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I swear.. if I see one more Windows Vista visual style or shell theme, I will puke. :puke:  This includes Longhorn and Inspirat themes.  

What happened to creativity?  It seems that all anyone wants to do now is port other people's themes, with slight modifications, and call it their own.  Just because your vista start button glows red instead of blue, doesn't mean it's yours.

If I wanted my operating system to look like Windows Vista (which god only knows why anyone would want such an atrocious looking theme), then I'd run Windows Vista.

It is ok to be inspired by something, but come on... this isn't inspiration, it's borderline plagiarism in my opinion.

I really miss the old days when skinners were really innovative with their designs.  I'm not saying they are all gone, but, the fact of the matter is... too rarely do I see a nice shell theme for windows that isn't HEAVILY influenced by someone else's work.

Prove me wrong, send me links to some really nice original themes.

Napalm Riot!
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I Game. Do you?

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I can’t stress just how busy I have been since my last post. I don’t have a lot of time to type this out, so I’ll make it quick and general :)

I am now a married man! That’s right ladies, I’m officially off the market.. (as if any ladies ACTUALLY cared). Rick flew all the way up here for my wedding. It was really great to get to see him again, the last time I hung out with him, we were both working at deviantART and I was out in LA for work.

We went to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for our Honeymoon, it was absolutely amazing.  We are planning on going back.

I turned 26!  Slowly working my way to the big 3 0.

I have moved into a brand new, larger, cleaner, all around better apartment in a great neighborhood on the North side of the city.

Work has been pretty crazy, the on-call aspect has been particularly rough on me lately; with some mishaps with various services/servers. I had a rather interesting week last week, when I worked the normal 9-5, back to work around midnight for server maintenance, and didn’t get to done with that until 2PM the following day (unforeseen problems arose). Fun times… but not really.

My original boss where I work now, recently resigned and has moved on to another job, which was really hard on me at first. He was probably the best person I’ve ever worked for.

Let’s see.. what else.. oh yea.. depthCORE is doing very well, Justin and Brian have been working very hard to get some new and interesting things ready to go.

uhhhh so I guess that pretty much sums up the major stuff that has happened as of late. Another update in a few months? Haha, I’ll try to get one a little sooner than that, maybe…
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So after test driving a ton of cars, liking some, hating others, and just plain loving one.... I bought a 2007 Mazda Speed6, Black.  I have to say, I wasn't expecting it to be as awesome as it is.  I am very very happy with the purchase.  With an upgrade package and iPod adapter, the price tag was just about $34,000, which is just about the same cost as a base model Lexus IS.  The IS was the car I was originally leaning towards, but didn't like it when I drove it.

The Mazda just blew me away, I was so very impressed with the car that I made a major impulsive buy.  When I got back from the test drive, I signed the papers immediately and wrote them a check.  I have absolutely no regrets, the car is awesome and I am having so much fun with it.

I have not had time to take any photos of my new car, but you can look at the gallery on mazda.com.  The one I purchased is black.

Thanks to the people who gave me suggestions on what other cars to look at.  I am going to get the windows tinted sometime in the next few weeks.  Work has me super busy right now, but things are leveling out again.
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New Car

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I am in the market for a new car, but I can't decide on what I want.  I think I have narrowed it down to two choices, but I can't make up my mind on which car I want.  One is more of the practical choice, the other being more fun.  Help me decide!

Choice 1: Lexus IS

or

Choice 2: Acura MDX

What do you think?  I am also open to suggestions outside of these two particular vehicles.
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