Archive for June 2008

Pointless Aerial Coverage

Just finished watching the Lakers eke out a victory over the Celtics tonight.  One thing that I don’t understand is why there’s aerial coverage of basketball games: I thought the point of aerial coverage is to provide a bird’s eye view of a sporting event.  This makes sense, if a game is held in an [...]

More weird Facebook ads

I logged into Facebook this morning and got the following ad: Since I don’t read Japanese, I copied this text into Google’s Translate tool.  According to the translation: Facebook does not work in Sponsored Facebook is customer service, how to recruit bilingual. For more information, please click here. Well, there’s probably something lost in translation, [...]

I saw it, I saw it!

Jenny and I just finished watching Monsoon Wedding which was quite enjoyable.  We managed to scarf down garlic noodles from Thanh Long, two pieces of chicken from KFC, and some sushi from Momoya.  We were basically in a food coma after the movie, so we let the credits run while we cleaned up.  When we [...]

I really want a Fixie

I think I found my new project – building a fixed gear bike.  Head over to the Fixed Gear Gallery for images of some really sweet bikes.  If you’re smart enough, you can build one on your own for ~$300.  Not bad.  Plus, I think it would be time well spent, and I’d learn plenty [...]

Will you take the challenge?

Of reading my entire blog?  Only two people have successfully done so: 1.  Jenny 2.  Michael Wyszomierski I must give Wysz some props, for giving me the highest number of page views I’ll ever receive for my site.  The screenshot, from my Google Analytics account, definitely shows you the two days when Wysz read my [...]