Peter Chun

Latest purchase. Wide release, picked up online at Finish Line.

Just finished lacing them now.

This is Ethan. Here at a BBQ at his folks place. This is his rendition of the “silly face”.

Blessed kid with a wonderful set of rents to match.

Testing this new app. Just updated wordpress to 2.5.1 just for this!

Posting from the iPhone and will test uploading pics in a bit as well.

Update - took pic with iPhone from the couch (watching olympics cycling)

This video is great and I love ping pong! (FYI the US Ping Pong team is 100% Chinese!)

Came courtesy of Zumiez (looks sold out…)

Great look, great feel, second set of laces included (set of white / grey laces.) The tongue padding is awesome and the look of the shoe is even better. I’ve tossed both sets of laces in - still debating which set to go with.

I feel supra’s will be taking over my “go to” stack shortly…

After work, I met up with friends at Epstein’s. There was some skate video premier, so the place was bombarded by tweens with flashy sneakers, lots of skateboards and alot of bumping. The folks from DQM, Reed, and Supreme were there as well, but I digress.

After a few drills, Mark and Chris were raving about the hyped pizzeria joint that opened up on 14th - Artichoke Pizza. After a brief pause, we decided to roll.

I heard of long lines, but the line wasn’t too bad. I did learn though that anyone ordering a pie at a time is an enemy to everyone else waiting. The word is the production side of Artichoke isn’t that good, which may also be why the pizza is so damn good.

My first slice I had was the spinach/artichoke slice. The slice was huge, the pies are huge and it ran me $6 for the giant slice + 2 bottles of water. Not bad. The slice itself - was delicious. Delicious is subjective - agreed, but it had a fettucine like sauce (no tomato sauce) and it was oozing with olive oil and butter. I’d place calorie count at - at least 1000 calories/slice. They also have fried cauliflower and stuffed artichokes and plain margarita pizza (which I haven’t tried yet.)

Does it meet the hype? Yes.

Super friendly staff, greasy/cheesy delicious pizza, tasty dough (thick like brochette) and “to be” 22′oz Styrofoam cups of beer (coming soon) makes for a pretty ridiculous combination.

Pic of the Spinach Artichoke Pizza:

Map (Epstein’s to Artichoke Pizza)

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Picked up these headphones about a week ago. Putting it through real life use and will post a review in a couple of days. I have pics of the unboxing and I’ll throw those up as well.

I’ll leave it with - one learns to appreciate apple’s simplistic design over time.

While the adidas Stan Smith is a classic with its clean and simple design, this white leather perforated leather should be a nice addition for the Spring and Summer months. This sneaker is of course named after Stan (Stanley Roger) Smith who was an American tennis pro during the early 1960s. Look for this classic at adidas Originals retailers as well as on eBay.

> BUY IT: adidas Stan Smith 1 Graph - White Perf

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After years of telling advertisers that the way they place ads is totally wrong, Google is finally coming around to accommodate Madison Avenue on its own terms. By perfecting paid-search and contextual ads, Google has done a lot to reinvent advertising. But old habits die hard, and advertisers still like to target ads based on good old demographics. Google will be doing a lot more of that now that it owns DoubelClick. But it is also starting to incorporate demographic targeting into AdWords itself (in a very limited fashion).

As of last Friday, advertisers could target their ads by age or gender on 31 participating sites in Google’s ad network that provide such information. The most noteworthy ones are MySpace, Friendster, and YouTube. The rest, with a few exceptions, aren’t exactly the type of sites that big advertisers clamor for, so this isn’t going to have a big immediate impact. (Here is a list of the participating sites). AdWords already lets advertisers target demographically by site, taking generalized demographic data for entire sites from comScore. But this is different because it allows targeting by individual user.

You’ve got to wonder if this is how Google hopes to fix its MySpace problem. Google watchers will recall that when the company missed its fourth quarter earnings, it partly blamed the poor performance of its ads on social networks (read: MySpace). By offering demographic targeting on MySpace and other social sites, perhaps Google is hoping to turn that around. It certainly needs to do something to make all of that social-network ad inventory pay off.

Marrying demographic targeting with keyword targeting should yield better results in theory. The issue, though, might not be the targeting. It might be the people. Or rather, it might be that the people you find on social networks are just better at tuning out ads. Perhaps they are less receptive to traditional advertising in what they consider to be a semi-private space. So it may not be so much the targeting as the ad units themselves that need fixing. They need to seem less like blaring come-ons and more like social invitations. And there is not much Google can do about that.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

The Clubber Lang Mids are set to release next month in April. Clubber Lang is a fictional character that appeared as Rocky Balboa’s rival in the 1982 movie Rocky III. He was played by the popular “bodyguard to the stars” Mr. T, who was 25 years old when the film was launched. The character is based on George Foreman in his early career, the colorway of the sneaker is based off of his trunks and belt.

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