Monthly Archive for August, 2005

About a year ago I got a vertical labret piercing. This was never a problem at my old job and I knew it might be if I ever had to swich jobs. Well I have been working at a new job here in Boston for about 4 weeks now.I started out assuming I had to take it out every day as it’s a business office and there are lots of higher ups that walk around.

After the first week I lost the ball to the piercing I had. Having bought that one in Phoenix, I knew the chances of finding a ball with matching threads were slim to none so I just decided to go buy a new one. Come to find out jewlery is really expensive here. I spent $30 on a new 14 gauge curved barbell. Nothing special. Would have cost me $10-$15 in Phoenix. About 4 days after I got that one I lost the ball to my new one! A hazard of taking it off and putting it back on every day. So after about a week of dealing with not having a ball on my piercing and being careful, it finally fell out. Unfortunately it fell out while I was brushing my teeth and went down the drain! :’(

So I found another place that was closer to where I lived and bought a new 14g curved barbell. It was around $28. They didn’t have the size i normally get, 5/16, so I had to squeeze a 1/4 in there and it is a much better size but it is a pain to get on and off having no extra room there to mess about with.

I have been walking around our office for about 2 weeks now as my new job requires it and i’ve seen a couple people with facial piercings. No vertical labrets, but there is someone with an eyebrow, i saw a nose, and quite a few tongue piercings. So I decided this morning I would not take it out and see if they ask me to. So far so good, its 12:25pm and i’ve been here for 4 and a half hours and no one has said anything about it yet. Lets hope it stays that way and I don’t have to spend any more money on jewlery!

Google has just released the long rumored IM client, Google Talk. I can’t actually get on thier server right now, it is probably being bombarded with people trying to login or something. But some time tomorrow you should be able to hit me up at rjorgy [NO SPAM]at[NO SPAM] gmail.com and if anyone wants an invite drop me a line at the same address. Now all we do is sit back and wait for google to roll out all the cool new features! Expect a full featured review sometime tomorrow.

Anyone out there reading who is located here in Boston, if you feel like contributing to a project of mine you can go sign up at Tagzania and start adding T Stations to it.

Tagzania is a really cool ‘social mapping’ site along the same lines as del.icio.us except with locations. It integrates google maps and you can add tags to locations and map them and keep personal maps. You can view the Boston T map at http://www.tagzania.com/tag/bostontrainmap. You can add stuff to the map my making sure ‘bostontrainmap’ is in the tags. I have also been adding the T lines you can access from each station.

I unfortunately don’t know very much about the T or the T stop locations so until I go out and do some scouting its going to be a bit bare, but I think this is something alot of people could benefit from actually knowing where the closest T station is to an above ground location they need to get to.