Mon, 27 Oct 2008
Ahoy!
Some of you may be wondering why the hell I've been joking about yacht rock stuff and soft rock for about a week. It's mostly because on Friday, my friend Kenny had a big bday bash. And the theme was "yacht rock". A good time was had by all. Here are some pics (courtesy of inShane):
But there's a set of videos you should watch if you have time. They're all on youtube- just search for "yacht rock" and look for the various episodes. I'll put two of them down below this text.
The one that cracked me up is that 2nd one with Van Halen stealing Ted Templeman away as a producer (below). But the other ones like Toto fighting with Michael McDonald or Hall and Oates getting in a match with Loggins shouldn't be missed.
Now, that said- let's not have any misunderstanding-- there's still a special place reserved in hell for Steely Dan fans. Got it?
Skiddly diddly bop!!
The toto one, just because I like it
27 Oct 20:45 | /humor | 1 comment(s)
Sun, 26 Oct 2008
Torque - *
I finally watched Torque the other night. It had been recommended to me by a trusted friend. The movie is bad. Real bad. Stinky bad.
But you know what? It's so bad it's good. Real good. Stinky good. Drinking games could be (and probably already have been) made for this movie. Superbikes jumping onto trains. Girls having a catfight using their motorcycles. Bad lines. I love it. You will too. I agree that there could've been some nudity though, it was disappointing to not have any. (Yes, I'm still on my kick that American movies need fewer guns and more boobs).26 Oct 12:38 | /movies | 0 comment(s)
Thu, 23 Oct 2008
Random Vids
I'm in a goofy mood or you can watch monaco or you can watch this- 23 Oct 18:41 | /links | 1 comment(s)
Random Favor
I need a favor- Could those of you who have AT&T as your mobile provider look at your bills and tell me (via email, not the comments) which voice plan you have -- (especially those of you who have iphones)? 23 Oct 00:03 | /random | 1 comment(s)
Sat, 18 Oct 2008
What's up with all those Links?
Another FAQ I get from FB people regards the Status Updates. They either ask me about someone else's status and ask how they update so much, or their asking about mine.
A lot of people are updating their status lines via their mobile device. I think people have figured that out now especially as there's usually a little phone icon next to the silhouette.
So how do you do that? You need to activate your mobile device in the FB settings. Or you could just browse to m.facebook.com via your phone. . .
The other question I get is about updates that seem less personal, or more usual, too frequent.
I'm more guilty of the latter.
But no, I'm not sitting on the site all day updating the status. Here's the deal-
I'm one of those dorks who use Twitter (follow me here if you want. Although it's a mild pita, I have my twitter updates go straight to my FB status via twitterfeed.
The links in my status come up because I also have the "articles" (blog posts really) that I marked as 'shared' in google reader hit my twitter account. And if they hit my twitter account, they go to the FB status.
At some point I had a grand scheme to really write more on this blog and start posting on other blogs and have my posts and shared items hit twitter, but I didn't really follow through (hellllllooooo day job). So that was the intent.
But that's why a lot of my status updates are so 'impersonal' at times. It's the shared items from my Google Reader. . ..
Speaking of, if you want to see what I'm reading, or have other suggestions for me- see the side bar below. I'm constantly whittling down my RSS list and then building it back up.
18 Oct 13:15 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
Thu, 16 Oct 2008
Volunteering
I had to pass this along
12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Volunteer To Give Women Breast Exams 16 Oct 15:37 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 15 Oct 2008
How to CYA on Facebook
I meant to post this a while back, sorry.
A while back, a coworker was lamenting about how all the execs were loving Facebook and adding all the employees as friends. Well, not all of us, but managers and higher. We thought that was kind of poopy because if you denied a VP-level person as a friend . . well, maybe they'd take it the wrong way.
But on the opposite end- what about if you felt pressured enough to add them, but then realized you don't want that person to see your status updates and pics (or wall posts, etc).
I had told my coworker that I had already set up lists to deal with all of this and wrote a quick tutorial on how to alter the settings.
But it came up again as more friends had gotten on FB and were mentioning the same problem, so maybe you'll find this useful.
In a nutshell I did two things.
... there's more to read here ...
15 Oct 20:49 | /tech | 3 comment(s)
Mon, 13 Oct 2008
I'm a bit disappointed
My dad mentioned something to me when I was in SA and completely forgot about it until now.
He said that SA Express News readers voted the Olive Garden as the best Italian restaurant in San Antonio. Are you f$*%ing kidding me? I thought he was joking, or hoped rather. But nope, here's the reader's survey There are so many things wrong with the selections. Uggh. I'm a bit disappointed.13 Oct 16:43 | /food_and_drink | 4 comment(s)
Wed, 08 Oct 2008
Reunion Fun
Well, I'm back from the AHHS Reunion trip. I had a really good time (better than I thought I would). Most of the events were a blur, but here are some random thoughts and recollections (and advice?): 1) I had a camera with me and I thought I took hundreds of pics all weekend. That wasn't the case- I barely used it. I think I wound up putting about 20 pics in an album on Facebook. 2) I thought I did a damn good job mingling at the bar on Friday night and at the event on Saturday night. Well, now that I've seen some of my friends's pics- I seemed to have missed a lot of people. That's kind of a drag, I wanted to give at the least a hello to a lot of them. 3) The girls looked better than ever (but of course you knew I'd say that) 4) The smartest thing I probably did was to schedule outside events- I met Ross for breakfast on Friday so we could catch up. I also got to hang out with the Lauras and catch up as well. If/when you're going to a reunion, do that same thing if you have time-- schedule lunches/breakfasts/coffee whatever with your classmates. Or, bring them along to your parents' regular burger night post-reunion if they're still in town like Kevin, Laura and Tenny were. Like I noted before, I thought I had mingled well, but didn't so I was lucky to have scheduled things where I did have time to talk. 5) I also got to spend some quality time with some non-reunion folk- most notably my parents, my replacement™, Megan, Sarah, Chuck & Sam, and got to do a quick catch-up with Golly who I didn't know lived in SF for a bit before moving back to SA (she has a kick-ass store where those of you in SA should go shop). 6) I forget I'm in a bubble out here and was surprised that a lot of people weren't online- ie at least facebook. But from the past week's worth of activity, they almost all are now. Not everyone I know sits in front of a computer all day like me and I forget that. 7) No, I don't have any crazy "guess who I made out with in the women's restroom" stories, so stop asking me that. 8) No, the hostess of a popular tv entertainment "news" show wasn't there- so sorry, didn't get any star gossip. 9) Re: #6 above, I also rarely have business cards on me. I remembered them on Saturday, but only had one on Friday night. I did have the foresight to order some cards from moo cards but they didn't arrive until today (or after I had left). Take cards with you if you go to an event-- I used to think it was cheesy until more than one person asked me for one.
Wed, 01 Oct 2008
Going To TX
I'm going to San Antonio tomorrow. I'll be there for a few days to attend my (wait for it. . . . . wait for it . . . ) High School reunion. Holy crap! I'll have some 20 year old mullet pics for you soon! No TPC trip this time though:
01 Oct 11:20 | /travel/tx | 3 comment(s)
