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
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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.
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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!