Posts from — September 2005

Not that this is a shock, but shit man, SF whiners suck. They finally got the ski jump up today in PacHeights yet people are still bitching about it.

“This is an absolute fiasco,” said Lynn Noonan, a clinical psychologist with an office in the neighborhood. “This is a bunch of narcissistic yuppies putting on an absolute stunt.”

Uh, no shit Lynn. Commie.

On a side note I love google.

cool pics though. more more more more! more more

Wow, big premiere for Veronica Mars last night. There was so much story in that one episode it was hard to keep up. Veronica’s just too cute. And Charisma? Uhh, whoa. Kenny like.

Did anyone catch CSI:NY? I don’t normally watch that show but saw the first half last night. WTF is up with the greek chick’s crimefighting kit? Yesterday she pulled out a fuggin’ TRICORDER (yes, like on Star Trek) and analyzed a guy’s bra (part of the crime) to see if it had diamonds in it. WTF? Tricorders? CSI:NY sucks btw. Most grating accents evar.

San Jose ‘Quakes have playoff games coming up, anyone interested in going?

I almost didn’t want to write about this, but I thought I would after all. Last Friday, Kliewer, Nate and I ate at the “Super Secret Sushi Place” ™ – or S³. I’m not going to tell you the name of it or where it is though. It is near my house and a few of my friends have already been there. But I hadn’t. I tried to go a few times, but not that hard. Now I’m mad that I didn’t try harder earlier, because after just one visit, I’m hooked.

Here was the rumor on the place beforehand:

It’s run by a Japanese couple. If they don’t feel like working that day, they’re closed. If the husband didn’t like the fish at the market that morning, he doesn’t get any and they’ll be closed. Maybe they want to go to Japan for a vacation- they’re closed. Maybe there’s decent fish, but the weather’s good and the husband wants to go play golf- they’re closed.

There’s not really a sign on the place. There’s a light bulb behind a small noren on the outside. The place is tiny. Sometimes there are a few people milling about outside- sometimes for a long time- which corresponds to what I heard about the place being tiny. I also heard that they didn’t have a menu in English (more on this below). So in my head- I’m thinking “Coool!” but I’m also worried that this tiny place would be like going to a (polite)sushi-nazi’s restaurant should I ever get in, and once/if I did, I wouldn’t know what to order and would get banned!

But that wasn’t the case at all. The three of us ventured down on foot with a backup plan in place should we not get in. Everything was set. We got in early, the light was on! and we walked in to see a tiny place with a small table to the right of the door with a family of three already seated and a small bar area with a couple already seated at the far end. We asked the owners if they had room for the three of us, and they said we could take the seats at the end of the bar (leaving two seats left – to my right- at the bar). We quickly sat down. So far so good! And great timing too.

Not more than a minute later a couple walked in and started to make for the last two seats, but the husband/wife team said that they were expecting a couple any minute and that they couldn’t have those seats. Perhaps they should try later. And the answer was no, they couldn’t make reservations for a specific time. Just try later (like 2 hours) or another night. Wow. A few minutes after that the other, expected, couple did show up and they took the last seats.

I should note that space is tight here, people can hear each other’s conversations and that’s a good thing in this case. Everyone wanted to talk to the owners about things and that lent it the cool neighborhood feel. We hadn’t even ordered yet and we already felt like we were eating in someone’s house.

The customer at the end of the bar had just come back from Japan on a business trip and was telling the owners about that. He had brought back some real wasabi root in his luggage for the owners. The chef was even preparing it with his sharkskin grater! Nate and I could see the counter so we knew what was going on. It appeaered they were in the mood to share the wasabi with us too, so we knew things were going to go well.

We got our food and needless to say it was fantastic. The pieces of fish were very high quality (and large) and the few rolls we did have were exquisite too. Normally I don’t notice this in rolls at most restaurants- but these rolls were able to present the quality of the simple ingredients in a great balance. For example, we knew the salmon was great from the sashimi we were eating, but in the salmon roll we had the quality of the avocados stood out in equal parts to the fish.

We wound up eating a lot, but in a good way. At first we were worried about not ordering enough because there’s a fifteen dollar minimum for each person. Not that that mattered, I would’ve kept on eating had they not stopped me. But we noticed that there really was a list of rules for the restaurant behind the chef. And the minimum was a rule. Some of the others we learned from the couple to my right- to them, the most important rule was that you can’t come more than two times in a one week period.

All in all a great place, and I look forward to going back. And it was a great Friday. You can’t beat having good food and good conversation with good friends.

Angie: Hi, I’m Angie. Woo woo, look at me, I started a blog! Woo woo!

Kenneth: Cool (goes to read it)

300 years later . . .

Kenneth: d00d, update your bl0g nshit mofugga!

Angie: d00d! stfu! I’m busy/sick/whatevs

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I’ve been busy at work. Sorry for this delay, but I was stewing over this Monday morning.

Wtf man. Doris Roberts? Everybody Loves Raymond? Bullshit. NO one loves Raymond. That show is the stench of mediocrity. This blog is funnier than that show. Well, maybe that’s a stretch, but still.

Wtf were the Emmy voters thinking? No Shield, no Veronica Mars, no Deadwood!? How can you give James Spader an award over Ian McShane? That’s such shit.

I’m gonna have to raise a glass of bourbon towards Swearingen and hope to shout Huzzah! next year.

So, not to end on a downer- Kristen Bell is the cutest evar. Yes, ever w/ an “a”. EVAR. And no, I don’t work for the SA Express News.

I’m not a drunk, but I play one on TV.

I haven’t looked at the site in a while, but now and then one should review the rules. It’s hard work defending our freedoms.

From mysanantonio.com (The SA Express News’ site)

Hundreds gather for Saints tickets


Web Posted: 09/14/2005 02:10 PM CDT


Tom Orsborn and Tim Griffin

San Antonio Express-News



Hundreds of football fans, many of them irritated by long lines and rumors of ticket gorging by brokers, congregated outside the Alamodome today as tickets to three New Orleans Saints games went on sale.

Isn’t the term gouging as in price gouging or ticket gouging?

To eat gluttonously, or To extort from or swindle, the r or u make a difference. One of you grammarian-types need to write me- as I can’t write those two reporters, their email addresses aren’t on the story (unlike SF Chronicle authors).

One of my online buddies is making progress in his blogging software/improvement to PyBlosxom. He wrote an update and I was following some of his links after reading his update. One of the ones from the CherryPy site was an article written by an ex-coworker (from CollabNet). Weirdness. I guess it’s a small world after all. But anyway, I hope Patrick gets the kinks ironed out and that I get my hands on a PostgreSQL db on this server . . . .

Jodi and I went to see the Quakes host Chivas USA on Saturday. I’ve revised my suck-stance: Chivas USA sucks- they lost 0-3. I’m glad the Quakes won. I’m a Quakes fan and was there to see them win, but I have a soft spot for Chivas as I lived in Guadalajara.

But Chivas USA is a big stinking turd of a team. They played dirty-ball (two minor “fights” and 3 or 4 cards?). Even Ramon Ramirez was a dickwad. Uggh. The weird thing is how Chivas fans show up to root for Chivas USA. I’m sure that’s what MLS wanted but these ain’t the Chivas fans I used to know.

At least the Chivas/Chivas USA fans know about soccer and know when to boo a bad call and clap for good plays. The majority of the crowd was still the Saturday night soccer-team babysitters- 2 or 3 parents that take a group of about 10 kids to the game and let them run wild. Then the parents stand up and talk to each other like they’re networking. You can tell they’re not the kind of parents who ever go to pro sports events because of the way they stand up and block views during plays, their timing of their concessions visits and the fact that they leave early (a deifinte no-no in Chuck F’s book, which I adopted long ago).

Okay, rant over- I had a good time, I’m glad I saw a gooddecent game w/ good company and a good result for the Quakes.

Oh and during the game, Texas beat Ohio State. \m/ Hook ‘Em!! \m/

wrt to “teh suck” I decided *I* can say something sucks, but if I’m a player I can’t refer to another team that way (how’s that Jeff?).

Okay, some follow-ups to the past two updates.

Jeff pointed out in an email called Hello pot, it’s the kettle that he loved reading my OU and Soccer updates back to back. Okay, so he’s right- I can’t say OU Sucks (which it does) then get on Donovan’s case because he said the same thing about Mexico. So obviously I have some thinking to do. Although Cuatro sent me an email with a nice quote:

High world rankings and finishing first in our qualifying group make me think the US Soccer Team is becoming a major player. Comments like those from Donovan lead me to believe we have a ways to go. We just kicked their ass, and everybody knows it. Now would be the time for understatement or even praise for a defeated opponent, not future bulletin board material for a team we could well meet in later rounds of the WC.


Here in the American football haven of Texas, we have a saying- “when you get in the endzone, act like you’ve been there before.”

Another thing- was that I meant to elaborate more on the Borgetti quote. His pre-game quote on the game playing style turned out to be exactly how Mexico, not the US, played.

So, I have some meditating to do on “the suck” for a few days. . .