got chewed out in a meeting today for a project that’s not moving. i was waiting on a vendor who was waiting on me, i guess. gonna try to let this week slip away quietly and then double up efforts beginning monday.
what to do this weekend?
i really need to unwind.
my day is mostly meetings today. 9:30 through 15:00 with one half hour break for lunch. fun, fun.
what’s the ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter?
eskimo pi.
i dont care much, go or stay.
i dont care very much, either way..
gearts grow hard on a windy street.
lips grow cold with the rent to meet.
so if you kiss me, if we touch..
warning’s fair, i dont care.. very much.
i dont care much, go or stay.
i dont care very much, either way..
words sound false when your coat’s too thin,
feet dont waltz when the roof caves in.
so if you kiss me, if we touch..
warning’s fair, i dont care.. very much.
logged into livejournal to see whats up with lj folk. search: nothing back from server. again. again. again. finally, results.
why didnt i answer my phone saturday night???? (did it ring saturday night?)
talk to mojo from synopsys today. reminiscing about that.. it was one of the best times of my career. maureen and i got caught up on things. turns out she works a few blocks from me. going to see ‘far from heaven’ tonight.. looks like a decent thinking movie. hrm.. what else? dinner and VoIP demo at my dad’s sunday night. not sure what else is going on. my weekend is a blank page at this point.
saturday afternoon, i was sitting on a bench at market street in san francisco. i was outside of a grocery store where one of the employees was hanging out with a friend of his, his wife, and their kid. the kid was this cute little boy, maybe 4 or 5. he was having a good time as his father and his friend were playing with him.. tickling, swinging him around, and lifting him up above the crowd. it was nonstop laughter from the boy, and everybody that passed by smiled, chuckled, or even stopped to check out what was going on. even my somber mood was brightened by the sound of the kid. it’s cool how even the smallest thing can have a big impact on others.
from s.f. chronicle:
Hundreds of police with riot gear, squad cars and helicopters were no match for larger numbers of troublemakers in scattered locations along International Boulevard who set fires, smashed windows and destroyed property, including a McDonald’s restaurant that was ransacked and partially burned.
More than 50 blocks of International had stretches of virtually lawless zones nearly three hours after the Super Bowl.
At least 12 cars were set on fire, many windows were smashed, some businesses were broken into and looted, bus benches were pushed over and street signs ripped down as police battled bottle-throwing rioters with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-stun grenades.
Extra police officers — about 400 in all — had been summoned to cope with possible riots in case the Raiders won, after a post-victory melee the week before when revelers burned out an auto-repair shop, smashed windows, destroyed a car and lit fires in the street. This time, about 250 Oakland police officers were joined by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and Oakland Housing Authority officers, said Oakland police spokesman George Phillips.
But the post-defeat mayhem after the Super Bowl proved worse.
“We lost, and that bothers a lot of the young people out here,” said Hannibal Willis, a member of the rap group Hazardous Materials. “A lot of them are real Raider friends. I ain’t gonna lie — if we had won, we would have done the same thing, but milder.”
setting the alarms for 555 (timer chip) and 604 (mot/apl/ibm cpu)
man, flame grilled gardenburgers are really yummy.
the package says it requires 60 pounds of water to grow a single pound of wheat. producing a single pound of meat, on the other hand, can take as much as 6,000 pounds of water.
bummed around sf. forgot my red filter. possibly exposed some of the film.
ate dinner. spent a lot of time listening to music, sitting, walking. but mainly thinking. my head is clearing up.
ran into this guy eric, who i never really talked to but have ‘known’ for years now. we talked about our current situations. i think he was eager to talk to someone familiar. we ran into some of his friends, i ran into donovan.. really nice to see him. i gave eric a ride home to burlingame since it was on my way home.
sleep now.
i’ve been jss@offramp.org for a decade now. it’s been the one consistent good thing in my life. it’s been a vehicle for self expression and my way of doing something nice for other people. the little bit of wealth i can share. the primary machine has been running solid for two thirds of a year now. im pretty proud of myself.
new place for my online journal. **** livejournal. ya, my *** self image mutilation wont show up on “friends” pages. but like i talk to friends anymore. so here it is, baby.
movable type is really slick, and it works. and it runs on my own machine.
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