eBay ToolBar for Firefox

Check out the awesome blog post Tyler just wrote about the eBay toolbar for Firefox we created. Check it out on the website directly, or download our eBay toolbar for Firefox. Don't you just love foxkeh, the cute Japan firefox mascot? It's taking over my Vaio...

I miss reading..

Catching up with blogs... and I came upon a fragment from the Joke by Kundera... and for a moment I was back in Philly, reading it again on my great cute ugly couch... How is it that Kundera can catch our deepest desires... sometimes better than we do.

"It was an embarrassing thing to have to say, but I did have to say it. The conquest of a woman's mind follows its own inexorable laws, and all attempts at bringing her around with rational arguments are doomed to failure. The wise thing to do is to determine her basic self-image (her basic principles, ideals, convictions) and contrive (with the aid of sophistry, illogical rhetoric, and the like) to establish a harmonious relation between that self-image and the desired conduct on her part [...] A man may ask anything of a woman, but unless he wishes to appear a brute, he must make it possible for her to act in harmony with her deepest self-deceptions."

Lately...

I should really go to sleep... I really should. Instead I'm watching Lost :(
Just finished working on a couple of projects, for like..hmm a couple of days straight.

Here's one, for our CIA-KGB site in the d.school. We (well mostly Tyler) built a eBay toolbar for Firefox and created an customized Firefox version for eBay. Check it out at www.myebayfox.com.

I also just finished modeling our new idea for a Reed Diffuser.
I had almost forgotten how much I loved modeling... I'm so rusty!

Why Do I Keep Falling?

Eterna soledad, el tiempo danza en la madrugada
Y no puedes dormir, si estan todas las luces apagadas

Ya se fue el tren, y esta calle nunca mas sera igual
Aprendiste a tener miedo, pero hay que correr el riesgo
De levantarse y seguir cayendo...

Instead of syaing hi...

There are some people with whom communication seems reversed. They start with something deep... a thought or a feeling or an idea and then you imagine the depth of how far you could go...
The problem is the wall they raise later on... or how aware you become that they've touched a glimpse of your soul.
The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html?hpid=topnews

so sad...

Maledetta Primavera.....

Se, per innamorarmi ancora, tornerai
maledetta primavera...
che importa se per innamorarsi basta un'ora
che fretta c'eramaledetta primavera
che fretta c'era maledetta come me.
Lasciami fare, come se non fosse amore
ma per errore chiudi gli occhi e pensa a me.

Remember me...?

Have you ever felt change? Time moves forward and who you are becomes someone you barely remember. A bunch of roses on the doorsteps bring back the memory of innocence. The scent of a candle, meant to calm, takes the shape of the passion almost forgotten. A book, read again after many years, retains bittersweet dreams that came true.

Now fades away into a puzzle of memories and dreams and I become the girl I remember, the girl I wish I became. I'm drifting through a tunnel in time, skipping the present, circling to the past and the future molded together. It's suddenly tomorrow or the day after or maybe next week. You look up and you smile. You put your arm around me and you are no longer a stranger...

Dissecting a Chicken Head in Hong Kong

Back from China

I'm finally back from China and somehow I feel different. Is it possible that a two week trip changed me? Was is the country, was it the people, was it that for the first time in my life I was in a country where I could not understand anything people said? Or could it have been the people I traveled with?

It was the trip of extremes. I lost something on this trip. I lost a connection but I gained others. I got food poisoning and had the most amazing food. I stayed at both the best and the cheapest hotels. I saw old and new mixed together, poverty and luxury. I loved and I hated, I learned and I tried to forget.

Gus's Video

The modified version...