Why not?

My motivation for trying to live a fuller life.

[spoyama]

It is wrong that I'm posting this, but I'm doing so anyway.  I feel sorry for this girl.  Really.  I do.

[spoyama]

Big data and the NSA

This is more of a question than an enlightening editorial on the relationship between big data and the NSA.  I am simply curious about the implications to tech and the venture frenzy surrounding big data projects.  With the NSA taking a rather intrusive interest in big data, does anyone think that funding interest or even product interest may be effected by this controversy?

The American public certainly didn't stop buying phones when it was revealed that the Nixon administration was participating in wiretapping, but maybe that wasn't enough for citizens to feel that their privacy was necessarily in danger.  Do Americans feel that their privacy is at all important?  We have body scanners at the airport that know what brand of underoos I wear, Facebook knows when I write drunken messages to my friends, and my mobile phone service knows where I am at all times (because I never do), yet my behavior is fairly steady.

In light of this controversy, and should more crazy information be revealed that changes the online habits of Americans, could this in turn change the valuation of big data, or is the infrastructure that big data provides so essential (or addictive) to our daily lives that we are incapable of moving forward without it?

[comicbookalex-deactivated202204]

Over at Comixology you can pick up my book Box Office Poison in digital format for only $5! 

[spoyama]

This is probably my favorite graphic novel.  Ever.

[beastdotumi]

Current Status: Floating

Today’s *Workload:

Brave is Beautiful Promo Collateral [ pictured above ]

Somaly Mam Facebook Collateral

Iruka Print Brochure Layouts

Healthy Communities Hawaii Branding Proofs V3

Manifest Before Midnight Print Materials

FLUX Hawaii Ad Layout

*Today is Tuesday. Extra Monkey Business.

[umi]

Today’s Workload : Extra Monkey Business.

[spoyama]

Some great web collateral work from Umi Workshop.  Loving this stuff

[daydreamsonlooseleafpaper-deact]

‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’

Louis C.K. (via daydreamsonlooseleafpaper)

Louis CK will be recorded as a great man in my personal history book.

[dennisculver]

Guten tag, homies!

[nickthejam]

[spoyama]

So great.

[spoyama]

On this day January 12, 8942

The last slice of pizza has been served.  Due to a number of different environmental and genetic disturbances, the last few ingredients to produce a true pizza with wheat, tomatoes, and basil have become extinct.  

Scientists and Archeologists come to agreement that this is the last true pizza the world would ever see.

[spoyama]

On this day January 10, 7872

People are still wearing jeans.

[spoyama]

On this day January 8, 2239

A dog is successfully engineered to speak.  This was a difficult and arduous endeavor that involved billions of dollars, decades of work, and careful execution to ensure that a dog's thought process would remain the same, but with the added ability to speak.  The dog's name is Charlie.  He enjoys bacon, is not completely color blind, and according to him his anus is delicious.  

[spoyama]

On this day January 7, 2587

The top grossing movie of all time featured special effects that would change the concept of cinema forever.  It had an unprecedented budget.  The world had never seen anything like it before.  it was about two people that fell in love, then one of them dies.

[thedreamthatyouwish]

[cannotunsee]

Re-using animation

[spoyama]

Marriage Proposals

I'm helping a friend plan his proposal, and while I can't divulge in the details here, I just want to say that I am doing an awesome job.  I'm actually feeling like I have a small knack for this type of thing, and I'm hoping someone else on tumblr may need similar help, so I'm putting it out there: I will help you plan your proposal.

I get a little frustrated seeing people propose in lackluster ways that don't pay the proper respect to the relationships they are meant to solidify.  Taking a girl to a nice restaurant and hiding the ring in the champaign glass seems so cliche.  Pretending like you dropped something to get into the one-knee position, a la Sex and the City Season 3 just seems derivative.  Proposing on a mountain.  Proposing at the beach.  Blah, blah, blah.

Here's what most women want, and it's nothing too complicated:  they want a great story to tell their friends, family, kids, and grandkids.  It doesn't have to be public, expensive, or even particularly clever.  It just has to mean something.  That's it.  

If you need help, or just know someone that needs help, I want to be that guy.  Just to try it out, and because I think I'd be good at it.  Contact me.

[spoyama]

On November 6, 2346

On November 6, 2346, the great lobster invasion began.  In an attempt to address the vast amounts of population in the Earth's oceans, scientists genetically manipulated lobsters to digest plastics.  The genetically modified lobsters were introduced to the Pacific Garbage Patch, and successfully reduced the giant plastic mass to an inconsequential size.  The world celebrated, and resumed consuming plastic at a rate that had not been seen since the early 21st century.  

Inevitably, the genetically modified lobsters intermingled with the wild lobster population, growing the lobster population exponentially.  Seeking new plastic food sources, lobsters began invading the shores of Asia and the Americas.  The invasion began slowly, with just a few hundred lobsters climbing on to land, going through whatever trash receptacles that were convenient to them.  Eventually every dock and beach was covered in a dark mass of lobsters.  Similar to ants, the lobsters worked as a super organism, continuing their invasion in every direction, destroying homes and businesses along the shore.  

At first private industry tried to address the issue by setting record low prices for lobsters, hoping that people would simply be able to consume all of the lobsters, but over abundant supply proved this to be inadequate rather quickly.  There wasn't a price low enough, and so the national guard was deployed to address the problem. The national guard created barriers and fought back the horde of lobsters teeming the shores, but were unaware of the lobsters entering land through the sewers.  Lobsters began flowing out of every toilet, rendering most of the coastal regions uninhabitable.  

[cmdelcastill-blog]

[spoyama]

cmdelcastill:

Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do … babysit! We can get that for minimum wage. That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of...

All for it!

[spoyama]

[spoyama]

Drunk sweet nothings - 2

I've trained with a teddy bear my whole life for you.  #hugs