Oct 2011
Watched John Carpenter's 1978 Horror "Halloween"
October 31, 2011 Filed in: Movies
"I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the *devil's* eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... *evil*."
--Dr. Sam Loomis as played by Donald Pleasence in Halloween
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Gone On A Duck Tour
October 30, 2011 Filed in: Tourist | San Francisco
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
--Douglas Adams
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Worn A Full Grass Skirt (For Halloween)
"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."
--Conan O'Brien
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Fixed A Sink Drain Rod
“It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”
--Henry Allen
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Made Espresso On A Stove
October 27, 2011 Filed in: Cooking
Shot An Airsoft Gun
October 26, 2011 Filed in: Personal
Replaced My Chair With A Unicycle
October 25, 2011 Filed in: For A Day
"If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV."
--Matt Groening
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Watched Frank Capra's 1939 Drama "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
"And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others."
--James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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Made A Simple Dynamics And Particle Simulation In Houdini
October 23, 2011 Filed in: Work
Downed A KFC Double Down
"I'm telling you baby, you always double down on 11."
--Vince Vaughn as Trent in Swingers
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Watched Tom Naughton's 2009 Documentary "Fat Head"
"I have read the papers suggesting that 20 years of low-fat recommendations have not managed to lower the incidence of heart disease in this country, and may have led instead to the steep increase in obesity and Type 2 diabetes."
--Gary Taubes, NY Times article What If It's All Been A Big Fat Lie?
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Tasted Wasabi Goat Cheese
October 20, 2011 Filed in: Food
"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
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Written A Letter Of Recommendation
"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
--Barack Obama
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Eaten The Prather Ranch Hamburger At Serpentine
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
--Charles Kuralt
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Cooked A Flintstone Chop
Fred Flintstone: I know what you're going to say. I don't know anything about all of this, right?
Wilma Flintstone: Right!
Fred Flintstone: Has that ever stopped me from being an expert before?
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Butchered A Whole Cow
October 16, 2011 Filed in: Cooking
“If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.”
--Turkish Proverb
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Ridden A Double Decker Bus
October 15, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Tourist
Waited In Line For Something I Didn't Buy
October 14, 2011 Filed in: Personal
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Eaten The Fried Chicken At Foreign Cinema
"A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant."
--Ivor Novello
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Written A Budget
October 12, 2011 Filed in: Personal
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
--Wlliam Feather
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Cooked A Dozen Eggs A Dozen Ways
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
--Bernard Meltzer
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Taken A Tour Of The Boeing Factory
October 09, 2011 Filed in: Seattle
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
--Mark Kennedy
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Dined At The Top Of The Space Needle
October 08, 2011 Filed in: Seattle
"When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third."
--Alex Rodriguez
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Gone To Pike Place Market
October 08, 2011 Filed in: Seattle
"My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust."
--Ron Reagan
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Visited Jimi Hendrix And Bruce Lee's Graves
October 08, 2011 Filed in: Seattle
"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
--Jimi Hendrix
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
--Bruce Lee
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Worn A Pink Shirt
October 07, 2011 Filed in: For A Day
Eaten The Meatloaf Sandwich At Fatted Calf
"Hey Mom! Can we get some meatloaf?!"
--Will Ferrell as Chazz Reinhold in Wedding Crashers
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Assembled A Dinosaur Lamp
October 04, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
Installed A Motion Sensor Light Switch
“I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”
--Muhammad Ali
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Gone On A Hornblower Cruise
October 02, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
Eaten Pork Kidney
October 01, 2011 Filed in: Food
"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
--Ambrose Bierce
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