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Off to Shanghai - Banff, Alberta is a fantastic place to have a wedding...

I'll be there for 10 days. Mostly work, but it will be fun meeting the guys and gals from our remote office. I will try to blog about my experiences from there.

I also just flew back from Banff Alberta from a super fun wedding trip. See Van's blog for the details - http://vanessa_au.blogspot.com/

Congrats to Sheldon and Tasha on pulling off an awesome wedding!! more pix to follow.

The glutonous amounts of buffet, fondue and chocolate fountains at this little mountain town is a heck of a great vacation spot if you need to get away for a few days. Treat yourself to a hotsprings soaking and you'll be ready to tackle the world (although you will smell like fart for a bit).

At this fondue restaurant called the Grizzly, I ate rattlesnake, shark, frog, gator, buffalo, venison, boar, and ostrich. All of which were cooked over hot rocks in herb butter. Most of it were bite sized morsels but I figure I wouldn't have the chance to eat all of the above at a single sitting.

Sore points: I got a speeding ticket 5 minutes out of the airport. I was doing 91KM/h in a 60 zone when a cop jumped out after hitting me with a blast of radar. He was nice to cut it down to 70 which reduced my fine to $98 Canadian +$9 onling payment fee. The sick part is that the day before I just finished traffic school and wrote a test from a previous speeding ticket. Even worse, I got a $40 parking ticket the night before in San Fran (bullsh!t street cleaning at 12am).
So I figure I'll have good traffic karma for the next 3 years right?


Again, thanks to Shel and Tasha for a wonderful excuse to go to such a nice destination wedding.

Bracelet

I wore the yellow bracelet for 8 days... The glue was picking up too many nasties to continue the experiment. Although I am really impressed that it lasted that long!

Laptop Sale!

Posted on Tue, Aug. 16, 2005
17 injured in stampede to buy bargain laptops

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.


This is totally outrageous. As funny as it is twisted, you have to imagine the horror of what the shop manager had to go through as this mob tried to squeeze through the door trying to get a laptop. When Tivo was giving away their boxes for free, there were people that waited patiently in line for about 2 hours. My co-worker got one and he said that there was an even bigger line behind him of people that probably would walk away empty handed. How many times have we gone to fry's (a Bay area geek heaven) to look for that 1 item out of a million was was marked down 99% on a friday morning? Maybe I've been disappointed enough that I realize that I will never be the one to find the needle in the haystack.

Something tells me that store in virginia won't be having another one of these "sales".

Should teacher's have uniforms?

So I'm driving home after a long day and I was flipping through the usual FM channels when I hear John Tesh (Yes, the balding Entertainment tonight guy) on the radio asking callers if teachers should have a dress code. Callers, both parents and students called in saying that yes, they should have a dress code because some of the younger teachers don't know how to dress appropriately. They were showing too much skin as another parent complained. Even teachers with "21" years of exprience were saying how the younger teachers don't realize that they are not dressing conservative enough. Without having to guess, I'm sure they are not referring to the male teachers.

When I went to school, teachers never seemed to retire thus leaving a very few openings for the younger hotter ones. In all my years of school I had one hot math teacher - the rest were either grumping, scrumpy, frumpy or a battleaxe. Anyhow, if they do force a dress code, don't you think kids would do better in school had something to look forward to? I would probably fail that grade on purpose to improve my what ever the heck she was teaching.

Of course, with my luck here is what my teachers would end up looking like:





More on this matter.. (thanks Van)
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050724/HOTTOPICS02/507240654

Funny Gym people

Just a tie in from my last blog that I wanted to share with the world. My gym has some freaky people that come out of the woodwork. This woman wearing sunglasses, dressed in jeans and jean jacket starts doing her workout. I finish my reps and I'm thinking, what an odd thing to wear. My jeans chaff like hell and I would have some serious burns on my sensitive areas.

After my workouts, I like to chill in the hottub and steam room. As I'm suckin steam, the jean lady walks into the room. She's not wearing her jean jacket but she is wearing a black tank top, her jeans and socks. She sits down and started to meditate. Normally I can stand the hot humid room until I feel light headed, but today I felt sick thinking about this woman in her clothing that she worked out in, obviously not taking a courtesy shower and in her SOCKS.

WTF lady? At least now I know how she keeps her jeans soft.

Yellow braclet..

Last thursday we decide to hit this really really cool hangout in SF called 330 Ritch. I guess it was exactly the sort of night I was looking for - a totally different scene. Since the joint was 18+, us oldies had to wear yellow wristbands to allow buy drinks. I get pretty loaded up as I am out of practice, and somehow I end up making a bet to see who can wear the yellow wristband the longest maxing out at 30 days.

Whilst wearing this bracelet, I've had co-workers repeated ask me why I had a yellow bracelet on. This included:

"Is it that cancer bracelet thing?"
"Are you alright? Why did they admit you to the hospital?"
"Did you give Blood? did you get a cookie?"

I am now entering into day 4. The glue is surprisingly holding tight as I've worn this through 5 showers, a steam room, a workout, a friends wedding, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and nocturnal bedroom activities.

It does not smell nor has it picked up any lintballs. I'll follow up with a picture soon. Maybe I should go back to the bar next week to see if I can sneak in for free.

Pipe Smoking

Van and I were shopping in Burlingame today and I stumbled into a tobacco store. I've always wanted to get a pipe to smoke just like Hugh Hefner. I don't smoke cigs but I do enjoy a cigar once in while. A pipe is like smoking a cigar, but you don't need an hour and a half.

So I figure I just take pinch, stuff it, set it on fire and start puffing. But it was not that easy as it looks. The hard part was keeping it lit since there is a proper amount to use and a certain way to stuff it. I experimented packing and lighting about 3 unsucessful times before Van tells me to just check on the internet. I boot up the laptop, Google "how to smoke a pipe" and voila: http://pipes.priss.org/howto.php.

I'm feeling a bit light headed now but I think I can manage to do it easier the next time. Now I need a smoking jacket and I'll have the Hef look, minus the bunnies.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

This Robot is pretty awesome. Move over Robosapien, there is a new kid on the block