Tue, 29 Apr 2008
See? I wasn't that far off
Even though I was kind of joking with this post, it wasn't that far off from some plans. (and yes, I know I didn't edit my table with a non-coference bias):
Ever been anxious to see the San Antonio Spurs against CSKA Moscow, when they are really playing hard?more here and here. 29 Apr 23:05 | /futbol | 0 comment(s)
Allegedly, that could be on the way.
Nice Long Run Tonight
Another cross-post from the IMIA page, but so what . . . I'll get back to blogging about movies, wine, and tech crap soon enough . . 20080428 Mon - Originally I was going to ride to work today, but I overslept (again, although just slightly) and realized I had a flat tire. So, I took the bus to work knowing I'd have to go on a jog when I got home. Using Gmap Pedometer I plotted out some of my easier (flat) runs that were about 3 miles long. I thought about extending it a bit thinking, well, if I could get as close to 6 miles as possible it'd be great. But, I also knew that running close to 10k would blow my knees out. I wound up deciding on a route to and through part of Golden Gate Park and back home. But during that jog, when I reached the point where I should have turned back I thought- "hrm . . . I should run all the way to the beach (or try at least) and then back up Fulton until my knees blow out, then I can take the bus home to 8th and walk from Fulton to Cali." And for some reason, I actually did it. I was just glad I had my jacket on, because it was cold, windy and wet-foggy for at least half the run, but clearer towards the water. Sure enough, my knees were killing me by the time I got there and as I started to come up Fulton, I knew I could only go a few more blocks (to the next bus stop). So, I hopped on the bus, got off at 8th, and then ran the additional .89 miles back to the apartment. Here's the route I took. It's 4.89 miles, giving me a total of 5.78 miles for the day. That means I'm at 25.7 total. Uggh, I'm short half a mile. I wish I had known that, I would've tried to go another half mile. I'll do it tomorrow or Wednesday depending on how my knees are. btw- if you use gmap-pedometer in firefox, turn off adblock plus for that domain (if you use that plugin). 29 Apr 00:02 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008
Great Sunday Out There in SF!
I'm cross-posting this from my IMIA page, but so what. . . 20080427 Sun - Wow, what great weather we're finally having in SF! Went on a great ride today, 22.5 miles through Golden Gate Park, down to the beach and down to the Lake. I did some extra rolling around once I got back up to the Panhandle, and then back down towards the De Young to check out some dancers:
You know what though? My ride was aweseome (in the Eddie Izzard sense of the word)- only slight wind, I went early enough to avoid any "heat" (heh, SF heat) and I'm in better riding shape so I was able to haul ass a bit more than I'm used to.
But here's the thing- when I was checking my bike pre-ride (tires, chain, etc), I realized the plastic guard thing that sits between the freewheel and the spokes was broken and was kind of stuck between them. I broke the rest of the plastic out of there and realized that suddenly my wheel spun much more easily.
Now I'm wondering when the hell it broke and got stuck down there. Could earlier rides have been easier, or was today just a great all-around ride due to me getting in slightly better shape and having no wind?
btw- I'm not saying I'm in shape, I originally wanted to go 35 miles, but my legs were getting tired. At least I didn't have to "granny-gear" it as much as I do when I go in the Presidio. Wheeeee.
I'm at 80% for my riding. . . . I have 22.4 miles left for IMIA (of biking).
27 Apr 15:31 | /general | 4 comment(s)
Tue, 22 Apr 2008
No Matzoh For Jew!
The SFGate has an article about a matzoh shortage in the Bay Area.
Safeway, Whole Foods, Lunardi's, Lucky and Mollie Stone stores were among those that reported selling out of their supply of the unleavened bread. A reporter's calls found matzo-less stores in San Francisco, San Rafael, Oakland, Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Berkeley and Palo Alto. Even stores that specialize in Jewish products, such as Afikomen Judaica in Berkeley, said they'd run dry. Most grocers said the shelves emptied Friday or Saturday.
Many Jews said it was an unprecedented shortage.
What's a Jew to do? Maybe you can get a rabbi to bless some Saltines or Ritz? It's too bad we can't use corn tortillas . . .
update! wtf, they have stacks of matzoh at the Soup place in One Market:
I should've stolen that stack to sell on craigslist!
22 Apr 12:47 | /general | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 21 Apr 2008
Wheeeee
I hate it when I'm riding up a hill and my leg's cramping and I'm riding into the wind and I'm wondering "why the hell am I on a bike?" But then I get to the top and I'm not wheezing as much as I remember wheezing last week and I see the view and I think, "oh yeah, now I remember. . . "
21 Apr 23:21 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Sun, 20 Apr 2008
Gorgeous Outside
I live in a nice area- I have to remind myself that sometimes.
20 Apr 17:54 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 18 Apr 2008
If the NBA were like Soccer
If the NBA were like Soccer, Boston would have locked up the NBA Cup weeks ago on points alone. Here's this year's RESULTS TABLE. And yes, the Spurs would be above NO. 18 Apr 15:32 | /futbol | 0 comment(s)
Infectious Weirdness
Things have been odd lately- mostly at work. There seems to be very little morale, or maybe people are just in a bad mood. A colleague was telling me that during an interview a candidate she was speaking with had asked how the corporate culture was. She asked - "do people go out for happy hours?". She wanted to say, "yeah, there are a lot, we have them whenever someone leaves."
... there's more to read here ...
18 Apr 00:07 | /rants_and_raves | 6 comment(s)
Tue, 15 Apr 2008
Blah blah, Driving
- Angie shouldn't drive to Petaluma.
- Shane should be careful racing in Union City.
- San Franciscans are having problems.
- Wtf, SF has Driver's Ed in their schools? They can't even teach a history class without a protest, how are they teaching driving? Where I'm from you go and take a class somewhere else, or have your parents teach you. . .
- I'm glad to see Texans still have drive-thru beer joints
- bye bye 35
Mon, 14 Apr 2008
Inevitable Mac Update
Well, I'm starting to get used to the iMac. Whenever I would get confused I'd remember that Cory and Angie had reminded me that it's basically the linux box I'm used to, but just with a shiny UI (and a much faster nicer one too). I'm still taking my time to move things over, like my old mail archives and some other files. I'm not letting iPhoto or whatever it's called index my picture archives (yet) either. Speaking of, I uncovered my backup archives that have the pictures of some of you "cage dancing" in Tahoe. I'll upload them to my site sometime next week. ;) As far as necessary apps, I haven't really gone crazy installing things. I'm glad to have TrueCrypt back on a working machine, and other than that I'm playing with Quicksilver> more and just like on my Windoze box, I have Twhirl, a Twitter app, installed. Twhirl's kinda cool, it's based on the Adobe Air platform, and I've yet to have a problem with it on any platform I use-- although maybe Pridkett will figure out something cool or horrible with it soon. Don't get me started on Twitter, I both loathe it and like it at the same time. That said, let me know if you use it so I can follow you. But so far so good- there are still some minor things I need to figure out like setting up a preferred Terminal and figuring out why the stupid end key doesn't do crap on the keyboard. . . . oh, and get a squid proxy on this. . . etc etc 14 Apr 20:40 | /tech | 1 comment(s)
Fri, 11 Apr 2008
Wine Blog Recommendations
Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines. Dave Tong, who I met through Paul, writes this blog. Add it to your RSS Reader. He updates it pretty regularly and has really insightful posts on some of the places you South Bay Kids love. Case in point: A post about tasting at Cinnabar
Good Wine Under $20 has been another one I've been keeping up with in ye olde Google Reader. I haven't made any purchases recommended by Dr. Debs yet, but I've been ready. Maybe once my cold goes away and if we get a quarterly bonus at work . . . .11 Apr 23:55 | /food_and_drink | 0 comment(s)
Mmm Queso
Damn this girl has a good blog-- Chuck pointed out that The Homesick Texan has a post up about queso. Mmmm Queso. I should try her recipe and do a side-by-side taste test against my standard "ro*tel n velveeta" method.
11 Apr 14:37 | /food_and_drink | 2 comment(s)
Thu, 10 Apr 2008
Damn iPhone
This is more of a question than a rant- Have any of you iPhone users had to reboot your iPhone because you realized you weren't getting any calls, or that the calls you were trying to make weren't connecting? I had this weird problem this morning where I was trying to dial in to a conference call and the phone just pretended it dialed and just sat there. I thought the problem was with the conference line at work, maybe the meeting hadn't started yet or something. But then I tried to dial my desk, and then the local time and nothing was working. So I shut the phone down (which took forever) and turned it back on. Suddenly I had 3 voice mails and some text messages from earlier in the morning. Great. Apparently people had been trying to reach me and couldn't. Has this happened to any of y'all? 10 Apr 13:40 | /tech | 7 comment(s)
Wed, 09 Apr 2008
Takei
09 Apr 15:04 | /links | 0 comment(s)
Protests n Stuff
Man did I pick the right?wrong day to get a cold and need to sleep in before coming in to work. Downtown SF is a madhouse with protesters. The pro-china counter-protesters are just sad too. Their big response to a lot of chants about Free Tibet! is "Liar!" Yeah, you show 'em . . . If you're really bored you can follow torch and protest updates on sfist and twitter.
sftorch
laughingsquid
and sfist Wheee. I just want them to stop making noise and I want to go back home and go to sleep. 09 Apr 14:41 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Sat, 05 Apr 2008
Gross?
One of those "ritual hipsters" won a SCAA Barista award (sfist.com) but check out this "signature drink":
a three-tiered liquid cherry-lime cheesecake concoction. The bottom layer of the drink included a strained and chilled cherry-lime reduction with a mixture of cream cheese, milk and a dusting of powdered sugar comprising the middle layer.I dunno, that drink sounds kind of nasty, but perhaps I should try it before casting stones. I went to Ritual recently (on Easter Sunday) with some out of town guests. It was okay, it's not great. I can pull great shots from my machine just as easily. And I don't require that my guests who visit for an espresso have to bring in a mac laptop and ride a fixie. Oooh, snarky! full press release (despite my snarkiness, the scaa is pretty important in my eyes)
The beverage's top portion featured a cheesecake mix blended with a rich Fazenda Sao Joao coffee.
05 Apr 20:05 | /food_and_drink | 2 comment(s)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008
I have a secret
I have a dirty little secret. I wasn't hiding it but it was bound to come out sooner or later. Yeah yeah, I "switched teams". I bought a Mac. I don't have too much to note about the new machine yet other than it was inanely easy to set up. I had planned on just building a new linux box, lord knows that would have been cheaper, but I dunno, it just kinda happened. I still have my other main machine- "tequila", which Fitz helped me build back in the stic.net days. Yes, 97-98ish. That's right, I've been running a i386 for 10 years (700mHz upgrade in '01 or '02!!) and it is time to upgrade. Although, tequila is still running Fedora Core and is my main proxy w/o problems . . . I guess I have to slow down on my mocking of hipsters now that I have one of their fetish objects. Who knows. I still have more in common with the guy on the right:
04 Apr 17:07 | /tech | 3 comment(s)
Tue, 01 Apr 2008
IMIA Starts Today
As I wrote here, Kevin's IronMan™ In April starts today. I actually woke up on time and rode to work. I'll keep the IMIA updates on this page. If you're interested, it's not too late- email Kevin. 01 Apr 13:19 | /general | 1 comment(s)
