it's been crazy busy the past week, but last night around 1, JB, eddie, clint, ryan and i got a little antsy. after rocking out to 80's and 90's hits all night, we decided to mess with the early birds a bit. called ben at 1, and used a schwarzenneger voice program we found on ebaums world to mess with him. "im arnold schwarzenneger; who are you?" hilarious. "stop whining!" and when he hung up on us for the 2nd time, we left a nice voicemail "you son of a bitch!"
our theme song: Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
feeling antsy!
it's going to be a very very busy next few days.
bouncing at my desk to cannonball jane's Take it to Fantastic (the Ad Rock Remix).
bouncing at my desk to cannonball jane's Take it to Fantastic (the Ad Rock Remix).
wednesdays rock!
such a good morning!
Jukebox the Ghost -Hold It In
dont even try to tell me this song doesnt make you smile.
Jukebox the Ghost -Hold It In
dont even try to tell me this song doesnt make you smile.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
song of the day
bats for lashes' cover of springsteen's "Im On Fire"
applies to a different context, perhaps, but im going stircrazy at my desk right now. courtney just picked up jude at the truck stop for me (thankyouthankyouthankyou) and im waiting on the west coast now.... need. to. escape.
applies to a different context, perhaps, but im going stircrazy at my desk right now. courtney just picked up jude at the truck stop for me (thankyouthankyouthankyou) and im waiting on the west coast now.... need. to. escape.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
the golden gate and oscar night!
ohmygod! Freeheld won an oscar! this is huge.
http://www.freeheld.com/
i forgot how much i love the academy awards. cant wait to peruse the red carpet pics later. still have yet to see no country for old men - and it looks so freaking good! im glad javier bardem won. and it's awesome that marion cotillard won for la vie en rose.
more later.
now is later - waiting for feedback from san fran.
did i mention jimmy and i ran like 6 miles on sunday?
we're both incredibly out of shape (we both seem to weigh more than we ever have before. ever) and were thus dreading exercise, but somehow, when we hit the pavement at the marina, it just worked. took it nice and easy along the beach, then muscled it up the stairs. jimmy pulled ahead when we hit the bridge, but we both made it to the first [tier?] of the golden gate. walked back about half a mile, and then i dont know, we just started running again. booked it pretty fast on the way back, and it felt amazing. im definitely still feeling it in my right glute, though. =)
follwed the run up with a delicious dinner cooked by jimmy and then michael clayton on demand. good movie. i liked that there wasnt actually any real violence. well, unless you count the car being blown up or tom wilkinson getting murdered. interesting to see tilda swanton in the role that won her an oscar that night. lots of restraint, really impressive job, but i can see why she was so surprised to have won. the movie was clooney's, and if anyone else stood out, id have gone with wilkinson.
http://www.freeheld.com/
i forgot how much i love the academy awards. cant wait to peruse the red carpet pics later. still have yet to see no country for old men - and it looks so freaking good! im glad javier bardem won. and it's awesome that marion cotillard won for la vie en rose.
more later.
now is later - waiting for feedback from san fran.
did i mention jimmy and i ran like 6 miles on sunday?
we're both incredibly out of shape (we both seem to weigh more than we ever have before. ever) and were thus dreading exercise, but somehow, when we hit the pavement at the marina, it just worked. took it nice and easy along the beach, then muscled it up the stairs. jimmy pulled ahead when we hit the bridge, but we both made it to the first [tier?] of the golden gate. walked back about half a mile, and then i dont know, we just started running again. booked it pretty fast on the way back, and it felt amazing. im definitely still feeling it in my right glute, though. =)
follwed the run up with a delicious dinner cooked by jimmy and then michael clayton on demand. good movie. i liked that there wasnt actually any real violence. well, unless you count the car being blown up or tom wilkinson getting murdered. interesting to see tilda swanton in the role that won her an oscar that night. lots of restraint, really impressive job, but i can see why she was so surprised to have won. the movie was clooney's, and if anyone else stood out, id have gone with wilkinson.
indie kids do dance
i think im going to love this city.
sitting at a coffee shop in the mission across from delores park with melanie and dan and listening to gillian welch below the buzz of the conversations around us. the place is packed and it smells like french toast, and i cant wait to go across the street and try the infamous ice cream at Bi-rite. already im looking forward to trying their salted caramel.
last night jimmy and i partied soma style with a bunch of googlers. had such a blast. his friend lives in soma, and aside from feeling like we might stumble upon a body stashed down an alley somewhere, it was pretty cool. killer loft with industrial flooring and lots of steel. im definitely a fan of the look (odd, because it is sort of cold - the kind of place that cries for a vintage worn brown leather couch or something ), and i like the idea of lofts. i think spending most of my adult life in apartments has made me appreciate them, but there's something about the idea of a flat with stairs that i just love. i semi remember our place in hong kong back in kindergarten had stairs in it. i like the safety and views and ease of apartments, but i also like how different floors separate common / living spaces.
anyway lots of google kids there, some familiar faces and some not. seems like i keep running into penn kids, though. funny. and met a kid who lived in kenya and then jakarta for a little while. i sort of like all these odd connections.
went to the dna lounge for this crazy good party - bootie or something. sick mash ups and a britney / kelly danceoff in drag at midnight. danced danced danced all night long, and random kids we knew kept arriving. definitely a different scene than id have expected most googlers to like. it was great. lots of crazy ppl wearing random ass goth stuff and weird shit, i blended nicely in my giant furry hooded vest. some awesome mash ups that im going to have to find a way to steal and post up here. for now, check out bootieusa.com. the amy winehouse mashes are pretty sick.
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just realized i never posted this.
for the record, the salted caramel rocked.
sitting at a coffee shop in the mission across from delores park with melanie and dan and listening to gillian welch below the buzz of the conversations around us. the place is packed and it smells like french toast, and i cant wait to go across the street and try the infamous ice cream at Bi-rite. already im looking forward to trying their salted caramel.
last night jimmy and i partied soma style with a bunch of googlers. had such a blast. his friend lives in soma, and aside from feeling like we might stumble upon a body stashed down an alley somewhere, it was pretty cool. killer loft with industrial flooring and lots of steel. im definitely a fan of the look (odd, because it is sort of cold - the kind of place that cries for a vintage worn brown leather couch or something ), and i like the idea of lofts. i think spending most of my adult life in apartments has made me appreciate them, but there's something about the idea of a flat with stairs that i just love. i semi remember our place in hong kong back in kindergarten had stairs in it. i like the safety and views and ease of apartments, but i also like how different floors separate common / living spaces.
anyway lots of google kids there, some familiar faces and some not. seems like i keep running into penn kids, though. funny. and met a kid who lived in kenya and then jakarta for a little while. i sort of like all these odd connections.
went to the dna lounge for this crazy good party - bootie or something. sick mash ups and a britney / kelly danceoff in drag at midnight. danced danced danced all night long, and random kids we knew kept arriving. definitely a different scene than id have expected most googlers to like. it was great. lots of crazy ppl wearing random ass goth stuff and weird shit, i blended nicely in my giant furry hooded vest. some awesome mash ups that im going to have to find a way to steal and post up here. for now, check out bootieusa.com. the amy winehouse mashes are pretty sick.
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just realized i never posted this.
for the record, the salted caramel rocked.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
rainy day in the bay area
ick. it's very very wet here. and not in a good way.
highlights of the day, however:
1. writing lists like the omf. theyre just so efficient!
2. ordering a stationary bike up to my room and watching she's the man while working out in the tiny space that is corporate housing (if you thought my room smelled funny before, i just made it so much worse. also, amanda bynes rocks. so so much. i really need to stop watching that movie. and why does no one ever mistake her for a butchie?!? there's this whole subtext in that movie that someone needs to explore.)
3. meeting heide, jude's friend from vassar. she's doing americore in san diego, and is here visiting one of her (seven!!) siblings. anyway judy e-troduced us, and we got together this morning to check out the free jam and tapenades at pier 1, drink tea in a faux tea house, talk food stamps (there are debit-like cards - very discreet!) and agree on how all around spectacular a certain former vassarite is.
4. navigating the bus system to make my way to jimmy's. there was a chinese new years parade today, and maybe that's why the zhong ren were out in full force. seriously, ive never been on a bus with that many cantonese speakers in my life (except when i lived in china, i guess...). it was like getting on a bus in west philly. except, you know... oh! but man, these hills! it's terrifying! im going to get killer ripped from gripping the straps while i try to maintain my balance all the way to jimmy's
5. making chinese food with jimmy. havent made ma pou dou fu (spicy tofu / pork) in years. it's so easy. but i may have gone overboard with the red bean chili paste. jimmy and i are going to be sweating garlic and ginger hardcore tonight. we'll pretend it's in honor of chinese new years. the recipe, if youre interested:
approx 1 ib of ground pork (feel free to use turkey. or skip it alltogether. but pork works best)
garlic (however much youre comfortable wiht. in my case, less is more)
ginger (lots!)
two things of extra firm tofu (delicious!)
a jar of spicy red bean chili paste (i think that's what it's called)
mince the garlic, ginger, throw it in a wok and brown the pork in there. add half the jar of chili sauce (we added the whole jar. that may have been a mistake) and then the tofu (dice it first!). mix it all up, let is cook for a while until the tofu's soft, and then let it sit for however long you want. eat it over rice! (of if you fear carbohydrates, salad)
6. jimmy singing in the shower. wait, that's not exactly a highlight. but we have been having fun trying to learn hey there delilah on the guitar. (okay, so it's more him learning and me singing along off-key, but still. i taught him the first few chords of blister in the sun. thanks, 7th grade guitar lessons!)
7. that's all i have for now. ooh! but last night rocked. chris, who i havent seen in like 7 years (except for that time in baltimore like a month ago), met jimmy and i at this super cool bar and had a blast. there were a gazillion boston googlers, and chris and i felt slightly out of place, so my solution: tell everyone we were from google kansas city. it was hilarious. we just told ppl we were a small but growing office and that "bandwidth is cheap out there!" okay so it was kind of an asshole move to lie to all these kids jimmy sort of knows, but it was still pretty amusing. the music was pretty good, too - we danced our pants off big time. forgot how fast jimmy can move. great to see chris, though.
oh! jimmy's out of the shower. go time!
highlights of the day, however:
1. writing lists like the omf. theyre just so efficient!
2. ordering a stationary bike up to my room and watching she's the man while working out in the tiny space that is corporate housing (if you thought my room smelled funny before, i just made it so much worse. also, amanda bynes rocks. so so much. i really need to stop watching that movie. and why does no one ever mistake her for a butchie?!? there's this whole subtext in that movie that someone needs to explore.)
3. meeting heide, jude's friend from vassar. she's doing americore in san diego, and is here visiting one of her (seven!!) siblings. anyway judy e-troduced us, and we got together this morning to check out the free jam and tapenades at pier 1, drink tea in a faux tea house, talk food stamps (there are debit-like cards - very discreet!) and agree on how all around spectacular a certain former vassarite is.
4. navigating the bus system to make my way to jimmy's. there was a chinese new years parade today, and maybe that's why the zhong ren were out in full force. seriously, ive never been on a bus with that many cantonese speakers in my life (except when i lived in china, i guess...). it was like getting on a bus in west philly. except, you know... oh! but man, these hills! it's terrifying! im going to get killer ripped from gripping the straps while i try to maintain my balance all the way to jimmy's
5. making chinese food with jimmy. havent made ma pou dou fu (spicy tofu / pork) in years. it's so easy. but i may have gone overboard with the red bean chili paste. jimmy and i are going to be sweating garlic and ginger hardcore tonight. we'll pretend it's in honor of chinese new years. the recipe, if youre interested:
approx 1 ib of ground pork (feel free to use turkey. or skip it alltogether. but pork works best)
garlic (however much youre comfortable wiht. in my case, less is more)
ginger (lots!)
two things of extra firm tofu (delicious!)
a jar of spicy red bean chili paste (i think that's what it's called)
mince the garlic, ginger, throw it in a wok and brown the pork in there. add half the jar of chili sauce (we added the whole jar. that may have been a mistake) and then the tofu (dice it first!). mix it all up, let is cook for a while until the tofu's soft, and then let it sit for however long you want. eat it over rice! (of if you fear carbohydrates, salad)
6. jimmy singing in the shower. wait, that's not exactly a highlight. but we have been having fun trying to learn hey there delilah on the guitar. (okay, so it's more him learning and me singing along off-key, but still. i taught him the first few chords of blister in the sun. thanks, 7th grade guitar lessons!)
7. that's all i have for now. ooh! but last night rocked. chris, who i havent seen in like 7 years (except for that time in baltimore like a month ago), met jimmy and i at this super cool bar and had a blast. there were a gazillion boston googlers, and chris and i felt slightly out of place, so my solution: tell everyone we were from google kansas city. it was hilarious. we just told ppl we were a small but growing office and that "bandwidth is cheap out there!" okay so it was kind of an asshole move to lie to all these kids jimmy sort of knows, but it was still pretty amusing. the music was pretty good, too - we danced our pants off big time. forgot how fast jimmy can move. great to see chris, though.
oh! jimmy's out of the shower. go time!
Friday, February 22, 2008
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