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sharks vs. ducks

i went to the san jose sharks game last night. they played the anaheim mighty ducks. this also happened to be my first hockey game. i’m told that i’ve been spoiled watching this as my first hockey game because so many things happened during this game that most other games will seem [...]

surfacing for a moment

i’m currently outside the pizza joint that i’m supposed to meet up with other people to pick teams for volleyball the next season. i am STILL in jury duty and we got out a little early today so i hopped over to work to tie a few loose ends and then i did some [...]

server woes

looks like the server took a big dump for a whlie. hopefully it’ll be better now. there’s still a lot of data to restore, but for now, it looks like this’ll have to do. i haven’t restored all of my blog users just yet, but it’s slowly coming along.

on jury duty

i’m doing my civic duty and serving on jury duty all of this week and probably most of next week. it’s kind of exciting because this is my first time serving as a juror, but i am definitely dreading how much work will be piled up on me in the next two weeks.

pear in a bottle

on my gawd! they actually grow the pears in the bottle to make this pear brandy. how cool is that?

josiah

i went to starbucks today and left my usual fake name, “josiah” with my drink order. they asked me to spell it out and so i did.
when my drink was made, they kept calling for “jason”. i didn’t think anything of it, but then i realized it was my drink order and i [...]

adblock and greasemonkey

( techie )

i’ve been an avid firefox fan for quite a while now. i really enjoy the extensions support and i’m always finding new extensions that improve the quality of my life. the latest pair of extensions that has really revolutionized the way the web appears to be are AdBlock and Greasemonkey.
AdBlock is an extension [...]

fantasy NBA update

i know, i know. you are just dying to know how i’m doing in my fantasy leagues.
in my head-to-head league, i’ve advanced up to be #1 in the league right now. it’s pretty exciting and pretty close, so we’ll see how the rest of the week goes. it looks like this might [...]

cold

the office is FREEZING right now. i’m told that the heater broke, but what i really think it is is that the company is punishing me for breaking the dress code and coming in with jeans and t-shirts. i do have a jacket, but i feel weird wearing a thick jacket around in [...]

lunching with dardy and rita

dardy, rita, and i had lunch at the spice islands on sunday in mountain view. this singapore/malayasian food restaurant is one that i’ve always liked since i first tried it a little while ago. dardy told me that he hated the place because the food was awful, so i was a little nervous [...]