Feb 2011
Sung In A Karaoke Bar
February 28, 2011 Filed in: Music
“Did you know the word karaoke is Japanese for empty orchestra? Isn’t that hauntingly beautiful?” --Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
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Gone To The Tech Museum In San Jose
Even though I used to live just a few blocks from it when I was a student at San Jose State University, I had amazingly never been to the Tech Museum before.
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Made Cake Pops
At SereniTea House, they make these delicious sweet treats called cake pops. A cake pop is a mini cake truffle in a candy coating, served on a stick (like a lollipop). They are a perfect bite of sweet deliciousness.
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Done A Snow Watch On Twin Peaks
February 25, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
As a native San Franciscan, I’ve never seen snow in my hometown before. The last time the City had snow was in 1976, before I was born. At the beginning of the week, the news reported that a cold storm could be headed our way with a possibility of snow.
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Watched Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Masterpiece "Vertigo"
Although I’ve seen quite a few “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episodes on syndicated television as a kid, I feel guilty the only Alfred Hitchcock film I had seen is “Rear Window”.
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Taken A Yoga Class
February 23, 2011 Filed in: Life
A few weeks ago, J, L, A, and I all signed up for a yoga class at Hanuman Center in the Castro. We scheduled this near the end of February because I thought a lot of the new year’s crowd would thin out after a few months.
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Cleaned A Water Filled Keg
If you know me, you are probably aware that I enjoy lifting weights. J and I have been doing CrossFit training for a good amount of time now, and amazingly, we are still quite enthusiastic about it.
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Visited Sutro Baths
February 21, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
Just below the Cliff House, you can walk down to see the ruins of what used to be Sutro Baths. Sutro Baths was a large indoor pool complex built in the late 1800’s. When it was opened in 1896, it was the world’s largest swimming pool establishment.
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Cooked Honey Walnut Prawns
Chinese New Year was on February 3, but because of a few scheduling conflicts, we were unable to have a family dinner until tonight. I volunteered to make one of the dishes, Honey Walnut Prawns.
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Gone To A Professional Ice Hockey Game
February 19, 2011 Filed in: Sports
Happy Day 50!!!
Ice hockey is the least popular of America’s four major professional sports, despite being wildly popular in Canada.
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Ran Up The Lyon Street Steps
February 18, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit | San Francisco
The city I live in is famous for its hills, and some of these hills have steps, really steep steps. A year and a half ago, on our first anniversary, J and I climbed up the Filbert Street Steps on the way to the top of Coit Tower. Another well known set of steps are the Lyon Street steps, and luckily, for me, they are within walking distance from work.
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Splashed In Rain Puddles For Fun
February 17, 2011 Filed in: Outdoors
One of the benefits of having a project like this is that I can use it as an excuse to act like a kid again and experience something that I never got to when I was younger. J couldn’t believe I had never done this before. What kind of a kid never plays in the rain and makes a mess of puddles?
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Watched Industrial Light & Magic's First Animated Feature Film
Industrial Light & Magic has worked on over 250 films covering 35 years, from practical effects into the digital age of computer graphics. Not until now has the company worked on an entire animated feature. There is a first time for everything, and this is my company’s “never done that”.
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Completed A New York Times Crossword Puzzle
February 15, 2011 Filed in: Entertainment
The New York Times crossword puzzle is an icon in American culture. It’s syndicated in over 300 newspapers and journals.
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Surprised My Wife With A Four Course Meal
Happy Valentine’s Day! I love my wife, even more than the television program Lost and the San Francisco Giants. Although the naysayers will call Valentine’s Day a Hallmark holiday, I don’t care. It’s an excuse to treat each other extra special, and if you want to, you can make it really fun.
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Gone To The Botanical Garden At Strybing Arboretum
February 13, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Outdoors
Golden Gate Park is awesome, and it’s amazing how much of it I haven’t seen. A few years ago, J and I went to the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park, but still I had never been to our own Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. I made a plan to come here and check it out in the afternoon.
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Waited Tables At SereniTea House
February 12, 2011 Filed in: Food
Before I got out of college, I held a few jobs in retail (thrift stores in the Mission, Pier 39 tourist trap, the Apple Store), but one thing that I always avoided was food service. It’s not that the idea of waiting tables was beneath me, I just never wanted to be responsible for someone else’s meals.
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Drunk A Gallon Of Milk In A Day
For years, powerlifters have used the method of drinking a gallon of milk a day (GOMAD) to gain weight. Basically, a gallon of milk is 2400 calories and has a high amount of both protein and fat content.
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Gone To A Local Art Gallery Premier
Tonight, I went to the launch of Paperwork SF, a local company based in the Mission that prints artwork by young, emerging artists on “the world’s first eco-friendly fine art paper - a smooth textured, natural white bamboo paper.”
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Watched Elia Kazan's 1954 Classic "On The Waterfront"
Last week, we watched “Raging Bull”, and in that movie, Robert De Niro (as Jake LaMotta) recites some lines from tonight’s film. We continued the AFI 100 with #19, “On The Waterfront”.
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Hosted A Fondue Party
The French word “fondue” is the past participle of the verb “fondre”, which means “to melt”. Although the first known fondue was created in 1699 (called “Käss mit Wein zu kochen” or “to cook cheese with wine”), it became a Swiss national dish in the 1930’s as a way for the Swiss cheese industry to increase cheese consumption.
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Solved And Timed Back-To-Back Rubik’s Cubes
February 07, 2011 Filed in: The 80s
The popular 1980’s Hungarian puzzle is something that since I was a kid I thought was interesting but never learned to solve until a few years ago.
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Ridden A Cable Car
February 06, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Tourist
J and I were born in San Francisco. Because the cable car is such an icon of the city, it’s kind of strange that I had never ridden one before.
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Bonus: Seen A Duran Duran Cover Band
The evening after the Giants FanFest, I was invited to see my buddy Tim B’s Duran Duran cover band, Sing Blue Silver, at the Red Devil Lounge on Polk Street.
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Been To Giants Fanfest
Giants FanFest is a free-of-charge annual event held at AT&T Park, where fans get the opportunity to get autographs, tour the ballpark, sit in the dugout, and walk on the field.
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Made A Custom Bar Of Soap
February 04, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
This was kind of a cool little project. They sell soap kits at Michaels. We decided to pick one up and try it out.
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Eaten The Coffee-Rubbed Pork Shoulder At Range
After tackling the first item on the “7x7 Big Eat SF: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die” list, the coffee-rubbed pork shoulder at Range was next.
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Donated Blood
February 02, 2011 Filed in: Life
A few weeks ago, I thought it would be a good idea to finally donate blood for the first time in my life. I looked for blood drives happening soon and found out there was going to be one at my workplace. How convenient! I made an appointment for February 2 at 10:00am.
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Run From Home To Work
This morning, I ran to work. While it’s not what I’d consider a super long run, it’s a little hilly in parts. I live in between the Castro District and Twin Peaks areas of San Francisco, almost directly in the center of the city. I work in the Presidio at the Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), near the Golden Gate Bridge.
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