I had a very wonderful Thanksgiving. i’ve gotta say this has been the best weekend i’ve spent since Summer. It was nothing but pure fun for 4 days straight. I forgot my digicam which i couldn’t show u the beautiful Presidio park and i really wanted to take a picture of the magic stone guy. sigh… Here’s a brief overview of what happened:
Wednesday:
that nite after class, we went over to SF and chilled @ Max’s house. we watched Brotherhood of the Wolf. Pretty confusing movie. Too much fighting (can’t believe i’m saying this) and storyline was hard to follow. some stuff just didn’t make sense but at least it gave somewhat of a conclusion. hehe.
Thursday:
The BIG DAY. we spent the afternoon walking around the beach in Presidio Park. that’s when i saw the magic stone guy. if you’ve ever been to this beach, you’ve must’ve seen the magic stones. they were towered together in such a weird way that it’s hard to describe. he carefully balances weird shaped rocks where they will stand on one’s tip. We’re not talking about just 1 or 2 rock towers here. we’re talking about 3-6! and standing on it’s corner and not the flat dull side. he had towers and towers of these stones, about ~10 and he would do it live and proof there was nothing (no glue, no tricks) to hold up the rocks besides pure geometry and balance. After the walk we went home and got ready for the Thanksgiving dinner. we were having it over @ one of cunndogg’s parents’ friend’s house. besides all the good food there, there was quite an interesting crowd there. supposedly there’s this “tail” family with a father from Britain and a daughter who supposedly said something along the lines of, “I believe all humans should have tails. it’s been an evolutionary mistake that humans no longer have tails.” welp, the father Ray was some Ph.D from Cambridge or oxford, forgot which one. Majored in Physics and couldn’t find a job in London. An old professor called him up one day and asked if he would like to work in California cause he’s found him a job. This was when it was raining and he was running for cover and talking on the cellfone. He agreed and as u can see he was pretty desperate. He started a company which Canon bought. He claims his team’s productivity level actually outperformed Japan’s level. that’s why canon bought his company.now he’s starting a 2nd company or was it a 3rd which is trying to manufacturer hardware which make speakers sound better and cheaper to produce. Next interesting person is Levan. (don’t really know how to spell her name, but i just copied the spelling of Levan Hernandez) She used to be from a ranch in the midwest. she said she found branding cattles very hard because although the cattle is withheld in a small box, it still squirms and to brand it requires branding 2x to be sure and the 2nd time was always hard. she then mention about selling cattles and stuff and i asked what happens when cattle gets sold, do they get rebranded and is it next to the original brand. she said that was a good question and she didn’t remember. she then went about talking about castrating cattle. she said one time she was castrating a young calf and the intestines came outta the small hole. so she took it and stuffed it back in. cunndogg said that was disgusting. levan said it was more sad than disgusting. cunndogg thought it was more disgusting than sad. hehe. then there were the Newman’s. have you heard about the Rambus SDRam trials where they’re suing other memory companies about patent infringement. well, to make a long story short, rambus was the original SDRAM creator. during the meeting about what should be the standardized format of RAM, Rambus had a speaker who suggested technology which was already patented by Rambus. so after SDRAM became mainstream, Rambus begin suing companies (ie. Infineon) which had use their patented technology. Rambus went so far to even modify their original patent to include newer technology. apparently Mr. Newman is an attorney defending the one of the companies Rambus is suing. After dinner was over, cunndogg drove me back to Berkeley because Friday was Family Day and i didn’t want to be bored sitting @ his home surfing the web. if i were to do that, i’d rather surf the web @ home. hehe ;p.
Friday:
zzzzZZZZ… worked a bit on my project. then cunndogg came to pick me up. we went to carl’s afterwards and watched Porky’s (classic gross comedy i’ve gotta say). Max called us out later and we played bowling. i sucked. hehe it was fun tho.
Saturday:
today was extremely cool. we went over to carl’s that afternoon and found a dead rat. was deciding if it was better to throw the rat over the fence or to bury it. decided to bury it. the rat was small, but his tail was l..o..n..g. played some catch football, then played some fake golf with irons. (i learnt that irons was shorter and less bulkier @ the tip than wood, although good woods are made outta titanium nowadays). we were practicing before going to the driving range. then we drove over to the Presidio Driving Range. The Driving Range was awesome. this was my first time golfing too! We bought a large bucket of balls and practicing hitting the golf balls. it was very like elegant baseball but a LOT harder. carl was a good teacher tho. he taught me the stance and i actually hit a couple decent ones. the driving range was also misleading cause we were on top of a hill golfing so the the ball always seemed to go further by going downhill. hehe. after golfing we went over to Best Buy where they were having 3 DVDs for $12 sale. We got Presumed Innocent, The Lawnmower Man, and Diner. we also drooled @ the sweet HDTVs. we then went back to cunndogg’s place and helped clear out their alley because they’re planning to cut down a tree. after a hard day’s work we had dinner. YUMMY! thanksgiving leftovers. ^_^x After dinner we went over to carl’s place and watched the ending of The Negotiator. Great movie, but haven’t seen the beginning yet. We then watched Presumed Innocent. It was a great suspense. Didn’t really have an idea of who the actual murderer was actually was. Had someone in mind which actually turned out to be correct, but i threw him/her outta suspicion halfway through the movie. Next was Porky’s II. sad to say, the sequel didn’t hold up to it’s predecessor. afterwards, R*@$T of Hugh M. Hefner (apparently he’s the publisher of Playboy) was on comedy central. it was super hilarious.
Sunday:
time to do some last minute shopping. got a very kewl carpet for our apt. also picked up some glass mugs that we’ve broken. then home we go.
today as i was renaming my naruto manga archive, i began reading Hikaru no Go Manga. bad mistake. spent this entire nite reading it. found out too many secrets. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! i’m really angry at myself that wasn’t able to hold back. now i’ve spoiled over 10 episodes worth of HnG anime for me. =( sigh…
here you can see Sai yelling @ me
oh yeah, a new poll is up. which would u rather have for a Christmas present: Sony MZ-N1 (MiniDisc Player) or Apple iPod (MP3 Player). links to product description has been provided beneath the poll.