Redirect, and hone in on what matters

So technology..I'm around it 24/7 due to work, and in all honesty it excites me.  I get to do CES next month (and involuntarily stalk olivia munn for the fanatic G4 boyfriend), and am completely stoked for the gizmos and gadgets that'll inevitably blow my mind.  I've oft imagined myself as some futuresque femme fatal, defending the world from binary bastards with cognitive mind force.  While I wait for my prophetic destiny, I figure I might as well read up more on what's about to change the world.

Here's my Tech-related pick for today. Yes you can probably find this on the trillion and one blogs out there for ze prodigal tech-junkie, but I think my taste in consumer friendly electronics is quite impeccable :P.  

Late Fragment

Remember those bomb-ass Choose Your Own Adventure books?  Well they've gone 21st century, and have vomitted all over your blu-ray/dvd interface.  Three Canadian directors have filmed this interactive movie, drawing inspiration from asymmetrical plot twists such as 'Memento' and 'The Usual Suspects'.  The action suspense genre gives way to 139 different scenes that can be accessed via remote control, granted you choose certain options at certain times.  

While this is the first interactive Dvd adventure, the industry appears to be releasing a similarly designed interface for a on-screen Musical. I'm pretty sure I dreamt up this digital choose your own adventure about 5 years ago, but cheers to Canada for bringing it to fruition, and doing something quite gnarly.

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Alright, Christmas time.  Heading back to chino hills tomorrow for loads of food, unending fatigue, and shameless self promotion.   I hate gloating around family, but sometimes I think ego is the only thing their radar picks up these days. I'm happy Chen & Gonzaga are accompanying, hurrah for fam/friend awkwardness!

holiday bush o8..best christmas tree I've ever had

What's supremely grand

and mildly unexpected..

I was sifting through my journals of 12, 14, 17 years old, and in my most aged, unassuming blue leather-bound I have quotes appreciated at the tender age of 13. In black sharpie, passionately engraved more so than written on the 8.5x11 was a quote by Joan Baez. THE Joan Baez. Before I understood what a hippie was or rocked out to hendrix, probably even before I had any taste for music aside from ariel's part of your world solo, I was quoting the legendary hippie-goddess. Emphatically, emotionally, and almost like I created the phrase myself rests-

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now"
- 5/13/2000,

Now, more than ever, would I learn volumes from my 13 year old self.