a geek, a photographer, a sneakerhead, and an eater

The one bad thing about getting paid in salary is that you don’t get paid over-time.? Am I gonna get paid for going into work today?? No, am I going to get recognized for working over the weekend?? Probably not – this workplace environment is so bloody dysfunctional, its a crazy place to work for.? This, my friends, makes it EVEN harder to go into work on a SUNDAY.

And to top off of this, the weather was nice and had a fight with wifey… not a good weekend.? *sigh.

So just last week, I have gotten into a bit of an issue via Ebay. Let me explain, the buyer was too dumbfounded to go pick up his package at the French Post Office, so the package got returned to me. It was the Air Max 95 Grape Retros – which consequently got re-listed, and the buyer has been refunded.

Now the etiquette for this kinda situation is that, if the buyer were to want the shoe re-sent – buyer has to pay for the shipping. This buyer, however, did not understand that fact, I had to explain it to him that this is how things work.

The other option is now then to refund the buyer. And in the case of that option, the buyer will only get the money for the shoe’s original price back, excluding the shipping charges. This was the option chosen by the buyer, and the end result is… Air Max 95 Grape Retros.

Remember – filing a mutual agreement dispute will get your final value fee back (the charge thats incurred by Ebay at the end of an auction based on the price you sold).

Fascinating, ain’t it?

*Update*? The dude has since signed off on the mutual agreement, and I got the final value fee back AND they have been sold, funny how it goes after a day of relisting.

A recent pickup.? This release actually proved to be one of Nike’s better workmanship.? I have seen the side-by-side comparison of this retro with the original shoes – and I must say, I am impressed.? Things were consistent, materials are about 98% overlapped!? Good Job Nike!

Now we just need that shirt…

Nike.com actually released a jacket thats matching the shoe… check it out.

Surfing the channels on the tube the other day… came upon this new show on MTV called Rock the Cradle… and what do I see…

Check the full video clip here.

Its MC Hammer rockin’ them OG Nike Air Max lights, these…

Everyone, meet Noelle Lee…

She was giving me the same look for about 45 minutes, until her mom got home. :-) Cute kid!

I really do hate people.? :-)? Driving around town this weekend was friggin’ idiots galore – completely oblivious to their surroundings when they are driving – and this does not just apply to Asians, my fellow ethnic friends, oh no.? Its all them folks, equal opportunity bashing, baby!? :-)

So, as of lates, the trend in the shoe game seem to have caught onto with the runner side of the Nike sneakers. I personally have experienced in the past two years alone. It was the dunks and the dunk SBs when I first invested my time in this game – it has since gradually moved toward the Air Max’s (which I have always been a fan of)- whether its the max 90s, max 1s, or the structures, for example. Its all grown out of proportions and its now in its full swing. Nike Max 90′s going into almost near the 3 Large’s is unheard of till now.

And with the US economy on the verge of recession along with the deep drop in the exchange rate of the US Dollar, it makes it even worst. Buying from UK and Europe is a nightmare from the State side – talking about like $200 shipped from the UK, for example for a pair of OG colorway Air Max 90s.

It’s a crazy habit, game, hobby, whatever you want to call it now… *sigh… and yet… I can’t stop buying. What is wrong with me?? And get out of my runners world!

The latest addition to my ever-growing shoe collection… bad bad bad… but I am very excited!

Everyone, meet the forever hard to find Nike Air Max 1990 Storms:

Once again, I just want to rant about the the Internet Explorer. It sucks! I have started adding “watermarks” on my images along with some fancy css background as PNG files for them. But no… IE 6.x and under don’t like that. It won’t show through the transparency. Piece of junk!

Whatever… I am done bitching, I can always fix it with some conditional javascript, but adding new code to existing code base of the theme, seem problematic as I tried, will keep on trying I guess. However, if I fix this issue, I can’t exactly fix this same issue on some of sneaker forums I post. And I think some folks are already not seeing any pictures.

Anyways, story of my life, browser issues at work AND at home. I have now switched back to using transparent .gif’s – pain in the ass! PNG ROCKS!

Also, there seem to be something going on with the menu of the template in IE6.

Download Firefox here.

A friend and I have been doing sneaker selling for a over a year now… and we have come a long way since. The online Ebay store has been doing pretty well. And now we have moved on to moving the business onto its own website. Not to confuse this ebay store to my ebay store of course – totally separate identities. :-)

We have started a temporary location for the website, its only a blog now… check it out.

Finally got around to taking some pictures…

I guess I can post what I wore today here on my own blog. What I wore, sneaker-wise, that is…

Starting to blog with wordpress to test things out a bit – hence the title of the existing hello world, I guess – seem to make sense anyways. Its really not that hard, its fairly straight forward. My web host have the option of installing it directly on the server, which is pretty cool. But its saying that its not upgradable? Its interesting – will have to look into that.

I am now playing with the template to see what I can come up with. So far, I have downloaded a couple of templates from stylizedweb.com – its very cool along with some template from wpdesigner.com too!

Chat laters.