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Weekend update: special edition
Dec 31st
Tuesday:
got up early (couldn’t slee)p and got ready for my flight. On virgin Atlantic fucking awesome. Blue and pink lights, can we say “hipster?”
Land and catch a super sweet Bart. Screams, needs wd40, this bart seriously needed some service to quiet it the hell down.
Chill in a coffee shop and check out Valencia around alex’s house. Pretty fucking awesome.
Finally my buddy is back from work 
now we can start to party.
Delicious Japanese food and then off to drinking.
Tanner shows up! Sweet.
Watched scanner darkly.
Went to south American club, some thing else and then club (Badlands) in Castro ha awesome. Met some super sweet people, especially Peter good people good friends good times.
Wednesday:
Woke up, delicious bagles and coffee. Super sweet movie day! Inglorious (again), bourne identity, brick (recommendation of alex, really good). Poor alex works too much. Beers at the look out then dinner with alex and Peter at Indian veggie place. Alex has to work again (he better not be working on new yeArs). Went out to bars couldn’t get into the games because of lame people. But we did get to play pool which was a lot of fun. Crazy drunk couple. I lose it for us twice. Crashed and crashed hard.
Thursday (new years eve!!!):
Woke up late,again petro has to work a lot, got some coffee from Rodgers (Bali) read some economist and updated my blarg! let’s see what the next 12 hours bring!
Roger’s Coffee is awesome! they had 20 different roasts from all over the world and you could pick the ones you wanted in your coffee and they make it for you right on the spot, real freaking cool.
Went running all around the city (like 11 miles) Went from Petro’s to the golden gate park, in and around the park, up a gigantic hill and back down to petro’s. Oh man the things I saw.
My legs are Still sore from that damn run
When I get back and shower, a most ridiculous new years is about to commence
Start out the night with a drive over to Berkley to go see Danner’s parents and their whole fancy New Years Eve party. Lots of important and interesting people and a psychic (odd). Stayed there a little late (oops) but had a great time! got out at about 11ish and rushed back over to the big city to go pick up Peter and head over to our first house party. Fucking ironic, we missed the countdown! we were parking 
oh well the party was still fun. This I may begin is my first introduction to the LOCO, a rediculously good tasting drink that gets you fucked up on crack and alchohol, always a good decision.
Met a lot of Alex’s friends, cool people but after a while we decided to hit up the second party out in… Somewhere with delicious Crepes that were absofuckinglutely amazing. At about 4 we left Alex (faded beyond belief) for the Supper Club (kinda sucked) but it had some big beds and a bunch of people and it gave us something to do for our main goal which was to stay up till the Sun Rise
Finally make it to the goddamned morning and come up to the park just as a cop is scaring everybody out of the bushes, so we got prime seats. Waited around, brought in the new year with the rising of the sun, so tired at this point, and then went back and crashed, and crashed hard, hard hard. Dead tired.
Friday:
Slept almost all day
Caught a lunch somewhere in the middle at Harvey’s (really good food) and then slept some more.
Tried to see Avatar 3D at 10 but it was sold out, I couldn’t believe it. So we saw the 12 midnight showing instead, pretty trippy.
Saturday:
Fun, fun day. Woke up late (see a trend here?) got some delicious “breakfast” at Cafe Flores, they had an amazing hawaiian french toast on King’s hawaiian sweet bread, also they made eggs benedict on corn bread which was absolutely delicious. Then went over to meet up with Petro at his place.
Kind’ve an awkward dinner, because we just ate and it was a sit down dinner with Herman and his whole family and best friends, didn’t really feel like I belonged, but it was some pretty good conversation and Herman is an excellent Opera singer.
Went out for some drinks after with Peter and Alex and Herman’s daughter (only 20.. uhoh). Alex and her hit it off pretty well. My mind was blown for most of the night, oops, but it was real fun though. Packed up in the evening to get ready for my early ass departure, honestly I don’t know why I booked it so damn early.
Sunday:
Got up early, went to the Bart, the fucker was closed so I caught another cab all the way the airport and got on my Virgin flight back home. I did not want to leave
Crashed at home had a great nap, fucked around on my NEW POWER RIZERS! and all in all had a great time. Still sooooo tired.
Summary:
What a week! What a week! I had the best time with family, old friends, new friends and a new city. I’m soooooo glad I went 
Top five reasons to get lost in a city
Dec 31st
- To not care about where you are
- Force your self to meet new people (you’re not lost if you don’t need directions)
- Feel uneasy in the ghettos
- Find new places
- Find places to come back to
Weekend Update! Dec 21st – 27th
Dec 31st
Short Lame Version:
- Zombie Land
- Air Trekkers!! OMGOMGOMG Fucking amazing!
- Laundry! UGH
- Last day of work
- House of blues!
- Christmas!
- Alvin and the chipmunks
- Paint ball
- Rocking out to DDR
Long Awesome Version:
Ok so I reported Zombie Land last week but really it was this monday! but its such a fucking great movie that I’ll put it twice.
The huge news this week (besides Jesus doing something for somebody way long ago) is that I bought a new pair of Air Trekkers, I plan to live no longer than 15 mins once they hit my front door!
You have no idea how fucking awesome these things are! The world is MY trampoline! Fuck you world I’m jumping all over you!
Kangaroo MAN AWAY!!
I’m really starting to get into this whole enjoying life thing I had to do laundry this week but it really wasn’t that bad, met a cool person at the ‘mat. This was all in preperation for going to Christmas, have I ever mentioned that I hate shopping? omg the worst shit in the world.
After my last day of work, I went out to the house of blues for some fun late night drinks on weds and met a bunch of cool people. pretty fun if you ask me, I will definitely do it again!
Next day, on thursday went down for christmas to my brothers. had a killer awesome time. the Squeekquel kinda sucked, sorry Skye. Next day we went out to Paint ball, lots of fun but kinda a small cours, but it felt good to get out and do some activities again after all that food!
Alright Next week should be even more awesomer!
Power Rizers!
Dec 23rd
GO GO POWER RIZERS!
Yes that’s right, if you have seen any of my facebook or twitter messages you would know that I’m getting some super awesome Extreme Air Trekkers! OMG I can not wait!
To pass the time I am going to update this post with the best videos that I can find of the jumping boots, they apear to be so dangerous I want to hurl with happiness!
Expect a full review as soon as I get them and I need something to do to idle away the hours in the hospital (I actually can’t wait to make an epic fail on these things!).
These are the boots i’m getting (click the picture for the website):
Here are some videos of other people, until I get my own!
Weekend Update! Dec 19th 2009
Dec 22nd
Short Lame Version:
- Boats, Boats (parade of lights)
- Bar (ridiculous outfits)
- Disney Land (Skye’s BDay)
- Bar (HAHA hot)
- Movie (WOOT Zombie Land legally)
- Rubik’s Cube (Mr. Rubik is my bitch)
- Meeting new people.
Extended Awesome Version:
Ok so this week / weekend was pretty awesome, I gotta admit, even thought I’m really exhausted after it. This weekend was the parade of lights in Newport Beach, so that was amazing. First of all these guys put in up to 50K into their damn decoration, and it shows. The first night we went out we had this goddamned motion sensitive light that would come on every damn time someone breathed. So that was fixed with a hat. The second time we saw it, it was from the other side of Newport Harbor, alternative views are always nice.
We attended (read: crashed) a bar which used to be called Checker’s (true quality establishment), but now is named Bikini Bar. By this time most of us had been drinking a bit so we thought it would be a GREAT idea to go out in our christmas outfits (mostly short shorts and onesy pajamas). Believe you me, it was HILARIOUS. Best time I’ve had at a bar in a while. Then we went out in normal clothes and it wasn’t as good, but still a bunch of fun. So frustrated later that night But still a lot of fun.
The next day, surprisingly I got up real early (especially after going to bed at 3am), and went out to California Adventure to go play with my brother’s family because it was Skye’s Birthday! We actually all had a blast I think. I think the most fun part was either getting super soaked or the GIGANTIC play ground that you could run around on and jump over everything.
I’ve been practicing the Rubik’s Cube, and now I can officially solve it without cheating, and Mr Rubik…. You’re a bitch face ar-tard.
Saw Zombie Land (Legally this time) with Kennon! and she gave me delicious donuts, so that was an awesome Monday night!
Next Week is Christmas!
Golden Ratio Explained
Dec 21st
The Golden Ratio has always been a facination of mine, and this guy has a pretty good explanation (although obvious once stated and un-novel) of why it might exist. Interesting read in the least:
The basic gist of the article is that the brain processes information when presented in this Golden Ratio, therefore we think of it as being the most aesthetically pleasing. Also this would explain why we have adapted to it, because it exists everywhere in nature. This article is not so much on why the Golden Ratio appears, but why we like it so much.
JDOM Create DOM from File
Dec 18th
I thought this was helpful, and I keep looking it up again and again. Trick is, you need a sax builder, not really sure about what it is, just know how to use it
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
public class SomeClass
{
public SomeMethod ()
{
Document doc = null;
SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();
try {
doc = sb.build(new File("/path/to/some/file.xml"));
}
catch (JDOMException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Thank God for Big Companies
Dec 15th
Big companies (like the banks and financial institutions) may be destroying our society as we know it, but I would just like to say if it weren’t for big companies we would have absolute shit for commercials. And, as anyone knows, some of our best humor comes out of these sweet sweet commercials. So far the beer guys have the funny, but I think guys like Citigroup (who have royally fucked us all) have a moral obligation to give us some pretty sweet commercials. Its not like they don’t have plenty of material after putting our economy into a shit storm.
Here’s a random set of funny commercials:
Long story short, show me the funny!
Weekend Update: December 12th – 13th
Dec 14th
Short Version:
working out, getting in shape, social networking, going to San Francisco, applied to google
Wishes:
Wish I would have looked for more jobs.
This is the first in a series of posts that I will make (hopefully every weekend). It’s mostly just a recap for me to remember what I’ve been doing with my life, if I start to slack off and start saying, “oh I just worked and slept” then its either time for me to die, or whip my self back in shape!
Alright, first things first, I’ve been going through quite the training regimen over the last week! I’m down 10 pounds and counting and I’ve really made my appetite curbed to a healthy level. Which is huge. I’m also swimming a bunch and weight lifting, running and biking… woot WOOT!
In my aspirations, though, to become more healthy, unfortunately father weather has been most incorporative (it rained almost all last week and kept me from biking into work, and its fucking cold out). I’m not sure if my biking to work streak is broken or not, I hadn’t the slightest urge to do it this morning and it wasn’t even that cold out. But I will go on with my training. 155 pounds here I come! I was just below 170 until this weekend happend
On the “changing my life” front, I’ve started going into work real early (getting up about 6am) so that I can get more done in a day now. This has been going quite well for a couple of weeks now.
This weekend Becker came down and we all got shithammered and went out to the bars, good times (Woody’s I think) but not very good for my diet. Also we got a bunch of work done for the UCI site (http://www.career.uci.edu) so that’s awesome. I started interacting quite a bit with a certain Social networking site, so we’ll see how that goes as far as making new friends So far I really like the people on there.
Also committed to going down to San Diego for Xmas, and a couple days after! And, OMG I almost forgot, I’m going to mother fucking San Francisco to go see my good buddy Alex for the new years and a little break! I’m really fucking excited about that one!
