The digital age of paper books.

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

WeSuck Delivery AB was just here and delivered my package! Yes!
My Logic Studio 8 has arrived!

Normally when you buy/order/receive software on a disk of some sort it’s usually just that; one disk, perhaps two. This package which I just received weighed 6 kg (about 12 lbs)! And boy do I have my work cut out: It, Logic, has a user manual of a stunning 1027 pages and that is just for the basic program. There’s another manual of a neat 668 pages for all the effects and instruments. In addition you have three 100 page each books on programs included in the suite (including a “get started guide” for logic).

Reading, any one?

Ha ha, cool shoe!

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

The people that know me know that I’m kind of a sneaker-freak. Not that I collect sneakers or try to get my hands on the vintage ones that can’t be bought for money. It’s more like when I buy sneakers, which seem to be quite often, I tend to go for the more obscure stuff. You could say I’m a sneaker connoisseur.
My latest purchases include sneakers from Creative Recreation, Mad Foot, Ice Cream and a classic in Vision Street Ware. So, normally I’m not one to go for the bigger sneaker brands but this shoe drew my attention. I might get it; it’s a cool shoe. First some history: Nike has a habit of designing shoes based upon other things; they give the shoes a colorway and choose material in accordance with something. They’ve done a Newcastle Ale Shoe based on the colorway of a Newcastle Brown Ale bottle, a Old Spice shoe based on the design of the product range and so on. This next one is the best one, and the latest one.

I give you the Marge Simpson Nike SB dunk hi pro:

The little person does not count.

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

I get a call yesterday morning:

“Hi. My name is Ass Hole I work for WeSuck Delivery AB. We have a package for you, will you be home between 1300h and 1600h?”

“Yes.”

(Here it gets weird.)

“You wouldn’t happen to work someplace to where we can deliver your package?”

(Why would he ask this?)

“No.”

“Ok, I’ll arrive later.”

“Ok, bye.”

Did WeSuck Delivery AB come? Did I get my package? No!
Did I have to sit at home and wait between 1300h and 1600h and even, like a true Swede, thought that he might be running late and it’s ok, I’ll just wait some more. Yes! And no, he hasn’t arrived yet. I swear; had I been a big multi national company then Mr. Ass Hole would have shown up with my package, almost paying me to take it, right on time.

(I think it was my recording software arriving. Apple really ought to change delivery firms here in Sweden.)

Evil hare x 2!

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

[This is a post written last night on a strange computer unable to publish, so I'm publishing it now, which makes absolutely no difference to you, since it's here, now... READ!]

The hare is haunting me.
I no longer work in Terrortory, I’m right now working in, what is referred to as, the end of the world. I am sitting at a desk, staring out, through a window, on a road. Who do you think arrives, evil staring at me sitting completely still right smack there on the tarmac? The hare! The evil death hare from Terrortory. How in the name of all that isn’t evil hares did he manage to death-like jump all the way here? I smell satanical powers and not only that, he also brought his buddy; two evil hares!
(It might be the case that these hares don’t have anything to do with the knife carrying, death stabbing, karate chop chopping hare in Terrortory. They might not even be related, but you know what we humans say about hares: you can’t tell one apart from the other “You hares all look the same. I don’t know how you can tell each other apart!”)