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Mmmm.. hot dogs are sooo tasty.. The New York Times has a nice mutimedia article about hot dogs in and around NYC…

Mmm.. hot dog.

I’ll have to add these to my list of hot dog places to explore next time I’m out there..

[via thejerk .. it's nice that Pius is blogging about NYC hot dogs whilst travelling halfway across the world in Bangkok..]

Increasingly so, I cannot work in a quiet environment.. there are multiple theories as to why I seem to have an onset of ADD, but that’s probably why I definitely prefer IM to the phone or even email..

Anyway, I work with the TV on in the background as a nice way to quench the ADD part of my psyche — today, Tom Cruise was on Oprah today — just in time for sweeps week.. I really don’t usually watch Oprah, but honestly, the only other thing that was on was an episode of Macguyver with Teri Hatcher in it. I highly recommend against watching re-runs of Macguyver, since it makes you realize just how lame of a show it was (I swear it wasn’t so cheesy back then). Macguyver re-runs don’t hold up to the test of time.. and the fact that they recycled like the same 3 asian actors through every episode really started to get annoying.

So yah… back to Tom. he seems REALLY jazzed about dating Katie. I mean.. REALLY REALLY REALLY jazzed.. like almost in a Howard Dean, Tana from the apprentice, “Yeeaaaaaarrrrgghhhh” kind of way.. Overly excited.. He spent most of the first 45 minutes jumping on the couch and pounding on the floor, exclaiming how much in love he is with Katie. Oprah asked if he and Katie were going to get married and he hinted that they were discussing it all. I mean, yah.. she’s really hot/cute and all, but this whole thing still stinks of a badly orchestrated PR stunt.

At the end of the show Tom ran backstage and dragged a sheepish Katie out to meet everyone. She looked absolutely terrified, like a girl who’s PR agent told her that she’d be dating Tom Cruise for a little while. I mean.. what do they have to gain? It’s not like they have new movies to promote, or that they’re filming Mission Impossible 3.. oh.. wait..

Damn, those two can act.

Anyway… thanks a bunch to defamer for photoblogging the whole show…

Oh dear.. what have I done. I’ve decided to do the Big Kahuna Triathlon on September 11th, 2005… 114 days to get ready for the 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run. Oh jeez.

My previous “slacker training” schedule will not work for this race, I’m afraid.. So, I’m going to actually really need to train for this one..

Oh boy. Hope the ol’ body holds up… I’m not a kid anymore.

For this week’s edition of friday timewaster… we have.. kitten war! Kittens are so cute! What better way than to put their cuteness to a duel. May the cutest kitty win!

Here’s the absolute cutest one I’ve seen.. named Squee, it really does look alot like the comic book character Squee, doesn’t it?

Last night was the Techdirt 25k party at the cigar bar.. in celebration of Techdirt’s 25,000th post.. Me and the many Mikes of Techdirt headed down and enjoyed a drink and a cigar down in downtown SF. Despite the nasty San Francisco drizzle/rain, and despite the premiere of episode III, we had a good turnout, and a good time seemed to be had by all..

Back in the heyday, there was some sort of happy hour or party like every night… since 2005 is the new 1999 and all, who’s gonna bring back the happy hours?

I’ve posted photos at flickr, tagged “techdirt25k“…

This Saturday, May 21st, the Life Size Game of Mouse Trap will be shown here in San Francisco… Tickets are 5 bucks and there are three shows, running from 4pm till 9pm..

The life size mouse trap project is a proposed project for the BORG II for this year’s Burningman.. I found their description quite amusing:

The LIFE SIZE MOUSETRAP is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece 50,000-lb. interactive KINETIC SCULPTURE set atop a 6,500-square-foot, 2,000-lb GAME BOARD. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a VAUDEVILLIAN style carnival show, original MUSICAL SCORE, CAN-CAN DANCERS, acrobatic HIJINKS, and other Spectacularly scripted SCENARIOS dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle laden fun!

Interesting.. current forecasts of a dennis burningman appearance this year are running around 30%, but if there are really going to be some cool art projects, that might just change…

So we lost yet another softball game last night 20-5 (albeit it was to the undeafeated team)… I think we’re improving though… There were no blow-out innings, they just consistently scored 5 runs each inning.. and after 4 innings, that’d be.. well, 20 runs. That makes our record.. um.. 0-6, I think.

Coach Kitts put me at right field this time.. It’s been years since I’ve played in the outfield, so my distance judgment is a bit (ok a lot) off.. I overran every fly ball, catching one of them with my bare hand (to prevent it from smacking me in the face). No golden glove for me, I guess.

Our baserunning was pretty spectacular — I think 3 outs were due to creative baserunning.

Maybe we need to get some red jerseys so we can start winning games.

This weekend was Bay to Breakers… and what a glorious weekend it was.. Unlike past years, I chose not to start at the start. Since I live only a few blocks from the course, instead of waking up ass early at 7am and heading downtown, I chose to sleep in a bit and join up with the race at Hayes and Gough. So.. all in all, it took me about 6 hours to complete about 1/2 of the course.. that’s about.. um.. 3 miles in 6 hours.. not bad, yah?

Well.. I woke up before 8am anyway, and since I was up already, I decided that I’d try and get down to the course to see the “elite” runners run by.. I got to the course at about 8:10am, and by then, they were already long gone, having completed the entire 7.5 mile run in like 34 minutes or something. Oh well. I did get to see quite a few people run by… I never realized just how many people 70,000 are, but I guess in years past since you’re moving with the crowd, you don’t realize how many people that is..

As we passed one of the icky green ponds in the park, Jablow and Rob were convinced that they were going to take a little swim. Connie tackled Jablow while he was untying his shoe, which made him land headfirst into the pavement. Ow. His head made a nice thud, and Connie’s goal of getting Jablow to NOT swim was a success. Rob, on the other hand, snuck over to the other side of the lake, and dove right in, headfirst. Unfortunately, the pond was like 1 foot deep. OUCH.

So.. yah.. it was a good day despite the 2 head wounds (they’re ok).

it’s no disco limo… but, if the dukes of hazzard had a limo.. this is what it would look like.. this best part is its license plate, which reads “REDNEXXX”. haha.

Man.. this year sure is flyin’ by quickly…

Last Friday was slope day at my alma mater, Cornell… Slope day is the huge party on the very last day of classes at Cornell. All of the students gather on libe slope and basically sit there and drink all day. In all of my years there it was a tolerated un-official event..

This year, they got Snoop Dogg. yah.. apparently now, slope day is all official and stuff, the whole slope is fenced off, and you need a ticket.. back in my day, you just showed up at the slope with your.. er.. water bottle.. and just sat there and contemplated the last day of classes.. while.. drinking from your water bottle. wheee.

Fo shizzle big red dizzle.