Last night Jen and I saw Episode II with Ben and Jess at AMC Van Ness. It rocked! Seeing Yoda do battle was definitely one of the coolest parts of the film. He’s like Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid series: Old, wise, and calm most of the time, but willing to kick ass when […]
Entries from May 2002
Episode II
Saturday, May 18th, 2002 · Comments Off on Episode II
Tags: movies
Strippers are People, Too
Friday, May 17th, 2002 · Comments Off on Strippers are People, Too
If only cats could be drafted into Major League Baseball… The Capital Christian Center in Sacramento is absolutely ridiculous. I remember back in 1995 when they weren’t going to let an eighth-grader give a graduation speech because his hair was too short…now they’ve expelled a kindergartner because her mom’s a stripper at Gold Club Centerfolds. […]
Tags: rants
Google Smackdown
Thursday, May 16th, 2002 · Comments Off on Google Smackdown
Yesterday I read in Google‘s latest newsletter about some of the new APIs developed by programmers around the world. Probably the coolest one I’ve seen so far is the Google Smackdown, which puts one word up against another in a battle of frequency. How it works? Simple. It scans the Google database/the Web for the […]
Tags: web stuff
Blogs vs. Old Media
Wednesday, May 15th, 2002 · Comments Off on Blogs vs. Old Media
Last evening I read Steven Levy’s Newsweek article, Will Blogs Kill Old Media? In it, Levy discusses some bet between blogger Dave Winer, who claims that by 2007 most people will get their news from blogs rather than from The New York Times, and Martin Nisenholtz, who runs the Times’ digital operations. Levy sides with […]
Tags: rants
Perusing the Web
Tuesday, May 14th, 2002 · Comments Off on Perusing the Web
Afternoon S.H.I.T. Stories Here on the Internet Today – AKA, What I Read & Found Interesting Incompetent staff reason for Onion’s success The Onion cracks me up. Apparently some readers, particularly AOL users (big surprise) don’t get that it’s all a big joke. Anti-drug ad campaigns a flop Kids have actually been inspired to take […]
Tags: web stuff
Earthquake Hits, Posting #1
Tuesday, May 14th, 2002 · Comments Off on Earthquake Hits, Posting #1
Last night the Bay Area was rocked by a 5.2 earthquake, the biggest one to hit the area in two years. I was at home about to watch Six Feet Under. Having consumed a bit of wine and staring at the plant atop one of my speakers, I saw the plant rocking back and forth. […]
Tags: anecdotes
Italy Pictures
Monday, May 13th, 2002 · Comments Off on Italy Pictures
Italy pictures: www.gabeanderson.com/italy2002
Tags: think