Posts from — August 2006

As we all know, I hate SBC (1 2). Well, I still hate them.

On Friday my DSL line went down, so I opened up a trouble ticket through Speakeasy to have them look into it. They did some troubleshooting and said there was 0db noise on that line now . . . odd.

Odd indeed- so I looked downstairs at the phone junction boxes for the apartment building. It looks like a tech may have messed with one when/if one came out to hook up phone service for the new person who’s moving in to an aparment downstairs. Sucks.

So now I need to be home tomorrow morning while a tech comes out to check it out. Hopefully it’s a Covad tech and not a SBC/Pacbelltard. Uggh.

I’m not a happy camper w/o my ‘net!

Speaking of happy, HAPPY HOUR IS FRIDAY. Bitter End on Clement @ 5th/6th Ave. See ya there.

Via Bryan. . . who got me started on this

Ok so ya “White Pants”.

I have a friend who does work for me and one day at the office he walks up to me and says “you know about girls that wear white pants right”?


Not knowing what the hell he was talking about I inquired. He says if a girl is wearing white pants it means they take it “in the butt”(ITB).


So I chuckled about it and the day continued. We headed to lunch and low and behold white pants everywhere! That’s when it gets funny; you cannot ever get it out of your head.


And so now I have spread this as much as I can and it seems to be viral, the bay area is now infected (thanks Kenneth). I have heard many stories about it too which is great because they usually involve someone’s mom or any other awkward situation you might think of.


Oh and if a guy is wearing white pants and you tell him this there is a good chance you will never see those pants again unless oh never mind.

Taken from the bus this morning! Two white pants in one frame!

Difficulty: 10, Originality: 9.

I giggled the rest of the way in to work. ITB!!

Mr Winkle may have a run for his money with Pug Spock! Count Pugula cracked me up. . . yeah, I’m really tired this week. Can you tell?

Wow! Wow!

The only thing common is that he wanted to conquer the world by using force and I would like to do that by the food and service I provide.

I can’t wait to go there when I go to India next. I hope Zagat’s gives it a good review. I wonder what their specialties are. . . .

I’ll write a full report. . .

I won! Although the PM decided to give out nano’s to the people in 2nd and 3rd place too. The funny part is that the person who he thought was in third wasn’t really. The DBA’s had actually provided another name. Wheeeee. Maybe I should take this as a warning sign? Hrm, foreshadowing?

Anyway, I’m still swamped with work, so the next update I have – once I finally getting around to posting something- will be another DVD roundup. Then I’ll update the CSS and try to fix the headlines thing on the far right (where it reads “15 (or 10) most recent”) which busted sometime recently.

Okay, I took your comments from here and made some changes. Helvetica’s gone, link underlines are gone, background is white, font’s a bit larger.

CHECK IT OUT

Better? Worse? Easier to read? Who the hell cares?

Btw- work’s been super busy so I haven’t had time to write up much. Hopefully it’ll be getting better soon. And no, I still haven’t heard anything about my ipod.

Normally I hate Steely Dan. But lately the duo has been pretty damn funny. They’ve sent out two funny press releases recently. The second one is here and is for Wes Anderson.

(on removing stuff from soundtracks)
Same thing for the mandolins and the twelve-string stuff and the harpsichord, they’re out. You yourself may be partial to those particular instruments. We’re not. Remember, we saw .Tom Jones. in its original theatrical release when we were still in high school, we had to listen to .Walk Away Renee. all through college and we fucking opened for Roger McGuinn in the seventies, so all that “jingle-jangle morning” shit is no big thrill for us, OK?

Is this annoying? I was thinking about changing the main aspects of the blog’s css. No, I haven’t validated it yet, so chill. I’m just wondering about the font in particular and the background colors after that.

Well, I said I would write more about S^3, (aka the Super Secret Sushi Place), after my last trip there a week ago with Bryan. But you know what? I think I’m diluting it’s magic by talking about it. Sure it’s damn good. Sure I’ll tell you where it is – although I prefer to go there and show you in person- although a lot of people know where it is already. But anyway- the point is, I don’t have much to add. It’s still damn good. I’m more interested in figuring out what the old rule #3 was. So, let’s have a contest to “guess” what it was, and I’ll go by there and try to see if I can read the sign through the tape.

Let’s keep the comments in this post, even though the other post was starting to get some guesses: “Don’t talk about sushi club” (Bartopolis) and “No Vomiting Allowed” (CoryAnonymous).

By the way, I’m starting to feel a bit guilty that I never post about Chin’s sushi- I go there about 50 times as much as the s^3p.

The pics are all up on my flickr account, under the s3 tag.

Although unrelated, I did get to go to Burma Superstar again recently. I hadn’t been there in forever. I usually pass it up in order to go to my beloved Q because the lines are so long. But as Bryan was here, we wound up staying in line – or having beer across the street- until we finally got in before they closed for the night. And you know what? Worth the wait!