Jun 2011
Assembled A Robotic Arm
“I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.”
--Jack Handy
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Done A 300 Pound Farmer Carry
Played A Banjo
June 28, 2011 Filed in: Music
"The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful."
--Steve Martin
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Watched Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 Drama "All About Eve"
“Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”
--Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Filled Out Paperwork For A Legal Name Change
June 25, 2011 Filed in: Life
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
--Theodore Roosevelt
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Folded A Secret Note Square
June 23, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
Repaired The Handle On A Toilet
June 21, 2011 Filed in: Life
“You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.”
--George Carlin
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Made Ginger Ale
Ishmael: Okay, you want to bowl for some big money, eh? But I'll lose my entire bonus check because I'm so *bombed*.
McKnight Bowl Bartender: You get that way from ginger ale?
Roy: Nah, he was sniffing glue in the parking lot.
--From Kingpin
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Watched Mike Nichols's 1967 Film "The Graduate"
“It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.”
--Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate
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Checked Out The Bellagio Conservatory And Botanical Gardens
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
--Gian Carlo Menotti
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Hiked Angel's Landing At Zion National Park
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Eaten The Buffet Of Buffets (All Seven In 24 Hours)
“Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.”
--Marilyn vos Savant
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Seen The Grand Canyon
“It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.”
--Jack Schmitt, American Astronaut
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Gone To The Titanic Artifact Exhibition
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: “So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.”
Cal: “It is unsinkable. God himself couldn't sink this ship.”
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Gone To The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
June 12, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Tourist
Yogurt: “You're welcome, and here. (throws a fortune cookie at Lone Starr) Just in case you get hungry.”
Lone Starr: “A fortune cookie?”
Yogurt: “Yes. Remember, open it before you eat it.”
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Learned How To Play The Opening Riff Of Kansas's "Carry On My Wayward Son"
June 10, 2011 Filed in: Music
“Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more”
--Kansas, Carry On My Wayward Son
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Eaten The Carnitas At Nopalito
“Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?”
--Jon Stewart
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Done Sandbag Getups
“The beauty of strongman training is that there's no one way to perform the exercises.”
--Joe DeFranco
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Swum At The Presidio YMCA
June 07, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
--Michael Phelps
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Seen Andy Goldsworthy's “Spire” In The Presidio
“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.”
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Spent The Night In A Museum
June 05, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Museums
Gone To A CrossFit Regional Competition
June 04, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
"You can't do these workouts unless you're driven by purpose. Purpose is ultimately the well spring of all happiness."
--Greg Glassman, founder of CrossFit
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Made A Bamboo Wind Chime
June 03, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
--Catherine The Great
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Watched Sidney Lumet's 1976 Satire "Network"
“Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!”
--Peter Finch as Howard Beale
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Cooked With A Pressure Cooker
“Pressure pushing down on me, pressing down on you no man ask for.”
--Queen & David Bowie, Under Pressure
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