Posts for September, 2004

September 29, 2004

A Tale of Great Conquest

Gather round young squires and hear the tale of the valiant knight Pingpong and his heroic venture into the sport of drunken kings. Yea verily did he try his hand at slow pitch softball, despite having nary swung the round aluminum sword in anything but anger in 60 season changes. But lo did […]

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September 28, 2004

There Be Monsters Here

An open letter to the stadium at Candlestick Point:

Dear old Candlestick, wet and windy home that has long held our beloved Niners, and Giants in times past. Your glory was unsurpassed, and in the high times of (red and) gold, the powers that be allowed your singular name to be sullied. Much to our chagrin, […]

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September 21, 2004

Satisfaction

Sorry folks a move to San Diego wasn’t in the cards. I interviewed well, but I was lacking experience. Not to despair though I interviewed and got a job working for Applied Biosystems in Foster City. I am now officially an engineer (it says so in my job title look it up). […]

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September 20, 2004

Her breath is cool mint fresh, yo!

“Franz Ferdinand” “Death Cab for Cutie” “Secret Machines” “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” “Muse” “Transatlanticism” “Absolution” “Anya Marina” “FM 94.9″ “Independence Jam” “SDSU” “open air theater” “Midway” “San Diego” “concert” “mint fresh”

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September 16, 2004

Hockey where hast thou gone?

In response to the last post I would have to say that hockey unfortunately right now lacks any creativity. Creativity = lack of defense which means you lose games and it is killing the sport. Nobody wants to pay $100 to see a 0-0 tie, hockey has to get back to […]

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September 15, 2004

Creativity vs. teamwork

In reading the San Diego UT today they had a little blurb on women’s soccer which pointed out how doomed the US ultimately is in the sport. As many of you know we barely beat the Brazilians in the Olympic finals, and we really didn’t deserve it. In reading their theory that the […]

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September 14, 2004

Back to the Roots

So the Epicentre is allegedly one of the worst venues in SD because it is just a community youth center (i.e. small), and has all of the AV skill one expects of such (i.e. somewhat-shy-of-professional). However, looking at their calendar for the dates of 10/19, 10/29, & 11/20 they apparently get performers who have significant […]

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September 10, 2004

Dilbertesque

Come gather round children its high time ye heard of an epic tale with mind bending twists and harrowing pitfalls. So a little background, I’m working at my lowely temp position when out of the blue a prestigious company wants to interview me for a position in san diego. At this point Im […]

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September 7, 2004

Day One

Barcelona - The Power of Jen

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September 4, 2004

You’re a funny asshole

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

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