I'm in Mountain View, CA. Yesterday I went to an ATM to get some cash. It looked like a friendly ATM:



Insert your card.
[I insert my card]
Do you want a receipt?
[In a large and environmentally friendly gesture, I press "No thanks"]
Do you want a pony?
[I already almost have a pony, I press "No thanks"]
Do you want to buy this bank?
[I press the "No thanks" button again]
Are you sure you don't want to buy this bank?
[I press the "Yes" button]
Pretty please?
[I press the "No, I want cash" button]
We don't have cash anymore. Come back in the past.
[I press "Cancel"]
This operation will be charged $3.

What has the world become?

So, people actually pay the somewhat expensive fee for Internet access in airports to just log into Facebook. I'm not speaking of nerds who can't not check their email every 30 minutes, but "real people" (I hate this expression, but it happens to be quite close to what I mean.) I think we're there, finally. Good, it should just be a couple years until cheap data plans arrive massively.

There are a few movies that I think are truly beautiful. Love Actually, Forrest Gump, the Sagem Myx6 commercial and some others... and Be Kind Rewind is definitely part of the list now.

I mostly use web browsers to edit text. Usually, this text I'm editing is something I hate losing (I use a browser for email, text documents, spreadsheets and so on). Why in the world do these stupid browsers keep using Backspace as a shortcut for Back? Every single time I hit backspace, I want to delete a character, not lose *everything* I just entered. Focus not being in the right part of the window (or typo when trying to hit Enter or =) is not a good reason to be destructive in my opinion.

Dublin bikes launched. This is the most awesome thing, besides Italian food, that every decent city should have.

Originally uploaded by ob-v.

I produced art today. Here's the art I produced.

Thanks Dublin
For your "Bye now"s,
For your strangers asking me to put their SIM in my phone at 1am so they can send text messages,
For Irish people hanging out here in general,
For your taxis,
For your weather (and I'm not even kidding),
For your pints of Guinness,
For all those people who are nice and lovely for no reason,
For our daughter's accent,
For our son,
For everything
I love you Dublin. I don't think I love any other city as much as you.

Originally uploaded by ob-v.

I knew the Z-80 would keep getting people high.

(I won't apologise, stop asking)

Shut up ob
Originally uploaded by ob-v.

I've always been a muse for my co-workers. Here is NYC-based art by Petru.

I just voted in Ireland for the first time. I 50% failed since I was registered for local elections only and not for the European ones. I am very frustrated.