Archive for June, 2009

Transformers

Jun 24

Posted by Manny in Awesome, Entertainment | No Comments

I was seriously upset with the first Transformers movie. It was terribad. The lore of it was based on the Decipticons and Autobots not fucking Shia Lecrap and some random Maxim Girl. The second has come out and Roger Ebert has given his two cents:

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

Way to destroy franchise assholes.

And Done!

Jun 22

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I just finished the first book of my challenge. Tucker Max is an asshole but his stories are hilarious. It’s a really good read for guys. Onto the next book, Ender’s Game.

Phew!

Jun 21

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I barely made my challenge quota. I am happy to say I am going to finish the book this week. Probably later on tonight. w0rd.

The Human Spirit

Jun 19

Posted by Manny in Newsworthy | No Comments

Colby Curtin is amazing. You have to read the article. I have no other words to say but woah. RIP Colby.

SF Roadtrip. Food, Friends and Fun.

Jun 16

Posted by Manny in Awesome, Friends, Girlfriend, Travel | 1 Comment

Last Saturday Adam, Carrie and I got in our rented Chevy Impala and headed to SF. We didn’t head straight there though. We stopped in Santa Maria to pick up Ellie who is doing her externship there. Poor Jelly! The cool thing was though we got to have lunch in Pismo Beach at the Cracked Crab. We all shared a bucket of crab and it was delicious.

We got back on the road and found out that Chinese women are narcoleptic as Carrie and Ellie were proof of that. Adam and saw some crazy card board cutouts in Salinas. Very crazy. The 101 is a beautiful drive and I think it’s worth the time to see the farmland and California Coast. I did however take this awesome picture of Ellie.

We get to SF and Cody’s first words to us were, “Why is Manny sober?” We remedied that by going straight to Docs Clock right before dinner. The drinks there are stiff. I loved it. We put away two each and then went to Spork for dinner where Angela and Andy met us. If you decide to eat dinner there I recommend the Tasty Steak with a red wine. The dessert was excellent as well, mmmmmm Pot Brownie. Dinner was long. Very long. We went through multiple glasses of wine and even a dessert wine.

After dinner we went to Shotwells for more wine and beer. At this time I was getting tired and still was putting beer away while playing some pinball. It was great catching up with everyone. I think people were getting tired so we went back to CodJelly’s to hang out.

The next morning I got up early for some reason and just chilled in the living while everyone else was sleeping. SF is so beautiful in the morning. I swear I could end up living there. After everyone got up we chilled on the couch. CodJelly went on a walk and got some coffee, they also brought back cookies. They didn’t bring back regular cookies. They brought back Anthony’s Cookies. These cookies are the best cookies evar. I am serious. You must try these cookies. I order to you. Stop flying and go to SF. NAO.

We finally got our lazy arses out of the apartment and met Andy at Foreign Cinema. I probably had the best brunch of my entire life here. Everything was good. Everything. At one point I think no one was talking to each other because we were too busy enjoying our meal. I fell into a food coma after to the point where I couldn’t even think clearly.

Carrie made room for more cookies so we went back Anthony’s where Dadzitis and Keiko met us up. Dadzitis claims he is going to kill me at Burning Man. I think he will. Desert and alcohol? I might need to make sure I drink water all the time. Anyhoo we picked up more cookies and headed home.

We made a stop in Santa Cruz and walked around for a bit. Dropped of Jelly then headed straight home. I seriously hate renting cars. There is a side story that I don’t want to go into when Adam and I went to go pick up there. Ugh. They also gave us a shitty car. That thing got us there but the Impala is a piece of shit. Way to go Chevy engineers. Anyhoo, it was a great weekend. And as Luda said…”Damn right we’re gonna do it again!”

Lakers!!!

Jun 16

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Grats Guys!!!

Revisiting Circlek.org

Jun 11

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For most of you who don’t know I was apart of Circle K, no not the convenient store , the collegiate service organization. Ã‚Â While in this organization there was drama because some friends and I started a website that was much better than the organization’s main website.

Now when we launched UnofficialCKI.org we had more features, better content and our site layout/organization was far superior to the main official site, circlek.org. After the first week we didn’t know how the Kiwanis International Staff would react. Amy, Pete and I were hoping that they would be encouraging but alas they weren’t.

Their first action was to send us a cease and desist letter. There was also a long exchange of emails berating us and our website. They even deemed our actions “Conduct Unbecoming of a Circle K Member.” Ã‚Â It’s like we committed a crime against humanity the way they were treating us. My favorite exchange of communication with them was with the Kiwanis International, Steve Warner.

We might have bragged that the three of us created this fully featured site in one week. Mind you we were doing this during finals. So Steve responded by calling our website amateur and called PHP an entry level programming language. Now, I will cut him some slack. Seven years ago PHP was still building a community and starting out. It isn’t the monster what it is now. The funny thing is that now PHP is used by companies such as Facebook, Technorati and WordPress. I want to take this opportunity now to tell Steve, Casey Keller and Gloria Bidgood to go suck on a lemon and DIATF. I guess it would need to be a landfill fire rather than a trash fire.

So it has been seven years and where is circlek.org at now? It’s still the same, no progression. Information barely gets updated the only thing that is different is that they are using ASP.NET which is impressive but a bit overboard for such a small scale site. Ã‚Â You would think by raising dues that members would get more for their money. Instead members get to log onto a very poorly designed website with shitty content.

Challenge Accepted

Jun 9

Posted by Manny in Friends, The Challenge | 1 Comment

I was challenged by a friend to read 100 minutes a week. Now, please don’t laugh. It is really a difficult task since a.) I suck at reading, b.) I hate reading and c.) I usually fall asleep reading since it makes my eyes tired. I honestly only read when I need to learn something like a programming language.

There are some stipulations to the challenge but nothing really demanding. I pretty much just need to read an adult level book. LOL. The first book I am reading is I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell By Tucker Max. So far it is a great read since I can relate to him being an asshole somewhat. I am an asshole but he takes it to another level. I am halfway through hopefully I’ll be done with it by next week.

Oh and I can’t forget…GO LAKERS!!! DO THAT SHIT BLACK MAMBA!

Booyah!!!!!!!!

Jun 9

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A year ago someone was skeptical of me blogging. Now what? Look at your blog! It hasn’t been updated in like forever, well month and a half. That’s right! What? Your mother chews on rocks!

Hiking

Jun 8

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I wanted to get out and get some fresh air this past weekend. I thought I was going to go to the Salton Sea but my plans fell through. I asked Eric if he’d come hiking with me and we went on Saturday. I need to post some pictures. The real treat was that we brought Amelie with us. She was well behaved and chilled in the kiddie backpack Eric had her in. Need to do more hiking though because I was a bit out of shape.

Hopefully, I’ll be going on some more trails within the coming weeks.

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