i was doing my second tour of man vs beer in little tokyo when at the end #20 we were accosted by a crossfit enthusiast who insisted on crossing the final hurdle together - barley wine !kanpei! drinking is easy, crossfit is not. i admit i have been rather intrigued by it, especially since some friends opened up a gym (!!) dedicated to it, and ( Read more... )

so my office mate is on a tele-conference this morning and all of a sudden you hear some crashing and one of the guys on the phone starts shouting, "i have to log off, i have to log off". he must've said it for time before he actually left. east coasters are definitely not used to earth quakes.

or as i call it, my highway.

a large portion of my small commute takes place on this highway. on the way to work in the morning, i get the view of the mountains with the occasional morning fog. on the way home, my view is downtown la, glorious smog and all. once in a while, the sunsets are spectacular. from the wiki, "The freeway is also very ( Read more... )

i was introduced to calvin and hobbes by my favourite aunt after she had moved back from the states after graduating from ohio state (never held it against her). she lent me a book and said "you have to read this", which i did. aside from being terribly moved by the awesomeness of it all, i was distracted slightly by little notes that the guy who ( Read more... )

the thread i was reading was about awesome covers of songs. the majority of songs listed were already conveniently linked, and those that weren't took about 2 seconds to search for. i just sat there and sampled musical styling after musical styling, a veritable smorgasbord if you may ( Read more... )

the last six months or so i've been on a little bit of a bbc kick. one show led to another led to another. i do admit though, that i do cherry pick the highly rated shows, but the good stuff is really good stuff. the writing shines, and the acting really makes the characters come to life. it's why the dr can have such horrible special effects ( Read more... )

getting hustled by your advisor at pool. after many beers.
actually ... it feels just about right.

and vancouver? two thumbs way up.
you're like a canadian version of san diego.

oh and the view from my room? not too shabby. but i'm too tired to figure out linking from picasa.

i am in it. conference next week in vancouver, and i am not excited about it, at all ( Read more... )

i live down the street from porto's bakery, with its astounding 2000+ reviews on yelp. i tend to forget that it's there, but this morning, trying to satiate a kaya-waffle sized craving, i braved the lines for some cheese rolls, meat pies and those potato balls with meat in the middle of them. lines and me tend to disagree, i fight hard against my ( Read more... )

hundreds of people in an enclosed space. compromised immune system from lack of sleep. kids, everywhere. talk about ideal conditions for spreading of the plague ( Read more... )