Plinky, Inc. http://www.plinky.com/people/bradtastic.xml All Rights Reserved Brad Chin - Plinky Answers 2012-01-29T10:37:52-06:00 http://www.plinky.com/answers/179849 The Great Outdoors 2012-01-29T10:37:52-06:00 Ah, the crisp northern air for the win!


Skyrim

Skyrim!

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/120032 In defense of my vice: cigarettes 2010-12-14T04:31:54-06:00 When you have chronic muscle and neuropathic pain, you do what works to control it as best as you can.


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I smoke, though not too many. It helps control my pain, and helps me control my occasional tremors and muscle spasms.

I'm hoping that getting a service dog will eliminate my need.

Also, I've heard several times — at least six times — that secondhand smoke is dangerous. That makes me laugh sometimes, because I don't like everyone.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/115417 Boredom... lame. 2010-11-13T23:38:33-06:00 I don't get bored. There's way too much to do and so much entertainment.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/115416 I Can't Help It: My Celeb Crush 2010-11-13T23:37:53-06:00 "Celeb crush," what does that even mean...?


Kristen Bell by Alex Freund

Kristen Bell... as Elle from Heroes. Because Electricity is friggin' scary.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/97117 Would I Survive No Internet for a Whole Month? 2010-07-20T14:20:30-06:00 no hay banda

No.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/92715 What I Lost and Want Back 2010-07-08T10:24:58-06:00 I lost a St. Dupont gold lighter that I'd purchased in Honolulu, Hawaii from a small shop alongside Waikiki Beach.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/90571 If I Had Unlimited Resources, I Would... 2010-07-01T17:42:49-06:00 Create a starship with warp-drive — named NCC-1701BT

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/67911 Jong-Ga House. tasty! 2009-07-25T22:40:34-06:00 BBQ beef. Rock on!

Korean BBQ

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/67910 I remember being born. 2009-07-25T22:38:54-06:00 Being born. Seriously. And being under bright lights because I was all... the wrong color.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/61560 Wanna buy some paper? 2009-06-16T02:07:32-06:00 Clairefontaine, Rhodia and Moleskine... Canteo and Paperblanks.


Lamy Fountain Pens

pens, scented ink and fancy paper

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/61298 I get by with a little help from the web 2009-06-14T20:40:21-06:00 I read Andrew Keen's book, Cult of the Amateur, and have a Kindle and iPhone. Blogging is neat. The Internet is a double-edged blade and an opioid analgesic.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/61297 The egg came first 2009-06-14T20:37:07-06:00 Figuratively. Literally, the question is retarded stupid.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/60754 I hope I stumble across midget porn? 2009-06-12T05:29:55-06:00 It wouldn't be "great," but it would be "exciting." Why would midget porn (of all crazy fetishes) just be lying on the ground? (Insert midget joke here?)

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/60753 Point the getaway car to The batcave 2009-06-12T05:27:48-06:00 What kind of crappy-ass "getaway" would it be if I told y'all online about it? Yeesh.

And you'll never know.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/60281 Hello, my name is Bradtastic. 2009-06-10T05:29:15-06:00 Legally changing my name to "Bradtastic." With the period, perhaps... all I'd need to do at that point is get a PhD. (I know, simple stuff, right?) Then, I'd be Dr. Bradtastic.

Official title: Jabberwocky Slayer.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/60262 Sean Penn and I slept together... 2009-06-10T03:12:10-06:00 Sean Penn
Flight from Denver, Colorado to SFO. We slept together... 'twas hot.






]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/21890 Swords should make a comeback 2009-02-21T22:18:08-06:00 If by "sword" we mean "katana..."


Swords we still have... and we've got knives, but I think, trade-out guns for swords, and "street combat" would be a whole-lot more interesting. More bloody, fewer fatalities. Maybe.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/20423 Reading 'Elements of Typographic Style' opened my eyes 2009-02-17T12:31:28-06:00 Imagine an entire life's work being overlooked; on purpose, with justification... and that that's what was wanted. I'll never look at "Minion Pro" the same way, and I'll always like that font (and Garamond Premier Pro) henceforth because of the book.

This book changed the way I view everything... especially typography and design. Deep and difficult, utterly satisfying. It's amazing, looking back on it, that it's about type. Bringhurst writes with such a fiery passion about something most people "overlook," and he says that that's pretty much the point.

It makes Georgia seem so sad, Helvetica overrated, and makes me wonder why anyone would use Trebuchet MS or Comic Sans for anything serious.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/20419 Reading 'Breaking Dawn' opened my eyes 2009-02-17T12:23:44-06:00 ... until I closed them again. This book ain't no "Elements of Typographic Style" or anything... but, I didn't "get it" until I "got it." Got it?

Many of the Amazon reviews for "Twilight" made mention of Team's Edward and Jacob, but also, many of them spoke of how Bella COULDN'T turn "vamp" because of tthe moral and ethical implications. Hah!

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/20417 Sesame chicken always soothes me when I'm stressed 2009-02-17T12:20:38-06:00 Sesame Nuggets

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/19321 Watch "Lost In Translation" next time you're home sick 2009-02-13T16:59:43-06:00

It's the best movie, ever.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/19320 My advice 2009-02-13T16:58:36-06:00 Mud Fest 2008

Smile more. People will think that you're friendlier and prettier... and that's not a bad thing, unless you're a bad person.

If you're a "bad person," commit seppuku... well, only if you *really* want to.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/18808 A day without a cell phone 2009-02-13T01:09:35-06:00 It wasn't that bad. It'd be worse now, with smart phones truly "smart..." well, rather... the phones are damned fun now. The iPhone, anyway. So many GREAT apps, I'm compelled to review some (all?) of them.

Technology is important though—it's a key topic on my new site.

]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/8596 Why my hip-hop posse would include Gregory Wilson 2009-01-26T11:32:12-06:00 In a hip-hop or rap artist's posse, there's the usual picks and the "average" choices — many of them aren't likely to do much more than take up space, waste time and money.

Bradtastic craves somethings — in this case, someone — slightly more special.


Gregory Wilson
A confidence man, master pickpocket, mentalist-magician is always handy to have around... manipulate the opposition, steal a rap-rival's bling right off his person and convince him his posse had jacked him.

So much better than bustin'caps.


]]> http://www.plinky.com/answers/7708 When I realized I was a grown-up 2009-01-25T13:18:13-06:00 My second brother, Corbin passed-away... left more-or-less physically and mentally alone, isolated from family and largely without friends, I realized that life was short and I was on my own. At five years old, the world shifted, again.

Only two years earlier, my family had suffered a similar loss; though I, at that age, was unaware of my brother's condition. To me, things were great and fine, I was three and life was splendid. I went to bed, woke up the following morning, and everything was different.

My father was distraught and pacing, my mother was curled up on the sofa, crying. Flat, white light poured into the house through cloud-cover. I felt very small, very insignificant, powerless.

At five, I was determined to make things different. Change was necessary, thriving was critical — convinced and confident that my life would also be over soon, I needed to get the typical 60-80 years of living done in the next dozen-or-so, if I could manage to have that long.

My brothers' bodies were ash in a memorial, smiled again only in dreams and memories. Henceforth, 'twas impossible to "just be a child."

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