redneck bee massacre

it's a chinese slut trap!

this was an ad in the SF weekly - i couldn't resist

Hottest pix ever

Man, I tried to keep thing civilized. But these hot ladies just couldn't control themselves. Life is hard like that at 832 capp.

Stop giving that 12-year-old booze!

IMG_1305.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

Mike Love is so Suave

IMG_1348.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

Joseph is so Suave

IMG_1288.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

Pretty Laydeez

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Who knew when you told people to wear a fancy cocktail dress to a party that they actually would?

Biewald Family Christmas

IMG_1226.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

More party pictures to come!

Capp Street Holidaze

For a while the white balance on my camera was all messed up.

let's do this friday

GET IT? GET IT???????????????????

I have a job again, sort of

I hate everything

Maybe I'm unemployed? Stupid UCSF.

my office lady says to get this

What to get me

please get me it for christmas

it's so you can practice intramuscular injections.

I quit

no more barfing!! no more thryoids!

just call me vascular/thoracic, kids.

sharks eats seal

The cape fur seal is an inquisitive and friendly animal and will often accompany scuba divers.

Me artistic???

I hate those internet surveys people send around, but this "autistic quotient" is awesome: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html. And I love that its published by wired. What do you get? I would love to see the scores for all the people I work with. I bet they're off the charts. Who has the highest at 832 capp? I'm guessing Mollie.

five second rule doesnt apply to ice cream, yall

"The five-second rule is seldom invoked in the case of sticky foods, such as ice cream"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_second_rule

look how big

More Halloween

IMG_0545.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

There are many more Halloween pictures to share with you all. They are coming....but I think this picture says a lot about the evening.

One year of blogging

I can't believe it's been more than a year since we started this blog. At least my relationship with Tess hasn't changed much.

death and inspector gadget

IMG_0411.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

Ameeth wins the best costume so far contest. His Inspector Gadget had a propeller hat and a go-go gadget arm that shot out at you. It was simple yet effective, five stars.

be a fierce turtle now!

IMG_0368.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

just a goth couple in love

IMG_0390.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

Death and Dreams at Tapas.

So many Halloween Pics

IMG_0431.JPG, originally uploaded by tessifer.

They're a comin'! And we haven't even celebrated real Halloween yet. If you can't guess the costumes above, here's a little help. Reebs is a Rhymenoceros demasked, making for a Flava-Flave. Mamie is a devil in a blue dress holding a dollar to tempt you. Mike is a Bowser deshelled and biting his finger seductively. And Lukas is Morpheus, the king of dreams, in badass mask-on mode.

I just biopsied my first tumor

With a giant needle!!! It was so bloody.

So my Halloween costume makes some sense...

Bikini Boxen - so kämpfen richtige Frauen

diesen Frauen mögen boxen und wie skanks aussehen:

http://www.das-ist-lustig.de/content/2936.html

I'm on stage

Although it's impossible to see me, I'm one of the Santas.



And here's a quick shot of me backstage (the split second you can see me):

Improve Ye City

This comes via Gridskipper, but I thought I'd post it here to get the word out. Another opportunity to vote on Bay Area stuff, but hopefully with more impact. Go to Partners in Preservation and vote for your favorite Bay Area historical site that needs some work. The winner will get a million bucks in restoration.

I voted for the sign restoration in the Tenderloin, because hey, whores like history too.

neighborhood map - go vote

http://hood.theory.org/

New Camera

I bought myself a fancy new camera to reward myself for finishing my law school apps (not that they're all done yet or anything).


So expect a lot more of this sort of thing.

hooray for hollywood

So we went to Disneyland over the weekend. Let's just say it rocked, and I think this photo pretty much sums it up.

beck visits yahoo

slightly funny and you might just see luke in the background

I have no words

I am going to practice on you.

My favorite research nurse gave me some expired blood draw kits. Who wants to come over this weekend???

Maybe I will buy a chicken, or a pig. For practicing. We could eat it later.

his name is "Grimace"

also, if you stick a meat patty in HR Pufnstuf's mouth, he becomes Mayor McCheese - and they were designed by the same person, who also did the Kool Aid man.

Fire at Yahoo

So a laptop exploded outside of a conference room that I was in and started a fire. I guess everyone on the floor went running, but inside the room we didn't hear it and it wasn't until someone trying to put it out with a fire extinguisher. I couldn't see the fire but it was hard to breathe from all the smoke so it was pretty scary for a minute.

The thing that disturbs me most and I can't believe I'm saying this publically is that I kind of elbowed a slower moving old lady out of the way trying to get to the exit. There was a lot of commotion and it's not like I knocked her over or anything, but there it is. I guess I'm not gonna be the guy who goes running in to a burning building to save strangers.

The other scary thing is that Yahoo doesn't seem to have working smoke detectors. Someone actually had to pull the fire alarm and the office was filled with smoke already.

It's already in the news an hour later: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/dell-battery-explodes-at-yahoo-hq-hundreds-evacuat/

badass shark hunters

Burritophile

http://www.burritophile.com/

Burrito ranking website

man rejects penis transplant

this just screamed 832capp blog:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1874818,00.html

Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The surgical team claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

20,000 passwords

Wow this guy got 20,000 semi-random myspace passwords, from stupid people who feel victim to a phishing scam. I've always wondered what people put for their passwords, now I know: http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/09/16/analyzing-20000-myspace-passwords/.

Slate

Slate is by far my favorite source of news these days. They are also the only news source I know of that is really experimenting with their medium.

In this artice: http://www.slate.com/id/2149508/ a writer criticizes a 9/11 photo and asks for the people in the photo to wite in. The next day one person does, and then a second person (they are able to verify identities with photographs), and they publish both letters in an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2149578/. Then the photographer writes in, which they also publish as an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2149675/.

How cool is that? I love all these newspapers and magazines whining about how Google/Craigslist/Internet is putting them out of business. Maybe they should actually do something interesting with the new medium and they could be relevant again.

Banned Books

Google has an interesting blog post listing a bunch of banned books over the years: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/. I can't believe how many of these books I read and liked. I'm not a huge fan of old books in general, but the books I've read on that list are some of my favorites. What's the connection? Why do they choose to ban my favorite Hemmingway novel, The Sun Also Rises, or my favorite Tony Morrison novel, Song of Solomon. Pretty much all the books on this list that I've read: To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Brave New World, etc. really stand out as the best among books I was forced to read in school. (Except for Their Eyes are Watching God -- that book sucks). Why is all the stuff I hated like Shakespeare, some of the really bad Hemmingway, Melville, Jane Austin, that "Stranger in a Strange Land"...

I really can't figure out how they chose these books to ban. I mean why do you ban The Sun Also Rises as opposed to any other Hemmingway book? They're all a little sexist, a little racist, a little homophobic, etc. But I don't know. Is there something these books have in common that made me like them and the censors hate them? I can't figure out the pattern.

An homage to hobos...

In honor of Luke and Mollie's large family interest in hobos, check out a list of hobo signs that they leave for each other (that's the hobos, not Luke and Mollie):

Hobo Signs 1
Hobo Signs 2
Hobo Signs 3

Also, for Luke, this might just have to be our next movie night:

Emperor of the North Pole

:(

a lady doctor on the phone just yelled that i am incompetent and reflect badly on my institution as a whole.

??

!!!

Cemetery's flags found in squirrel nest Thu Sep 7, 10:05 AM ET

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Groundskeepers at Forest Hill Cemetery thought it was kids who were stealing dozens of American flags. That is, until one found a giant squirrel's nest.

"I was mowing, looked up out into the distance, and something caught my eye," said Dave Ender, a groundskeeper employed by the Eau Claire Parks and Recreation Department.

He drove his riding lawnmower to a nearby street intersection and looked up a tree.
"Low and behold, I found the missing flags," Ender said.

They were ripped and serving as the foundation of a giant squirrel nest.

"I never seen anything like that before," he said.
"Those little rascals, they're just amazing," he said.

Luke and I at Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot., originally uploaded by ckeech.

So Lukas and I went to Seattle for the long weekend to go to a very fun music/art/everything festival called Bumbershoot. We are lame and did not bring a camera to take photos, but, thanks to Ye Olde Web 2.0 I found this one on Flickr...not only is it of the festival, it is of us. Sitting and waiting for New Pornographers to start. Good Times...well, this moment really depicts a pretty hot, rather boring time, but Good Times overall.

One of the funnest parts was going to see the Blue Scholars (the wonderful hip-hop group we mainly came to Seattle for) at a huge Mainstage show with about 20,000 people and then going to a small club afterwards and seeing the same guys perform, along with lots of other extremely talented friends of theirs, for about 40 people. Of course, most of the 20,000 peeps out at the Mainstage were there waiting for Kanye West, who came on after the Scholars. But still, the hometown group rocked the crowd just as hard as Mr. West - even managing to get a sea of people in a stadium two-stepping in sync.

Also - if you have never seen Jamie Lidell live (I hadn't even heard of him before Bumbershoot myself) and you get the chance, DO IT. My God, that man can work a stage. He came on in a full trench coat and ascot-like thing and proceeded to strip down to a gold-sequined tuxedo jacket with full tails while crooning the most soulful songs I've ever heard out of a white boy and pumping hot beats from all kinds of machines. Good man.

Institute for the Future of Braniff

1975 commercial - Braniff Airways - The Supersonic Future

hobo

this morning on my way to work a homeless man was wandering through the bike lane with A POUCH MADE OUT OF BANDANNA TIED TO A STICK. that is so old school.

also, and i am not kidding about this, at the intersection where i park my bike, a daddy heroin addict was schooling a boy heroin addict in how to shoot up. he was all, get out some cotton, then...

damn.

I apparently know famous people

Yo! Check it out, an old friend of mine from Colorado Mr. TJ Miller just got a shout-out on gridskipper (a blog much finer and more popular than this one).

They describe him as a "genuinely funny comedian," and lord knows that it is a difficult thing to be, so damn, I'm proud.

The Gridskipper post includes a link to his fairly amusing website. Props to TJ, y'all.

guess where the hit and run rampage was?

right outside my office, while i was at lunch on the killing street. wtf?



SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said.

Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said.

Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Omeed Aziz Popal, who has addresses in Ceres (Stanislaus County) and Fremont.

Chad Vader

For those star wars fans:

Boxing bootleg video

So I should be getting an "official" video of the fight in a few weeks. My coworker took a video of the whole thing, but it's 1GB and I'm trying to figure out a way to shrink it. In the meantime here is a video of me late in the second round:



It was great how many people came out to see it. I could hear everyone cheering for me, and it definately helped me in the third round when I was seeing stars everywhere and just trying to make it to the final bell.

My opponent weighed 10 lbs more than me, but I had a slight height advantage. I was a taller, more lanky opponent, so my fight went a lot different than I was visualizing. I think it also threw me off to feel like I was fighting for my friends, in that when just the coach was watching I was able to concentrate better on my defense, but with everyone cheering for the punches and all the adrenaline in me, I took a lot of wild shots and left myself open.

I feel pretty proud just to have survived it though. It's hard to describe how long and painful 6 minutes feels when you're running around and getting punched in the face.

CALL FOR SUMBISSIONS

Okay, so despite the fact that we had a huge-ultra-mega party last Friday night, none of our usual photo correspondents were on the scene photographing the merriments. This means that we don't have any documentation of the 100-some Hipsters who invaded our house and tore it to pieces. So, I ask, do any of you? Please let us know asap. Maybe you don't know that you have photos of a party at our house...Well, if you were at the "Fischer Spooner AfterParty" (as some seemed to think it was) and you took pictures, then you do.

I suppose this is what I get for turning down the two dweeby-looking guys who came to our gate claiming to be from Vice Magazine and begging to get let in and take a photo spread. My favorite thing about them was the way they just kept standing there repeating "Vice Magazine, Vice Magazine," like it was some magical password or mantra that would make the gate open.

sextistics

Glad Mollie is back. Excited to see Luke fight and then dance with a bloody face.

Let's get to the meat: Northwestern Univ Law professor correlates decreasing reports of rape with increasing availability of porn (internet rates) in new article "Porn Up, Rape Down". Alaska has had both increases in Internet and rapes though. Maybe rapists just move to Internet weak states so their neighbors can't look them up on Jessica's list/Google Maps Mashup.

Times have changed so much that some high school teachers of sex education are beginning to show triple-X porn movies to their students in order to depict techniques of satisfactory intercourse.

right...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013

More information is not making me feel better

I was looking around online for other people that did this boxing thing and fought in previous fight nights. I found two blogs and it was interesting to see more about what's going to happen on Friday. Unfortunately, the authors of both blogs ended up in the hospital. One with a concussion and one with a dislocated shoulder.

On the bright side, their opponents didn't go to the hospital so the odds are probably better than 50-50.

coming home

tomorrow 8-ish p. is everyone coming to mission bar or what? p.s. i am the biggest lightweight now, so it will be a fun time.

Another Reason to LOVE the Wire

From the New York Times, Police Say a Queens Drug Ring Watched Too Much Television:

"Call it a case of crime imitating art imitating crime.

That's what the police say happened with a drug ring in Queens whose members honed their trade and learned to evade arrest by watching the HBO series "The Wire," a gritty, realistic police procedural about a crew of drug dealers in Baltimore and the police and prosecutors who use wiretaps to try and take them off the street.

The accused leaders of the Queens gang, whose arrests were announced yesterday by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and District Attorney Richard A. Brown of Queens, mimicked the practice of characters in "The Wire," using disposable cellphones to make it more difficult for the police to eavesdrop on them.

Each time the suspects switched phones, investigators and prosecutors had to go back to court and seek approval for a new wiretap from a State Supreme Court justice, a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, said Sgt. Felipe Rodriguez, a supervisor on the case.

"Believe it or not, these guys copy 'The Wire,' " said the sergeant, who is assigned to the Organized Crime Investigation Division. "They were constantly dumping their phones. It made our job so much harder."

Sergeant Rodriguez said several members of the gang were big fans of the HBO show and talked about it constantly. He said that the investigators could catch up on the latest developments in the show, if they hadn't seen it, when members of the gang talked about it the next day. "If we missed anything, we got it from them Monday morning," he said.

The investigation, which grew out of another drug case in southeast Queens in 2002, led to the seizure of 43 kilos of cocaine, 18 handguns and nearly a million dollars in cash, officials said."

Full article for paying nytimes.comers:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30813F63F5C0C768DDDA80894DD404482

orgo is so 15 min ago

everyone cross your fingers that you will not be coming to visit me at university of nebraska medical college.

Everyday I Work Out Like This

Someday I hope I can rock out as hard as OK Go.

Gambling online

I just bet 250$ that Lieberman would win the Conneticut election. I was going to bet 1000$ but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately :) ) Tess talked me out of it. Lamont might win (and I hate Lieberman as much as any other leftist) but it seems really unlikely to me. In what scenario does it happen? I think he either has to drop out, or the Republican candidate has to do something amazing. Or maybe firing his campaign staff will really screw him? How? But it seems to me the media really likes to hype up mavericks as though they have a chance of winning elections, like McCain getting the 2000 Republican nomination or Howard Dean.

Anyway, what else can I bet on? Any other overhyped elections going on? I wonder if I can make enough money to quit my day job. Send me some ideas.

Tradesports is so cool. Sports.com (where I used to bet) and other gambling sites can't take crazy bets because if anyone has good inside information or if they make a mistake in setting the odds they'll lose a ton of money. But tradesports treats it like an exchange where people can bet on both sides and the price of the bet goes up and down. So there is no risk to them and they can charge extremely low commisions.

Here's a live updating graph of the price of Lieberman winning (50 means even odds):

Fuck You Mike Love

are baby animals next??????????????????

god I hope so.

More Babies Packing on the Ounces
from the Chicago Tribune

Add babies to the growing ranks of overweight Americans. Harvard Medical
School researchers reported Wednesday that the percentage of infants who are
significantly overweight rose 73.5 percent over two decades.

Though their study indicates just 5.9 percent of the country's infants fall
into that category--or about 242,000 of the 4.1 million born each year--the
trend could have worrisome implications for the nation's obesity epidemic.

celebrities are just like us

unsubstantiated blogger rumor indicates that dave chapelle has been cited eating at our favorite indian restaurant recently. apparently he's in town for a few comedy shows, all of which are already sold out. i wonder where dave'll go next...and how easy he is to stalk.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie footage!

Maybe everyone has seen this already, but I find it pretty damn exciting.

Yahoo firearm question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsUdhiLY0cKvGZQz.ktH_D3zy6IX?qid=20060808150313AA8Csfr


If you had to kill 500 people in under ten minutes, what kind of non automatic firearm would you use?

explosives, incindiaries and non hand held weapons are not allowed. It must be a rifle and/or pistol. I myself would line as many up as I could with a .50 Calibre BMG rifle and blow through them. Ok, as another rule, you cannot line them up, they are people trapped in a 100yd x 100yd field and are allowed to run, duck jump or whatever they can realistically do. I would still choose the .50 Cal. How about you?

Youtube conversation: I hope that search engine user name parsing does not improve before my next job search

lbiewald (2 days ago)
omfg u r retarderd
(reply to this)

MortifiedSandman (2 days ago)
Yeah... You're not the only one with an overbite... I'm guilty of that one too. As for the retarded comments, Retarded people are very special. They always tell the truth, never dishonest... They are the purest form of human being. It's quite obvious that you aren't retarded, and anyone that had to ask, well... Let's just say they aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.
(reply to this)

Emmalina (5 hours ago)
That's right! Not retarded. I'm "retarderd". You're on the ball today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tup__pDvo8A#g5SSaJuDw8E

wasn't anyone gay in the early nineties?

omg we are using poppers in orgo lab synthesis this afternoon. it is going to be a little circuit party in chemical hood 9.

Germany Post

I never really posted about Germany because I didn't have any photos but my buddy Ian finally sent me some. The world cup was crazy. For the game, Yahoo gave me some amazing tickets sitting in front of ('05 and '06 NBA MVP) Steve Nash. Ian kept trying to take pictures of him discretely by putting the camera way low and aiming up before finally asking him for picture that I posted a few months ago. You can see one of many tries on the left.

I think most of us stayed on California time while we were there. We went to clubs as awesome as that one in the opening scene in Blade where the hot vampires eat that guy as the sprinkler system sprays blood. I really liked how the Germans couldn't dance for shit. One night I met some crazy Japanese guys and brought them to the club. I was worried when they dropped to the ground and showed some amazing bad breakdancing movies, but the Germans thought it was awesome.

Any trip with Mollie would not be complete without the photo of us looking drunk off our asses.

The requisite culture pic, since the grandparents read this blog now:

Harrassing little German kids in the park.

Ok, I'm too tired to label all these other pictures.

Thanks to Ian for sending me all these photos, and some more that I couldn't post. Mollie and Bruce, did you guys take any family pics? I will post those also.

superficial is great

this is a great post, even for the superficial's usually high standards

http://www.thesuperficial.com/2006/08/04/britney_spears_is_very_truly_o.html

things revealed

• Britney thinks time travel is truly possible if you go fast enough


• Britney feels like she is missing out on life because she missed Spawn on DVD


• Britney thinks a viewfinder is called a 'peephole'

speaking of DVDs, where's movie nite?

All those fear factor prizes are rightfully mine

This morning I jumped off a high pier into the freezing nasty bay as punishment for showing up to my boxing class at 6:05 instead of 6:00. (The picture is from someone's blog from a previous class) Even the coach was surprised that I did it without hesitation. It made me wonder if there is anything I wouldn't do or at least try to do that lasted under a minute and had no long term health risks. Longer than a minute is harder, it's hard to know how your body will react. But shit, I think I could win that feat factor show almost every time.

Maybe I have way to much fear of shame. Honestly, I'm wondering if I should be proud or ashamed of this.

Don't call it a comeback

mike and luke

mike and luke, originally uploaded by MikeLove.

i had to steal this from mike's flickr page, but doesn't it remind you of a better, simpler time? seriously, they look like they're like twelve...and they're cleaning!