My stance
Over the last two weeks i've read some pretty outrageous things on both sides of the jark fiasco. The funny thing is, during those two weeks of heavy reading, i came to rediscover what i love so much about this place.
The art!
Before all the controversy, i was a sporadic visitor at best. I only came to check on a few of my favourite deviants, see if there were any new Winamp skins and check if there were any new dA features. But then jark was fired and journals were popping up all over the place with information. Before long, i began noticing peeps were hiding their galleries -- bringing their Favourites to the top of their page. Someone's favourite would catch my eye and i would click .... and click, and click, and click ... and two hours later, i'd feel inspired. By both the art and the community that holds it together.
That's why i'm bringing my gallery out of storage.
That's why i'll continue to be a part of this amazing place.
I
this place too much.Mind you, i'm not ignoring the whole situation. I'm very aware of it. I'm just not ignoring the rest of this place while this mess unfolds. dA is more than a news/tabloid site to me ...
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Go go gadget!
For me, 2005 has been the Year of the Gadget. I've gone gadget mad. Here's a run-down of some of the significant purchases i've made these past few months:
Great phone. Very thin ... so thin, that i lost it watching a movie
... so i brought me one of these:
Grrrreat phone! Classy looking without being too 'out there'. Love the camera on it. And it takes memory cards! Something the V3 didn't do.
The phone also supported Bluetooth. So i needed to Bluetooth-ify my PC to match, of course! So i splurged and brought a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard & mouse set:
mmmmmm, no wires
Gee, everything's looking nice and black there except for the giant 19" beige CRT. Me thinks that'll be replaced with an LCD soon
So anyway, i'm waiting for GTA San Andreas to be released on PC and i'm getting impatient. So i went out and brought the GT4+PS2 slimline pack to tide me over. How good is GT4? I love it. I loved it enough to go out and buy a new TV for it too ...
Anyone that's spoken to me recently will know that i've been slowly taking an interest in cars and anything motorsport-related (after being car-illiterate for the first 21 years of my life).
Well ... it's all culminated into this purchase:
A Subaru Impreza WRX MY05. AWD. 168kW at the fly. 300Nm of torque. RAAAWWRRR!!
You will not believe the amount of grip this thing has. I took it to some nearby twisty mountain roads the other week and it just holds around the corners like the car's on rails.
Driving to work in the morning is 1,000,000,000,000 times more interesting now
And that ends this week's edition of Things stickyrice Brought That He Probably Shouldn't Have.
What things have you brought recently that you probably shouldn't have?
