meaning to me.

    Yes this post is all over the place. ;-) PEACE.

  • Another Freaking Tweener by Roger Federer

    Roger Federer hit another amazing tweener tonight against Dabul! And again it was a clean winner. However, Dabul was standing at the baseline, which makes the clean winner that much more amazing. Dabul stared at that ball going past him with complete disbelief (which was hilarious). AND Roger hit it from about 10 feet behind the baseline! Man, that is just pure awesome. You might go 10-20 years and never see something like that. And Roger has now done it 2 years in a row at Authur Ashe stadium. First night, and we already have the shot of the tournament.

    Here it is, unbelievable:

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  • US Open 2010

    The last major of the year, the US Open, kicks off today in Flushing Meadows. Lots of stories going on and the tournament seems to be wide open, although I have my bets on Roger Federer. Actually I do literally have a personal bet of $100 riding on him winning the US Open. I made this bet immediately following his Wimbledon loss. If you follow tennis, you’d think few would be putting bets on Roger at that time, but I have faith! Now he gets a final and a win on US hardcourt tournaments and he’s suddenly a favorite again. How quickly the media jump bandwagons. The only other time I actually proclaimed Roger would win anything was the 2009 French Open. I declared he’d win 2-3 months beforehand, if I recall correctly, even while Nadal was perfectly fine. Can I go 2 for 2? We shall see.

  • Pesky Mosquito

    Every once in a while, a single mosquito makes its way into my room at night and it’s very annoying. Last night a single mosquito in my room stung me 4 times within 20 minutes. It was 2am and I wanted to sleep but that thing would’ve eaten me alive.

    Tip: Carefully look over your walls top to bottom. When not sucking your blood, mosquitoes tend to rest on walls. It can be real tough depending on the size of your room and also because mosquitos are so small and hard to notice. But the mosquito is usually stationary. Or you can sit still and wait for it try to bite you and swat it. I tried that at first but 1) it’s easy to not notice the mosquito while it’s on you and 2) it’s very hard to keep sight of it once it flies off of your body. So I eventually started scanning my walls.

    In total, it took me a whole freaking hour but I eventually found it and killed it. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep soundly otherwise. I hope you enjoyed your last meal sucker.

  • Express Lane at Supermarket

    What’s the point of having an express lane when the checkout lady chats with every person that walks by? So annoying. Do your damn job.

  • WordPress Themes are GPL

    WordPress is an open-source content management system for websites that I use very often for my personal projects and client work. In fact, it powers this site as well. Recently there was a very contentious and public spat between Matt Mullenweg (original co-developer and primary frontman for WordPress and CEO of Automattic) and Chris Pearson (developer of Thesis, a commercial WordPress theme). The argument was over whether Thesis should be at least be partially licensed under the GPL (the license WordPress uses). I’m not going to rehash all the stuff that was said but my opinion is that yes, WordPress themes and plugins are GPL.

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