i went to foot locker with the intention of getting some adidas shoes. for years, i've always bought nikes but after attending UCLA (an adidas school) i was down with the 3 stripes. i mean, i have a bunch of UCLA/Adidas gear and if i'm rocking ucla/adidas shorts and nike shoes, i've been told that i'm cross-dressing -- can't have that.
so there i stood, ready to buy some adidas shoes when it hit me: adidas shoes at foot locker are freakin' ugly. nevermind that footlocker is nike-biased (huge nike display at front of store, "house of hoops" joint-venture between FL and nike), but before this weekend i thought adidas was up and coming; with a selection like this, i stand corrected.
in any case, i got some air max 360's that glo pointed out to be the best looking shoes in the store (yea, who cares about technology). and of course, since she pointed them out, she had to get a pair too! now we'll be totally retarded and rock identical shoes at the gym. holla!
P.S. can you believe this is glo's first pair of nike shoes ... ever?! as a runner she hates nike shoes but i guess living with me for 2 months has gotten her to see the fashionable side of sport. ha!
i decided to start building my linked in contact list, and in doing so, revived a ton of memories. some of my best years were spent working on Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flex Builder, where I met some incredible individuals.
Dexter, from the previous post, was one of the first with whom I actually exchanged more than a standard template greeting, and look at how fun that was. Another ex-coworker was Mark Anders, a former VP of my group. He was in charge of building ASP.NET and has some true passion for building RIAs (which prompted his move to Macromedia). Mark started on Flex/Flex Builder and he has moved on to yet another exiting endeavor: Thermo.
Reading some of my old coworker's blogs and watching the video of MAX made me really miss working on cool technologies with some really passionate folks. If anyone from Flex Builder 1.0 is reading this -- what's up!
I got an email from an old friend and colleague whom I haven't seen or spoken with in a while. pretty nuts!
while preparing to ride elephants in northern thailand on my honeymoon, i was in a small conversation with someone in the tour group and mentioned that i used to work at Macromedia.
"Do you happen to know someone named Gabriel Chua?"
I had to pause a minute before i realized they meant 'Gabe'. the world is pretty goddamn small, gabe. -dexter
passion richardson, marion jones' relay teammate who might lose her bronze medal from the 2000 olympics, says that she was not taking drugs then and should not be penalized for jones' mistake. you gotta love her logic.
she claims she should keep her medal because she was not on 'roids. but has she forgotten the dynamics of the relay race? perhaps, because she fails to see that the team did not win fairly; it was a team race, so the team is penalized. i don't think that's so hard to understand. if one person on the team was disqualified during the run, the team loses and no one gets a medal.
she then goes on to say,
"I mean, you don't know what was going on on the other teams, so how do you really rectify that situation?" Richardson said. "There's really no positive outcome in either way that it goes."
fantastic! if we were to go and judge everything on hypotheticals, then why even give out medals!? you have to wonder how someone could actually hear this argument as they are giving it to reporters and NOT think that it doesn't make any sense.
The new TV season is upon us and, needless to say, Glo and I are hooked. This is my first time with a DVR and while they say having one makes TV viewing more efficient, I find myself watching WAY more TV than I should. Yes, I can skip commercials and watch TV on my terms, but I also end up watching EVERY episode of Rob and Big, Making the Band 4, Punk'd, Top Gear, Unique Whips ... the list goes on.
Then there are the regulars... Monday: Chuck, Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, CSI: Miami, Heroes Wednesday: CSI NY, Top Chef-soon-to-be Project Runway Thursday: CSI, Without a Trace, Big Shots Friday: NUMB3RS, Las Vegas
If I had to pick a top 5 for the season, I'd probably go with: Heroes, Big Shots, CSI NY, Chuck, and Two and a Half Men, in that order
as for CSI: Miami, Horatio needs to stop being so damn dramatic, eliminate those abnormal pauses and speak like a normal human.
