I just wanted to drop everyone a line and say: To all of you that called, emailed, IM’d, texted, Facebook’d, MySpace’d, and Carrier Pigeoned to wish me a Happy Birthday, Thank You from the bottom of my heart. I don’t normally celebrate my birthday very extravagantly but it made my day to know that I have so many good friends. Thanks.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
I went go karting with work the other day. We started planning a month ago and the track was 30 minutes south of San Francisco so I actually had to drive. I was a bit worried that it seemed like a lot of effort to put into organizing a trip to take tiny cars around the track. I was wrong. Here’s what I found when I got there.
Holy crap that’s a track. Here’s their site. I’m not sure I can explain what it feels like to put on a jumpsuit and racing helmet and go approximately 3000 miles per hour around a track in a tiny fake car. These things have holes in the floor that make them feel like Fred Flinstone cars as you’re drifting around corners sideways. I didn’t place over 6th but I highly recommend you check it out if you get a chance.
Updated: Broken Link
This weekend was beautiful. It’s been really cold around here lately due to a high wind in the city but this weekend it suddenly warmed up and turned into a beautiful weekend. In fact, it was so much hotter than normal that for only the second time in the last year, temp control in my apartment could do nothing because my apartment was a good 5+ degrees hotter than it was outside and we have no AC. To put this in context, I used to think that 100 was getting kind of warm. It hit 73 this weekend at night and I thought I was going to die. However, I thought I’d share some great pics to prove that you can have green and relaxation amidst the business of the city.
I wasn’t sure where Fort Mason was to begin with and parked in the marina.
I wandered around a bit, passed by the micro league soccer. Great to watch the kids play with the bridge and the Marin Headlands in the background.
At the end of the fields, I took a second to check out the sailboats. I’m getting me a boat someday…just you wait.
Turned around and found myself in front of the famous “DateWay”. 
I finally found my way to the green in Fort Mason where the people I was meeting set up. I proceeded to lose at croquet in a spectacular fashion. Life was good.
It’s always cool to me how close green is to city here. See the buildings in the background?
Here’s how I spent my time. My red ball is on the wrong side of this wicket.
All in all, a great day in the park. I had already gotten burnt playing soccer on Thursday and after Saturday in the park, I’m now very, very sun-burnt. Hope you’re doing well too.
Hope everything is going well for you. Except for the Twitter Updates, I haven’t updated in quite a while. The Twitter Updates just aren’t that useful out of context of the conversation they are appearing in so I turned them off. If they’re annoying me, I can’t imagine you being interested in them. So, look for a few more posts but no more from Twitter. If you do want the Twitter Updates, go to my account at Twitter, set up one of your own and follow me there.
- blizzard april fools is the best so far, new bard class with epic solo and mosh pit abilities! http://tinyurl.com/3dhwdh #
- also from blizzard, new game, molten core, with concept art and trailer…for the ATARI 64. hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/2gzrdj #
- @scottcreynolds ouch on the accounts. I love april fools. all the net jokes suck except blizzard’s though. i love the new tauran marines #
- on second thought, not as big of a fan of april fools on news sites…infoworld has a whole series of dumb articles on the home page. #
- @bradwilson @scottcreynolds I love the concept art comparison at the bottom. also the trailer ("HAS SOUND", beep, beep, boop) #
- @bakasan extra points for spinal tap references. #
- @kevindente lol it’s the same here. i dropped off 3 the other day and there were at least 6 other netflix envelopes already there #
- via @bradwilson another good one! muppet rickrolled http://yougotrickrolled.com/ #
- @nkohari i’m not sure that flogging molly and caffeine is a bad way to go out. #
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