Stuff

Jobs I’ve Had

Box Boy – really called a courtesy clerk but that’s a dumb name.
Project Engineer (EIT) – signs go up, signs fall down.
Bit Wrangler – Da best job, best people.
System Administrator – Sometimes this job sucks, sometimes it doesn’t. But I can’t escape. I am a sys admin.

Place’s I’ve Lived

Hacienda Heights CA
San Luis Obispo CA
Las Vegas NV – I had a small, but good community of friends here which made it pretty nice actually.
Los Angeles CA – my most urban adventure. Urban living is harder than anywhere else I’ve lived, but it’s close to work. Hmmm.

Current TV Shows I Love

ER
Shield – it’s too bad this show’s violence is so integral to the story, because people are missing some amazing drama. Forest Whitaker and Gina Torres were incredible last week. Riveting TV moment
Battlestar Galactica
tbd – With emphasis on current and LOVE, I think I only have three.

Highly Regarded and Recommended Shows I’ve never watched

Tough category
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Places I’ve vacationed

Kauai – if I won the lottery, I think I would live here
Grand Canyon
Morro Bay
Ojai

Favorite dishes

Macaroni and cheese – with or without tuna added. Yum.
PBJ – hello!! you’re a mutant if this isn’t on your list!
Egg Toast – hole in toast, lots of butter, egg. also yum!
Waffles – with nuts is best

Websites I visit daily

slashdot
wow, I think everything else is work related.
Gawd how boring of me.
Help.

Places I’d rather be

Kauai
Vancouver
Scotland
Moonbase Alpha – I’m not serious about wanting to live in the world of space 1999. I wouldn’t want to wear bad 70s polyester outfits all time, and not have anything to do unless I was a main character. But I would love to live on another planet (or moon). I’m trying to remember the title of a book. It had these people living near Jupiter, who were tele-paths. Being tele-paths had created a tight, almost tribal culture free of hate, mental illness, and war. It seemed so tranquil yet alive with positive, supportive feelings. I’d really want to live there.

Bloggers I’m tagging

I think everyone I know with a blog has already been tagged. The one or two people who haven’t been, can choose to do this if they like when they read this.

I wonder if my father was watching Plato’s Stepchildren a few days before I was born.

Carol and I went for a nice walk on beach in Santa Monica this weekend and we saw the most amazing exhibit. Ashes and Snow, located in the Nomadic Museum near the Santa Monica Pier, is breathtaking at times. Very cool. You can get a glimpse of the images on the ashes and snow website. (there’s a flash version I didn’t check out) All LA-based iPaulonesians should make a special trip to see the exhibit before the show goes nomad. All US-based iPaulonesians should consider finding an excuse to make a visit to LA before May 14. (and international iPauloesians should be sure to comment or email so that I know you exist!!)

Oh gawd. I was so excited when I started to catch up with my blog rolling that I hadn’t been tagged. Or, in other words, I hadn’t been chain lettered. But I was wrong. Guadspot did it to me yesterday. Now, I have to be a fuddyduddy or have to blog something more than a paragraph long and include lots of witticisms like everyone else. The horror!! The pressure!

I know this was already on Kevin’s blog, but maybe you don’t read that. Check out how MS would improve the iPod packaging in this very funny video. (in my case, credit goes to good ‘ol Slobodan here at ucla)

Play with this weird virtual sandbox. It’s fun.

You must check out Marimba Ponies doing their song Sabre Dance (from official site | blog fwd’d to me).

Doug Doug and his PLP suffer through their fear of girls together in this excellent short film on video.google.com. And while you’re there, watch his other film Pitching Mother or another random thing I found called Tom Cruise Kills Oprah.

Oh, for *uc*s sakes! (what’s that line from?) The Ducks needs to start pulling Giguere and putting in the backup goaltender. We’d do better in these shootouts.