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As you guys know, I am obsessed with any­thing and every­thing red.
As such, I needed a lap­top case to be able to achieve opti­mal redness.

I bought a SeeThu case from Speck for my Mac­book, and I liked it so much that I got one for my Mac­bookPro, as well.

My only com­plaint about this case is that, with it on, I can’t fit my Mac into my dock­ing sta­tion at work.
This is a prob­lem that I’d have with any case, really, so it’s not really a fair crit­i­cism.
Just know that if you use a dock­ing sta­tion, you will have this problem–I just use the top half of the case on my work laptop.

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Being basi­cally thrilled with spek’s lap­top cases, I went ahead and got one for my iphone, too.

How­ever, I had a much dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.
The rub­ber bumpers on the sides started com­ing looks within a month of pur­chase.
They sort of held on for a few weeks, only com­ing off halfway, result­ing in the adhe­sive get­ting all over the sides of my phone & mak­ing every­thing sticky.
My hair would get caught in it, and I even­tu­ally just removed them entirely.
After that, the phone didn’t feel right in my hand any­more and I aban­doned the case.

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so, in con­clu­sion–
for lap­tops: speck is awe­some!
for your iphone: NO BUENO!

January 14th, 2010 | Cute Tech | 5 Comments

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It’s been a minute since I’ve done a Tum­bleDry­Low post, so here’s the jury dury edi­tion com­ing at you straight from the court­room wifi!
For the record, I didn’t wear this shirt to jury duty. 

This most excel­lent “Sex, Drugs, Hel­vetica Bold” shirt is from Col­lapse.

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You guys know by now that I’m a cer­ti­fied Hel­vetica FREAK, so when I saw this I imme­di­ately had to own it.

Even the pack­ag­ing it came in was totally slick!

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There are a cou­ple things about the shirt that some folks might not like. First, the low­er­case l in “bold” is tilted (which is a trade­mark of most col­lapse shirts, as well as their logo). I think it’s sort of neat, but it might offend some type purists out there. Also, they don’t make a girly fit ver­sion of their tees. All that said, I’m extremely happy with my pur­chase from them. 

Next on my wish­list is their “Will Kern for Food” shirt!

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January 12th, 2010 | Tumbledrylow | 2 Comments

I really like this project. The idea of using machin­ery to cre­ate text or sym­bols with fab­ric is pretty fas­ci­nat­ing, and I’d like to see how this could be taken a step farther.

We’ve all seen this type of video before, but to do it for a Her­culean ten years, and on Polaroid? Awesome.

January 8th, 2010 | Carousel | 4 Comments

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Every year, the ol’ day job throws a pretty hap­pen­ing hol­i­day party. This year was no excep­tion, and I came pre­pared to rage.
Just before the party, I decided to take a lit­tle trip down the block for some food–and low and behold, I returned with both pizza, and a wig. Not just any wig, mind you, but a wig of clearly epic pro­por­tions, from Retro­Fit.

Epic Hair

Lit­tle did I know that my Tim & Melinda would do me one bet­ter, by arriv­ing with sev­eral pairs of mus­taches on a stick. Mus­taches on a stick THAT THEY MADE! The red and white ones were inspired by the pringles guy, while the blue one was fash­ioned in the like­ness of the dude from Amaz­ing Horse. (click it, I dare you.)

Red StacheBlue StacheWhite Stache

Obvi­ously, we spent the evening invit­ing peo­ple to pose with them on.

ErikPeter
Star & Zaira
MilesStacheRipleyStache
RayStache

Later in the evening, there was an epic bur­lesque show, star­ring Lady Satan, Pin Key Lee, Bunny Pis­tol, Alotta Booty, Ruby White, and Sparkly Devil. 

Lady SatanLady Satan
Pin Key Lee
Pin Key LeePin Key Lee
Bunny Pistol
Alotta BootyAlotta Booty
Ruby White
Ruby WhiteRuby White
Sparkly Devil

After­ward, there was a raf­fle thing & I ended up win­ning a gift cer­tifi­cate to a local fancy restau­rant (the food was, inci­den­tally, not very good…which is why I won’t bother men­tion­ing who they are).

Monica

Mr. Mogul and the Maestro

Melinda & Jared

Blurry smiles

The end of the night came quickly in a flurry of blurred smiles and mustaches.

Until we rage again!

Stacheouette

January 7th, 2010 | Raging | 10 Comments

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