In parking that is:

it’s insane how much detailed information there is in an image file which is displayed on flickr. aside from knowing all the properties of the image, it even has the serial number of my camera!

dressing like a pirate doesn’t help you catch fish. go figure. eric and i fished the oil rig off of seal beach for the first time. also for the first time, we made real use of our fish finder and searched/drifted structure that it picked up. for all of our strategy, eric landed the only fish (a nice 13″ sculpin), but we had lots of hits and it was otherwise exciting fishing.

oil rig off of seal beach. looks a lot like the one in the 24 season finale?

arrrr!

i’m reading a micheal crichton book from 1969 and he mentioned that there were 3 billion people on earth, so i was curious to see what it currently was. At this moment there are more than 6.5 billion people! More than double 40 years ago.

Anyway, what’s nuts is if you check out this link, and press refresh ever few seconds:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html

on friday taka and i went up to la to hang out with the ben crew and watch the dodgers vs. cubs. i was in a bit of a pissy mood, ’cause i hate driving up there in traffic, but the game ended up being pretty good. the dodgers led by a few points up until the 7th when the cubs scored like 7 runs in the inning, leaving the dodgers down by 2. then in the bottom of the 8th, the dodgers scored 3, and then the japanese closer takashi saito came in to get the save. now that i’m a partial bachelor (taka’s in chicago and then sf for work for the next several months), i’ll prolly trek up to ghetto ass la and catch a lot more games this season.

here i am, calling the bullpen to bring in saito. as you can see, i had fantastic seats (note that there are no seats above me =p). in the 8th inning, where the dodgers needed to catch up in points, everyone turned their caps inside out :shrug:

from ben:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benackerman/sets/72157600246679082/

from shantelle:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=mvj83ef.assatxqn&x=0&y=-21weud

so jordin is the new american idol, and from her performance on tuesday, she definitely deserves to be. i was secretly hoping for blake to win, and while i even bothered to vote for him, dial idol had him losing by a large margin so i knew there wasn’t much of a chance. i’m sure he’ll have a great career regardless, and i’m gonna be first in line to buy his and sanjaya’s cd when they come out <3

and while the rest of my top predictions were on track (blake beating melinda and them both beating lakisha), i had thought jordin was going to be gone long ago, before sanjaya and haley for god’s sake!

the rest of the show was pretty entertaining, but a little annoying that it was more than 2 hours of filler performance before the winner was actually announced. i even missed lost for it, but at least now i have something to watch during my lunch break.

i’m gonna slow the intensity of my cardio/dieting once i get to 9%, and then i’ll do my best to just enjoy the summer. the weight really has come off super quick, i’ve only been on a cutting cycle for a month, and i’ve lost over 15lbs and 6% bodyfat so far. i’ve kept some muscle mass, and i’ve started to get some definition in the abs (doesn’t really show in the pic, combo of flash/just ate dinner (i know excuses, excuses =p))

anyway sorry for the homo-eroticness. it’s my blog and i can gay it up if i want to <3.

shali hosted a sushi party at her place. we all made our own rolls and all got drunk. i actually got much drunker than i should’ve, being on the dietary supplements i’m on, but wtf ever. it was worth it and ben was driving =p people made california rolls, spicy tuna rolls, philly rolls, steak rolls and other weird combos. it was all pretty good and was definitely a good time. here’s a couple of pics:

jinro BON!

oh, and btw, all those “bon!” shenanigans were from these ads (peep the “jinro bar” and “jinro home” ads”)

http://www.thedirectorsbureau.com/archives.php?director_id=20&archive_type_id=2 

some of the sushi chefs… we had 14 in all:

the shali roll:

the mikey blue roll:

can’t wait for the next one ;)

since i moved between apartments (again), i had to transfer my cable services to the new place, and the representatives at charter are the biggest idiots ever so i decided to tell ‘em to fuck off. my building has a big antenna on the roof, so i thought i’d give the over the air hd a try, and guess what? the major channels: 2,4,5,7,9 and 11 are clearer than they were through charter communications, and are… free! i typically only watch the main channels anyway, plus ota digital broadcasts also have subchannels like 5-2 which is “the tube”, a channel that just plays music videos. i also get kcal 9 in hd, which wasn’t offered in hd through charter, so now i can watch lakers games in high-def (good timing, seeing how their season just ended a week or two ago =P)

as for the other tv shows i can’t get, there’s always the internet, and as far as accessing it without charter? there are 5 unlocked networks at almost full signal floating around my complex. when will people learn ;)

why are the bananas that taka buys me from the japanese super market so much smaller than the ones at ralphs?