in my spare time, i am always trying to find ways to grow my iphone addiction. =P

probably my favorite game of the moment is flight control. what’s crazy about this game is that the object of the game is incredibly simple: safely land planes. i don’t know why this game is so addicting but it is great fun.

another game, an oldie, but goodie that i have just discovered is peggle. a pretty fun game, though it is a little disappointing that the features of the hardware weren’t exploited further.

the best app, though, that i’ve seen so far is orb live. absolutely fantastic if you have a home server that is connected to the internet and you want to make your video accessible to your iphone. originally i was going to try tversity, but from what i understand, it needs to transcode all of the content before it can be sent to the iphone and that it just too time consuming for me.

orb, on the other hand, will let you stream your video on the fly. you have to install a server component and the iphone client costs a whopping $10, but the technology works great over wifi and is usable over 3G. if you want to stream your content from a media server, orb is a great and easy solution.

christi has been encouraging koda to learn a new trick. this trick, however, is pretty disturbing. christi hates spiders and she has been encouraging eating to “go get them”. in his world that means to go eat them. after he has eaten the spider christi praises him and cheers him on.

when i saw koda do this, i told him to go give christi kiss and spread all the leftover spider legs over her. yuck! not quite the trick that i would have wanted koda to learn!

• Taking koda to puppy training class. The question is: can he be trained to be a puppy? #
• No wonder I’m gaining weight http://twitpic.com/5pgl0 #

in what can only be described as highly unusual for us, christi and i went into the city last night and dined at the slanted door. i was telling christi that jenny and i went and ate at the ferry building before and i think that the slanted door has a cafe-like fast food to go stand in the ferry building. i told her that i thought it was called “the slanted cupboard”. it turns out it is called “out the door”. i liked the name that i remembered wrong better than the actual name.

this was our first time eating at the slanted door. the food was good, but not mind-blowingly great. portions were actually pretty big though, i certainly was expecting much smaller portions of food. my favorite dish was probably the lemongrass chicken that we had special ordered. it’s usually only on their lunch menu, but the chef made an exception and made it for us for dinner. it was fantastic!

the rest of the food was pretty good, but not ravingly so. i liked how tender the rib eye was, i liked the rice cakes, i liked the shrimp, and i sort of liked the spinach dish we got.

dessert was pretty good too, the beignets were amazing. it was freezing outside, i was hoping that it would be warmer after last week’s heat wave, so walking around outside was not much of an option.

so the prequel (?) of the movie came out and i finally got around to seeing it earlier this week. what i realized after i watched the movie is that i am a bigger fan of the original tv series than i realized. there is no way for me to adequately talk about the movie without discussing plot, so spoilers after the jump.

Continue reading star trek →

looks like twitter tools might not like not having a tweet a day. oh well. i’ve decided that i’m going to try to keep the blog more blog-like and only have weekly updates of tweets in blog format.

there’s been a lot going on lately, but i have just been too tired and too busy to sit down and blog. but let me see if i can recap:

koda is going to puppy training class again. he’s doing better this time around, i think mostly because kiara isn’t there. i swear, when those two dogs are together, they stop listening to the rest of the world.

i have started to fix things again around the house. it almost seems like things break faster around the house than i can fix them, but i will get it all done, i swear! there’s a big to do list:
1) replace all door knobs in the house.
2) install new faucets in master and guest bathrooms.
3) install new overhead light in master bath. it’s been nearly two years, i just gotta go and do it. hopefully not electrocute myself in the process. the breakers are SO far from the upstairs…
4) landscape. ugh, this has been haunting me for a long time now. i have hated our front yard for a long time. did you know that the city of san jose has passed an ordinance that makes it illegal to water your yard when it is daylight?
5) repaint the front door. the problem with this is that you have to keep the door open ALL day while the paint dries. gotta wake up super early in the morning to get it done right. i’m trying to see if there’s a way i can screen off the front door so that we don’t get a zillion flies in the house while the door is drying…
6) make that MAME arcade already! where is it going to go??

so yeah, there’s a lot to do. i’m dropping all of my nights of volleyball for a while. with work and everything else to do, i need some time to just get stuff done.

i spent about an hour last weekend hacking away at a dead tree in front of our house. i got about half of it cleared away and decided to call it quits. i think i need a saw. i’m about ready to tear apart everything else in the front yard, but i have no idea what to replace it with. anybody have any landscaping ideas?

• Taking koda to puppy training class. The question is: can he be trained to be a puppy? #

i went to watch angels and demons today. the movie was alright. the pace of the movie was definitely faster than the da vinci code and i felt that it kept my attention pretty well throughout the movie.

there were some inconsistencies with the book, but for the most part i didn’t feel that they took away from the story too much. i think it deserves more than the 38% rating that is being given by rotten tomatoes.

i still haven’t seen star trek yet and i don’t think that there are many people who want to see the movie who hasn’t seen it already. maybe i’ll make a go of it myself during the week some day. =P

• Woke up at 8 to start working. Ugh. Isn’t it Saturday? #

so here i am at 12:45PM on a saturday in the office with the QA team. they are testing out the drop that we have handed off to them. i woke up a little past 8AM to start work on this and we’re nearing the end of testing now.

i’m pretty beat, but am happy that things seem to be working for the most part. i’m about ready to go eat lunch and crash to sleep. the big question about lunch is where to go? i don’t want to go to lunch nearby since i always eat lunch here so i think it’s time to venture off to find somewhere good to eat.