it’s finally official

As of today, I’m a double art/film digital media major. Awesome. Quite the ordeal, I have to say. College 8 was a bit of a punk about it, and the film department was just plain silly at times. All and all, the Art department rocked, and was strangely efficient. Weird. Definitely glad I’ll never have…

Star Wars + Transformers = ?

So, in something that probably should not ever happen, the two worlds of Star Wars and Transformers have been brought together. No, this doesn’t mean Megatron with a lightsaber, it means a transforming Darth Vader. Into the freaking Death Star. That’s right. The completed Death Star, on top of that. Apparently this isn’t the only…

9,246,050!

Yeah! Alexa ranks maxelman.com at 9,246,050! That’s only 9,246,047 spots behind google! Alright, so it’s absurd, but it’s a start, right? Edit (28 August 2007): 7,082,312, take that! up by two million! Edit (30 August, 2007): 2,425,454, ha! another five million! Edit (2 September 2007): 1,888,110! Edit (11 September 2007): 1,731,098 Edit (1 October 2007):…

lifehacked bag

Inspired by lifehacker and this post, I put together a picture and listing of the contents of my everyday bag. Took a lot longer than I thought, but here it is: Here’s what goes most everywhere with me around college and town, much of that by bike. Chrome Mini Metro w/ cell phone strap-pouch: Just…

way to go amazon.com

I ordered something for a special someone’s birthday, and after the order online was marked as delivered, and UPS told me to contact the shipper (because only they can start a “trace”?), I was a bit frustrated when there was no phone number to be found for Amazon. However, I did find this – a…

quit hitting the tornado button!

Remember Sim City 2000? your “board of advisors”? Who all were really just CRAZY? Well, maybe not entirely crazy, but I came across this page today that shows exactly what would happen if they were as crazy as I remember. Check it out, it’s hilarious. And speaking of Sim City, who is one of the…