Posts from — February 2008

Although this is geared to iPhone users, this article on crankingwidgets.com has some pretty good iTunes playlist ideas. It’s helping me keep my stuff a bit more organized.

I tried watching some of the Pan-Pacific soccer tourney that was played in Hawai’i last weekend. I wound up getting really annoyed that the whole thing was on astrotruf and I wound up changing the channel because it was driving me bonkers watching the ball skip around from errant passes. Shocking, I know- I usually will watch almost any game, and I even had a cold. It turns out I wasn’t the only one that was annoyed- check it:(from cnnsi.com in turn quoting the LaTimes)

The artificial surface at Aloha Stadium was another contentious issue. “We are very disappointed with the field surface,” Garber said. “Our players said it was perhaps the worst surface they had played on.”

The weird thing was that as I was watching the game I thought- of all places, why would Hawaii have turf? They have ideal growing conditions? Am I wrong about that? Or maybe it’s a budget thing.

Everyone knows I like hanging out with ‘ma [sic] peeps’. And everyone knows I like cookin’ and cookin’ with my peeps. But what happens when I get to do that in a commercial kitchen? I get a big ol’ smile on my face.

Yoko, Soo-ah, Helen and I met up on Sunday to cook in a restaurant up in Marin. The idea was to get together and have dinner, but also to each cook enough food to be able to send the others home with a crap load ton of leftovers. Let’s just say, I’m eating well this week.

Yoko made a kick ass curry dish. Helen made duk bok ki (which I’ve been craving- but that’s another story). Soo-ah made a metric tonne of baked ziti, and I made beef empanadas and later some steak and veggies. (and Rick, Max and Luis put up w/ us).

All in all, an excellent night. I just wish we had more time to gab- but maybe we’ll just need to meet more regularly.

Here’s how I made my empanadas:

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Well, apparently it was a 12 hour day as I just got home. -I had to launch another phone project tonight- I took the ever-interesting 38 Geary bus to get home.

Here’s what I learned tonight from one man:

Paul McCartney is hands-down the richest cat in rock and roll. He lives in either London or England.

-James Brown died two Christmases ago

-Aids was man-made as there are no homo monkeys. It’s from a lab (the virus, not the homo-monkey, which doesn’t exist).

-Africa, of all the countries, has the most resources (and no homo-monkey). Note: I didn’t know it was now a country.

-HWBush was in the CIA, and that’s how he helped the Bin Laden family. Of course this is leading to Obama’s demise, just like the other martyrs they assasinated and why McCain will win.

-People used to live to be 900 years old. It said so in the bible, but Michaelangelo was just a contractor and was told to make the baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary look European, but before that all that water and air was pure. And that’s why people lived to be 800, 900 years old.

After that last line came out, I said, “like Methusela!”.

And the man said, “Exactly, I’m one of his descendants. You must have recognized that. Most people like you on the bus ignore me, but you’re kind and different, even if you don’t believe that ‘they’ caused 9/11 and will get Obama. I don’t know why you didn’t turn around earlier and just ignore me. Peace be with you brother.”

And he got off the bus.

I just like to say the name Methusela whenever I get the chance. But it got me the peace for the ride home. So I got that going for me.

So here’s a haiku for you readers-

800 years old

That’s how old man lived to be

the bible said so

Of course if I were in a bad mood I could’ve written:

you smell it on me

whiskey hidden in my coat

don’t talk to strangers

Well, it took me longer than normal to get to work today as there were no express buses running because it’s a holiday. I had to take the normal riff-raff bus which took forever.

Once I got downtown I thought I’d get some coffee as I’m already running a bit late, 5 more mins wouldn’t make a difference. But three places I like were closed because it’s a holiday.

When I got to our building I saw some “engineers” waiting outside because they couldn’t get in the door. They must not have read the email saying to open the doors you’d need your badge because the building would be locked because it’s a holiday. As a side note- should I be worried about someone’s code for work if they can’t figure out the door badge and elevator badge thing?

I think our two floors are the only ones with people on them today because it’s a holiday.

And I’m not sure the AC/heat (HVAC, as the kids say) is on either because it’s a holiday.

I’m not that bitter- I’m glad to have a job. I think I’m just frustrated that I didn’t get to see all the usual bus hotties.

It’s a ghost town outside. I wonder if I could’ve driven and gotten decent parking. . . .

I both love and hate newspaper sites that allow people to post comments with the stories posted. To me, it’s both funny and sad. (Tragicomic?). I mean, it’s one thing to browse the Rants n Rave section of Craigslist- over there, you expect the racist hate and just well, ranting.

But it’s a bit different when you read something on The Chronicle’s site and see comments like that. Well, maybe it’s just me, but I expect Chronicle readers to be “chronicle-y”.

So when I see comments to the story about Newsom going to Sunnydale (the projects) like “Bulldoze it and start over” or “it’s the residents’ fault that the place is so run down (or that they burned some Dave Matthews Center down . . . I kind of chuckle and say, oh my, how rude- who knew these people read the Chron?

But then again, maybe I’m just laughing that someone burned down something connected to Dave Matthews. . . .

Newsom took the group to the play structure at Sunnydale built by the city with money contributed by the Dave Matthews Band after the group played a show in San Francisco.



The structure has repeatedly been burned and vandalized by residents, and Newsom was irate to see the damage on a visit last summer. At the time, he angrily called Gregg Fortner, director of the San Francisco Housing Authority, which proved the beginning of the end of Fortner’s tenure as public housing chief in San Francisco.

Some comments:

• veggiegrrrl wrote: bulldoze. start over.

I thought veggies were nice?

• ArturoE wrote: How about this solution: evict each person, end the public housing, and send each head-of-household away for a check for $50,000. No more money spent after these buyouts on public housing. Hopefully, they spend their money getting a decent apartment where they can afford it (like Oklahoma). If they spend it on Newports or Air Jordans (or worse) instead, that’s their choice.

Hey, if Oklahoma didn’t suck, Texas would fall into the Gulf of Mexico . .

The trailer for Chocolate is up on twitchfilm.net. It’s a new Thai movie, and it looks pretty cool. It has the same director from Ong Bak

Cinematical has a post about it too. Check it out.

Thanks to Fitz for pointing out this story and video report about the “dancing” waitresses at La Mariposa in San Antonio.

La Mariposa, located at the intersection of Guadalupe and Trinity streets, is fast becoming known as a well-liked place to eat – namely for its provocatively dancing waitresses.

Sounds like the Cafe con Piernas in Chile a little bit. But that story quickly gets in to “OMG” mode due to the complaints people have about the place. One person in particular, Grace Hernandez, hates it that all the city workers EAT LUNCH THERE. Grace Hernandez sounds a little uptight. Actually, more than uptight, she should stfu. ANYWAY . . .

They also add the requisite quotes about minors eating there. OMG WHO WILL THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?

Lol . . . I’m just waiting for the comments from Marc asking if they have puffy tacos . . .

This video I saw off the Tokyo Mango site This is the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a long time. And coming from me, that says a lot.

It may not be worksafe (nsfw, nws as the kiddies say) for you:

I like all the post-superbowl ad reviews, even if I disagree with the effictiveness of some of them, or the scores they’re given. But I do agree with this comment:

31) Salesgenie Panda. Now they’ve got an animated panda named Ling Ling, doing a Charlie Chan voice, pimping for the sales-lead site. In most workplaces, including mine, that wouldn’t be allowed.

The quote is from info week.

I’m sure the Amp fat guy jump starting the car w/ his nip clips was big here in SF. . . .