Kenneth rambling about food, movies, wine, coffee, sports, travel or whatever else he thinks of

I normally hate Yelp but I think I’m going to give them a second try for two reasons. My friend Jeff showed me that he uses their mobile app and has a full set of restaurants that he’s bookmarked to try. And I updated my celly.

Now that I’ve upgraded my phone, the app performs so much better for me so the ease of use is bearable to me. And after talking to Jeff briefly about how his bookmarks are both places he’s noted to try as well as those his friends have bookmarked or recommended to him. That’s was enough to convince me to try it again.

The site (and company) still have problems and annoy me but I’m interested in this bookmarking feature. Do any of you use it?

it’s a bad blurry phone pic, and I didn’t do a duck/kissyface/myspace pose… but here ya go- me in my manpris:

Confession: I wear manpris – yeah capri pants for men. I wear them when I commute on my bike. They show off my muffin top quite nicely.

This even after I continually mocked certain women in SF for wearing capris (like here and here). At least mine don’t have that horrible cuff on the bottom.

And no, I’m not sure why I’m in the mood for these weird confessions. Just roll with it.

I must watch too many cop shows. (I’m still in the 2nd season of The Wire btw…) Instead of laughing at this DirecTV ad, or being offended and wondering about the state of Russians in popular media…  I now look at this ad and wonder if the two women in it will show up dead in the next ad.  Too many cop shows and movies.

I’m just glad the guy kisses the giraffe instead of getting in a meat-and-potates fight with Viggo in a sauna.

I saved the transcript because of recent conversations my sis-in-law had with AT&T.

I wound up calling them while I was chatting because the chat service that you’ll read below took FOREVER…

backstory- I ordered a cell phone for my employees at work. When I ordered it (over the phone) I said I needed to call foreign countries in Asia, please make sure you enable that. They said they had, but of course, they hadn’t. So last night when one of my coworkers tried to call Thailand and Singapore… he couldn’t.

btw- to chat w/ an agent, you have to log in to the site (I use the business site), provide the business account # and some other info before the chat button is enabled. (You’ll see the agent asks for those #s)

Here’s the transcript:

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Just a reminder kids- they’re helmets, not yarmulkes…

This post is dedicated to the goofball crunchy-granola rider who ran a stop sign in GG Park yesterday and almost got her butt flattened by a … . wait for it…. Volvo station wagon. That is all.

Kids- don’t do what uncle Kenny does, do what he says… or something. Change your espresso machine’s grouphead gasket and shower screen. It’s not hard to do. I shouldn’t have gone so long between changing mine out.

Here’s an article on how to do it.

I hope this doesn’t means that I have to give up my passport. A while back Paul R was teasing me saying that I’ve been in California long enough to be a Californian.

His definition is “you have to have lived here long enough to go through two (economic) downturns.” (I think he formed this rule, aka ‘Paul Rule #34′ after the Defense downturn).  He said I qualified because I went through the Tech Bust and the Housing Bust.

Either way, it’s disturbing as I identify as a Texan…What say you?

or is it vol 486? I can’t remember…

Hypocrite act(s): I try to get my coworkers (ex- and current) to ride to work, show them the (semi-hidden) garage rack, etc. But I get annoyed when a new company* moves in to the building and most of them ride and take up all the rack space downstairs.

*turns out it’s an “international non-profit … looking to make a more social and environmentally sustainable world” … they all try to ride to work daily and that’s why the racks are full…  uggh hippies

Speaking of hippies- SF wants to ban bottled water now

Some bad snapshots from last week…