10,000

I used to set a limit on the inbox for my email at 3000. At that point, I would make myself clean it out, get it down under a hundred, and start over. Here is what I have as of right now:

I’m at a point where I will probably never answer about 15% of the emails I get a day, because there’s no time and I’m getting way too many. The upside though, is that our work changes so much every day that anything more than two months old can pretty safely be deleted and I think that’s where I might go with this round of cleanout. Speaking of email, I got another new Blackberry today, my third to have in the last few months. I used to think it was the greatest electronic device because I would drop mine on pavement 2 or 3 times a day and go unscathed. There’s nothing lamer than wearing a pda on your belt, but it’s pretty much necessary carrying one of these and it’s inevitable it’s going to launch out of the clip, all the time. Instead of showing signs that they’re getting beaten down, they just decide to stop working one day, which is what all my other ones did. I got my new one at noon, and when I got home from work it took its first fall on my garage floor…

Winter driving

I just happened to find this video as we’re expecting a storm today. It’s always amazing to see people’s complete inability to drive in shitty weather. This video is from Portland, where it rained for 8 months straight when I lived there and even in that 8th month people still hadn’t figured out how it to drive in it. Add a 1/4″ of snow to the mix, and the city would shut down and all the news vans would swarm to film the spot of ground where there wasn’t grass poking out of the snow. Add some ice to the mix, and this is what you get:

Make your own waves

Whether or not this is real, this is nuts.

San Francisco

I just got back from another trip to Mill Valley. I managed to get a little extra in this time around with a dinner trip to the beach that I didn’t know was there. It’s not bad having a surf spot right on the edge of the city. We also hit a dirty Polynesian bar, did some laps up some ridiculously steep hills, ate some In-N-Out Burger, and back on the plane for the long ride home.

Check the motel sign shaped like a coffin:

The iPod video is the best for taking on the plane. No hassle and the battery lasts forever. Alex gave me this great case that stands it upright on the tray table, which is perfect.

He also got me hooked on Metalocalypse.

LA was a blur

I was right, I never saw the ocean. Got in way after dark and left while it was still dark. Instead I saw some great signs.

LA

I just landed in LA and I’ll be here for a total of 15 hours before turning around to go home. I’m staying on the ocean in Santa Monica and I don’t think I’ll even see it…

Again

We found the only indoor place around for playing paintball, so we headed up there last night with a group of people and burned through a lot of green paint. I’m probably going to be spending a lot of time there now that winter might actually be here.

Christmas in Jersey

I just found these images from the beach at Christmas. This lawn display tells the full story of Christmas – manger, Santa Claus, Snoopy, and the Dallas Cowboys.

Back home

I got back from CES last night, a little worked from walking lots of miles and I’ve aquired a new cold. Nothing more unusually exciting happened, besides finding the best sushi restaurant. After attempting getting a table at the not-a-chance-during-CES Nobu, I drove around with Alex and Derrick from Griffin looking for a sushi place. After we decided to settle for a ghetto-looking restaurant next to a ghetto nail place, we walk in to find a really nice looking restaurant with lots of empty tables which doesn’t happen anywhere during CES. It gets better though – when we order they ask if we want a la carte or all you can eat, which we find out is $22 for anything on the menu, as long as you finish it. It turns out the sushi was excellent, and since it’s tough to turn down free sushi, it became somewhat of an eating competition between Alex and I. By the time we left we were ready to throw up everywhere, and I’ll claim Alex threw in the towel first. If you’re going to SIA, make sure you go here. It’s called Yama Sushi, and it’s on Flamingo.

CES Day 1

This place is complete chaos. 140,000 people are in town for this show, and they are all standing in my way. I walked a lot of miles today, too bad I can’t track how many. Here’s the highlights:

The new, mousatchioed Alex Birch

Looks like we need to black out Tara’s truck

I can’t figure out why anything with 4 wheels would ever need a subwoofer this big

This is how I felt halfway through the day