I am the web director + co-founder of db clay. I am 28, happily married + living in Portland, Oregon. I don't have many reasons for keeping this blog. I tend to talk about emerging web culture + how ridiculous the media is but the majority of this site consists of stuff that makes me smile. find archives here
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came upon this last night. not sure how i feel about it.
seems like a cool idea, a calendar made up of plastic bubbles you can pop. much like those you find in packaging materials… bubble wrap if you will. it is a great novelty but i feel that those that enjoy popping bubble wrap usually cannot just pop one a day. i feel the joy is in creating the symphony of pops. am i wrong?
they run between $30 and $50 for different layouts and sizes. this may seem like a lot of dough for a strip of plastic but they are really big. or maybe the kid pictured below is really small?
i guess it is much like those holiday countdown calendars that have the chocolates behind the doors which represent dates. when i was a kid i wanted to rip the entire thing open at once and have my monthly feast in one sitting. if i had the bubble calendar, it would be destroyed within the first week i am sure. then it would be nothing more than another burden for mother nature.
i kinda want to bash him for it but i can’t because it truly is brilliant. people love to hate the guy or they straight up love to love the guy. he is at least marketing himself appropriately. straight cheese. very few celebrities are embracing the power of the web… well, at least at this level. chuck norris needs a chuckspace.
naturally since i mentioned david hasselhoff - i just had to post the video that has truly made him web famous.
today was the first time in 4 years there was thunder and lightening on my way to work.
never been a fan. in fact it one of my few fears. whenever i mention that to people they always take it upon themselves to boast how much they love it. clockwork.
not sure if anyone has noticed lately but the news/media is starting to allow for comments and other social outlets. not just local either. bbc has social bookmarking icons while cnn has twitter support.
naturally most of them you have to either sign up an account to participate or you have to be moderated in which case they may alter your interaction. no real surprise there though. i am surprised however about the twitter support and social icons. i know i may be going out on a limb here but i think it is a little early for the media to attach themselves to these 3rd party services (especially with twitters down time track record). personally i think they are rolling the dice - but it is a risk that may not leave them behind if social networking standards do set in.
the comments are cool i guess. it gives even the pawns a soapbox which is something society has never experienced in the past. to them though it is all raw data… the bigger the reaction a story gets the more you will hear about like minded stories. love that traffic!
anything is better than the cnn t-shirts. man, that is a whole other topic.
on a separate yet related note: it is hot as hell this weekend in pdx. tracy and i just got back from europe (i will post a few pics soon) and we went from 70 degree weather to 102 degree weather. wtf?!? well, i was on good old katu and i saw the 7 day forecast and monday had a question mark on it. i remember when they started to implement the icons on the days. umbrellas n shit? who in portland uses an umbrella? especially when there is no rain? i personally think it allows them to further escape accountability. the umbrella says: no rain will fall but just in case you may want to invest in a peppermint umbrella while the question mark says: we have absolutley no idea what is going to happen. every man, woman and child is on their own.
why is there an umbrella on the days it isn’t raining but no umbrella on the day it is?
god if they read this they are going to think i am jerk face. thus why i am linking to them here - feel free to click it a few times so they get some traffic from good old mr. diggles. together we can change their antics.
i have posted a few of these in the past - like this classic. i kind of feel evil doing it but damn they are funny. this is a compilation of a few different studs fishing for hot ladies. some of the one liners are too much. my favorites include:
i would like a woman who can just get down and bowl…
a lot of times i will um… just stay up you know, late at night and watch you sleep…
looks aren’t that important anymore…
it almost seems fake. i found this video after seeing the one posted below. it is no wonder things didn’t work out perfectly for this guy.
i met garett about 8 years ago. since we met we have spent many hours together. he got me hooked on beer, which he denies, and we started a wallet company together. it seems that throughout the years stenson and i have swapped roles a bit. he was uptight when we met and i was insane. now i am a stiff and he has deep connections with cutting bell peppers, praising avocados and walking into bushes just to feel the sensation.
i have many pictures of garett but i thought i would just pull a few randoms as usual. anyone who is even remotely close with garett can say that he is one of a kind and that he has an unequal work ethic. if you don’t know who he is now, it is only a matter of time before you do.
happy birthday dude. you have come a long way and the best is yet to come.
i am currently in belgium. so my posting may be a little sporadic.
i thought this image above was a fitting one in relation to traveling. i went through this phase where i was taking screenshots of portland weather from katu’s weather cam. every once in a while they would show a screen capture of what was on the news and this was a picture that they caught. i had to grab it - and of course add my own captions.
i always thought it was weird how airports always pick on little old ladies. don’t believe me? next time you are going through security you will see that they always profile old ladies. does anyone have any clue why? less to live for? evil.
i will shoot some video here for all you fan(s) in internet(s) land(s) and post it soon. belgium beers, belgium waffles, belgium burritos.
my friend dante thought wall-e was a bullshit movie. so now every time he thinks something sucks he says that is straight wall-e. it was always earn a laugh out of me.
my favorite part of this video is where the girl says what’s so funny honey? and the dude says back hold on… i’m not talking to you.
most people i know that have iphones continually fuck around with them despite their surroundings. at some point the etiquette was established that it is not cool to take a phone call when you are in the middle of having a conversation with someone (in person / real life) without saying hey, i am sorry but i have to grab this… where you would then walk to somewhere private to take your private call.
now it seems you can be talking with someone and if they are texting or fingering google maps it is totally fine. am i the only person that wants to smash everyones mobile devices?
everyone of my geek friends right now is saying: wake up idiot… mobile devices are the future. my response: maybe its time i get a dog. at least a dog will pay attention.
especially if i show it a picture of beef jerky on an iphone. bizarre.
my aunt was on wheel of fortune once - true story. i don’t know if she won anything but i just figured being on the show is winning enough. well, except for this guy.
pat sajak - and now can i get an answer from someone who isn’t a complete retard?
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