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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
My dear friend Elliot and my mother both picked the same fine day to get born (abit many years apart). I made the unfortunate mistake of going to Elliot’s party and managing to get drunk enough to not even remember this photo or how exactly I ended up in that pose.
My evening started early as I arrived an hour early to Mama’s Kitchen in Belletown so that I could reserve a massive table for 14. After having hardly eaten I started drinking early, and as other arrived and the party being my memory fades slowly into delightful blur.
Aside from a late lunch with Brien and a showing of X-Men 3 at my place it’s been a pretty quiet day at home. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 just started and I’ve been catching up on watching all of Season 2
again before I go dig into the new season.
Starucks: the faceless mermaid
Saturday, September 30th, 2006OK - I admit it, I’m addicted to Starbucks Frappaccino’s and their little cousin the Doubleshot. This morning I picked one up at the corner store that had a crease in it’s label. I think the ‘new’ logo is neat:
Fun with friends
Saturday, September 30th, 2006Tonight was unexpectedly populous at Le Cinema Sparks! I had planned on doing a movie showing with a few friends, and it ended up being quite the showing of The Chronicles of Riddick in hi-def for a large number of people. Thank you so much to Ben, Elliot, Ian, Keenan, Rob, Shawna, and Troy for the fantastic evening and great company.
Ian, Ben, and Keenan joined me for dinner at Pho 900 on Broadway, where we all made the bzzzt mistake of bzzzzzzt drinking iced bzzt Vietnamese coffee and having Pho. The Pho was fantastic, but the sugary deliciousness of the coffee was significantly more caffeinated than planned.
After dinner we all went back to my place and were joined by the rest of the crowd for some drunken movie madness. Now it’s past two in the morning, and I’m left alone, somewhat buzzed, and very awake still from the caffeine with nothing but an exhausted puppy and my beloved TNG to keep me company.
10 Simple pleasures
Friday, August 25th, 2006My friend Jason has gone limp and let the meme-o-sphere make him it’s bitch. Luckily this involved putting up a post that’s all about his 10 favorite simple pleasures in life that I enjoyed reading quite a bit.
Why not follow suit? I’m sure my readers could come up with many reasons why not to follow suit, however I’ve decided to preemptively ignore them. Without further ado here is my list of simple things that make my life happy, and presented in no order whatsoever.
–Fatherhood - Skype has changed my life in more ways than I could possibly list here. There is just something fantastic to be said about having a rough day and being able to come home to 70 pounds of unconditional love.
–Caramel Apple Pie Ala Mode - The best comes from Charlies on Broadway, but I’ll take any and all CAP that I can get! Warm carmelly crust, sweet and sloppy apple innards, and that cool creamy ice cream melting into it all just tickles my fancy just fine!
–Technology that “just works” - I love technology, but when it’s not working I get more frustrated than I often care to admit. There is something magical (and highly elegant behind the scenes) of anything that just works.
Perfect examples are my iPod (for instance plugging it into my Powerbook or my Xbox 360 produces the exact results I’m looking for with no intervention), stereo equipment, land line phones, keyless entry for my car, and the 100’s of other little things that are so technically honed at this point we all take them for granted.
When technology works correctly it blends into the rest of your life and adds functionality without taking away from the experience. What more of a simple pleasure could you list?
– Watching movies on my couch - My life seems to revolve around this particular activity for long stretches of time. It’s not really the movies, the couch, or any one thing about the experience - but I would rather be curled up on the couch with Skype watching a good movie than just about anything else.
Heck - I even prefer watching movies at home to the theater 90% of the time. I’ll only go see the rarest of big blockbusters (or Snakes on a Plane) in the theater, but usually between the people, the distractions, and the noise I would rather be at home.
On that topic I just set up an email list that’s all about movies, and watching them. If you know me, and live in Seattle then shoot me an email or leave a comment and I’d be happy to set you up on the announce list for “Le Cinema Sparks”.
– Getting stoned - What can I say, I truly appreciate being able to completely unwind once in a while and just get baked. The old (and more career-oriented) I get the less often I find myself able to do this, but it does not stop me from treasuring it whenever I do.
– Clinique skin care - I’m hooked. Brien got me into it, and as silly as the idea seems I just feel like a happier person when my skin is all soft and moisturized. I guess it’s the 45 year old women that lives in the back of my head and yells at kids to get off her lawn.
– Console gaming - If I spend too much time watching movies on my couch then I have two problems because I spend nearly as much time laying on my couch playing video games. Oblivion, Dead Rising, and The New Super Mario Bros are all current obsessions.
– An abundance of information in our society - I love information, and love to learn. I can’t count how many hours I spend on my couch just wandering around the internet absorbing all of it’s goodness. Skittering around on Wikipedia, jumping from RSS feed to RSS feed, and watching human knowledge slowly present and organize itself.
– Hanging out with good friends - The older I get the more I realize how valuable true friends are, and how precious they are to me. Even those friends I don’t see terribly often still add value and meaning to my life and I really enjoy spending time with them, particularly when I can combine spending time with a good friend with other simple pleasures on this list.
– Good Science Fiction - I don’t care if it’s written, audio only, or a full movie experience: I just love good sci-fi. Some personal favorites are Cory Doctorow, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick. Curling up with a convincing and innovative view of the future is the first step to towards thinking about and creating that future. Let’s get on it people!
Having had a rather stressful week I think I’ll be trying to indulge in a number (or quite possibly all) of these this weekend. I have my dad passing through town on Sunday, but I have pretty much all day on Saturday earmarked for the majority of this list.
Well that was fun
Sunday, July 30th, 2006So it’s 3:00am and I can’t sleep because of a deadly concoction known as a Woodland Park Zoo that is served at Siam on Lake Union. It’s a massive drink with nearly every kind of liquor known to man. I’m actually shocked I was able to drink most of one with dinner.
Aside from trashed and insomniac I’m really happy with today. I got to see a lot of my friends and we all had fun watching 5 (yes count them, five!) Milla movies enjoying the crisp new frontal assault known as my speakers. I was pleased to see many of my friends having a chance to meet other friends - it’s nice to pull social groups together like that.
On that note I’m going to put down the powerbook and make another attempt at sleeping. That or go watch Pitch Black which I have been itching to see for a while.
It’s my geeky birthday!
Saturday, July 29th, 2006I’m am proud to say that I’m now a year older, a year wiser, and a year closer to becoming immortal 
I’m technically not 25 until Monday, but hell - the celebration starts today.
25 is such an interesting number. It can be expressed as 5^5, marks 25% of a century, marks what many would consider to be true adulthood, and in general is a fun word to say. Go ahead - say it: twenty-five. Say it again, luxuriate on the crisp start and sharp end of twenty. Feel the word five erupt from your mouth, like marching orders barked by a drill sergeant. Don’t you feel better now?
I’ve got a ton of people descending upon my place for food, fun, movies featuring my loving Milla, and perhaps a few noise complaints from my neighbors. Fun times should be had by all. OR ELSE!
Update: As my father has so well pointed out I meant 5×5, not 5^5. Minus 2 geek points for me!
Still got it
Monday, July 10th, 2006Even with a few extra pounds in the trunk I am pleased to say I somehow still have it going on. While waiting outside the Green Papaya (a fabulous Vietnamese restaurant on Capitol Hill) with Skype while my friend Alissa got us nummy sandwiches for dinner I got cruised. Now when I say cruised I mean newspaper delivery guy hanging out in front of the restaurant for 2 minutes before coming over with an obvious boner to say hello. He then proceeded to fumble around trying to make a conversation for several minutes finally giving up to my somewhat tepid response.
Mind you - before I let all this nonsense get to my head I’m not that hot and I have to remember that he was a little scary, not to mention not seeming like the brightest fork in the cutlery drawer.
Must be the dog that still brings them in… Good boy!
A new look
Monday, June 19th, 2006
A quick update from a rather event filled few days. Last Thursday it was hot outside - so hot (to my body that was adjusted to the cold and rain) that it pushed me over the edge on going for a new look. As any viewer will be able to tell this new look involves significantly less hair! I shaved off most of my head, and then trimmed up my facial hair quite significantly.
After the fact Brien accused me of stealing his look, which I decry, but regardless he’s taking it as a point of flattery. To be honest it is kind of similar, but I didn’t even think of it when I was doing my whole hair modification process.
On the topic of Brien he celebrated his 26th birthday on Saturday. There was much eating of sushi and drinking of fine beverages. I unfortunately got a but sick to my stomach so I ended up leaving shortly before midnight, but he had a good time and given that it was his birthday that’s pretty much all that mattered.
Aside from Oblivion and working on a few web projects I did rather little over the weekend. It was a lot of relaxation and just catching up on quality time with Skype and my couch.
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The end of the road
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006Last night was quite the experience. My co-workers took me out to Chez Gaudy for my goodbye party from work. The evening started at 6pm, and involved lots of drinking and madness. At about 9:30 we got kicked out of Chez Gaudy and all ended up trooping back to my place (a convenient two blocks away).
I had a good deal to drink - at least two bottles of wine, and about a fifth of vodka all said and done. The partying at my place went late into the evening, and finally at about 2am the last of the recruiters left me to collapse into my couch and relax.
I’m going to miss the crew, but I’m still v. excited about getting started in my new career. Getting back into technology really has been too long in coming!
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