Miss Macchiato

Archive for August, 2009

Ikea: The Land of Furniture Hell

Posted: Monday, August 31st, 2009 @ 12:26 pm in General | No Comments »

It’s true, I’m not a huge fan of Ikea. They’ve definitely improved over the years; these days I make a point to avoid their upholstered items and bed linens. Their fabrics are just very cheap and thin, and I can’t afford to replace a couch every two years, even if the darn thing [...]

Hellgate Fail

Posted: Thursday, August 20th, 2009 @ 9:38 am in Games, Humor | No Comments »

I know what you’re thinking: AGAIN?

Yeah, and unfortunately I don’t have any screenshots. As I said earlier, I’ve been wanting to play some new games and have been tinkering around with a few others. Inexplicably, I loaded up Hellgate again. And every day, Tom would say, “Oh, so you’re playing that game that [...]

Space Invaders

Posted: Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 @ 8:23 am in Design | 1 Comment »

For a long time now, Tom and I have been admiring the Blik wall decals from afar. I toyed around with the idea of putting the Space Invaders decals in our long stairwell, but since abandoned the idea because it just seems slightly inappropriate beauty-wise and also because the larger decals that would be [...]