| half results |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|11:25 am] |
It was a rainy and windy 50 degree day at Ocean Beach, but I finished the half with an official time of 1:55! Since it wasn't a timing chip race, and it took me a couple of minutes to get to the starting line, I'm comfortable calling it a 1:53 or a 1:54, which I'm happy with.
All in all, the weather conditions were miserable. But all the better to get the endorphins flowing, right? The thought of a large glass of IPA and a giant bowl of tri-tip chili during the superbowl kept me trudging the final 3 miles along Great Highway toward the finish.
PS I love drinking IPA's now. Lagunitas IPA is my favorite. It was just 2 months ago when I realized that "extra hops" is the flavor I love in beer. |
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| holiday notes |
[Dec. 18th, 2007|09:18 pm] |
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My sister-in-law knows that I type in the dvorak layout, and from that she inferred that I'd enjoy a Star Trek themed hanukah present. I'm not into Star Trek, but that's a funny deduction to make. We decided that "dvorak" sounds pretty Klingon. And that, well, I'm a giant freakin' nerd and the Landes family doesn't know what to make of me. |
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| i brought this upon myself |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|12:54 pm] |
I am a yuppie. I bought a condo in a neighborhood well on its way to gentrification already. What does this mean? That all of my neighbors have money, and at any given point in time someone within earshot is doing massive renovations (usually to power up their home's resale value). At the moment my next door neighbors are sanding down the front of their building to repaint, and someone out my back window is operating a tablesaw, repeatedly. In the past year there have been two complete building remodels, a couple of paint jobs, and just last week my upstairs neighbors had to have the tar truck come out to re-seal their water-logged skylight. Do you know the tar truck? It's the one with the smoldering vat of tar that comes and sits outside your dining room window for (if you're lucky) about 3 hours. At our old place it was stopped in front of our bedroom window for a week to re-asphalt the entire roof. It smells awesome.
In short, the real estate economy is alive and well in my swanky corner of San Francisco! |
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| my big half |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|09:21 am] |
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So during this half marathon I ran 2 weeks ago, I was coming around a corner, and I was sticking to the left side of the trail. I was passing this guy who was walking on the right side of the trail, and when I was about 5 feet behind him and rapidly gaining, he hawked this giant loogie across the trail, right in my path. It floated in slow motion, and I could track its progress and notice how close it came to landing right in the center of my chest, even before I could identify it. It was a near miss, but at least he missed. So, no complaints. |
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| unreliable shopping |
[Nov. 7th, 2007|01:23 pm] |
Yesterday I bought a cell phone for $60 to carry me through the final 3 months of my verizon contract, so I could get an iPhone with a free and clear conscience in February. But! I chose an unreliable means of buying the new phone - craigslist. To make matters worse, I bought the Verizon Motorola RAZR from a guy who had recently purchased it, refurbished, off eBay and had never tried using it. Obviously, with this CL ebay pedigree, it did not work. And luckily the guy will give me my money back.
That is all. |
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| the public speaking |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|10:11 am] |
OMG! Hi journal! Long time no see!
I gave a talk to about 80 coworkers yesterday, about the stuff I work on. With slides, microphone and everything. I think I was so nervous at first that I effectively did the peepee dance just out of uncontrolled fidgeting. But in the end, it all worked out. I'm a funny guy with funny things to say, and I got a lot of laughter and feedback from the audience, most of whom were strangers to me. So, thank god it's over and I got a full nights sleep last night for the first time in a while. And that now my immune system can begin the climb back up from "anxiety-land" and I can finally get over this cold.
So today's a work from home day; take a little time to recover. You'd think things would be quieter with Leopard coming out, you know, tomorrow, but I've found myself with enough people clamoring for my time that I need to be kinda sorta doing work this week.
Ella's curled up into a ball next to me on the couch. She has fleas - I can giver her a flea bath and clean her up as often as I like, but the next time she goes out with her dog walker she picks up 2-3 fleas from the dogs she plays with (time for a frontline re-apply). I like to call her fleas her "dark passengers", a la Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
The marriage thing is going pretty well. You know, kinda like the 3 years we lived together before we got married, only now with more thank you cards to write. |
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| half marathon! |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|07:54 pm] |
hey LJ peeps! I just (12 hours ago) finished my first half marathon in 1:58:18, averaging 9:02 miles. It was a blast, and I'm psyched that I could pull it off in under 2 hours. Dan Monzy and I ran together for the first half, then he continued on in the second half and picked up his pace quite a bit, finishing around 3:45:00. Way to go me! Way to go Dan! Seriously, Dan ran 9:00 minute miles for the first half, and almost 8:00 minute miles for the second half, once he shed me, his excess baggage. Awesome!
We ran back and forth across the Golden Gate Bridge in miserably dense, moist, cold fog. I saw neither water, land, nor the top of the bridge through the fog. But the crappiest thing about GGB was that we had one lane of traffic to run in - trying to keep up a 9 minute mile dodging back and forth through a slower crowd in a single lane of traffic sucked!
I was following a 2:00:00 pace group - Clif bar sponsored a dude carrying balloons who ran a steady 9:00 minute mile, so I just had to keep the balloons in my sights the whole time. That rocked! I have no doubt my overall time would have been 15-20 minutes slower if I didn't have a steady pacer to keep up with.
In LJ related news, I wrote a nice long post last week, clicked submit, and all of a sudden the internet started pretending that the LJ servers were down! Screw that. I lost everything. EVERYTHING. So I am a dork. |
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| Meet Ella |
[Dec. 20th, 2006|07:57 am] |
Allow me to introduce you to: ELLA!!!!!
She's our new dog, a 4 year old silky terrier rescued off the highways of Modesto. Let's give her a hearty welcome to San Francisco!! She just got a haircut yesterday, so she looks quite a bit more cleancut than she appears in the picture!
You can get a few more details of her arrival at coffeefog. |
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| mr. otto's a free man |
[Dec. 6th, 2006|01:08 pm] |
hey folks- check out my new Otto userpic. Gotta love mr. otto.
He just got well enough that he's allowed outside of his isolation in the medical ward at the SPCA for the first time in a month. He is a little pudgy now, what without getting any exercise in there. But he's cleared of his distemper and ringworm maladies, and now he's only fighting demodex. good for you, mr. otto!
for those of you just joining the minpin love fest, you should know that I fostered otto for 6 weeks in october/november. he was my best buddy. i'd take a nap on the couch and he'd jump up and rest his head on my feet. we'd go running together at the track in golden gate park - he could even keep up with me for 3 miles. and above all else, i was his favorite. i was his dumping ground for unconditional love. one night i went out for dinner with a friend, leaving emily at home with otto. and otto spent the entire time i was gone sitting in front of the front door, waiting for me to return. LOVE. TRUE LOVE.
Alas, it wasn't meant to be. He was only a temporary charge of ours, and we had important international vacations to take. And, well, my old lady thinks he sheds too much. And he _is_ a bit on the crazy side, being only 8 months old and all. So it was an ill fated love from the start, but I still love the little dude to death! and i'm sure whenever he's available for adoption that he'll go in a heartbeat. |
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| just an fyi |
[Nov. 1st, 2006|06:29 pm] |
So if I were single right now, which I'm not cause of this whole marriage thing, my match.com profile would read, among other things, "recently acquried fungal infection from a dog."
It is awesome that I am not single. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|06:00 pm] |
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You know what nobody's talking about any more? Snakes on a Plane. I mean, for like 4 months that's all anybody could say - "motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane." But I just realized that I have not heard SHIT about snakes, on a plane or otherwise, in the past week. |
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| we have a new dude in the house |
[Sep. 17th, 2006|07:00 pm] |
Everyone, please welcome Otto to out family for the next 2 months. His likes include licking, rawhide, and anti-bacterial wipes that make his distemper go away. His dislikes include pidgeons, and the medical isolation quarantine that he has been under for the past several weeks. He will be happliy joining us in his convalesence, as he makes a full recovery back to dog awesomeness. Then we will take him back to the dog shelter, where he will be adopted by a real family.
Then Emily and I will cry, cry, cry for days.
Here he is, sideways. Deal with it.
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| a poll-inspired poll |
[Sep. 11th, 2006|10:45 am] |
So I was cooking last night, and I generated a fair amount of waste vegetable matter. Stems, skins, seeds, etc. Quite a hefty volume when all was said and done. We do not compost, so absent composting, what's the more environmentally sound way to dispose of my veggie waste?
(a) trash
(b) down sink through garbage disposal
I'm betting on (b) all the way. My bell pepper heads at least have a fighting chance of rejoining the ecosystem by way of a water treatment plant, right? At least more so than they'd have sealed underground for 100 years in a landfill. Right? |
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| this one veronica mars thing... |
[Mar. 7th, 2006|10:46 am] |
I'm posting this here because I know at least Caroline will perk her ears up at the barest mention of Veronica Mars... So I turned on the TV on Sunday and Tivo said it was recording Veronica Mars, so I was like, right, right, probably a re-run that I've already written up on my fanfic blog anyway. But then I watched, and the opening minutes of the program showed a greyhound bus cruising down the highway, and then the bus driver increasingly losing control, and the gas pedal practically flooring itself. So I was like "no way! they showed the bus crash on an episode that I missed? They showed the freakin' driver's reaction?" But instead it turned out that it was a CSI: Miami episode opening with a wicked bus crash, and my Tivo doesn't always get along properly with my cable box, so the channels don't get changed exactly when they should, you know? Just a funny coincidence then, that what Tivo was actually recording (bus crash!) bore a striking superficial resemblance to a central veronica mars plot point.
what the fuck happened to me!!?! I'm living vicariously through veronica mars, project runway, the all new next top model starting next week, true life: i'm a competitive eater, house, scrubs, and occasionally desperate housewives. but desperate housewives really, really, sucks. We started watching Weeds on iTMS for $2 an episode - that's like an R rated Desperate Housewives. I dig it. |
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| no cockroaches |
[Oct. 3rd, 2005|04:56 pm] |
I didn't really find a cockroach in my tortilla chips, but I just wanted to throw that out there as a "what would you do?" Sorry if I mislead you. But I couldn't decide. Would I call some food and health regulator? The police? The company? The united nations? The UN would be awesome. I have never presented a case for the international security issues of tortilla chips, but someday soon I will.
Someday soon. |
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| opinion day |
[Oct. 2nd, 2005|08:38 pm] |
So. I have a hypothetical query for you guys. If you found a cockroach in a bag of, let's say, blue corn tortilla chips, the big size you get from the grocery store with the see-through window, what would you do?
Me, I guess I'd call the chip company and ask for a lot of free stuff. |
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| Jon Sung vs. Colin Meloy; deathmatch |
[Sep. 15th, 2005|11:29 am] |
Seriously. Jon Sung amazes me sometimes. He played kickball with the Decemberists on Monday after their show in SF on Sunday night. And before their Monday night show, obviously, due to constraints of time.
pictures
Fucking crazy. |
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| i have a problem |
[Jul. 31st, 2005|08:16 pm] |
OK, so I've been trying to figure out the name of this movie that was out 1-4 years ago, and I've got some problems. Mostly the problems are that I never saw it, don't remember the name, and don't remember more than foggy details about the trailer. But it's not all bad - here's what I know. It probably straddled that indie/mainstream line and mostly played indie theaters but maybe had a quiet run at bigger theaters too. I think it was playing at Camera Cinemas in SJ. It's an action/comedy sorta thing, with 4 asian guys in their early twenties possibly committing some sort of crime. Maybe even a heist - just maybe. I'm remembering a poster and/or preview with the 4 asian guys in suits in a dark city allyway. I thought it was called the "Luck Club" or "Heros Club", but those aren't really working.
Yeah. I'm kinda screwed with this unscratchable itch. Did I make this up? I very well could have, since I have no concrete details about the film at all. I am not entirely sure it exists, but I'm at like 90%. If it's real, I kinda want to see it. If it turns out it's not real, I'm just going to pretend it had this awesome car crash scene about halfway thorugh the movie, and a doublecross towards the end.
So what I think I really need is backlogs of indie movie theater showtimes so I can read through all the movies since 2001. IMDB and Google aren't helping, and I'm wandering in circles in Amazon's "look at items people who looked at DVDs of Crouching Tiger ended up buying." Is there anything I'm missing online that I could browse through? That's what I need you people for - your fucked up cyberstalking skills. Use your powers for good, not creepy people stalking. Help me figure out what the name of this movie is. Free my brain. Daisie, I'm looking at you. I know you won't be able to turn down a "puzzle" like this with so few valid clues. If I've done my job and explained the problem well enough, it'll be bothering you too much by nightfall tomorrow for no apparent reason, you'll burn 2 days exhausting every conceivable avenue, and by wednesday at 6PM we'll know. |
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