Sun, 31 Dec 2006
Casino Royale - ****
You know, I keep recommending Daniel Craig's earlier movie, Layer Cake. But when I look back at my own "review" of it, I see I only gave it one star. Buzz killed it for me. Yet, I own it on DVD and watch it now and again. I guess it holds up well.
I'm not so sure that Casino Royale will hold up so well over time. That said, let me clarify that I really really liked the movie. I saw it in an actual movie theater too! (wow, shocking I know). I loved the new direction of the franchise, I liked how they were going to blow up something in Miami (yeah, no one likes Florida), I liked the darkness, I liked Judi Dench, I liked Eva Green. In fact, there was little I didn't like. The only negatives I can think of were surrounding the poker game. But then again, I'm a bit of a poker nerd. There was also a bit of a suspension of disbelief problem with LeChiffre's portfolio management style too, but then again, if I were to believe that, I could believe the rest of the movie. I'm going to give it four stars, which is a lot coming from me. Go check it out. And try to see it in the movie theater.31 Dec 16:13 | /movies | 4 comment(s)
Quick DVD Roundup 12/31
Well, it's the end of the year. I didn't manage to increase my movie theater attendance since I whined about it in my last post. I did go one time over the Xmas break, but you'll read about that in the next post. Anyway, here's the last DVD Roundup of the year:
My Netflix queue gets backed up sometimes. Backed up in the sense that I sit on some movies. I try to keep my queue balanced between my typical mix of new-releases (action), foreign, art and documentaries. Depending on my mood, I'll skip over some movies, or they just sit on my shelf while I watch movies around them. Eventually I'll get to them though, but sometimes it makes the order at home pretty interesting. That's what happened this month. One Day in September - *** A quick documentary, wait, that's an oxymoron- a 94 minute documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympics, where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage. The movie uses current interviews but relies heavily on the actual news footage from 1972. The interesting bits were when they would use the current interviews from people involved in the various episodes to explain what had happened in the past. I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, but let's just say Germany was way f'd up. A good 4 star recommendation from me, mostly due to the fact that the movie stays focused just on the event, not the lead-up or aftermath (although they mention it before the end credits). There's a lot of information that I never knew about, and I bet you didn't either. Go check it out. Munich - * Yeah, I obviously didn't like this movie too much at all. It's too bad too, it has a great cast and a good story. My main problem with it was that I thought it was over-acted. Bana was really good (but he's never bad), as the team-leader. His team was great too, although it's a bit of a stretch to accept Daniel Craig as a member of the tribe- but he's a good enough actor that I let it go. Hrm, now that I'm rambling I think I liked everyone's performance except Geoffrey Rush's. He's so good though that I was willing to let his over-the-top stuff go. (His character's lines about the receipts and getting the contact's names were annoying, and really bugged me for some reason). So I guess I'm contradicting myself- it's not over-acted, it's a great cast and they do a good job. Maybe it's because I watched this right after the other documentary. Or perhaps the movie gets weird about halfway through when instead of focusing on the heist-type events and their possible repurcusions (which, to be fair, they get to at various points in the movie), they start focusing on "daddy-issues" with the Louis/Papa subplots and Avner's baby. Sure, they're interesting, but it's a bit ham-handed. Err, I didn't mean that in a kosher-pun-offensive way. It's a bit thick. And what the hell, how come they didn't beat the crap out of Louis after what happened in the safe-house? Sure, he was their best informant but sheesh . . . Anyway, this is supposed to be a quick movie "review" so I'll cut it short. Munich could have been edited down a bit. It loses it's focus and subtlety. I think that's been my main problem with it.31 Dec 13:42 | /movies | 2 comment(s)
Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Gerald Ford, RIP
Normally I wouldn't have anything to say about Gerald Ford on my blog. But as it's tamale season, and I'm finishing the last of my Chanukkah tamales, I remembered the tie-in.
People not from San Antonio might not know this story, but in 1976, he was running against Reagan in the Repub primary, and during a campaign stop in San Antonio (near the Alamo), was presented a plate of yummy tamales (or at least one tamale, I'm not sure). As he was a yankee from Michigan, he picked it up and tried to eat it-- still in the husk.
Although a minor gaffe, people still talk about it today. People even debate the significance of the tamale husk and the "latino vote" in political columns and articles.
So the lesson is, eat more tamales- just be sure to shuck 'em first you mother shuckers!
27 Dec 12:40 | /news | 5 comment(s)
Wed, 20 Dec 2006
WTF? I'm a Wuss?!
What the F? I thought I'd score higher than Angie, and she got 60%!
| You Are 46% Evil |
 Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. |
Convergence
I meant to write about something that had been bugging me but work's been keeping me preoccupied. I was just reminded so I thought I'd jot down the thoughts before I forgot again. I'm a bit bugged that three points have come together in a disturbing fashion:
- An ad agency is using the N64 Kid for a car advert.
The fact that the N64 Kid is in a car ad doesn't bug me, the fact that I immediately recognize the kid from YTMND.com does. Man, I'm a nerd. What? You don't know what YTMND.com is? It's pointless giggly fun.
The fact that I giggle and tear up while watching some of them just reminds me how nerdy I am. Stupid net cliches, but I love them.Links: History | N64 kid search
- As I've written many times, I'm a huuuuge fan of PBS's Frontline. Well, the same ad uses Will Lyman, the voice of Frontline, as the narrator.
- The last point is minor. The fact that I, media nerd, didn't know about (or
blogwrite about) this sooner.
Mon, 18 Dec 2006
Xmas Break?
As I sit here eating my Chanukkah pork tamales (does that make me a bad Jew?) I was thinking about the
- Drink wine
- have at least one cigar
- see Casino Royale, Borat, and The Fountain
- maybe eat at Q if they're open
Thu, 14 Dec 2006
Crazy Month
Here's a copy of an email I sent to some friends talking about the soccer craziness this month. . . .
I don't know if any of you have been keeping up w/ soccer news this month, but crazy cool stuff has been going on. 4 items. [If you're bored skip to #3 and #4 for the youtube links.] 1. US Soccer Men's National Team
Klinsmann didn't take the US job. Sucks for US. Bradley's decent, but Juergen would've been cooler.
google news 1
google news 2 2. Boca f'd up in Argentina today.
Basically, they had been doing really well all season. They canned their original coach early in the season (their latest run of coaches has been bad- one of the last ones spit on a Chivas player during a game in a tourney). They got La Volpe to come in and take over coaching- (he's fun to listen to coached the Mex national team, used to get in trouble for smoking on the sidelines) . . . Anyway, Boca had been at the top of the table and had stuff wrapped up w/ 4 games left in the season. The upstart team, Estudiantes, who got Diego "simian" Simeone to take over as coach, had been on a tear all year, and actually caught up to Boca in the points. Boca didn't win or tie their last three or four games. . . Estudiantes won theirs, forcing a rare playoff final game today. Boca went up early and then sat back. There was a fight later, both teams had to play most of the 2nd down a man. Estudiantes ties it off a penalty. Then they won the game (and the Argentine season) on their 2nd goal, which was a crazy, kickass goal (no video on youtube yet, but I'll pass it along when I see it on youtube tomorrow).
EDIT: The vid's up here -- the replay of the goal starts at 41 seconds. 3. Ronaldinho vs Villareal in the Spanish league.
The mother effer pulls off a "chilena" Don't know what a Chilena is? Well, it's when you score a goal like this: youtube 1 4. Ronaldinho vs Werder Bremen in the UEFA Champion League
Barca gets a penalty shot. Ronaldinho goes to set up the shot. Looks around a lot at his teammates. Everyone thinks he's going to bend it in the far upper corner. But he basically runs at the ball, let's all the defenders jump up, and he side-taps it under the wall and in, making Werder look like Colonel Klink. youtube 2 14 Dec 02:00 | /futbol | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 13 Dec 2006
Peter Boyle, RIP
Peter was in one of my favorite movies of all time, Young Frankenstein. :(
Via NYT:Oooper Dooopah 13 Dec 14:20 | /news | 1 comment(s)
In 1974, Mr. Boyle made a memorable impression in Mel Brooks.s .Young Frankenstein,. in which he played the bumbling monster brought to life by the addled grandson (Gene Wilder) of the original Dr. Frankenstein. In one high point, Mr. Boyle.s monster, decked out in white tie and tails à la Fred Astaire, performed a nifty soft-shoe routine with Mr. Wilder while bellowing out the lyrics of .Puttin. On the Ritz..
Sun, 10 Dec 2006
More Pics
I put up a good chunk of pics today. They're in this subfolder in the pics section on the site. There are subfolders in some of them so be sure to explore around.
Starting later this week, I'll post some notes on where we went and what we did as well.
I should have more pics later this week too because Jodi didn't get all her pics off her camera, just some Chilean pics. So hopefully I'll have more Polo pics and pics from La Cabrera and Rigoletto, where we went for Thanksgiving. And hopefully the ubiquitous mate pics.
Thanks again Jodi and Gretchen for letting me have copies of your pics.
10 Dec 17:07 | /travel/argentina | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 06 Dec 2006
San Franciscans Whine Again
@!$#!#@$% People complained about the scented bus ads here. There were supposed to be up for a month.
Representatives from the California Milk Processor Board, which was behind the ads, said complaints were from groups that are trying to ban all public scents, anti-obesity organizations, diabetes organizations and homeless advocates who argued the smell would leave them hungry and unable to purchase food.More info here and here. Gross(?) quote from the examiner story: Besides, it's white, boring and comes in gallons. [insert kenneth-alone-on-a-friday-night joke here] 06 Dec 16:43 | /rants_and_raves | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 04 Dec 2006
Some Pics
I'm still trying to salvage some of the pics off my dying camera. Here's one from Zapallar, Chile:
And two from Gretchen's camera that she emailed me this morning of us in Argentina:
Once I get home I should be able to add some more- I think I'll put them on my site in a new album though, not on flickr. But keep checking there for now.
04 Dec 15:25 | /travel | 0 comment(s)
Sat, 02 Dec 2006
I'm Back
I'm back from Chile and Argentina. I had a great time on vacation. I think Jodi and Gretchen had fun too, at least they told me they did. Pics will be up during the week along with blog posts. My camera died during the trip, so I only have a few to add on Monday. Jodi and Gretchen let me use their cameras though, so whenever I get copies of their pics, I'll put them up too. Hopefully it won't be too long to get the copies, there are some good ones in there. . . One other thing, coming back from Summer to a cold and wintery SF sucks. I was sunburned from the beach on Thurs, now I'm wearing a sweater. I'll just have to suck it up and sip my mate. 02 Dec 10:41 | /travel/argentina | 3 comment(s)
Mon, 13 Nov 2006
Going to Chile & Argentina
I'm leaving for Chile and Argentina this week. I won't be udpating the blog until I get back -- unless I get bored or rained on and wind up in an internet cafe.So tonight, I have a mountain of laundry to do, and
Thu, 09 Nov 2006
Very Cussler-esque
This is a crazy news story. (There are cool pics there)
A YACHT sailing out of Vava'u motored into a strange "sea of stone" on August 12, and the following day its crew became possibly the first people to witness the birth of a new volcanic island that has been forming in Tonga.The Maiken (the yacht) has it's own blog with the full post here. Those pics are nuts. I don't know if I could sail like that- seems too isolating, but maybe that's the draw. 09 Nov 13:35 | /news | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 06 Nov 2006
Daifuku Is Teh Bestest
Daifuku is teh best3st snak evar!
Dude, seriously- green tea mochi covered chocolate ganache. Effing awesome!
06 Nov 18:48 | /food_and_drink | 0 comment(s)
Gong Show Clip
And now. . .a clip from YT
06 Nov 15:55 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
Fri, 03 Nov 2006
JV Won, But Shakira Won More
Marc reminded me that the Latin Grammys were last night. I didn't see them though. According to the news sites Shakira won a lot of shit. Julieta did win Best Alternative Album though for Limon y Sal. But from what I understand, that category is presented pre-telecast. So she won, but wasn't on tv. Oh well. Just a reminder - she is coming to the Filmore on the 19th. I'll be out of town, but you should go. 03 Nov 13:05 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Up Yours *$
Uh oh, another kenny-rant. . . . Man, Starbucks pissed me off this morning. I was running early and thought I'd stop in at *$ to pick up one of those "buckets of joe" aka, their Coffee Traveler, for my team at work. The one closest to the office was out of the cardboard box things. The guys there are nice and said- we'll call the other place around the corner and tell them you're coming- and I said- that's fine if you can't (they were really busy) because I'm early and can wait. So I truck it down to the one on the next block. Of course there's a huge line, and I wait. I get up to the front, tell the chickie pie that kenny pie wants a bucket o' joe. Her eyes get big and she says, I'll be right back. She walks to the back, gets a manager, points at me and mouths "he wants a traveler" (they're too far away for me to hear at this point. Oh, and they also have the heater set to 103F so the "barista boy" is sweating more than I do on my afternoon bus when I'm surrounded by cuties. The manager yells over and it's 103F, 10 blenders going, shitty music playing and 300 people jabbering- "sir, you want a travxxxx"? (I still can't hear her). I cup my hand to my ear and say "traveler? yeah, I want one". (they both stay by the back door) "Sir, it'll be about thirrxxxx" (I still can't hear because they both refuse to walk over) I ask "what?" and cup my hand to my ear again. "Sir, it'll be about thirty minutes." 30 Minutes? Good lord. I said, nevermind, thank you, I'll call next time. The manager yelled over something, but I still couldn't hear. She still wouldn't walk over (nor would the original cashier) so I left. Had I just walked to effing Peet's like I wanted to, I would've had coffee for the team. OR I should've just made an espresso for myself this morning since I was up early. Uggh. Moral of the story, I'm either an old deaf man, or a 15 year old girl, depending on what I'm blogging about, Veronica Mars or how loud Starbucks is. 03 Nov 11:26 | /rants_and_raves | 5 comment(s)
Thu, 02 Nov 2006
Clarification for Andreas
Andreas, I must've pulled a Kerry, lemme explain the joke- The reason I wrote "damn foreigners" in the last post was due to comments on SF Gate that I meant to link to. I forgot to link, hence the odd comment. Usually whenever the
Anyway. . . . It's mildly amusing to see a "news site" open up the "articles" for comments. 02 Nov 10:58 | /news | 1 comment(s)
SF_Native - what are you talking about? This problem has nothing to do with SF. It's the trash from the East Bay who come over and cause these problems.
I say shut off the Bay Bridge and BART for 24 hours and keep 'em out so that we can have a proper halloween to ourselves!
Posted By: El_Grande | November 01 2006 at 08:05 AM
Start an event in Oakland on MacArthur and one on Richmond Blvd in Richmond. Have Snopp Dogg perform. The Castro will be suddenly safe.
Posted By: sheleigirl | November 01 2006 at 08:56 AM
Wed, 01 Nov 2006
Sick Day?
Wow, here's a weird way to be told to not show up for work- uh, don't come in, we had a bomb go off. See ya Thursday? Kthanks, bye. (Not *me*, my friends) In other news, I think the neocons may have been right. If you allow gay marriage, you allow shootings? Only joking, that's not funny. It was probably East Bay riff-raff coming in. Damn foreigners. But that's a lot of shootings in one night in Angie's neighborhood. Today apparently is Vegan Day. But I had never heard about that before, which makes it less known of a holiday than Talk Like a Pirate Day. Continuing the news roundup, we turn to sports- Go Spurs! OU still sucks as do both the Niners and Raiders. In fashion, now that it's winter, the ladies are bustin out the nice skirts and niiiiiice boots. Kenny likes. That is all. 01 Nov 11:41 | /news | 3 comment(s)
Mon, 30 Oct 2006
Fall/Winter?
Well, I guess with the time change it's officially "winter" in SF. Dark early, a bit colder- and soon it shall start raining more. Ahh, fun. Tomorrow my folks are off to Paris for the month. Yeah, the month. They rented an apartment so my dad could work remotely, although I think it'll be 90% vacation. Sure I'm jealous, but you know what? In a few weeks, I'll be going on vacation with Jodi and Gretchen to Chile and Argentina. So I can't be too jealous of my folks. In other news, I've decided not to continue with First Friday Happy Hour. After a loooong time off, I started doing Tae Kwon Do again. So far my foot's holding up to the workouts and I'm enjoying getting used to a new school and the new schedule. Part of that schedule is a Friday night class I really enjoy. Hence, the Happy Hour cancellation. I'll still arrange for a night out to The Bitter End now and again, but not as a regular event. 30 Oct 21:19 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Eagles/Niners/OU/USC/Whatever
Anyone watch Fox football yesterday? Lolz. . . We've secretly replaced the Philadelphia Eagles with -
HA HA 30 Oct 18:55 | /rants_and_raves | 3 comment(s)
Teh Pepples!!
I don't have time for a full post. So, if you're bored at work, watch this. Ships in the field. Forgive me, but you have a very pronounced accent
Which is your favorite George Hamilton movie, Zorro TGB, or Love at First Bite? There's another longer clip on youtube where the guards call Paco a Beaver, lol. (cause he's in a bear suit!) 30 Oct 17:38 | /humor | 1 comment(s)
Fri, 27 Oct 2006
Stupid Wussies
Of course I have to say "wussy" instead of PEE-you-ssy to be PC, but it's articles like this that make me want to beat the shit out of people in Los G. 27 Oct 15:16 | /news | 2 comment(s)
Wed, 25 Oct 2006
Trick or Treat!
That's for those of you who thought I was off the WP bandwagon. No, I'm not. Trick or Treat? I'll take a treat!
25 Oct 12:04 | /humor | 3 comment(s)
Tue, 24 Oct 2006
Grape Stomp and Other Stuff
I forgot to update that I had added a few pictures from Paul's last grape stomp. It was a lot of fun just like the year before.
Unrelated to that, GrapeRadio has a good show (in mp3) format about the Wines of Chile. Some of you may like it, most of you will think it's too long. But hey, I like listening to it while I'm staring at the cuties on my bus commute. But after listening to it, I want to skip my workout and get to K & L and pick up some Casa Silva Carmenere. If not, maybe I'll pick some up on my upcoming vacation.24 Oct 11:00 | /food_and_drink | 4 comment(s)
Fri, 20 Oct 2006
Stupid CNN
Another example of why I prefer news.google.com and other news sites to stupid CNN. 20 Oct 15:10 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
Thu, 19 Oct 2006
Quick DVD Roundup 10/19
You know what makes me sad? The fact that most of my movie "reviews" are DVDs. I used to go the actual theater all the time. Now I have to really think about when I went last.
There's stuff out now that I'd like to see in the theaters too. I even got some free tickets courtesy of my cool VP's, so maybe this trend will change. Anyway, here's your DVD roundup for the month. Once again, there are some that I watched that aren't worth mentioning because they sucked ass. The rest of these were the floaters in the toilet bowl of netflix. The House of Flying Daggers - * Good lord, what a sappy melodramatic soap opera. You know what I'm getting sick of? Movies like this that are described as "sweeping epic dramas". That's a nice way of saying "A Soap Opera with a good enough budget to get a kick ass cinematographer and a hot chick." Saw - 0 There's one star here because you get to see some of the main stars get hurt. It's enough to make you wish it really happened. On a side note, you know the guy stuck in the room with Cary Elwes? Yeah, he co-wrote the flick and cast himself. This movie sucks. Deadwood Season 2 (episodes 1-3) - *** Ah, my love affair with the show continues. I'm just now at the part where Al's getting his kidney stone fixed. Ow. Hopefully the season will get better. I think after three episodes of Season 1 I was hooked more than I am on three of this season's. Solaris - ** This is another movie that makes me glad I have the 3DMT™ I hated it while I was watching it, but was hooked for some reason. And I kept thinking about it over and over. It's filmed well, and has good acting. Granted, it's a bit self-aware in a Soderbergh way, but overall a nice flick. I almost gave it a three, but a character bugged me too much. The Devil Wears Prada - *** I saw this on my flight to Chicago. It was surprisingly good. No, seriously. For reals. Meryl Streep is awesome. Of course you know how it's going to play out, but it still entertains. The only negative comment is - wtf, like we're supposed to believe the lovely Anne Hathaway is "chubby" at the start? (she supposedly slims down to fit in) Whatever. But like I said- surprisingly good. The only way it'd get more stars if I directed it and I called it - Anne Hathaway wears Prada, but leaves it on Kenny's floor when she comes over.19 Oct 12:21 | /movies | 2 comment(s)
Wed, 18 Oct 2006
Podcasts? Meh
I hate the term podcast. But anyway, one of the ones I subscribe to has some 'programs' (episodes? shows?) of Hawai'ian music. I've been listening to them over and over to keep calm at work. Some of it reminds me of the old school country falsetto stuff. Check it out if you have time- and no, you don't need an ipod or itunes to hear them. In unrelated news, Julieta Venegas will be at The Fillmore on Nov 19th. I'll be out of town, but you should go in my abscence. 18 Oct 13:31 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Mon, 16 Oct 2006
RIP Freddy
Freddy Fender died this weekend. :( I'll post a Texas Tornados vid since Sarah already posted the Teardrop vid. Only Augie and Flaco are left :( another one in case you have time 16 Oct 18:04 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Missed Calls, WTF
Hey- I just wanted to apologize for those of you who've gotten my voicemail recently. For some reason, I didn't know you had called. Especially this weekend. I don't know what the deal is, but today I got on the bus and my phone beeped and said 'new voicemail'. I checked and one was from last night (sorry Angie) and there were new ones from last week too!. The weird thing is that it didn't show I had any missed calls (like Megan's) or some other ones. Anyway, sorry. Hopefully I didn't miss out on any Nacho dinner invitations. :( 16 Oct 14:31 | /general | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 13 Oct 2006
Magnum PITB
Nice Pants Magnum, where's Higgins?
13 Oct 18:10 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 11 Oct 2006
ITBday Party!!
It's the (in?)famous ITB-PhotoHunter's Birthday on Friday, and she's having a party! Wanna go? Here's the invite! I hope to see you there. And yes, I'll have WP on too. Wear yours!
11 Oct 18:57 | /general | 7 comment(s)
Mon, 09 Oct 2006
Musings on the LG
I don't have time for a full update today- I was in Chicago for a wedding and for some quality family time - and I'm busy at work. But something was on my mind yesterday on the plane . . . I was thinking about the upcoming Latin Grammys. More specifically Shakira vs Julieta. Shakira is nominated for a record 5 nominations. Julieta (Venegas) was nominated for
Wed, 04 Oct 2006
Halloween Costume Ideas
I saw this on the sometimes-interesting Lifehacker.com site. Freakin' SCARY. More here. 04 Oct 11:45 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Tue, 03 Oct 2006
Girls are a-holes Too!
As a follow-up to this I'd like to say, I will embrace my creepy inner-self as recommended. And although Kenny Luvs The Ladies (a lawt, really really, a lawt) I'd like to add that girls are a-holes too! I mean no offense, but fer realz. Kthanks. Rant over. I'm off to Chicago, I'll talk to y'all next week. 03 Oct 18:21 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Stefania Wines
Although not early for some people, at a very early 10am on Saturday, I met Paul and some other friends down at Crushpad to do a barrel tasting of Paul's wines. I added some pics to the pics section here.
Anyway, on a stupid gloomy Saturday I went down there to start tasting some vino. I was a bit wary at first - I thought drinking that early would ruin my Saturday, but that wasn't the case. Besides, I shouldn't complain about it being early. Paul had been up since five am for another harvest.
We tasted Cabernet from Uvas Creek that Paul has in two different barrels. The two barrels are either different ages or percentages of new/old oak. They'll be blended later. Quite nice.
But my favorite was his syrah. I think it's from a place in Mendocino County, but I just realized I'm not sure if I should be blogging about where it's from. I'm lying obviously, I know exactly where it's from, as it's from the same place as one of my favorite wines. But I'll hold off on names for now.
Anyway, it was great stuff. Like his Cabernet, it's also split up into different barrels for different reasons to be blended later. All of it tasted great and was uniquely distinct. I'm really looking forward to getting some of this later.
I'd really recommend checking out Paul's Blog. It's quite interesting. His commercial site is up too.
03 Oct 13:58 | /food_and_drink | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 29 Sep 2006
Guys are a-holes
Something happened earlier this week and I can't get it out of my head. I went to lunch with a coworker and as we were walking down the street we passed through a group of guys on the sidewalk. I could tell they had already been checking out the coworker, but as we walked by one whispered to her, "You're gorgeous." We kept walking and went to lunch but then talked about it later as I could tell it bugged her just a bit. Which then made it bug me. But it bugs me on two levels. One is that, to be completely honest, is that I *think* about comments like that all the time. Anyone who's ridden the bus with me would know that. But I never say anything. Sheesh. That guy is ruining it for other guys. C'mon, do you really think that saying "You're gorgeous" to some stranger on the street is going to have a result of her saying "Teee heee! You're right, let's go to a motel right now!! xoxoxo"? No, it's not. So shut up and do what I do- stalk in silence, then chat with Angie about it on IM the next day. The other reason I kept thinking about this incident was that I didn't say what was on my mind because it would have been even creepier. Instead of asking - "What'd that guy just say to you? -- What I was about to say was "What did Miggs just say to you? Multiple Miggs, in the next cell? He hissed at you. What did he say?". But you know- quoting movies can be funny sometimes, but quoting movies with serial killer quotes is even creepier than the whole "you're gorgeous" guy. Anyway, sometimes at work, I've been walking around saying "I'm gorgeous" under my breath to make a joke out of the whole thing. Unfortunately every time I've said it, some goober has overheard us and I'm sure they're thinking "did he just say "she's gorgeous"?" or "why is he talking to himself again?" Either way, I'm still creepy too. Anyway, I thought I'd end the week with that little tale. 29 Sep 11:51 | /general | 8 comment(s)
Wed, 27 Sep 2006
Kenneth addresses your comments
Angie sez: "your blog blows-- you really should invest in a blog that allows your pictures to be viewable without me clicking other shit. i really can't be bothered to click more than 2 times per blog."
- That's my fault- I was linking to the tags on flickr, not the actual picture. I'll stop doing that. But thanks for telling me that my blog "blows". At least my mom likes it.
- No. In fact it's out of my hands. It's viral, it's out there. The monkey from Outbreak is even ASStounded. On Friday, I had so many people sending me WP pics (from 3 different states) that I got a query from Cingular asking me if I were a victim of MMS spam. Don't blame me, blame Bryan. Blame Christine. Blame Tessa. Blame yourself [insert link to Marc's video here].
Fri, 22 Sep 2006
Tamilian Superstar
Some Friday fun for you.. . . 22 Sep 17:04 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
Thu, 21 Sep 2006
Dumb Wreck
Here's a Dumb Wreck I saw at lunch. Wheee. No one was hurt. I wanted the meter maid (ooh, is that not P.C.?) to give the SUV a ticket for parking on the curb-- a byproduct of the dumb wreck. 21 Sep 14:55 | /general | 3 comment(s)
FITB
FITG? No, FITB!
The fall season is upon us. Everywhere there are signs telling women to wear black pants, even horrible commercials telling women to express themselves for relief and self-expression.
Butt look at this woman. She's seen the ads with Audrey. She's standing right in front of five of them. Yet, she is the representative of true self-expression. You Go Girl!
FITG? (Fall into the Gap) Nay, FITB!
21 Sep 11:04 | /humor | 2 comment(s)
Wed, 20 Sep 2006
Stabbed
A guy getting stabbed is sad and all . . . . BUT
I can't say I haven't wanted to run over someone "guarding" an open parking space in SF. 20 Sep 14:11 | /news | 1 comment(s)
The fight began when a friend of Albinder's tried to reserve an empty parking space for him as he drove to the Richmond District neighborhood for a private party at the club. A van with several men in it started to pull into the spot, and when Albinder's friend tried to shoo them away, the van nudged him twice, police said.
Mon, 18 Sep 2006
Avast!
Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Be sure to be prepared. Arrrrr.
18 Sep 12:37 | /humor | 3 comment(s)
So this pirate walks into a bar and the bartender notices the pirate has a steering wheel on his penis. So the bartender says, "You know, you've got a steering wheel on your penis," and the pirate says "Arrrrrrrr! It's driving me nuts!"
Thu, 14 Sep 2006
RIP Gov. Ann Richards
TX Gov Ann Richards died yesterday. :(
via irc:<bang> did you like her?
<eltejano> yeah, she was cool
<bang> i knew her from King of the Hill
<eltejano> I served her at 2 different restaurants on multiple occassions
<bang> had to be better than that nut after her
<bang> so you actually met her. nice
<eltejano> at amy's ice creams she was fond of the mexican vanilla ice cream topped w/ strawberries (if in season) - if not, then w/ the hot prailine topping
<bang> this going in your blog?
<bang> heh
<eltejano> I was thinking about it
14 Sep 13:19 | /news | 3 comment(s)
Wed, 13 Sep 2006
Ipod
Just a quick follow up- I finally got my ipod from work. It was a 1G Nano, so I traded up for a 30G Video Ipod. I'm digging it so far. I'm still listening to a lot of podcasts, but I did that before - only on my desktop. Now I can at least listen to them on the bus. Speaking of the bus, I finally fit in now that I have an ipod. I used to be the only one on the 1BX without one. Thank God I conform now! Wheee. Now I just have to figure out when I can cheesify it with some vinyl decals. 13 Sep 14:17 | /general | 7 comment(s)
Tue, 12 Sep 2006
Indian Summer WP
I was a bit worried after my lunchtime meeting. Christine gave me some scary news:
I hadn't eaten yet, so I went out. Sure enough, she was right. Due to the nice weather, the WPR (white pants ratio) was high.
I think today was quite possibly the worst day ever to forget my cell phone on my desk while I went to lunch.
I seriously was distraught over it.
Stephen and I walked down the Embarcadero to Poncho Villa and I shit you not, the sea of white pants was on the verge of overwhelming.
Note to self: September 12, 2006: White Pants Plethora Day
FYI- I went to Pancho Villa again, there was even a PV-WP in line.
12 Sep 18:05 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
Mon, 11 Sep 2006
Never Ending WP?
I was really worried that after Labor Day passed that the WPR (white pants ratio) would drop. But this morning, as I was waiting for the bus, I looked up from my book and saw a WP comin to my bus stop! I then looked to my right and saw another pair! Then on the same very bus- 4 more pair got on before we even got to the Presidio St. stop! 6 total!
I can't wait 'til winter.
11 Sep 16:55 | /humor | 5 comment(s)
No more D to the Iddy?
Oh noes!?. Hey, I got an idea-- how about using the name "Sean"? Or perhaps "No one listens to me"? 11 Sep 00:21 | /random | 0 comment(s)
Nasty
(warning--- graphic pic) Yuck [in English] 11 Sep 00:19 | /random | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 06 Sep 2006
Hefe Shame?
So last week I was really craving Hefeweisen. I have no idea why, but I was. Maybe it was the changing weather, or maybe work, or perhaps I'm pregnant and was just craving a beer. I even was joking with Marc about it on the phone when he called me and then made fun of the background noises on the bus. . .
Anyway- did I wind up getting some Hefe? Yeah, so finally on Thursday, I came home, got off the bus and went into the corner store. I got a six pack of Pyramid Apricot (feel free to make fun of me, but it's good). I realized I didn't have any cash on my (or enough) so I grabbed a bag of Kettle Chips to get over the minimum purchase for CC. The clerk wrapped up the beer in a brown bag (the bottles weren't sticking out or anything) and the chips in a plastic bag, and I was on my merry way to have 1 (one) beer at home later (once Asi Es La Vida came on @ 10pm). So I'm walking down my street to get home and there's a guy walking up the street towards me with his toddler. The toddler's drooling and waddling as toddlers do but looks up and smiles at me. I smile back and nod my head at the dad and say hello. He says:Chips and a six pack? I've been there before . . . (chuckle chuckle)Umm, what the F? I should've said something, but I didn't. I was so mad when I got home I put the beer up and promised myself I wouldn't have one until I calmed down. 30 minutes later I did my patented hand wave / breath exercise and then cracked open a smoooov Hefe.
06 Sep 09:00 | /food_and_drink | 10 comment(s)
Tue, 05 Sep 2006
Herradura
I really don't know what to make of the recent news about Herradura being bought by Brown-Forman Group (makers of Jack Daniels). I think it could bring the tequila some well-deserved recognition in the US, but it could hurt it's perception in Mexico. And I have no idea about the pricing and if it'll be more expensive. --In case you didn't know, it's my favorite tequila.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drinks group Brown-Forman Corp. (BFa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is expected to announce a deal to buy the business of Tequila Herradura SA, which makes two of Mexico's leading tequila brands, for about $875 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Citing people familiar with the deal, the Journal said a deal would give Brown-Forman, which owns Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey, Southern Comfort whiskey and Finlandia vodka, greater access to one of the fastest-growing categories of liquor in the United States.
The Journal said Herradura, owned by the Roma family of Guadalajara, Mexico, owns two leading Mexican tequilas, Herradura and el Jimador.
05 Sep 14:00 | /food_and_drink | 3 comment(s)
Mon, 04 Sep 2006
Quick DVD Roundup 9/1
I'll preface this by saying that since I'm so far behind in my Netflix queue that by the time movies get to my house, most have really been hyped quite a lot. As you know that's an on-going problem for me. Hype kills movies for me. It used to build up my excitement for flicks (Kill Bill, Sin City), but for the past
... there's more to read here ...
04 Sep 11:19 | /movies | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 01 Sep 2006
Revenge of ITB
Dude, Christine and I just went to lunch and walked along the embarcadero. We took about 50 white pants pics. We outdid ourselves. I thought that I wouldn't be able to top Monday's pic but we did. Check out the pic on the left.
That's a pic of Christine taking a pic of 3 WPs in a line.
There was a neverending parade of WP along the water.
This weekend's forecast: Doppler Kenny sez: ITB!
I'll have some of Christine's pics up soon.
01 Sep 16:26 | /humor | 3 comment(s)
Apache!!
Omg, some Friday Fun! 01 Sep 13:18 | /humor | 2 comment(s)
Tue, 29 Aug 2006
SBC Sucks Pt3
As we all know, I hate SBC (1 2). Well, I still hate them. On Friday my DSL line went down, so I opened up a trouble ticket through Speakeasy to have them look into it. They did some troubleshooting and said there was 0db noise on that line now . . . odd. Odd indeed- so I looked downstairs at the phone junction boxes for the apartment building. It looks like a tech may have messed with one when/if one came out to hook up phone service for the new person who's moving in to an aparment downstairs. Sucks. So now I need to be home tomorrow morning while a tech comes out to check it out. Hopefully it's a Covad tech and not a SBC/Pacbelltard. Uggh. I'm not a happy camper w/o my 'net! Speaking of happy, HAPPY HOUR IS FRIDAY. Bitter End on Clement @ 5th/6th Ave. See ya there. 29 Aug 13:11 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
Mon, 28 Aug 2006
ITB explained
Via Bryan. . . who got me started on this
28 Aug 18:37 | /humor | 5 comment(s)
Ok so ya "White Pants".
I have a friend who does work for me and one day at the office he walks up to me and says "you know about girls that wear white pants right"?
Not knowing what the hell he was talking about I inquired. He says if a girl is wearing white pants it means they take it "in the butt"(ITB).
So I chuckled about it and the day continued. We headed to lunch and low and behold white pants everywhere! That's when it gets funny; you cannot ever get it out of your head.
And so now I have spread this as much as I can and it seems to be viral, the bay area is now infected (thanks Kenneth). I have heard many stories about it too which is great because they usually involve someone's mom or any other awkward situation you might think of.
Oh and if a guy is wearing white pants and you tell him this there is a good chance you will never see those pants again unless oh never mind.
ITB
Taken from the bus this morning! Two white pants in one frame!
Difficulty: 10, Originality: 9.
I giggled the rest of the way in to work. ITB!!
28 Aug 16:09 | /humor | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 25 Aug 2006
Look Out Mr Winkle!
Mr Winkle may have a run for his money with Pug Spock! Count Pugula cracked me up. . . yeah, I'm really tired this week. Can you tell? 25 Aug 12:52 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 23 Aug 2006
New Restaurant!!
Wow! Wow!
I can't wait to go there when I go to India next. I hope Zagat's gives it a good review. I wonder what their specialties are. . . . I'll write a full report. . .
The only thing common is that he wanted to conquer the world by using force and I would like to do that by the food and service I provide.
23 Aug 14:58 | /food_and_drink | 6 comment(s)
I won!
I won! Although the PM decided to give out nano's to the people in 2nd and 3rd place too. The funny part is that the person who he thought was in third wasn't really. The DBA's had actually provided another name. Wheeeee. Maybe I should take this as a warning sign? Hrm, foreshadowing? Anyway, I'm still swamped with work, so the next update I have - once I finally getting around to posting something- will be another DVD roundup. Then I'll update the CSS and try to fix the headlines thing on the far right (where it reads "15 (or 10) most recent") which busted sometime recently. 23 Aug 12:22 | /tech | 2 comment(s)
Mon, 21 Aug 2006
One more time
Okay, I took your comments from here and made some changes. Helvetica's gone, link underlines are gone, background is white, font's a bit larger. CHECK IT OUT Better? Worse? Easier to read? Who the hell cares? Btw- work's been super busy so I haven't had time to write up much. Hopefully it'll be getting better soon. And no, I still haven't heard anything about my ipod. 21 Aug 22:19 | /tech | 4 comment(s)
Thu, 17 Aug 2006
Steely Effin' Dan
Normally I hate Steely Dan. But lately the duo has been pretty damn funny. They've sent out two funny press releases recently. The second one is here and is for Wes Anderson.
(on removing stuff from soundtracks)17 Aug 15:55 | /humor | 5 comment(s)
Same thing for the mandolins and the twelve-string stuff and the harpsichord, they're out. You yourself may be partial to those particular instruments. We're not. Remember, we saw .Tom Jones. in its original theatrical release when we were still in high school, we had to listen to .Walk Away Renee. all through college and we fucking opened for Roger McGuinn in the seventies, so all that "jingle-jangle morning" shit is no big thrill for us, OK?
Tue, 15 Aug 2006
New Stylesheet Needed
Is this annoying? I was thinking about changing the main aspects of the blog's css. No, I haven't validated it yet, so chill. I'm just wondering about the font in particular and the background colors after that. 15 Aug 18:35 | /tech | 7 comment(s)
Mon, 14 Aug 2006
S^3 Again
Well, I said I would write more about S^3, (aka the Super Secret Sushi Place), after my last trip there a week ago with Bryan. But you know what? I think I'm diluting it's magic by talking about it. Sure it's damn good. Sure I'll tell you where it is - although I prefer to go there and show you in person- although a lot of people know where it is already. But anyway- the point is, I don't have much to add. It's still damn good. I'm more interested in figuring out what the old rule #3 was. So, let's have a contest to "guess" what it was, and I'll go by there and try to see if I can read the sign through the tape. Let's keep the comments in this post, even though the other post was starting to get some guesses: "Don't talk about sushi club" (Bartopolis) and "No Vomiting Allowed" (
14 Aug 23:56 | /food_and_drink | 5 comment(s)
Fri, 11 Aug 2006
I'm a cheater
Well, I try not to blog about work too much as you know. Doing so can go bad in so many ways. Maybe it's gossip about the hotties, maybe it's whining about a boss, or worse- complaining about the product. One of those things always does in a "company blogger". In addition, the last thing I want to deal with is chasing down some goofball's rant against our work product because his 18 year old cousin messed up a survey on MySpace or something.
But I wanted to break my barely-there rule today because I found a kick ass plugin for firefox. Actually I didn't find it, it was recommended to me on an email list I'm on. The plugin's called Selenium-IDE. There's a link here on openqa.org.
Why do I care about a plugin? Well, normally I don't- but a Project Manager at work announced to the company that we were having an internal contest to win an iPod. He didn't write any real rules at all- which left it wide open for my group to, uhhh, test the limits of the survey tools, so to speak.
Anyway, I was well in the lead when the PM did something horrible. He emailed the company again telling them about the contest. You see, it turns out that no one reads the PM's emails. Well, they scan them, but not more than a paragraph or two. His original contest announcement wasn't well written. He found out the lack of interest in the contest and then shattered my chances by sending out a spreadsheet basically giving the staff a heads-up that I was kicking their asses. Uh oh, so then I had competition coming after me.
Then something bad happened. A woman on the fourth floor had a survey that was a bit out of control so I was asked to look in to it by other departments to make sure it was legit. This happens from time to time. Most are legit, but I've had a few people making weird surveys targeting weird markets. Long story that I don't want to get in here (see paragraph 1).
Anyway, this woman had 2500+ completes to my 390+ completes. But the DB and Ops guys said that 1900+ of them came from 1 ip. ONE ip! (actually 90% of the results were from two ips, neither were NAT'ed). Hey, I'm not insinuating that her boyfriend in the QA dept has access to load testing software, and is helping her . . . but I'll just leave it at that.
Oh I was mad then. I hadn't been doing QA automated stuff and was reserving that technique should I need it- much like The Last Starfighter saves his last Death Blossom.
Well kids, it was time for that. It was time for Selenium. I can bend the rules better than all of them! No one out-cheats me!
I highly recommend testing it out after watching the video here.
It's pretty easy to record a bunch of clicks and/or actions and have the system repeat them. For QA purposes only of course.
I'm a cheater, and I'm proud of it. I'd better win the ipod, or I'm going to close all of the other staff surveys and take my football home.
The sad thing is that I actually found some real bugs that I'll need to research. Uggh.
If anyone wants one of my basic html files to import into Selenium, let me know and I'll put them online. I didn't put them up anywhere because I don't want too much traffic hitting the work machines. Our submit buttons are weird though, so email me if you want more info.
11 Aug 16:17 | /tech | 2 comment(s)
Thu, 10 Aug 2006
More S^3 Soon
I'll have an update soon on my most recent visit to S3
10 Aug 19:43 | /food_and_drink | 3 comment(s)
Wed, 09 Aug 2006
Schmear much?
Is that schmear on your chin ? I keep seeing some gross pictures on bus stops. The recent ad campaign is for sex education. You know how they use bananas to show how to use condoms safely? Well, now they're using bagels to instruct people how to perform either oral sex or rim jobs (depending on the ad). Don't believe me? Check it out:
I'll try to get the other picture for comparison.
But really. . . that's a bit much. I don't want my kids seeing those ads in the gayborhood. Eek!
By the way- I'll give a prize to the person who writes a clever pun or tagline for the pic. Extra points if you manage to use the word "lox" in a rhyming lyric. . .
09 Aug 12:17 | /humor | 8 comment(s)
Tue, 08 Aug 2006
I'm in the lead
I'm still in the lead for my survey for work. If you haven't taken it yet, please take it. Yes, this is a shameless plug, but what the hell . . . 08 Aug 16:06 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 04 Aug 2006
August Birthdays!
Happy Birthday to:
Bryan!
Megan! (megan, keep your phone on at work!)
Angie!!!
Gretchen!
Elise! woot!
Celina!
MeiMei!
Cuatro! Did I miss anyone? Here's your birthday youtube vid - Japanese Potty Training! I think the kid at the end who imitates the cartoon is gonna pop his eardrums pushing that hard. . . 04 Aug 16:05 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
Wed, 02 Aug 2006
Goofball
Josh Wolf is an idiot. Discuss. I'll concede the point that the police fund money from DC is a weak-ass argument, but the guy's still a tool. Discuss. 02 Aug 12:49 | /news | 0 comment(s)
Tue, 01 Aug 2006
Mel, Mel. . .
I think this Fark headline sums it up:
Mel Gibson's blood alcohol level was just a .12 -- apparently the guy just needs a mild buzz before he starts singing "Heil to Der Fuhrer."
In case you missed the news:
01 Aug 11:56 | /news | 0 comment(s)
Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving early on Friday and was reported to have launched into a tirade against Jews, asking the arresting officer if he was a Jew and blaming the Jews for starting all wars.
The actor, who holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views and whose father is a Holocaust denier, apologized on Saturday.
Allo Fred!
Long story, but on irc about two years ago one of our Norweigian buddies was chatting about the "Norweigian King of Pop" and this goofy video he had out. We had found some goofy online wmv version of it and laughed about the "Wot? Fred?!" lines over and over. Now, you'll notice there are many things wrong about me from that first sentence. IRC buddies - sheesh Kenneth, you really *are* a dork. Plus "norweigian king of pop?!?!" Wtf? Anyway, the latest hit from Denmark is this lame ass song called Boten Anna by a goofball named Basshunter. What's even LAMER is the song's about IRC thereby completing the dork circle once and for all- - euro style! What's the point? The point is that Morten Abel is still the King that Basshunter can't overthrow. Here's Morten's hit "The Birmingham Ho", enjoy 01 Aug 11:18 | /humor | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 31 Jul 2006
Bah
Bah Humbug. I was busy at work today. Boo hoo. Speaking of boo hoo- does this chick sound like a big whiner?
link In other news- Patrick has a test site up for Tracks. Read about it here. Anyone use similar GTD software? What about GTD at all? 31 Jul 21:37 | /general | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 28 Jul 2006
More Musings
Add this to the rules of life:
Is anyone watching the new novela "Asi Es La Vida"? Or is it just me? Hot ladies. . . great show so far. I'm having a tough time with the accents though- anyone know where they make the show? Colombia? Sounds Colombian but looks European in the sets sometimes. Very confusing. I have some new movie (dvd) reviews coming up. I'll post them soon. Speaking of- does anyone want to meet me at the Embarcadero in the next few weeks to see "A Scanner Darkly"? I also need to post some info about some new wines. . . I'll get on that. I'm spending too much time leaving snarky comments on Angie's blog though. . . 28 Jul 15:21 | /general | 3 comment(s)
No pachinko machine should cost more than $200.
Survey for Work
Hey, if you get a chance, could you please fill out my 2 question survey. It's for work. Thanks
LINK 28 Jul 12:25 | /general | 3 comment(s)
Thu, 27 Jul 2006
Happy Birthday Nikahhh!
Happy Birthday Nikahhh! The following video has nothing to do with you or your birthday, but I like finding weird stuff on youtube and posting it. So, here you go: Surreal? 27 Jul 14:46 | /humor | 7 comment(s)
Wed, 26 Jul 2006
Einstein
Angie1's comment here and here are due to me being a
Shantaram
My friend, Kristen, recently loaned me a book that she loved and thought I would like. It's called Shantaram and was written by Gregory Roberts. It's supposedly a roman a clef (presumably to change names?) and is based on Robert's real life. The premise is that the main character, an Australian, escapes from Prison and makes his way to Bombay where he can be anonymous although he falls in with the people there, and especially the underworld. It's actually a good read and I read it pretty quickly despite it's hefty 956 pages. I'd recommend it to most of you- especially those of you looking for your next work of fiction for your
On whisky:
'After all, what is the point of a man returning from the dead, if it is not to drink strong spirits with his friends.'
'My dear friend, you can stand to eat a meal- if you must - and you can stand to make love - if you are able - but it is impossible to stand and drink whisky. It is the act of a barbarian. A man who stands up to drink a noble alcohol like whisky, in all but a toast to some noble thing or purpose, is a beast- a man who will stop at nothing.'
On fanatacism:
'Fanatacism is the opposite of love,' I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai's lectures. 'A wise man once told me-he's a Muslim, but the way- that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. I agree with him, and I feel the same way. I also agree with Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind, and can't change the subject.'
On love(?):26 Jul 13:55 | /rants_and_raves | 3 comment(s)
Didier, trying to warn me, trying to help me or save me, perhaps, had said once that nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.
Mon, 24 Jul 2006
Mmmm Q
You know what I like? Clement St. I like being lazy on the weekends and going there just to wander. On Saturday, there were some Chinese Lion Dancers. On Sunday, there weren't a lot of people out (the heat?) and since Will was in town, we hit Q for the requisite Sunday breakfast of chilaquiles. Mmmm. 
24 Jul 16:27 | /food_and_drink | 4 comment(s)
RIP Mako
Mako died. :( If you don't know him by name, you'd recognize his photo. For those of you who know the "What is best in life" speech from Conan memorized, then you'll know that Mako was the sorcerer in Conan. (note: Mako doesn't give the "What is best in life speech", Conan does- and it's not really a speech, just a credo.) Mako was in a ton of projects. . . . :(
In the comments, leave your favorite Mako role/movie.24 Jul 12:33 | /movies | 1 comment(s)
Wed, 19 Jul 2006
Golden Star
By request for Marc-
19 Jul 15:05 | /food_and_drink | 1 comment(s)
Tue, 18 Jul 2006
PennAve
Patrick has PennAve up and running on one of his test boxes. Although I still haven't tried it on my ancient boxes, he has a demo site up and running. More info on this post I tried to install f-spot on my main desktop, but I started down a dependency hell- well, more accurately, a hell of out-dated libraries. I really should get a new machine one of these days. . . I'll see if I can get Picasa running now that there's a Linux version out, but I bet I'll run into the same problems. We'll see. In the meantime I got my phone working so I can upload photos straight from the crappy phone camera to my flickr account. 18 Jul 12:05 | /tech | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 17 Jul 2006
More Stone
I found a video on youtube.com of me passing my kidney stone. Actually, I hired an actor to play me. I have more back hair, of course. 17 Jul 17:44 | /general | 3 comment(s)
Again
I was about to post an update, but I realized I've already written what I was about to add. Ahhhh. I hope this nice weather holds up . . . . 17 Jul 15:04 | /rants_and_raves | 1 comment(s)
Thu, 13 Jul 2006
Pirates of the Poop
I'm a bit tired of movie headlines and the "news" it feeds to shows or newscasts about box office records. Like this week's news about Pirates of the Caribbean II-
It broke just about every box office record. In fact, it even did better than initially thought. Early estimates from Disney said that the film took in $132 million in its first three days of release across North America. The latest report from Variety brings the tally up to $135.6 million for the weekend. linkI don't want to hear about box office records anymore unless two things are done- or more appropriately two key stats are produced:
- The number of tickets sold for a movie's release
- The number of screens on which it was shown
13 Jul 17:13 | /movies | 4 comment(s)
Wed, 12 Jul 2006
Sex and Lucia - ***
I was going to try to write a decent little review of this scorching Spanish flick starring Paz Vega. I was going to try to concentrate on the story, and how in a weak, remote way reminds me of Cortazar's Rayuela. But a quote on Rotten Tomatoes sums up the flick well:
I guess that kind of sums it up.. . . It's a pretty good movie though.
Sex ironically has little to do with the story, which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never, ever, leave a large dog alone with a toddler. But never mind all that; the boobs are fantastic!
12 Jul 13:52 | /movies | 1 comment(s)
Tue, 11 Jul 2006
More Stones
Christine sent me this: 11 Jul 15:22 | /general | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 10 Jul 2006
The Stones
No, not the Rolling Stones. No, not Sly and the Family Stone. How about Sly Stallone punched me in the stones? How about Kenny's Kidney Stone(s)? Wheee!
So guess how I spent my Monday? That's right, in the hospital. Fun fun.
So basically I woke up at 5:30 thinking "ow mother#$%#$ I slept wrong, my back is killing me." I went to pee and thought- "hrm, that wasn't as fun as it norrmally was" and went back to bed. At 6am I woke up thinking, "shit, my back really hurts, I need to stretch," and got out of bed to do just that. I got some water and as I was stretching I thought- "hrm, this isn't like when I hurt my back at TKD those times. . .I don't think this is muscular. . ." I showered and as I was getting dressed, I thought hrm, I should have to pee again but I don't- and my insides feel funny!" The whole time my back (lower right side) was hurting more and more.
Btw, when I thought about peeing, I kept thinking in the voice of Ralph Wiggum. Is that wrong?
About this time I realized I should be getting to the Doc's office or the hospital soon. Oh, and I started barfing. Oh yeah, THAT'S, when I thought I should go. So off I went. . . .
I decided to call a cab, but none of the companies were picking up so I kept walking to California St to catch the 1 (which I missed) to take me to the ER on Cali and Cherry(?). Which, as it turns out is a Maternity-only ER. Good to know. But my doc's office is in the same bldg. He wasn't there yet even though it was after 9, so I decided to hightail it to the ER on Stanyan. I'll keep this part brief, but before I left I hit the bathroom for good measure becuase the walking seemed to have helped my back. But my pee pee, it was ochre. Fun fun. TMI! Now try to say "Ms Crabapple, my pee pee is ochre" in Ralph's voice. See, it is fun. Ochre's not normal, so I booked it to Stanyan.
The good people at the hospital on Stanyan were ready to see me- but there wasn't anyone nearly as hot as Heigl from Grey's Anatomy there. Shit, I would've settled for Meredith Grey at this point. . . but I digress.
They were pretty sure I had a kidney stone so they made me pee in a cup to do a urinalysis and hooked me up to an IV and gave me a full liter of saline and a pretty strong painkiller in the IV. I felt much better. Except for the waiting around.
Once the IV was done, they gave me a new toy--- a strainer! I can use it for ramen, or lemme put it this way, pasta or penis. I have to pee in a colander! I peed out most of the IV into . . ahhh, this is TMI. Anyway, no more ochre, back to normal.
Eventually they took out the IV lock thing, took some Xrays and gave me my prescriptions and sent me on my way. I feel muuuuch better now.
By the way- afternoon TV sucks. I really should get cable. . . .
Oh, and I called my mom too to tell her she was gonna be a grandmother as
I was giving birth to a pet rock. But it may have already passed so I'm not
sure I'll get any baby pics. I don't have a name yet, but I'm thinking Sandy
Richard Schwartzman. Whatcha think? Too waspy? (yeah yeah, sandy dick, har
har)
10 Jul 19:16 | /general | 4 comment(s)
Italy v France
The only way to get Cory and Marc to watch soccer is to have more action like this:
Before the game I had planned a long rant about the worst thing about Italy being Italy fans. But I'm too mad to do even that. They won the game, and dare I say. . . deserved (?!) to win -especially after that asshead Zidane headbutted whatshisface. Maybe I'll write it anyway at some point. Uggh. What an annoying final. France's first goal was off a phantom penalty. (Italy wouldn't have been there either except for a phantom penalty off Australia). Italy's set-piece header was good though. Too bad Zidick's header later missed.
Oh, and why was the ref always in the way of the play action? Aren't they supposed to run zig-zags from opposite corners to stay out of the way, but still be able to see? The ref looked like a midfielder to me at times. . . .
Now I gotta put up with all the buttheads who suddenly became Italy fans (not real Italians btw but American "(psuedo)Italian" slash Italy fans) in the past two weeks and are dusting off their Bianchis and getting out their Italia '90 Tshirts. And we all know people like that- I don't want to name names but I can think of two of [name-erased]'s friends in particular- These are the people who don't know that the dude's LAST name isn't Lucatoni. It's his full name- Luca Toni. It's not CARNIVALO, it's Cannavaro, etc. I could go on . . . but I'll stop. Like I said, Italy deserved to win.
Speaking of Carnival, if you ever want to have an obscure drinking game- Edgar and I made one up- whenever Macelo Balboa says "TOTti", drink. If you really want to be obscure, whenever Totti comes on the screen, spit on someone, or in your drink or in Marcelo Balboa's Kool Aid.
Okay, enough rambling about soccer. I just want to end on a positive note(s)- Deutschland?! Who knew? Good job Juergen. In spanish, Ghana is a misnomer. Zidane's always been a dick. Well, that's not positive but I can back it up. Oh, and my dad may have been right in how he picks teams, the ones with better food win (in his bracket at least). Although, that doesn't explain how England even made it into the tournament, or Germany made it so far . . .
10 Jul 10:10 | /futbol | 3 comment(s)
Sun, 09 Jul 2006
Caltrain
You can't have it both ways, or can you?
Caltrain's fast-running "baby bullet" service has been hailed for lifting the struggling commuter train service out of its dot-com bust doldrums.I wish they had "the bullet" back when I was at CYBS. . . Oh, read paragraph 7-- Calling themselves the Coalition to Expand Train Service
Smaller stations on the Peninsula that are being bypassed by the bullet trains have actually lost riders steadily since the baby bullets arrived two years ago, as those riders flock to the bullet stations, according to annual passenger counts. [story]
Good thing they didn't call themselves The Coalition to UNdo Town Skipping 09 Jul 23:46 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 05 Jul 2006
Mmmm Steak
Talk about weird timing.. . .
No, she didn't actually try it. I'm kinda bummed out. Maybe I should stop in Manila after my next India trip. Or maybe I should just drive down to Daly City. . .
In the meantime, I'll stick to steak and vino. . . (oh, and alfajores)
05 Jul 16:15 | /food_and_drink | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 30 Jun 2006
One More- RnJ's Crab
30 Jun 15:48 | /food_and_drink | 2 comment(s)
Balut - For Marc
Marc, this link, is for you. No it's not cuy. It's Balut.
30 Jun 13:12 | /food_and_drink | 5 comment(s)
Wed, 28 Jun 2006
International Dreams
On my bus ride to downtown every morning, I pass a restaurant sign that draws my attention. The first few times I saw it I thought, that's too good to be true. You see, it advertises an international food selection that while isn't healthy-sounding, does induce ye olde droole glandes to start pumping out spittle.