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Whoohoo. finally made it back to san francisco… i blew out a tire about 30 miles outside of bakersfield, which kind of sucked, but at least it didn’t happen in the middle of oklahoma..

I did actually end up driving all the way up to Guymon, OK — the little tiny panhandle bit of Oklahoma — to see what was up there. Turns out.. there’s nothing. But I did get to cross the Oklahoma-New Mexico border — which I believe is something that only a small handful of people accomplish. Wahoo. Not that it’s actually *that* exciting, but hey, I did it.

So yah… somewhere in Arizona, I looked at my rear tires and noticed they were completely bald — I did notice that the car felt a little squirrely lately, but I just dismissed it and hoped that I would be able to make it home on the bald tires. No rain in the forecast, so i figured it’d be ok to drive on slicks, right? Well… the right rear tired decided to give up, so it blew up. This is the third tire I’ve blown out (1st on this car though) — I think I’m either not good at rotating my tires regularly, or I drive too hard…

So… I also made a movie of the roadtrip with some of the video footage I took.. I have a higher resolution one, but I don’t have anywhere to host the 50mb file.. maybe I’ll torrent it or something… It captures over 5,000 miles of driving in a little over 3 minutes…

so i watched the game at kezar pub yesterday.. we got there at 11am (4 hours before kickoff).. we got ourselves a sweet table in the middle of the action, and gorged ourselves on buffalo wings and coors light in an icy eagles bucket. my cousin stephanie was the only patriots fan in the whole establishment, so while she quietly cheered her team to victory, the rest of the bar was full of rowdy hope…

it was a great game.. and i think the energy of the bar was captured in this video.. aj’s friend vince took the movie footage, and i assembled it with muvee, of course..

good times.. good times.. aj says that there will be a rematch next year.. same teams, and the eagles will emerge victorious..

so i found this awesome movie producer software, muvee.. it basically automatically produces a movie with any video clips and images you have — setting it to the music of your choice. sooo cool!! it supposedly picks out the “important bits” from the footage that you’ve given it…

it seems to do a pretty good job — it looks like it takes hours of work to make this video, but it only took about 10 minutes.

yang in asia 2004 video