Wed, 28 Feb 2007
Enough already
Ladies- listen to me. The "winter capris" look is dunzo. Stop it. You're all taking it too far. It's one thing if you have a nice pair (of pants), if you're tasteful. But I'm tired of seeing you abuse the shortpants with your sexy boots. Especially the shortpants with the stupid cuffs. Decent pants: (Tessa gave me the link to a catalog ;) )
Those looks decent with those shoes. This chick . . I dunno:
The boots ruin it. close up. And this chick is a mess:
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Those socks are so fug. . . Just remember--
sexy boots + jeans = hot
sexy boots + normal pants = hot
sexy boots + skirts = hot
sexy boots + jack sprat renaissance pirate pants = lame I'll try to get a pic of the ones with the cuff later. Tessa? Angie? Am I right? 28 Feb 15:51 | /rants_and_raves | 9 comment(s)
Mmm Payday
Even though I just got paid, Ticketmaster is not getting my $ (today) 28 Feb 15:14 | /links | 2 comment(s)
Ticketmaster Can Suckit
This morning, I debated buying advance US v China soccer tix for a game in June. The game's in SJ at Spartan Stadium. Do you know how much tickets are? $60 for midfield. $60! For a friendly! And the "convenience fee" Ticketmaster adds to each ticket is $7.25! That's what, 12% of the face of the ticket? Suckit Ticketmaster. But I'm tempted to buy. Why am I so angry today? I should calm down with some haikus. 28 Feb 13:07 | /futbol | 0 comment(s)
Tue, 27 Feb 2007
For Cuatro
I can't decide if I like the live version (recorded live in SA 1982!! whoo hoo hemisfair arena) or the classic vid more. I think today, I'll post the orignal w/ the "dancing girl". Btw, I'd dressing like the lead singer on Friday. It'll make my meetings more enjoyable. Even more! Friday is Graham Bonnet Friday! Break out the aviators! 27 Feb 18:24 | /rants_and_raves | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 23 Feb 2007
Mateveza Part 2
Well, on the way home last night I thought I would hit up BevMo in between the hail and rain showers. Plus, BevMo's across the street from a good place for nachos. I thought I'd get a bottle of Mateveza after mentioning it in the previous post. I'd give it a try and report my findings.
That's a pic of La Merced mate (barbacuá), my thermos, and a mate in my cube (from my deskphone camera).
... there's more to read here ...
23 Feb 15:16 | /food_and_drink | 5 comment(s)
Thu, 22 Feb 2007
Mateveza?
Hrm. I'm not sure what to make of this. I like Mate. I like Beer. But I don't know if I like them together. (sfist.com link)
I'll have to get a bottle at BevMo and try it out.
22 Feb 15:28 | /food_and_drink | 1 comment(s)
Wed, 21 Feb 2007
Interesting Links
I thought this blog entry was pretty interesting. (Via Todd's Site) Also Paul and Stef's wine is almost ready And this link just reminds me I need to dust my place and do a lot of laundry. 21 Feb 15:30 | /links | 0 comment(s)
OMG OMG
I had dinner with the lead singer from The Human League tonight. Wait, it wasn't? It was Angie. And no, she didn't sing for that band. I'm sorry I'm mistaken ... I'm only Human . . Born to Make Mistakes. . . .lol
Okay, maybe it's not that funny to you, but it made us giggle. And we're both high on Mac-n-Cheese.
21 Feb 00:34 | /humor | 5 comment(s)
Mon, 19 Feb 2007
IMDB Change?
Did IMDB change it's layout today, or am I using too many plugins for Firefox and Greasemonkey at home?
Over the weekend, I had to look up another Don McKellar movie to make sure I could include an in-joke for Bart and Jeff in that last DVDRoundup. Anyway, the site looks different, and unfortunately feels slower now. Oh well. (Actually, I was looking up how to spell his name, but I already knew the line I wanted). Speaking of the in-joke, there's a movie we always reference called Highway 61. Jeff remembers most of the lines correctly, but even when I try to recall them incorrectly, they still crack me up. I started to add it to my Netflix Queue to watch it again (it's been years) and ohnoz-- I can't find it on Netflix!. I'll have to buy it from somone on Half.com or Ebay. How come Netflix has THREE friggin seasons of Highway to Heaven, but not an obscure Canadian movie from 1991? If any of you own it (which I doubt) shoot me an email.Bingo Angry Woman: He must be cheating that's how.Ahh, poor Pokey Jones, there's not a lot of options for a trumpeter in Pickerel Falls.
Mr. Skin (A.K.A. Satan): Lady, you can't cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can't. I won because I was lucky - lucky to wind up in a town full of losers!
19 Feb 21:56 | /movies | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 16 Feb 2007
Quick DVD Roundup 2/16
I meant to post this at the end of January and forgot. Or maybe I didn't forget, and was just suffering from my cold, or too much work, whatever. Anyway here ya go. Sorry I'm not more descriptive this time out.
Crank - ***Jason Statham's character in this flick is a giant a-hole. None of the characters should get your sympathies. Some of the brighter co-stars have almost offensive roles (Amy Smart and Efren "Vote for Pedro" Ramirez). Despite all this, the way the movie was filmed seems to work. I wanted to hate it, but I couldn't. Dwight Yoakum's good too! What the Eff? It's a quick 80 minute video game, but on some level it worked. I dunno, 3 asterisks. JSA - **
Same director from Oldboy, this is one of his earlier efforts. You can tell it's not original material, and it's cheesy and slow at parts. Interesting story, not as good as Oldboy, but good. Lord of War - *
I liked the way the opening credits were filmed. Then it got worse. I'm surprised I made it through the whole movie. I can't remember why I'm giving it one asterisk. . . oh yeah, the guy who plays Andre Baptiste was really good. You wish he were on screen more. Waiting - 0
Good lord, why did I waste my time? I feel like a sucker. Seemed like a good cast- it has Angie's boyfriend in it, the mac dude, Anna Faris, Dane Cook, and Luiz Guzman. I did "heh" now and then . . . but uhh no. Damn, this must've looked really good on paper. . . . A Scanner Darkly - *
One star for the idea and the film technique. Otherwise I thought this was overrated drivel. Maybe because I'm such a square, but it's hard for me to buy into druggie paranoia corp/gov mood movies. Why do I still have a crush on Winona Ryder? Is she an embodiment of a fetish for me? Borat - *
Another overrated movie. And I was REALLY looking forward to this one. I just felt way let down. It seemed too self-aware, too . . . I dunno, it's hard to describe. There were one or two bits I liked, but it seemed like a weird- I can't describe it. I think either Larry Charles or Sasha Baron Cohen has some Jewish identity problems to deal with. What? You didn't know Larry Charles was involved in the project? You couldn't tell by the visual style of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode with a bigger budget? OMG. . . The Prestige - ***
There were two cheesy plot points about this movie that I thought would distract me, but the actors were so good I didn't care. I can't tell you about it because it could be a spoileromgnospoilers . . but whatever. I think Christopher Nolan could direct a dog taking a crap in the park and I'd still watch it. Well, maybe if Scarlett Johansson were walking the dog and David Bowie were singing in the background but I digress. . . This was a pretty good flick. You could tell that it must have been based on a book and not a Nolan original, but they do a good job with the material. Good sets, good acting, good story (with some bits of cheese, but it still works) and Michael effing Caine! Gotta love it. Wordplay - ***
Another movie recommended by my friend Derek (recommended Scanner above). I didn't think I'd like it, but it's the kind of documentary that's not too deep. It's edited tightly and the story wraps around a current contest and includes background info. It combines both things, and keeps the story moving. Check it out. Two minor points though- what's the deal with Ken Burns? Listening to him makes me want to punch someone in the face. Another thing- I read recently that this movie is a bit too close in directorial style (and subject matter, well, kinda) to the earlier Word Wars. Derek: not sure if you read this blog- but I wish the director (and editor) of Wordplay had re-done that Aaron Russo documentary you liked- I couldn't make it through 20 minutes of it. Where The Truth Lies - ***
Sometimes people wonder why Kevin Bacon is in so many movies. It's because the mother effer can act. He and Colin Firth (one of my mom's boyfriends) are great in this movie. But Atom Egoyan loses his pace at times. Even if you didn't know he directed it going in, and were a movie-nerd, you'd guess it was one of his movies the second Don McKellar has his cameo (rock music, you know, like B TO), and that woman who's a just a bit too serious all the time-- oh yeah, Egoyan's wife (I expected the whole cast from 1993's Love and Human Remains to show up in that publisher's meeting scene). Then the Alison Lohman plot wanders a bit, and you kind of guess where it's going- similar to other female characters in the few movies of Egoyan's I've seen. I bet Cory rented this to see the Alison Lohman nude bits. I must admit, I liked her white pantsuit. Oh, and Maury Chaykin's in the movie too! Damn, I'm a picky bitch. I wonder what would happen if I wrote and directed something. Would I never finish it because I'd make fun of it all the time?
16 Feb 23:31 | /movies | 3 comment(s)
Wed, 14 Feb 2007
Stikkit in your Campfire
Warning- boring, typical rambling post for most of you . . . Do any of you use Basecamp, Stikkit, Backpackit or RememberTheMilk? I've been trying out the sites for a while and keep thinking about them in the work environment. I'm not sure if I completely like/love any of them although they each have pretty nifty features. I'd be interesting in hearing what you think if you have used them. They each have been getting a lot of buzz (stikkit a lot recently just because it's newer and 43folders mentioned them -- well, 43F's main dude is on their board). But I'm not sure if the buzz is deserved. (Don't get me wrong, it's a good site, but the 43F community tends to go a bit overboard on things). RememberTheMilk is the newest one for me. Pak told me to check it out. It seems like it's pretty fast and slick (nice maps), but not as intuitive. Stikkit goes out of the way to be automatic for the user. Basecamp and Backpackit aren't as automatic but seem more "enterprise-level" friendly. I'm also not sure how stikkit, in particular, is going to make money. Basecamp/Backpackit and the other 37Signals sites seem to have their price plans well thought out and implemented. I was going to write a brief blurb about what each site does, but you can look them up yourselves. Besides, if you're looking them up, then the answer to my question at the start this post is "no". If you do sign up for Betas/Free Accounts, and want to add contacts I'm usually using my gmail account and my typical username. But really- if you were a consultant, or had a small office, or projects that didn't require SVN-type repositories, I can see you liking this. But in a company with more than a certain amount of people- you'd need an in-house version of these types of sites. (A slimmed-down CollabNet anyone?) Okay, enough - I'm going to play with my free Basecamp project planning thing for a little while longer. 14 Feb 22:58 | /tech | 3 comment(s)
Mon, 12 Feb 2007
We've All Got Stories
Over the holidays I was bored and signed up for Yahoo! Personals. I wrote my normal, clever, funny profile, uploaded some pics and waited. --Keep in mind, this is the free version- I was just trying out their site. I've tried out Match and JDate and didn't have much luck. When you're searching around for profiles, you have a lot of options. You also have a few options on how your results are displayed. By default the listing is "New to Yahoo". I assume this is so you can hit on the "fresh meat". I like to sort by "Overall Fit". This lists what the system thinks is most likely to be a match. It's usually just a basic keyword match-- oh, they both like wine +1, they both are within each other's "distance" settings, or zipcode +2, etc. It's kind of obvious how Yahoo's works, because as I'm browsing I realized, it must have picked up on the fact that I had an attribute of "I speak Spanish" set in my profile because some of the "fits" were girls who were looking for guys who "and/or" spoke Spanish eg. hispanic/latina girls and/or "berkeley" hippies who lived in Guatemala for a semester. --my profile is vague enough, but you get the drift, I like to travel, I speak spanish, like to cook, like wine, etc. so that fits in with 99% of the women here. As an aside (yes, I'm already making this story too long)- what's up with Asian girls liking Jewboys? Are we a fetish for y'all? (not that I mind). So, I'm perusing my "best fits" and up comes a partial headline:
Latina - Outgoing and Pr (you have to click the headline to read the full profile on the site)
... there's more to read here ...
12 Feb 20:16 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
Sat, 10 Feb 2007
Pancho's
I went to Pancho's with Angie tonight for some nachos. We've been sampling the nachos across SF. I wanted her to try Pancho's partially to know if they were as good as I thought, or if I just liked them because of the distance to my place. They were damn good though. I didn't realize how hungry I was*.
10 Feb 22:32 | /food_and_drink | 5 comment(s)
Thu, 08 Feb 2007
Jack and Mooninites
I've been too busy this week to finish updating the blog and adding another dvdroundup. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have it updated. In the meantime- enjoy: 08 Feb 14:24 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 07 Feb 2007
Blog Updates?
I think I'm going to update the blog to this style. The font's a bit larger and it's time for a new color scheme. I think I'll add a flickr badge to the main page, and remove the links to Pandora as well as the calendar thing in the top right corner. Any thoughts? In other thoughts, I realized the old blosxom gif wasn't loading and went to check out the creator's webpage. I hadn't realized (or I forgot) that he was helping out with (or creating) stikkit. Not that I use that site. Click the link for Web 2.0 goodness! (lolz). Another odd thing is that rael's blog uses blogger.com now. Maybe I should take a hint and move my crap over to a db-backend finally, like a Wordpress site. I dunno though, blosxom's so simple to use. 07 Feb 00:10 | /tech | 2 comment(s)
Mon, 05 Feb 2007
Do-over!
I want a Do Over for last week! On Tuesday, I had a massive migraine. That's bad enough, except it was my birthday! My migraines typically last 1-3 days too. So that big one took me until I caught a cold from a coworker on Thurs or Friday. Sucks ass. So I didn't do anything this weekend. Yeah, Superbowl weekend! Ugh. DO OVER! 05 Feb 11:37 | /rants_and_raves | 4 comment(s)
Fri, 02 Feb 2007
Funny, but a tad morbid?
So Kevin went down south to visit his brother. They flew to BA for a few days to have some fun. He sent an email:
Pretty funny. I'm glad those two crazy kids stayed out of trouble. 02 Feb 13:46 | /travel/argentina | 2 comment(s)
Kenneth,
You are the best. We just got back from B.A. and had
a wonderful time. The first night, while sitting in
front of La Cabrera sipping champange, Brad says,
"its like Kenneth died and we are celebrating his life
eating at all his places." It was so damn funny. We
poured a bit of champange on the street for you and
toasted you each sitting. I'll try to get picts out
today or tomorrow. We just got home from the airport.
Scuba diving in Zappalar at 10 am tomorrow. Gotta
unpack, repack and get up early for the lovely 2 hour
drive.
Thu, 01 Feb 2007
Weird Dreams
Man, I keep having these really weird dreams. I've been a type of insomniac of sorts lately maybe it's affecting my dreams. I keep dreaming of opening a bar, or a lounge for all my friends to come out and hang out in. Yeah, that's it. One where people can just be themselves and let gooooo.. . . ya know man, just let the music flow through us, let the music flow man.. But yeah, also, while we're on roller skates. It has to be while we skate. I have this big dream- I'll eventually open my own place, I'll call it Xanadu. Who knew GEne Kelly couldi skate so well? movie version is much funnier. ELO rules you. 01 Feb 20:05 | /humor | 1 comment(s)
Lol Racists?
It's racist to laugh at foreigners, but is it racist to laugh at racist foreigners? Via boingboing, I saw the Debito Rogue's Gallery, "PHOTOS OF PLACES IN JAPAN WHICH EXCLUDE OR RESTRICT NON-JAPANESE CUSTOMERS".
Reading that page reminded me of the time I tried to get into the Korean place for their yummy fried chicken with Bryan. Damn that chicken's good. I need one of my Korean friends to take me back there. But I digress. . .
Oh, for that actual pic, scroll down to "Hotel Sanremo"
Speaking of this topic-- Angie, should I write up the story I told you about interviewing people in Spanish? I'm hesitant to add work stories but I thought it was a good one.
01 Feb 15:00 | /rants_and_raves | 1 comment(s)
Whoa Slow Down
Okay Boston, calm down. People installed LITE BRITES not bombs. Chill the Eff out. You are overreacting, and your DA needs to chill. But what do I know? All I know is Good Ball and Rape 01 Feb 12:09 | /rants_and_raves | 1 comment(s)
