over the weekend i went to check out bento’s anniversary show at the dna lounge.
they asked me to take some pictures. hope they like ’em!
Monthly Archives: November 2005
depeche mode concert
the depeche mode concert is tonight. i don’t know what the plan is exactly in terms of where we are going to go eat, but i have to arrive early to pick up will call tickets at the san jose arena. i REALLY hope that the tickets are decent. i really, really hope that they are. i am terrified that they are going to suck because i don’t know what seat/row i’m in. i went through this third party vendor to buy the tickets and am a little afraid that they might have a bad block of seats. we’ll see.
but still, i’m excited about my first depeche mode concert and am looking forward to it.
it reminds me of the other time that i had tickets to the depeche mode concert. i’m still bitter about that. i don’t even remember if i ever wrote about it, but basically my girlfriend at the time forced me to choose between her or the tickets. crazy, huh?
netflix queue manager
the netflix queue manager is the best modification i’ve ever seen to the netflix site. this is the way that the queue should have been implemented. drag and drop functionality to your netflix queue all in your browser.
i use the greasemonkey firefox extension version of this, but the bookmarklet version works just as well.
amazing what people can do.
company halloween party
i know it’s a little late, but the company had a halloween party. costumes were encouraged. people were also encouraged to bring in their carved pumpkins. only one person did and he won a $25 gift certificate, be default. dammit, i’m going to carve a pumpkin next year!
there was way too much food and some interesting costumes that were brought in this year. kind of fun to have a little holiday cheer at the company.
the COOLEST part of the party was the punch that the HR girl brought in. she put in food grade dry ice in the punch and it was smoking cold! that was awesome.
test phones
i don’t usually talk too much about work, but the other day i had to carry around the test bed of mobile devices that we have. i do development for a mobile device service company and so we have to have a lot of mobile devices… let me tell ya, this test bag is heavy!
how to not impress me
i am probably one of the biggest hypocrites when it comes to job interviews. when i interviewed for this position, i came in a short sleeve button down shirt and i *think* i wore slacks. but if i see someone else come in similarly attired, they better be damn good. i know, i know. it’s a big double standard, but i don’t think that i would feel comfortable interviewing in a suit.
but one of the ways in which you can surely not impress me is to not wear deodorant. man, that was rough.
putty, pageant, puttygen
i’ve only sort of casually wondered what pageant was, but never really did much investigation to find out what it was good for until last night. last night was the first time that i ever wanted to set up some kind of public key authentication and it was the first time that i have ever used pageant or puttygen.
let me just say that i think they are both a wonderful thing. i’m pretty strict when it comes to security, but i think that i can live with this compromise of convenience and security. if you use ssh and aren’t using some kind of public key authentication, i suggest you check it out. it’s pretty neat.
brief meet
the weekend seems to have flown by. i met up with cindy and some other friends on friday in the city. we were supposed to meet in the city at the house in north beach at 6:30 and i had even planned for us to get there a little early. instead, it took us two hours to get into the city. traffic was insane and i felt bad that i arrived so late. but we ordered our food and had a wonderful dinner there.
i bumped into a co-worker of mine while there. such a small world!
seeing cindy again was good, it’s a little weird because our friendship has grown much more through our email and IM correspondence instead of face to face conversations. still, it was good to see her, however briefly it was.
saturday was spent watching the bears lose to USC. i wish i could have said that cal had a chance, but the way they were playing, it certainly felt like a pretty bad loss.
i tinkered around with my fantasy teams and that was pretty much that. instead of being ranked dead last, i’m now up into 7th place. hopefully some of the roster changes will pull me up a little more.
fantasy NBA
i’m a little addicted right now. this is the first year that i’ve decided to participate in a fantasy league. fantasy basketball is rather addicting, but i think that i’m also not doing a very good job at managing this team. oh well, i guess we’ll see how it all works out, but i think that i may need to shuffle up my roster a little bit. i’m tired of being at the bottom of the barrel!
i’m at the highest ranking in the league that i’ve ever been at, 9th place out of 12. =P i still have a long ways to go. i think my biggest problem is that i choose players that i personally have some kind of attachment for instead of choosing players who are statistically good.
cubicle reconfiguration, part 2
so the dreaded cubicle reconfiguration has taken place and where once there was just my beautifully large, spacious cube, there is now two tiny, cramped cubes in its place. how sad is it to see that i can barely fit through the opening that they call a doorway? my mood has been down all day since and the only comfort i got today was to look at my fantasy basketball team to find out that instead of last place, i have managed to go in to second to last place.
how exciting.
actually, i’m pretty excited about my fantasy teams. i think it’s kind of fun to play, but i can definitely see how this could be time consuming.