Archive for June, 2008

Of course we eat late. When else are we going to eat?

A common weight management tip, most recently noted by the Wii Fit’s Body Test module, is to eat dinner no less than three hours before bed. I just don’t get how people with jobs and obligations are supposed to do it. We both get home after 6:00 on weeknights and both want to do our fitness stuff before dinner. Then there’s work, MousePlanet stuff, cleaning, maintenance, etc. We usually have dinner around 10:00 and go to bed before midnight. Where is the time for an early dinner?

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If we lived in San Francisco, I’d vote for it

Satirists hope to toss Bush a gutter ball of a memorial / ‘George W. Bush Sewage Plant’ – sounds like a joke, draws ire:

They’re the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, but don’t let the serious name fool you. The group’s intentions are in the gutter: They want to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant come January when the next president is sworn in.

During the inauguration, the group also wants supporters to participate in a ‘synchronized flush’- a way to send a gift to the renamed plant, which supporters say, would be a ‘fitting monument to this president’s work.’

Perfect memorial for the crappiest president ever. I especially like how the chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party is so upset–maybe he should be more concerned with his membership numbers?

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I Can Haz Simba?

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More pictures from the cruise

These are the last photos from the cruise: scanned pictures from the shipboard pro photographers, plus a few scanned hardcopy photos from port stops. Enjoy!

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20 Years Ago Today

The Concert for the Masses. 80,000 fans pack the Rose Bowl for the 101st and final stop on Depeche Mode’s “Music for the Masses” tour. The energy, the noise, the food fights, the rain. Opening acts Wire (really, really bad), Thomas Dolby (not bad), OMD (a lot of fun). KROQ deejays onstage, many proving that radio personalities should stay on the radio.

I was there, my future wife, who I didn’t meet until eight years later was there in the front row, friends I’d meet years later were there, it seemed like half of Southern California was there. 20 years later, it remains the single best live music experience of my life.

Today, Depeche Mode’s Web site commemorates the anniversary of the Concert for the Masses with audio clips from KROQ’s day-long on-site broadcast, exclusive backstage footage and more.

I went looking for the concert shirt, but it’s gone. I wonder in which move it was lost.

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