All Things Chill

Phone cam pic. I couldn’t have picked a better plate. Amen brother, Amen.
Hee hee.
~Spec

Saturday, June 30
Union Square in San Francisco
Showtime: 8:00 PM
Presented by The San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation
Aside from bringing my knife bag for work, I will be bringing a lil’ blanket and a travel mug filled with some liquid chocolate… so I can keep warm while watching this Bogart classic. I don’t know what Liana [...]

So I guess I should say that I’ve been using meebo for the past couple of days. Dearest LauLau (lol) uses it a lot and I figure I’d give it a try. So Herschell, WHAT THE HELL IS IT? Haha, you impatient bastard, the squeeky wheel will get the oil… THIS TIME. [...]

Flickr album, aptly titled: “San Diego: Day Two” can be found here. Slideshow here. I wish I could explain the details of the day, but I’m just too beat from jumping from one damn place to the next and being transported in uncomfortable places (not like the back of a Volkswagon, but [...]

I swear to all that is deep-fried and delicious, if I – a 26 year old professional that left the house many years ago to live in a city 3000+ miles away AND SURVIVED – have one more argument with my mother about the size / style / ragged-ness of my “do you really buy [...]

If you’re travelling and you desperately need to use Firefox with *YOUR* bookmarks, extensions, saved passwords and all around warm-Internet-blanket-ed-ness, all you have to do is grab your USB memory stick and install Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition. Here’s the description from the website:
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. [...]

Youtube link here. Video blog posts are HARD. Even ones that are only 90 seconds long… especially when you have a Linkin Park song (Bleed it Out – RAWK) that you want to sample an 8-count loop from and you spend a long ass time trying to cut and splice a [...]

Off for vacation! See you in a few days!
xoxo,
~Herschell / Special*Dark

Youtube link here. I took a quick video of the nano “unboxing” (props to Josh B). Nothing much else to report other than the beats were from Robin Thicke Feat. Pharrell – Wanna Love You Girl. Thanks to everyone that told me to open the damn thing. LOL.
YAY nano! [...]

Larger view here. You might already be familiar with (1) my (2) nano (3) saga (4), but it has happened… AGAIN. Will I be able to break the casing and actually KEEP it? Will I actually use it as much as I’d like to think I would? How many minutes will [...]

It may not look like it, but the picture above was the most difficult drawing I’ve done in very long time. LOL. New music! Here’s a list of new music that I’m currently bumpin’ in my iPod:
Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
Maroon 5 – It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Robin Thicke – [...]

Since it’s coming up, I just wanted to let all of you know that I’ll be chillin’ with the parental units in San Diego / San Francisco for a week starting Saturday. I haven’t really spent more than 6 hours with them in the last year (they live about 3000+ miles away), and I [...]

Braised beef shank in red wine served with buttered mashed potatoes
Larger view here. Beef shank (wiki here) is one of my favorite foods. EVAR. Nothing can touch its tender texture and meaty flavor. NOTHING. It’s relatively cheap and it takes a lot of tender loving care to make it taste perfect. [...]