Category Archives: Personal stuff

Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-27:

  • At generous georges buying yet another donner #
  • http://twitpic.com/95iz aftermath. Basically can run a marathon with as many carbs as I just loaded. #
  • To be frank not interested in hrc’s speech tonight #
  • @tstarks33 nobody likes you puma = Lieberman nobody likes him either #
  • my macbook is all f-ed up. been preparing a backup for going on 4 hours and my quicksilver locks up every time i open it #
  • crap. i bought dvd blanks instead of cd blanks. i’m way too tired lately #
  • some days you just know #
  • i think my time machine disc is hosed. but i’m not positive, but no real time to troubleshoot it #
  • http://tinyurl.com/6koe59 michael bay and armageddon vindicated! #
  • http://twitpic.com/97r2 Leeds certified restaurant in DC coming soon #
  • @holydee i’m dual monitor at work, but don’t have a big problem single at home, but at home i don’t do much of anything save itunes/browser #
  • just finished havana nocturne. a bit of a dry read for such an interesting time. entertaining, but not as gripping as i thought it would be #

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Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-26:

  • Wish I had my camera just walked past a lone bat sleeping clinging to a wall at eye level #
  • it’s MUCH too late for PUMA to rebrand themselves as Party Unity, My America. They got a lot of buss for Party Unity My Ass. #
  • “That’s some bullshit. I’m beating down the Internet as we speak.” —T.I. on the leak of “Swagger Like Us” #
  • It’s a way nice day today. Not work (not that work is bad) but the weather, very very nice #
  • Finally a down hour. Time for some madden #

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Monty likes the Apple Store

So we’ve been walking monty around the neighborhood and testing how dog friendly the places are. Of all the places, he seems most calm and relaxed at the Apple Store. Maybe because it’s cooler (temperature and ambiance) or the music. He did okay at Crate & Barrel but got kind of riled up. He enjoyed both, but definitely preferred Apple. Maybe dogs do take after their owners.

Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-25:

  • @CarolLiang best rendition of the anthem EVER #
  • @CarolLiang also the rumors are that marvin did that no rehearsals, just totally freestyled it #
  • i swear i had the idea of flag poles with air blowing at the top to wave the flag going on 15 years ago or so #
  • @kpereira block out that sun! #
  • “My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.” – karl lagerfeld #
  • @kpereira is there such a thing as too much sushi? #
  • not even the power of the lolcatz can energize me today #
  • i want a new tattoo #

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Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-24:

  • @ayn http://twitpic.com/8tk7 need to build a stand doesn’t fit atop my carafe #
  • just interesting to watch dude lose his tan on project runway #
  • the wackness was a decent movie. music was def just the top 40 popular stuff, but def brought back memories #
  • oh lord my night just got a little bit crappier… #
  • Anyone know any good after hours spots on DC or nothern va? #
  • @technotheory is the dancing at the sheraton crystal city? the website is rather uninformative #
  • Sitting at a table with 4 Korean ladies = a lot of random drink guys coming up to my table #
  • Getting a lot of questions about north Korea and whether any of us speak Russian #
  • Sad I’m up at time of gold medal bball and can’t watch. Fuck #
  • @truehoop the meal right now is lightly salted cashews #
  • @truehoop but stale nachos sounds mighty good right now #
  • rogge is a punk #
  • totally passing the buck on china #
  • i’ve had a nosebleed 3-4 days (counting right now) of the past 7 or so, grrr #
  • Wade has to be MVP right? #
  • any site that has blaring audio (or audio to a video) that auto plays is absolute crap and worthy of scorn #
  • on 4 hours of sleep, i will be chippy today #
  • i’m getting a weird thing where holding a full cup of coffee by the handle is giving me pain along the top of my index finger near the base #
  • damn china SMASHED all comers in gold medals, though i suppose we’ll see if 4 or so stand re: gymnasts ages #
  • looking at “selcas” (self portraits) of korean pop stars, seems like they ALL make the same faces for these pics #
  • @jkottke sure you’ve seen but hey: http://tinyurl.com/5o4gkl #
  • f yeah USA in the 1904 games! haha nearly 6x as many medals EVERYONE else combined #
  • don’t ask me how it happened but i no longer have my tinyurl applescript. time to do it again, but weird #
  • nevermind, i DO have my tinyurl script, just in my sleep deprived state i forgot what i named it #
  • @closetcaucus my anger/irritability/feeling of being incredibly annoyed from last night. that’s what i’m letting go of today #
  • @holydee alchemist ftw! (that is from that right?) #
  • twinkle just crashed my iphone and caused a os restart that HUNG in the middle of it…wtf #
  • OMG itunes argh! why wont my changes to track info STAY? #
  • @holydee ever since 7.7 it’s nothing but trouble. i love my iphone but damn it’s making some issues for me, apple, you, the world #
  • why is updating apps so slow? #
  • patently stupid of me to expect ppl to exhibit the same amount of consideration i extend ppl #
  • dropped hermes perfume/cologne bottle just cracked a tile in my bathroom. i guess i prefer that to broken bottle of perfume/cologne #
  • Edge of iPhone film caught something and is now peeling back with dust. Might go sans back soon #
  • Zara has like 195366 military inspired jackets. Most look pretty nice #
  • @dooce congrats! #
  • @lindsayg just got told to not take pictures (of my wife and her cousin) in a store. Haha. Bc I’m a corp spy trying to copy the clothes!!! #

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Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-23:

  • @danbenjamin sucks dan, i can’t imagine water damage is ever cheap #
  • anyone got any good suggestions for software to create a movie out of a series of jpegs? #
  • oh for mac #
  • aperture 2 or lightroom? not that i really know how to use either (i barely use ps cs3 beyond acr) #
  • i want to own a sports franchise. which i guess means i want to be very very rich. #
  • http://twitpic.com/8quq 1pm and I’m a little ahead of schedule #
  • tattoos on asians, from nyt “Black looks better on yellow skin,” he said, “and color looks better on pink.” http://tinyurl.com/5e37f2 #
  • i think despite tivo, ps3, appletv i might reactivate my netflix account #
  • i spend a disproportionately large amount of money on crap food. #
  • @closetcaucus it certainly looks like it but the weather just has it as cloudy. i hope it doesn’t rain. no umbrella and consumer electronics #
  • @KPB that sounds like an excellent time #
  • @danbenjamin how’s the zi6? lots of good HD footage of fans blowing? #

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Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-22:

  • http://twitpic.com/8jbt – Memes runnin’ wild #
  • @kpereira perhaps you do and i just don’t know, but you should most definitely have a dennis miller style rant like this one every week #
  • @kpereira fuckin’ mcribs were the best! #
  • @peterrojas who’s russell brand? time to google/wiki #
  • @danbenjamin given the crazy rain, here’s to hoping you actually get your zi6 as scheduled. #
  • @holydee on every holy in my life, i need those cards, by the THOUSANDS #
  • restore in itunes seemed to have solved my iphone connection issues so far #
  • tweeting just to lose the annoucement of new blog post from my status #
  • fortune from cookie after downing sugar, sodium, msg for lunch: Good health will be yours for a long time. #
  • i guess restore didn’t solve my 3g connection issues. #
  • btw, along with nytimes, i’m convinced apple’s homepage is optimized for iphone, but designed to look like regular web homepage #
  • most mobile sites loading, albeit slowly. #
  • http://twitpic.com/8m11 – I guess AT&T really wants 2.0.2 to clear up connection issues #
  • via @truehoop http://tinyurl.com/5q86gp slamming rogge for slamming usain #
  • this time of day = coffee + lolcatz #
  • I need a tada list iPhone app! #
  • at costco finished shopping eat a crap slice of pizza that tastes like America! #
  • @kpereira are you going to wear a neck brace or something on AOTS #
  • rockin’ the 50/1.4 to walk around with for a few days know my 24-70 covers the same range with near the same sharpness, but easier to carry #
  • @peterrojas after that vid of the guy stuck in the elevator for 41 hours or whatever, elevator industry is pretty interesting #
  • @guykawasaki still think they should be burned in a big pile in public squares #
  • i kind of want an indo board, but i know it’d only keep me entertained for roughly 8 minutes #

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I’m not a food snob

Not really.  I can taste the difference between quality food and mass produced things.  Eating crap food usually gives me all sorts of ills.  I don’t begrudge chains.  Yeah food is mediocre and overly sweet, salty, fat filled.  But that’s also why they are generically good.  Maybe things don’t taste awesome, but they taste good in a comfortable way.  So I still go to chains and such.  But this Esquire piece reviewing Outback Steak house (the review ends saying it’s not bad), has the following passage:

The clientele was much like you’d find in any mall food court: freaking enormous. Roll after roll of body fat stuffed into XXL T-shirts and baggy blue jeans. But everyone seemed to be having a grand old time, scarfing platters of cheese fries and baby-back ribs, their piggy children stuffing themselves with Boomerang Cheese Burgers from the “Joey Menu.” (emphasis added)

That passage ALONE makes me want to shun Outback and mall food courts and chain, Americana, “‘s” restaurants (e.g. Applebee’s, TGIFriday’s, etc.).  Despite the “grand old time” it strikes me as this is the exact kind of person I DON’T want to be.  (Nevermind that I almost am already.)

Will I still go to chain places?  Yes.  Will I do it with the same frequency I do now (rarely)?  Nope.

Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-21:

  • @kpereira the cropped look is nice man. ain’t no thing, it grows back, though being a TV personality i suppose a bigger deal #
  • @sidneylo yeah i might. i get no signal a ton, then full 3g, etc. for actual phone signal 2.0 was the best for me. but who knows why #
  • OH MOTHERFUCKING CRAP, just bought 2 busy sync licenses by accident #
  • student loan payment just went up this month.. sigh #
  • @ayn honestly it was one of those idiot things, i dont know how it got 2 in the number of license part. #
  • picking songs to back video is not an easy task #
  • doing stuff in imovie makes me want to use iphoto (i dont save jpgs only raw, jpgs to flickr). i guess jobs wins #
  • @holydee boo. mac ftw! actually while i prefer macs, i’m not a windows hater. and i don’t even pc game #
  • i really want that kodak zi6, but i may just wait until my next trip or something, no need to pick it up for random vids of the doggie. #
  • oh, and that flip video waterproof case, while having a stupid design flaw, is great. gotten much use out of it this summer #
  • the lack of willpower i’m displaying lately is simply stunning #
  • @danbenjamin i forget if you have the ultra too, or if that was just @gruber, at any rate i look forward to reading or hearing about it #
  • i want to buy a bodum double walled glass beaker just to hold the coffee i make, i don’t want the actual full on french press #
  • failing miserably in my attempt to rate my music as it plays. i guess i’ll auto-rate it. though it is very imperfect #
  • @danbenjamin i’m the same way with a buddy of mine. never fails, one buys, the other follows. tvs, macs, ipods, movies, etc #
  • @danbenjamin for me and buddy, overlapping interests + vocal enthusiasm = dual purchases #
  • I just had to do a hard reset (not turn off and on, just hold home and power til it shut off) to get 3g to work on my iPhone #
  • ANOTHER hard reset to try to fix 3g. going to do a restore today when i get home #
  • why do so many women love lotion with such STRONG, overpowering scents? #
  • just did a restore of iphone and now itunes keeps hanging when i try to sync. oh well #
  • @kpereira please say you are going to sigourney in alien, natalie in v for vendetta her. she’s hot as is, but would be awesome #
  • anyone know how to delete synced mail accts from itunes (extra email addys in info pane of iphone in itunes) #
  • Trying to eat my bodyweight in sushi. #

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Here’s what I tweeted on 2008-08-20:

  • allyson fenix is attractive. the commentator is right, she has a slight hitch in her running, but i dont know if it’s natural or new #
  • where are the speedo LZR-like track and field suits? #
  • @sidneylo yeah, i just figure the limits of human body are close to being met, so shoes and clothes are the things that can be improved #
  • @sidneylo hey will your WAYWT exhibition ever be online? is it already, i’m not in touch with sufu that much if it’s already been noted #
  • does usain bolt EVER run hard? does he ever have to? #
  • @iamshimone f yeah, 100% of my twitter spam today were those 6figureteam bitches #
  • Today’s goal: rate every song I listen to on my iPhone. #
  • CRIKEY, usain, insane, whatever all the rhymes and poems, that WR seemed unassailable, but diam #
  • @holydee seriously, it exploded after @veronica tweeted it. but as a meme it thankfully rose and fell very quickly. #
  • @kpereira all about the tweet daily digest on the blog, a short, if imperfect solution #
  • via @consumerist, already christmas trees (fake ones obv) on sale. in AUGUST. http://tinyurl.com/6x5vmm #
  • i need to really learn when i’m full and when i’m full in my head. former fat kid rules my apetite too much #
  • so jacked up… http://tinyurl.com/5zk76u #
  • oh last tweet was via nymag re: mtv new model contest #
  • retweet @myzuk http://tinyurl.com/5txdat godfather i and ii back on the big screen… so great #
  • post 2.0.2 i’ve not been able to pull up a full non mobile website on my iphone over 3g other than the NYT site #
  • btw, convinced the nyt site is iphone optimized, but made to look like the normal site #
  • i dont have a huge legion of followers, but i still have 1 mangayourface icon in the group.. #

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