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 3 (I think) 4 nominations.

Everyone knows that I love Julieta despite her pop leanings. Shakira's just as poppy, but in a different way. But I think Shakira's going to edge her out in the awards, and not to knock "the hippy one", I think that's sad.

I still like Shakira, but not nearly as much as I did when she played her first Viña del Mar when she had black hair and played her own guitar. I stuck with her through Donde Jugaran. . . but her last double-album kinda bugged me a bit. It's not bad, but it's not that great. Maybe she lost me when she pretended to be a cat in her live show.

In the meantime, Julieta continues to grow on me and continues to play a lot of instruments on her own albums, and other artists' as well. I guess I think JV should be getting more recognition, but I'm predicting wins for Shakira. The Grammys favor album sales anyway and I think Shakira sells more worldwide (including the English market), which is ironic as it affects the Latin (Spanish-language) awards.

09 Oct 18:43 | /general | 2 comment(s)


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.

In case you haven't heard of Crushpad, it's pretty interesting. Their site is here, but if you have time, I'd recommend listening to the GrapeRadio podcast where they talk about urban wineries. Yeah, it's a bit of a time commitment, but it's pretty interesting.

For those of you in a hurry in a nutshell- Crushpad is the kind of place where you and your friends (or just you if you have a lot of $$) can make wine. You can be as hands-off or on as you wish. Although, the more hands-on you want to be you'll need to know what the hell you're doing (like Paul).

For example, if I have 3 friends and we want a barrel of cabernet made, we can sign up with Crushpad and say, hey dudes, we want some "cab" and we want it from Dr Crane Vineyard or some other place. Also we want to be there when the grapes arrive to help sort and crush. But then afterwards, we want your staff to manage the barrels, topping off, and all that stuff. Oh, and then we want you to design labels for us, arrange bottling, and then arrange the liquor licensing because we're only keeping half of the bottles- then Crushpad can arrange that for you.

But on the other hand, people like Paul use Crushpad as well. Paul already has his grapes. Either from his yard, or clients, or one's he's sourced himself. But depending for whom he's making wine, he may run out of space or need equipment, or staff that's closer to the wine in case he can't tend to it while he's at his day job. So people like him use Crushpad to help out in the process. 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)


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