steno notepads are in!

there's this other story sitting right in the middle of my discovery of steno notepads. sigh.

i went to best buy to get CD-Rs for a few mixes i'm making. while i was there, i perused the DVD section, which mostly consisted of new releases and overpriced HBO series...es....serieses. and then i found myself in the science fiction/fantasy section, which was pretty embarrassing because it was full of naruto episodes and other typical shows that asians tend to love. but on my way to the end of the aisle i stumbled upon a goldmine. well not really a goldmine, but a sweet movie that i haven't seen in ages, but i'd been wanting to revisit: DARK CITY.

for those of you who don't know anything about this movie, it's pretty much the cooler, less pretentious version of The Matrix, without the insane budget and bullet-time special effects. i liken the dark city/matrix comparison to Glory as the predecessor to Braveheart. Dark City is a great movie that's overshadowed by it's stylish, more ambitious successor. anyway, it was only 6 bucks so i bought it, and i just watched it. for those of you who are curious, it's about a guy who wakes up in the middle of the night to find the entire city asleep. actually its pretty complicated so i'll just say, he ends up being like neo in the matrix. oh - and keifer sutherland is in the movie, except he plays a really creepy doctor. but there is one scene where he's holding a gun to the main character, and he totally turns into jack bauer in those 10 seconds.

anyway. the real story is.... well i kind of forgot what it was until i reread the title of this post. it's totally uninteresting. i went to office max after best buy to get some school supplies. actually i spent like an hour in office max, debating whether a notebook is more appropriate, or a binder of filler paper, or regular folders verses, again, a binder... whatever. the point is, i stumbled upon these notebook-like things called steno notebooks. i had no idea they were, so i used my iphone to wiki it, and even wikipedia had no idea what they were. so i bought a pack. essentially they are notepads, except they have a vertical line that goes down the middle of each page. they came in a pack of four, and they are totally cool. everyone jump on board.

also, i am very into running these days. i run around my development, around a man-made lake and back. it's quite beautiful, and even last week as i was running i saw a white crane perched on a fence. i was running in that direction but the crane didn't move, not until i was just a few steps away. when i got too close it spread its long wings and glided to the other side of the lake. i kept watching as a ran, which meant i could have easily ran straight into the lake, but it totally captured my attention. i hadn't seen a crane before, and i haven't seen one since. maybe i'll get lucky again one of these days.

also, since i'm into running, but i'm not into my hair bobbing up and down and getting in my eyes, i bought sweatbands. i bought a white one and a navy blue one, but i wasn't satisfied.... so i searched on amazon.com and found all these cool retro headbands and wristbands. i plan on buying them once i get a job. i could probably buy them now since they're only like $2.50 but... i am a man of self control and restraint. anyway, sweatbands, they're making a comeback. get on board the stenograph and sweatband train.

i got this from google images:
this guy is a headband model, and the url of the image suggests he goes to MIT. i don't know why, but that in itself is funny to me. anyway, i would look like him if he were korean, running, and wore a different headband.

here is a picture of a steno notepad:
as you can see they are pretty normal and boring. and as we all know, normal+boring = extremely cool.

and just to top it off, a picture that gives you an idea of what Dark City is like.
looks cooool huh. ok. that is all. goodnite!