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I’ve put up the first round of photos from Europe in my new web-gallery:
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Have a look!

Apparently I forgot to let this blog know that I’m cheating on it.. I’ve made a new travel-blog or sorts for my trip to Europe - check it out at europe.maxelman.com! I’ve been updating it daily (hourly, even), and I think it’s pretty exciting. You have to love technology - the iPhone in particular made this all happen.

A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Had my Mom take this picture up by the squiggle:

And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:

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So, I guess this blog has turned into a portfolio of sorts showcasing my work, with the occasional non-me-related think I find awesome. Well, this time I have something that falls into both categories.

Inspired by my housemate, Christopher, doing his rapping thing as usual, my other housemate and I decided that his “name” maddbadger deserved some making fun of. And perhaps some badgering. An idea was born - make the badger badger flash animation into Christopher.

After a few hours of re-learning After Effects, and wishing over and again that I simply had the original .fla file to work with, I created the amazing maddbadger.com - go look, even if you don’t know him.

I guess this (and similar things) is what happens when I have a bit too much free time on my hands. I’m slightly worried what will happen to the interwebs when I graduate next month. Yikes.

Like today really needed more rickrolling, I got KZSC to play everyone’s favorite song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” to its tri-county audience of the Monterey Bay area. Sadly, the DJ cut the song off after about 40 seconds, but I suppose we can forgive him for that. It’s not like we don’t know how the song goes…

Here’s the shot from the kzsc.org homepage:

And just to relive how wonderful live on-air rickrolling is, here’s a short mp3.

Man, KZSC rocks so much.