The Websolace

August 22, 2007

Thumbs up for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Filed under: Everyday — Isamu @ 2:37 am

I just got off the phone with my brother who just cancelled our day old merchant account at Yahoo!.

Thumbs up why? I really don’t know how to explain it best, but their business deal felt “human” and the “right thing to do”. Moving along… we’ve been meaning to setup our own online business for sometime now and Yahoo! Store was a leading choice. Sadly, Yahoo! did not have the solutions we needed, therefore after some hard thinking I had to cancel it. I quickly checked the billing statement part of the site and noticed that the card wasn’t billed yet so I called up my brother to get him to call Yahoo! Billing.

I got him to ask if they were still going to bill us because we’ve been only been using it for a day and it would suck if we have to wait for a month for them to release the domain name we registered and of course, having to pay. He was patched through someone, and the first answer to his prompt question was “Yes, you will be billed.”. Quite upset, he told the lady that we aren’t satisfied with the service (something also came up) and asked for consideration, without hesitation, she said that since we put it that way, we may be eligible for a refund.

Short story, glad that they (and she) didn’t press it on us that bad; it was good, even.

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August 15, 2007

Teenage idiocracy

Filed under: Everyday — Isamu @ 5:14 pm

I’m the one to talk right? Still, I’m talking.

If a midlife crisis really, REALLY exists, there must be one for us teenagers too. I don’t exactly know the symptoms of this crisis, but everyone enjoys having issues. Idiot.

Just the thought that inevitably we’re going to rule the world someday kinda sends bad waves everywhere. This is the generation of the Jackass where getting stoned and wasted doesn’t even count as a ritual but a habit. What am I saying here? I don’t know.

A quick list of probable and very much feasible list of things you might do as a teenager:

Change religion
Incur a strange epidemic
Cheat in relationship
Drugs
Join a mafia
Run a mafia
Get shot
The guy with the charming hair that doesn’t really do anything special but gets the girl anyway
Start a cult
Be the know-it-all in your class
Join a rockband
Turn emo
Get pregnant (NOT FOR THE GUYS)
Anti-social to get social
Tune your car, knowing you’ll never really drive it that fast
Try and be helplessly intricate
Star as the person everyone hates
Lastly, never be seen or heard

I’m afraid if you don’t fall into one of these categories, even eighteen, you really have, or are missing out on the big idiot party called after puberty.

It’s all part of the show that never ends.

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August 14, 2007

John Williams and his orchestra

Filed under: Rare — Isamu @ 12:25 am

Do you remember the color of the socks you wore going to preschool and maybe even gradeschool? I did, they were white.

Wouldn’t it be a huge cliché if I tell you how simple everything was as a kid? You wake up without a care of the future in exception of the next family Sunday, that itself is your utmost happiness. to school to learn things that only make sense several years later. Keep a list of things to ask yourself again when you’re more learned.

The little things matter. Have you ever memorized an eight hundred paged illustrated science book that had animals categorized into their strengths, like the fastest animal on foot? Did you remember how annoying the other sex was? More importantly, do you remember why they’re annoying?

Then you start wearing black socks, the world turns.

Your backyard adventures are substituted for conferences and meetings. The Cartoon Network is but a “waiting” channel while that soap isn’t on. You used to write reports on the need for diversity and that skin is nothing but an exterior, now you’re publishing an article on why globalization is killing off your nation.

Then you go home, gaze at that pile of unpaid Visas. A calendar to check now, you’re off to go out with that girl you’ve always teased and made fun of as a kid. Bigger things –a loan, a car but glooming into a crappy annual pension. You’re successful, but you didn’t turn out what you’ve always wanted to be.. and you’re lonely.

The sock are now faded for something more contemporary for your age; gray.

Looking back, partly regretful and much content. You’ve underwent the unfair, the downright crazy and some of the other characters. The years have certainly got you weary, but wise and almost impeccable. Reminiscing, a realization of once wanting to have wore black as white, and white as black. Now is neutral, everything is finally in place when you find yourself steady, the real bliss comes in. The world is, in wearing gray, finally answered with time as your greatest foe, at least the lack of it.

How many times have you been told that life is too short? How long since the realization? Was there even one? Surely it doesn’t take wearing gray socks.

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August 3, 2007

Lomography

Filed under: Everyday — Isamu @ 2:35 pm

Funny that I have never posted anything related to this new hobby I’m into. That’s actually not the right word, it’s.. an.. extention of life as they want me to believe, but yeah, I’ll go along with it.

Recently, I got myself something that is called a lomo-cam. The model I bought is seen below:

The LOMO LC-A+

Lomo LC-A+

Oldie much?

From what I’ve read and how I’ve been taking pictures myself; the point is to be impulsive –capture the moment. You take it everywhere, see something you like and shutter away. A good modern day device that would pass as a lomo-cam would be our cellphone cameras as the concept stays the same.

Of course, none of what I’ve just said is truly appreciated if you’ve never seen how spectacular the output is.

A view from Coastal road

Why film though? The answer is pretty simple.. Just the thought that your photos are being rendered as 1s and 0s is horrible. Lomography again, is about life documentation and I believe that with film, it has more meaning to it.

There are rules to follow whenever you do your lomography.

Take your LOMO everywhere you go and whenever you go.
Use it any time - day or night.
Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
Shoot from the hip.
Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
Don’t think.
Be fast.
You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film.
You don’t have to know afterwards, either.
Don’t worry about the rules.

You’d be suprised, I and any other lomographer would actually quote those ten rules often.

For more of my pictures, check out:

www.urithium.net/photos

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