Yesterday I got to be in the audience for Aziz Ansari's Comedy Central special. He's a funny dude. His jokes were either very off the wall, or his delivery was what made the joke work. He also liked telling jokes showing off his geek cred with material that includes computers, the internet, and music.

As a surprise for the finale, he got into his Raaaaaaaandy (with eight "a"s as he likes to point out) character from the upcoming movie, "Funny People." While the character is funny, I know it's a jab at comedians with similar material. If the movie gets big, you can expect to have the jokes repeated and altered, and people just going around saying, "Raaaaaaaandy" all of the time.

The other day Cat texted me saying that there's a guy in her office that sounds just like me. Yikes, don't get us in the same room together.

These containers are really starting to kick my ass. The physical part sucks, definitely, but the whole organization of the warehouse is not fun. At least I'm delegating more, and leaving most of the heavy stuff to the workers. The two guys helping were telling me that most people don't think much of them because they look like thugs, and I told them, "as long as you're good guys, I don't care what you look like."

Yesterday, despite being tired as heck, I still went to class. I should've taken a day off, but it might've started a downward spiral of laziness.

It was a good day yesterday. Really. It was one of the few days where I felt good.

This weekend I watched The Hangover and Transformers 2, The Rise of the Crap Movie. People are labeling The Hangover as this year's big comedy. It was good, and it had its good parts, but I'm sure there's a funnier movie up ahead. I wanted to see Away We Go, but no one wanted to see Maya Rudolph pregnant, I guess.

Oh, boy. Transformers 2. Where do we begin. Damn. The first movie didn't impress me. I thought that was crap, too, but it was at least non-annoying crap. The robots are still clumps of metal. Is that an arm or head? Is that a bad bot or good bot? Who knows? It was all a cluster f*ck of explosions and CGI. TF2 was nothing but an hour and a half of explosions. There were so many explosions that you just could tune it out. I almost fell asleep because I tuned it out so much and nothing else was happening. I was not alone thinking that the hour and a half movie was an hour too long. The last half hour dragged like the last two minutes in a tied basketball game in the finals of game seven. For the first hour, they ride around in super fast vehicles, but the last half hour they drag their feet in the desert. Yippee. That sequel was almost worse than the second Harold and Kumar movie.

You know TF2 sucked when you wished you saw The Proposal instead.

There's nothing like talking about the past weekend in the middle of the week to look forward to the coming weekend. I got to watch a few movies and that was fun. I wanted to watch Akira because I never saw it before. As a geek, Akira is a movie that all self-respecting geeks should watch. It ranks up there with Star Wars and Trek, Aliens, and Blade Runner (another I haven't watched yet). It got late and I got tired and Akira was shelved.

Saturday rolled around and I had planned on going to the LA Fish Company right when it opened. I wanted to watch the hustle and bustle that stems from fish mongers and Sushi chefs vying for the choice pieces of seafood. 6am rolled around and I would've been game even though I was dead tired from the night before, but taking the extra trip to the bank was the deal breaker. I woke up a few hours later and went to the big market in K-Town. I picked up some food for the Father's Day BBQ.

After that, I headed to the 'Dino and gave Brian a visit. We were watching The Deadliest Catch marathon and obviously, we had a craving for crab legs. A quick shot up the freeway and we were at Fake Vegas. We asked to see the buffet and when we saw those spiny legs, we were game. You know you had too much crab when you admit that, well... that you had too much crab.

Totally feeling the dent we made in a Costco case of beer, I still made it to class. It was Jesus's last day in America. He ended up giving me wine glasses and a hug. He's cool.

Mid-day Sunday was me running around getting the BBQ in order. I wonder if I was suited to work in a restaurant. Anywhoo. I pulled out two big bags of marinated chicken legs, kalbi, and all the seafood for the soup I was going to make. Instant-light charcoal sucks, btw. The big hit was the kalbi and the seafood soup. The soup consisted of crab, clams, shrimp, various veg, corn on the cob, and sausages.

A visitor from Nor-Cal came to class and I wanted to roll with him just to represent, but no one volunteered me, so I guess I'm not ready yet.

Today I made pizza. Correction, I made three of them. Here's one of them.

It's the veggie one.

Zooey, not Joseph.

(500) Days

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid16829217001?bctid=148903...

Looks very Calvin and Hobbes-ish.

A Jagged Gorgeous Winter - The Main Drag from Main Drag on Vimeo.

My knuckle scraped, bled, and now scabbed up and ready to go to class. I was told that I need to work on my proximity so I worked on it. It was definitely helpful because I got to push Tracksuit around. Probably more than he liked, but we had a good laugh and he had a good choke. He took my gas tank from quarter empty to E.

All throughout class I was hungry and thinking about having chips, salsa, and hummus for dinner. Once class was over I raced over to the market and grabbed a bag of Tostitos Scoops (for maximum scoopage) and enjoyed it with FP spicy salsa and FP hummus.

I've said before that I used to use (and love) the Opera web browser before Firefox came along. It was the first browser that had tabbed browsing. With Opera 10 it's the first browser to have tabbed browsing with preview shots. They released a game-changing service with Opera Unite. It allows you to easily access files from your home or work computer to any browser connected to the internet. It opens ports and makes your computer to be a small server and gives you an easy web address that you should be able to put in any browser to access your files from anywhere.

My sister asked me to install a printer for her. She's not a DIY person so she asked me to help her. She was missing a USB-B cable and I pulled out one from my stash. I then noticed that our internet connection wasn't working so I concluded that it is either the switch was bad, or the cable that connects to the router from the other side of the house to the switch went bad. Either way, no internet for us. I then pulled out a 802.11b USB dongle and put it in her computer and she can kinda get internet. Our wireless router is located on the other side of the house near the floor, so wireless can get sketchy, but with enough tenacity, you can get it working. A temporary solution. I (finally) ordered a fun WRT54GL that I can play around with later.

So far, my sister hasn't complained having Linux on her computer. She doesn't know, really. Her desktop is kinda funny (to me). When I installed it, I made the Firefox and OpenOffice word processor icons super big because it'd probably be the only thing she uses. The only thing that she brought up is that she can't watch Grey's Anatomy on the ABC website. That's not Linux's fault, it's ABC's for trying to be clever and making their own Flash player. Even Windows 7 can't watch videos on ABC's site.

I was getting bored and found my phone's USB data cable. I hooked it up to my laptop and was able to tether my phone to my computer using Verizon's 3G network! As a geek, I was stoked. Finally, 3G on my laptop! I wonder what's it gonna cost me. When I disconnected I saw how many bytes I used. I don't want to see my bill, now.

You couldn't think I could like the Palm Pre more. Up up down down left right left right b a start.

The weekend started off pretty good. Sushi and Allagash on Friday (see awesome picture below of fresh uni) and luscious dumplings and a movie on Saturday with some good company. A mid-day nap (usually uncommon for me) on Saturday is where it went downhill. Slowly, every hour after I awoke from my nap, my neck felt stiffer and stiffer till around midnight where it did not like my head turning left, right, up, or down. I couldn't sleep because the slightest movement aggravated it and woke me up. I'm surprised I got any sleep. All throughout Sunday was no different, and today it's only slightly better. I just popped two aspirins at work (another uncommon thing for me). Maybe some kimchi pills will fix me.

Apple's WWDC is coming up in about 10 minutes. I'm glued to Engadget's Live Blog

Back to the pictures again.

I got mail...

It's been a while I said something that isn't just a video or picture, but I've been tired. It's like I want to sleep during the day and it's harder to sleep at night. Maybe I am a vampire, but the sun doesn't bother me. Maybe I'm Blade? Nah, that's too much work to kill the undead and infiltrate vampire industrial clubs playing loud electronica music.

I just finished watching Danny McBride's HBO show, Eastbound and Down. He plays the best dick characters. I also got a chance to watch The Ramen Girl with Brittany Murphey (Clueless, King of the Hill) and that was a fun watch. It was a good, sit-back-and-watch movie. It made me want to get ramen, but not the kind that she made. Peppers?

I've been thinking about vacationing and maybe visiting Jesus in Canada after he gets settled in. I had dim sum with Jesus the other week. He does not care for chicken feet.

Poor robot. I love the art direction for this video...

DCfC's "Crooked Teeth."

Lyrics after the jump.

Biking to work today only took me 13 minutes (+/-) :30. So far, that's the fastest it has ever taken me to ride to work. If I can do it 10 minutes or less, then I'll probably beat a car going to the same destination.

The highly anticipated Palm Pre has announced that it will be released June 5 through major outlets. $199 after $100 mail-in rebate and signing 2 year contract with Sprint. Unlimited data and text with 450 minutes for $69.99. The Pre's release falls a few days before Apple's WWDC, so what will Apple do?