new bike

Finally got my recently-purchased Bianchi up and running, after replacing the handlebars, stem, headset, brake cables, tires, and pedals. Lots of fun, as I had to figure out how to do most of that myself. But it looks so good! And it’s 15 years newer than my last bike! So that’s exciting. For a listing…

Redesign!

And like magic, maxelman.com looks completely different. I believe this is number 6 or so? Maybe with some digging, and archive.org, I can make a little “history of” page. That could be fun.

oh, wonderful spam

I’ve been looking closely at the spam that Google manages not to block lately. On one hand, I’m disappointed Google missed one out of nine thousand this month, but I’m also a little glad, as this kind of thing shines a bit of happiness onto my internal image of spammers. I mean, this is nearly…

Happy Belated Birthday, Alfred

While I might be a tad late on this, it appears the crazy success of The Dark Knight brought some Michael Caine attention to the media. And thus, I realized I missed his 75th birthday. Shame. In honor of one of my favorite actors though, a picture. Just stare at this for a while, and…

Graduation!

A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Thanks to my Mom for taking this rad photo by the Porter squiggle: And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:

maddbadger, maddbadger, maddbadger

Looks like this blog has turned into a portfolio of sorts showcasing my work, with the occasional non-me-related think I find awesome. Well, this time I have something that falls into both categories. Inspired by my housemate, Christopher, doing his rapping thing as usual, my other housemate and I decided that his “name” maddbadger deserved…

KZSC Santa Cruz Rickrolled 3 Counties

Like today really needed more rickrolling, I got KZSC to play everyone’s favorite song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” to its tri-county audience of the Monterey Bay area. Sadly, the DJ cut the song off after about 40 seconds, but I suppose we can forgive him for that. It’s not like we don’t know how…

iphone wallpaper

Maybe it’s just me, but I really do hate the clutter of adding wallpapers to an iPhone the traditional way – you have to add photos to iPhoto, make a new album, have things be a mess… Anyone else? No? Just me? Well, fine then. On the off chance that someone else agrees – that…

open studios

Yesterday was open studios here at UCSC, meaning that as as Art major, I’m just about done with this quarter. Rock. I’ve been working on two big projects – the photo series that I’ve already posted images from, and a computer-art piece that’s slightly hard to explain. I made a huge digital frame, hooked it…