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Operation Be Good To Myself

2007-02-20T07:42:11Z

I haven't posted to el jay in a while, simply because I haven't had anything to say. I'm not one of those post every little detail that happens in my day type of people, and well, my life is a big bowl of suck for the past couple of months.

I had an epiphany recently, and this is what it is. If I continue to treat my body the way I treat it (partying, eating excessively, drinking, etc) I am going to die before I hit 26. I cannot keep this up. I'm not a rockstar and I don't want to be one. I'm 24, I have responsibilities in life, to my friends, my family, my job, and myself. And I have to treat myself well, because no one else will.

I've been sober for 8 days now, and have gone to the gym twice in that span. My goal is a 10-day sobriety detox period, followed by the introduction of alcohol back into my life. The thing is, it's fucking stupid to go out and just start bingeing again, so I have to be sure that whatever I continue to do, I do with moderation.

Anyways, Day 8. And I've been to bars, been out with friends, and have even gone hiking out in San Mateo. I'm exhausted but I'm not sick or broken or hungover or in pain.

Baby steps. I can do this.

This Halloween...

2006-11-01T23:27:08Z

I was a slutty boba. glowian16, tylerismock, and Puppy all rated me a ten. =)

Major Doubts with the Boom Boom

2006-09-12T10:45:49Z

I've beginning to have major major doubts with how I live my life. Major doubts. Like "my whole world and everything I've ever learned is wrong" doubts. It was brought on by an automatic toilet flusher.

See, I realized, that everytime I use a toilet with an automatic toilet flusher, that it *always* randomly flushes the moment I move off the seat, post-boom boom. This gives me NO time to wipe, NO time to do anything but get off the seat and *[...flush...]* I then have to do all my dirty work, and do the wipe-wipe-wipe and then throw it into the toilet. I want the wipe-wipe-wipe to flush down, but it doesn't! I have to trigger the automatic flush sensor by waving my hands in front of the toilet. It flushes again - that is now two flushes for one bathroom excursion. When I leave, it senses the stall door moving, and again, a third flush. Images of the marketed Water Hog from my Southern California youth dance in my head.

So - is it just me? Am I wipe-wipe-wiping at the wrong time? Is this the universe's way of telling me that the way I've learned to boom boom and wipe-wipe-wipe totally incorrectly, that I should somehow already have wipe-wipe-wiped before I get off the toilet? I can't imagine that this be possible, but I've never seen anyone else's boom boom routine (and I'm NOT asking for volunteers). But the fact that it seems the people in charge would have programmed the toilet to flush once everything is done makes me believe I'm boom booming incorrectly. And somehow, this makes me feel totally and utterly inadequate.

Hecka StressED

2006-08-25T17:40:50Z

I'm kind of stressed. I have hella to do since I'm leaving for Chicago on Sunday for two weeks for work. I gotta get a suitcase (hey, I barely leave the City, let alone the State, let alone long enough that I'd need a suitcase for it). I have to finish all my shiznitt for work up, and I have to go drink today. Ok ok, that's not a "have to" but it's a want to, and damnit, I just got a promotion and raise, so screw that.

HIGH FEE

2006-07-20T23:12:37Z

So y'all know that my Vespa's named Gouda (she's Gouda da Scoota!).

Anyways, I stumbled onto the Wikipedia page, and look what I found:

"Gouda" - (Goo-dah) Referring to Cheddar, Cheese, The Duckets, Skrilla, Benjamins, Grip, Greenbacks, Cash-Money, or most widely known as the US Dollar.

Dude, Gouda so street. I gotta gas-break-dip and ghost-ride da whip on the scooter more often. And how awesome would a scooter hyphy train be?

La Coupe du Monde

2006-07-10T16:39:50Z

I was watching my first world cup football game ever yesterday to see Italy v. France. I was cheering for France because they have better wine and cheese, but then I was *really* cheering for France when that Zidane guy headbutted the Italian dude!

Seriously, who says French guys are wusses?!

I've been practicing his move (the Zidane) against various padded objects in my apartment (i.e. couch, pillow, exercise ball) and plan to use it the next time a homeless person asks me for crack money. Although I felt kind of dizzy this morning when I tried to headbutt the snooze button on my alarm clock.

We were all really wondering what the Italian dude could have said to set Zidane off. I think he said something like "Your momma's a spicy meatball! Gorgonzola Macaroni! Estupido Zucchini!" And then Zidane said "Croissant baguette!" and let loose.

This leads me to another idea - a streetfighter-type video game where people say the most stereotypical and culturally irrelevant thing when they do their power moves. Instead of "Yoga Flame!" or "Ha Doo Kin" they'd say "Chicken Tikka!" or "Sashimi!"

ETA: I've been practicing my moves with this game: http://gamesdr.com/accj/knock_materazzi_out.html

ETA: My masterful MSPaint Skills....

The Juicy Lucy - a South Minneapolis Special

2006-07-08T06:38:14Z

From Wikipedia:
A juicy lucy (or jucy lucy) is a hamburger where the cheese is cooked inside the burger. A piece of cheese is surrounded by raw meat and cooked until it melts, resulting in a molten core of cheese embedded in the burger. Since this cheese is scaldingly hot and has a tendency to gush out over the lips at the first bite, most places that serve juicy lucys make a point of warning people that appear to be new to the establishment to let the burger cool before eating.

It is popular in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area, and though it is in dispute, was apparently invented at Matt's Bar in south Minneapolis (Matt's is the source of the "Jucy Lucy" spelling). The 5-8 Club further south on Cedar Ave also claims to have invented the sandwich, although that restaurant uses the "Juicy Lucy" spelling. In some ways it can be considered the Twin Citian equivalent of the cheesesteak, and engenders similar feelings of protectiveness in some people. However, gourmet reinterpretations of Lucy are encouraged, rather than quashed (unlike similar and better-known signature dishes of other cities, like the cheesesteak or the Chicago style hot dog).

My version of The Juicy Lucy - 1.5 pounds of meat, 6 slices of cheese. You jeal.

On the grill - note the molten cheese oozing out of the meat

At my proudest

a close-up of the molten inner core of cheese

S - M - R - T! I am so smart!

2006-06-13T17:17:17Z

So, there's this organization for my work that I'm supposed to join, and one of the things you have to have is a course in micro and macro economics in order to join. Me, I was too busy taking math, computer science, and art history courses in college to ever take a boring econ course. However, I read through the fine lines, and it appears if I can prove I took the AP Micro and Macro-econ exams and got at least a 4 on both of them, then I can qualify for the educational credit.

So, there's a lot of back-and-forth between me and my high school, since I thought they might have had my test scores on record. Long story short, I had to contact The College Board and request a transcript of my AP scores that I took seven years ago. They had to extract the scores from some archive since I had passed the four year threshold.

Anyways, so I finally get a copy of my scores yesterday. And I totally forgot how goddamn smart I am! I took 12 AP Exams in high school (grade 11 and 12) and got eleven 5s and one 4! I also received an AP National Scholar with Distinction award.

Add to the 3 subsidiary exams for International Baccalaureate, and 3 Higher Level exams (2 part exams, each part 4 hours) and me getting all 7s on those (I got in the newspaper because apparantly it's a challenge to get just one 7, and I got 6 of them) and I was one SMRT nerd!

No wonder all the colleges wanted me. :)

I know I'm bragging, but seeing these scores that I forgot, I know if I heard someone else do that today, I'd be pretty amazed.

Cities I've been to or lived in

2006-05-24T23:02:31Z

I think this is the complete

San Francisco
Oakland
San Jose
Sacramento
San Diego
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Las Vegas
New York
Salt Lake City
Austin
Orlando
Miami
Boston
Philadelphia
Providence
New Haven
Taipei
Calgary
Edmonton
Honolulu
London
Paris
Marseille
Barcelona
Nice/Cote d'Azur
Florence
Rome
Venice
Geneva
Zurich
Salzburg
Vienna
Prague
Munich
Amsterdam
Brussels

Favorites:
San Francisco
Paris
Prague
Florence
Salzburg

What do 250,000 pieces of fruit bouncing down a street in a not-as-pretty-as-SF city look like?

2006-05-17T05:45:41Z

You might remember me posting about a commercial with thousands of superballs bouncing around San Francisco here. Here's a parody of that commercial with FRUIT! Although it takes place in a not-as-pretty-as-San-Francisco city.

http://www.swansea-res.org.uk/img/video/tango_swansea.mpg

enjoy!

cheers,
ed

ETA: It's in Wales.

Reason #352 Why I Love This City

2006-05-14T21:20:15Z

A temperatures reach towards 80 degrees today, I go get some crazy delicious Blue Bottle, and go sit on a bench on Hayes Green. I notice a group of like 20 or so middle aged gay men and two excited and happy children. These gay men have decorated Hayes Green with balloons, and popping champagne bottles celebrating - wait for it, wait for it - Mother's Day. They were blowing up balloons and giving them to all the children and mothers who were walking by. There was not a female amongst this group.

Only in San Francisco.

I'm a thoughtful, kind, and considerate person. No! Really!

2006-05-04T00:31:22Z

eddo: wow im like a big brother type
eddo: im totally comforting too
eddo: she was going to cry and i like made her feel better
djshank: wow
djshank: thats totally nice
djshank: well next time im about to cry i should call you
djshank: =)
eddo: now im taking her for coffee and we're gonna talk about her job
eddo: i can't believe how kind and considerate of a person im being
djshank: i can
djshank: i knew it was in you
djshank: your bitchy persona can only go so far
eddo: is this a new eddo? find out next week on . . . the CRUNK diaries
eddo: or HYPHY in The City
djshank: bahahahahahaa

I'm quite depressed...

2006-05-03T18:02:10Z

because I just realized that throughout my entire life, everyone's gonna think I'm gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Sigh. :(

Cal Bits

2006-04-28T08:21:04Z

Two movies are coming out and the previews both have people wearing the Cal logo relatively prominently.

United 93: Character Mark Bingham is wearing a Cal hat and Cal rugby gear on story about the plane that was supposed to be headed towards SFO and instead landed in a Pennsylvania field on That Day.
preview here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/gate/archive/2006/03/31/TRAILERunited93.DTL&o=0&type=movies

The Bridge: Documentary on Golden Gate Bridge suicides, the preview has someone walking across the bridge in Cal gear (minute 1:22).
preview here: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/2006/filmguide/event_np_trailer.php?EventNumber=1903

i wanna dance with somenbdoy

2006-04-27T09:55:43Z

dude

im stroned out of my ass

holllleeerrrrrr

i sang i would walk 5000 miles and dont stiopo believin by journey

i was hot

z's f;d up

we hott
and hoad fun tooooo

cheeraskm
ed just fell off bed!

h H h A HA!!!!!!

WILL CHACH MYSPACE NOW!

HAPPY HOLLERDAZw~e!!!
Pressin pots utton now

hottt

View Porn

2006-04-20T08:57:15Z

While on my way to ange420's place yesterday, I stopped by Mission Dolores park and snapped some pictures.

I lurve me some SF Panoramics.

I also really like how when you stitch a panoramic together, you sometimes get the same people in the different places. Like the dude on the left who at first was jogging behind the waling man in green in the first pic, and when you pan a little more to the right, you can now see he's passed the walking man in green.

I also captured man walking with khaki jacket and jeans three times, but only managed to capture his kid with white collar and blue sweater twice!

Anyways, I'm new to this whole panoramic thing (and taknig photos in general), but I really like the software and think it's very easy to use.

Reflections on 24

2006-04-10T05:29:25Z

- Don't really remember anything after midnight...
- Oldsmobiles have a totally new meaning
- Bliss Bar's watermelon mojitos are CRAZY DELICIOUS
- There may as well have been spotlights, a runway, and techno music pumping when we walked into Santung - because we WORKED the room...
- I effing love Santung
- Lee-Ana and John rock my socks off, got me home safely, and took chicken bones out of my tie
- I fell down my stairs and hurt myself
- My party was way better than the private room party
- my friends are one total HOTT MESS
- Coleena should never drive on San Jose Avenue again
- probably 3 out of 4 people in that bar were there for my bday
- I don't even remember dancing
- I got 4 cheese-related presents
- Keep your friends close, keep the hott ones closer
- Buttons are amazing

Thanks to all who came out - I feel so loved and I love you all in return!

pictures here: http://tinani.c7f.net/eddo/tenny_fo/

I know, it's wet...

2006-04-05T02:55:07Z

... but stop f-ing reminding me HOW wet it is every ten minutes! STOP telling me how it's wetter than some month in 1983. STOP telling me how much rainfall we're getting and what the Weather Channel says the next two weeks are going to be like.

I happen to recall a short January and February ago, the Bay Area was receiving several weeks of temperatues in the 70s and 80s, and everyone was commenting about how great of a place it is to live here and how we're SO glad we're not living in [insert any other big city except LA here].

How quickly we forget, eh?

Seriously, I gotta move out of California - everyone here is such a WIMP.

Save the Date - Eddo's Birthday

2006-03-20T10:00:22Z

Hello Friends!

Your favorite large loud crunk Chinaman will be celebrating his 24th year of life and wants you there!

Saturday, April 8th, 9:30 pm - 2 am (and after?)
Bliss Bar
Noe Valley
24th between Noe and Castro
www.blissbarsf.com

Reminders to follow--

WAT U WANT, NATALIE!

2006-03-12T20:54:46Z

TO DRINK AND FIGHT!

WAT U NEED NATALIE!

TO F*CK ALL NIGHT!

NATALIE PORTMAN WANTS TO DRINK AND FIGHT AND F*CK ALL NIGHT!

SNL short from the same guys who brought you Lazy Sunday - but this time with NATALIE PORTMAN!

it's absolutely REFRESHING.

http://www.devilducky.com/media/42822/

from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/v/RmPTx2bWxY0

Woohoo!

2006-03-01T09:23:28Z

Last Friday, Matt, one of my co-workers from San Jose, asked me how long I'd been with my company. I told him almost 2 years, and he asked me my rank. When I told him analyst, he said, what?? You're not a consultant? I said no, this has been my first job out of college. He goes - you're KIDDING me. How old are you? I said 23. He shook his head, and asked what year I was born. I said 1982. He was amazed. He thought I was - get this - 27!

I look in the mirror, and I think I look exactly the same as I did when I was 18.

Yay Area fun!

2006-02-25T22:19:58Z

Did you know that most of San Francisco's Financial District used to be the Bay? Here is a map of San Francisco's map of yesterday with a map of today - the newly created waterfront was mostly from landfill and old ship hulls. In fact, a couple months ago, when they were excavating a site for a new highrise, they found the mast of a gold rush era ship in all the rubble! This also explains the names of North Beach and South Beach... at one time, they were actually beaches! In fact, if you go to the Southwest corner of First and Market, there is actually a plaque saying that this was at one time the city limit of San Francisco.

Also, a Bart map with all of the station names "anagrammed." I live near Vice Centric (holler!) and am walking distance to 16th Moist Sins. Appropriate, I must say. Also, Downtown Berkeley = New Tweed Brooklyn = HI-larious.

Quote Christina's manager:

2006-02-20T11:23:25Z

"Girl, I've lived more in one night than you lived in a whole year!"

Dude, I'm kinda feelin it....

I'm also hella gassy now.

Powe powers Cal win: Bears outlast Cardinal, now sit alone in second in Pac-10

2006-02-10T11:54:37Z

Powe powers Cal win
Bears outlast Cardinal, now sit alone in second in Pac-10
- David Bush, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 10, 2006

Leon Powe played possibly his best game in his two seasons at Cal, and Stanford could do little about it.

Powe scored a career-high 32 points and couldn't be stopped in the paint, but there were other reasons the Bears were able to hold off the Cardinal 65-62 Thursday night in a wild finish before 11,877 fans at Haas Pavilion. Ayinde Ubaka ran the offense well and hit some key free throws in the final moments and DeVon Hardin was strong on defense and the boards.

But it was Powe who made the difference.

His two free throws with 35.2 seconds left had given Cal a 61-57 lead. Stanford's Chris Hernandez answered with a pair of free throws to make it 61-59. Ubaka put the lead back to four with more free throws but Matt Haryasz, whose participation was doubtful at tipoff, hit a 3-pointer to make it 63-62 with 16 seconds left.

Ubaka went to the line again, hitting a pair with 12 seconds left and when Hernandez could not get off a shot in the final possession, the crowd poured onto the floor.

Cal (15-6, 9-3) has won six in a row and is in sole possession of second place in the Pac-10, a game behind UCLA. The Cardinal, whose own five-game win streak ended, are 12-8 overall and 8-4 in conference, alone in third place.

Cal opened an 11-point point lead early in the second half after going into the intermission leading by just two.

Hardin and Powe, who scored 15 points in the first half, each hit short jumpers to push the lead to six. Stanford's Taj Finger scored the Cardinal's first points of the second half with a dunk, but he was assessed a technical foul for spending too much time hanging on the rim.

Ubaka hit both technical free throws, then followed with a 3-pointer to give Cal a 36-27 lead.

Stanford's Dan Grunfeld slowed things down briefly with a pair of free throws. But Powe and Theo Robertson each scored from underneath and Cal was on top 40-29.

Stanford clawed back and was down 46-43 midway through the second half.

Ubaka pushed the lead back to 54-46 with a basket at the 6:08 mark which turned out to be Cal's last made field goal of the night.

Powe and Ubaka scored all but seven of Cal's 28 second-half points.

The first half was tense, with neither team able to shake the other. The biggest lead of the first 20 minutes was just four. Cal held that advantage briefly at 27-23 when Ubaka's bucket finished a 6-0 run for the Bears. But seconds later, Grunfeld had the Cardinal back within two with a jumper that he put up successfully from the middle of the key, managing to ignore the numerous opponents who were in the vicinity.

Stanford had a three-point lead of its own a few moments earlier. With the score tied at 16, Finger hit a lay-in, and Peter Prowitt knocked down three of the four three throws he was awarded on successive Stanford possessions.

Robertson took care of that lead when he buried his second 3-pointer of the half. Those were the only two treys the Bears managed in the first half. Stanford had just one of its own, an early effort by Hernandez.

The Bears, who had trouble shooting free throws in the first meeting between the two teams hitting just 11 of 24 attempts, were not bothered by that problem this time, at least in the first half. The Bears were 6-for-7, with Powe doing most of the work. He was 5-for-6.

Although a little sloppy with ball, turning it over eight times to Cal's three, Stanford was able to be within two points of the Bears at the half mostly on the strength of its work on the back boards. Stanford outrebounded Cal 20-11 in the first 20 minutes, with Prowitt showing the way with seven.

Haryasz made his first appearance with 15:12 left in the first half. He was equipped with protective goggles, but his vision seemed to be not much of a problem. He hit his first shot and had just one other attempt before he was pulled for the rest of the half at 8:20 after picking up his second personal foul.

Cal's Omar Wilkes did not even suit up after spraining his ankle during practice on Tuesday. The Bears held out hope until Thursday that the sophomore guard would be able to play, but following the afternoon shootaround he was ruled out.

Briefly: Stanford left immediately after the game for Spokane and Saturday night's game at No. 5 Gonzaga. ...The Cardinal are 2-2 against the Bulldogs, although they have never played in Spokane. ... The two victories were in the Pete Newell Challenge in Oakland in 2002 and 2003. ...The losses came at Stanford in 1993 and the NCAA Tournament in 1999. ... Cal has a week off before hosting Arizona on February 16. ... Richard Midgley came into the game with 172 3-point baskets in his career, second on Cal's all-time list. The leader is Ryan Drew (1988-91) with 214. ... Powe came in ranked 11th in the country and first in the conference in rebounding, averaging 10.7 per game. ...Haryasz is second in the Pac-10 at 9.3.

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URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/10/CALSTAN.TMP

Pandora...

2006-02-08T23:09:21Z

Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features synth rock arranging, electronica influences, subtle use of a paired vocal harmony, mild rhythmic syncopation, and repetitive melodic phrasing.

From Depeche Mode, comes, évidemment, Lindsay Lohan - To Know Your Name.