Archive for February, 2008

American Idol Season 7: Another four bite the dust

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

It was bye forever for Alexandrea Lushington, Alaina Whitaker, Jason Yeager, and Robbie Carrico tonight.Jason Yeager's departure wasn't anything surprising, and I was close with my prediction of Alexandrea and Alaina, but I thought there would have been more support for Robbie. Of course, Nelson called it, so props ...

American Idol Season 7: My Picks for the Top Ten Girls

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The girls took the stage tonight, and I must admit, they have a lot of work to do to catch up with the boys. No one singer stood out for me and poor song choices across the board hurt many girls tonight. Maybe the 70's (which was the ...

American Idol Season 7: My Picks for the Top Ten Boys

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The ten boys left really upped the ante tonight, with almost all of them giving stellar performances that shook up my own rankings compared to last week. It was seventies week, so the music selection was a lot more energetic and fun, allowing many contestants to demonstrate their singing ...

Pad Thai Pad Thai Pad Thai

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Well, a Macbook Pro saved the day for Jenny and I on Saturday night, when we embarked on making pad thai. Sure, holding up the laptop above a sizzling hot wok is not really advised, but how else are you going to get a picture like this?So how did ...

Dumpling Time!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

If I had one last meal before I died, I would choose a heaping portion of dumplings. I'm not sure what the allure of dumplings is for me, but there's something very satisfying about popping a bite-sized dough-wrapped moon-shaped shrimp/pork/etc dumpling in your mouth. Maybe it's because I ...

Google Reader Keeps on Rocking (and sign up for my RSS Feed!)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

And you thought I only blogged about American Idol, didn't you?This past year I've gotten into using RSS feeds to keep up with news and blogs that normally took a tedious amount of time to load the page, figure out what was updated, and so on and so forth. ...

American Idol Season 7: And then there were 20

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Garrett Haley (my 5th pick!), Colton Berry (my 10th), Amy Davis (my 9th) and Joanne Borgella (my 8th) are all out. It's a good thing I'm not running for President, since I seem to be out of touch with America. I was off, but at the same time, ...

American Idol Season 7: My Picks for the Top Twelve Girls

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

12. Brooke White (24, Mesa, AZ)Song - "So Happy Together" - The TurtlesStarted off really nervous with really forced movements. David Cook sang the same song yesterday, and he did a much better job. For some reason, they really liked her, but I'm not sure how far she can ...

American Idol Season 7: My Picks for the Top Twelve Boys

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Sigh, forgive me, reality TV critics. I've fallen under the spell of American Idol. And now that the field has narrowed down to the Top 24, you'd bet I have an opinion on who I think has got it and who has got to go. Tonight the ...

Prologue Time Trial - Tour of California

Monday, February 18th, 2008

On Sunday I headed over to Stanford to watch the Prologue stage of the Tour of California. The streets were blocked off from University Avenue all the way down Palm Drive to the Oval. Due to the gorgeous weather, there was a fabulous turnout, but I was able ...