Sep 2011
Watched John Schlesinger's 1969 Drama "Midnight Cowboy"
"Uh, well, sir, I ain't a f'real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!"
--Jon Voight as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy
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Run The Presidio's Lovers' Lane
September 29, 2011 Filed in: Presidio | San Francisco
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
--Henry Ward Beecher
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Done Barbell Pullovers
September 28, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
Baked A Paleo Lasagna
Elaine (grabbing Puddy): What are you doing?
Puddy: It's a long flight, Elaine. I had to get on with my life.
Elaine: By making time with some floozy across the aisle?
Puddy: Yeah, that's right. Well, what's going on over there with you and, uh, vegetable lasagna?
Elaine: This guy? He's an idiot. he doesn't mean anything to me.
Passenger (heretofore known as vegetable lasagna): I can hear you.
--from the Seinfeld episode The Butter Shave
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Seen A Colony Of Crabs
September 25, 2011 Filed in: Outdoors
"So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs."
--Patti LaBelle
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Recorded A Track In Pro Tools
"I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends. They're in my head..."
--Nirvana, Lithium
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Eaten Black Chicken
September 23, 2011 Filed in: Food
"In China, the Silkie is called wu gu ji — black-boned chicken. It has been prized for its medicinal value since the seventh or eighth century."
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Had Dinner At Flour + Water
September 22, 2011 Filed in: Food | San Francisco
Played Starcraft
September 21, 2011 Filed in: Video Games
"With its excellent campaign, elegantly designed factions, and simple to learn but deep, strategic gameplay, Starcraft is the defining game of its genre. It is the standard by which all real-time strategy games are judged."
--Bob Colayco in Gamespot's article The Greatest Games of All Time
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Brewed Beer
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."
--Abraham Lincoln
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Run A Massive Crowd Simulation
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
--Alan Perlis
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Made A Super Bouncy Ball
September 18, 2011 Filed in: Science
“A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.”
--Christy Mathewson
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Finished Tough Mudder
September 17, 2011 Filed in: Running
"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."
--Sir Isaac Newton
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Cooked Food On A Car Engine
"Back in the thirties, Caddy offered a V16; find one of those and you're set for a whole Thanksgiving dinner."
--Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, Manifold Destiny
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Drunk Sightglass Coffee
September 15, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | 7x7
Seen The World War II Memorial
September 14, 2011 Filed in: Presidio | San Francisco
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends."
--General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Taken A Tour At Anchor Brewing Company
September 12, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
Kayaked On McCovey Cove
September 10, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
--Michael Caine
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Prepared An Emergency Kit
September 09, 2011 Filed in: Personal
Upgraded The Graphics Card In A Mac
September 08, 2011 Filed in: Personal
Made Chicken Stock
September 07, 2011 Filed in: Cooking
Seen A Giant Sundial
September 06, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
--C.S. Lewis
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Eaten Liquid Nitrogen Frozen Ice Cream
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "
--Arthur C. Clarke
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Cleaned Out The Freezer
Made Shrinky Dinks
September 03, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
"Shrinky Dinks shrink to approximately 1/3rd their original size and actually become 9 times thicker."
--from the Shrinky Dink website
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Listened To A Wave Chime
September 02, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."
--James Gates Percival
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Squatted For Five Minutes
September 01, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
