slicka picka uppa

hey folks how's it going. not a bad day out eh? let's hope the rain holds off.

i just had a very fun and satisfying weekend. i realize i havent posted since thursday, but i swear ive been busy since then and just cramming a lot in.

it's going to sound like kind of a march if i just go over everything, but i'll try to throw some images and links in there. ok here we go:

friday -- watched celtics with jeff and chris b. the celtics won at the buzzer on a paul pierce shot. i swear, chris b and jeff are good luck for watching celtics games with. that's the 2nd memorable buzzer beater ive seen with chris b. so that was a lot of fun. chris b crashed at my place, and i went to bed at a decent time. jeff brought me over one of those relaxation drinks which totally made me pass out. so that finally kinda fixed the jetlag.

saturday -- said bye to chris, went to arams in cushing sq with kane. it's this cool little armenian breakfast place. my previous two times there i had been there with someone who was armenian, but not this time. food was still good tho. i got eggs benedict. we walked there and back. pretty fun.

i then went and saw pelada with jeff and people. here's the imdb link, it was a good movie, a documentary about pickup soccer being played internationally. recommended.

Pelada (2010)



sweet! one of the directors was there and answered questions afterwards. my favorite part in the movie was when they went inside the san pedro prison in bolivia. its kind of an infamous prison where inmates live with their families, and the inmates kind of rule the place instead of the guards.

after that, we went to orleans in davis sq for lunch. these movies were part of the boston indie film festival. here's the link with the actual correct name:

Independent Film Festival Boston 2010 : April 21 - 28

hey, it's still going on! some good movies tonight and tmrw. ok well there ya go.

so after lunch we walked over to kickass cupcakes (was it a good idea naming it that? do parents not bring their kids there because of the name? i wonder).

at kickass cupcakes, we were in for a surprise. inside the tiny bakery was a full film crew filming for an upcoming food network show called "kid in a candy store" hosted by adam gertler. we met him, he was super nice, and he asked us if we wanted to be interviewed on camera because we were from boston. i let my brother do the interviewing and i did the cupcake eating.

it was so cool! we signed release forms. the show will air this summer. apparently that was their only stop in boston, so it was massively fortuitous. i hope that that's a sufficient explanation of the story.

oh yeah then on the way back to the car i bumped into a friend. i had also bumped into someone in line for the movie, then bumped into someone in the checkout line of a store later. that added to the awesome weekend, i love bumping into people.

i then went home and three groups of people came over in succession, which was cool. i then had to go back out to see a movie with rob. we saw life during wartime. imdb link here -- Life During Wartime (2009).

it was a weird todd solondz movie. he's one of my fav directors. it was a good movie. it was like a sequel to Happiness (1998), which i wasn't super familiar with, but i still enjoyed the flick.

but here's the best part -- he was actually there! not only that, he introduced the film (i cheered my head off. he was flattered by the warm reception and remarked that the festival was 'so hip'). todd then did a q&a session after the movie. he was terrific and did a great job answering questions, and people asked some really good questions.

i even got to ask him a question! i asked him "how is florida different from new jersey?". this was in reference to the setting of his films. he gave me a great answer, explaining that felt that florida was a clean, fresh place where you could start anew.

here's a photo of todd at some festival in the middle, and here's the movie poster.




so that was awesome. i had zero idea he was going to be there, and it was a total surprise.

then i ate homemade onion rings at robs, went home, and called it a night.

sunday -- slept in, watched the celtics lose with kane. lame.

went grocery shopping at three grocery stores and took care of a couple other things, then made fish/shrimp tacos and guacamole with a couple friends. here's the recipe for the tacos.

Fish Tacos with Lime-Cilantro Crema Recipe - MyRecipes.com

and here's the recipe for the guac -- Perfect Guacamole Recipe : Food Network Kitchens : Food Network

deeeelicious. and that's mostly it. phew what a post. i'll talk to you soon. many hugs, Dave

here's a screenshot of an ad i saw on nytimes.com today. something about investing in kazakhstan. very nice! great success! borat borat borat.

but seriously, kazakhstan is a huge country, maybe it is a good place to invest in.

you care about this

pretty cool! look at all these folk waterskiing in tasmania! they got 114 people on at the same time.

my favorite line from the video -- "hang on you buggers!"

i liked this video because everyone was so pumped and smiling afterwards

also, i'm kind of conflicted -- i don't like blogs with a ton of youtubes on them. i've been trying to selectively post video. is that cool?

ok i'll keep on writing, having a good time over here, decent weather out.

i've gotta keep on making new paragraphs so that the video doesn't break my silly ray kurzweil feed.

break.

break.

k that's better.

later yall

Water ski record is smashed | The Sun |News

the land of fire and ice

check out this incredible video of the volcanic explosion in iceland

Close Encounter with the Iceland Volcano

That boy has a funny way of looking

i am so obsessed with the blow. or BLOW. or whatever the band is called. how about just "The Blow". she's so amazing. sometimes depressing, but so catchy and smart and good.

and by she i mean Khaela Maricich. i'm actually just now listening to her first album under the name of "Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano" and her album "Look for It in the Sky It Will Always Be There", which i'm digging!

ok here's a weird article -- 10 Weirdest Urban Ecosystems On Earth. some of them are pretty gross, but theyre pretty wild. not sure i'd wanna visit them all, but they're at least cool to imagine.

i'm still kinda jetlagged and a little loopy so i may not be making total sense and i may be a little space cadety and all over the place than normally, but that goes with the territory.

ok i've been feelin bloggin so you'll be seeing more, later.

gardening?

Boston-born

Rest in Peace Guru from Gangstarr -- Keith Elam (July 17, 1966 – April 19, 2010)

Guru, RIP: Our four favorite songs | EW.com

all of these emotions are pouring out of me

to quote kid cudi...

i was able to watch the boston marathon today, albeit online. that guy from kenya ran the fastest marathon ever! pretty incredible. also the 3rd closest finish for the women in history! wow what a great marathon.

i watched this movie called burma vj this weekend, actually on the flight home. it was intense. burma is such a bummer. my goodness. i'm going to avoid talking about anything political here, but if you're familiar with the situation, you know how much of a bummer it is.

there's a really good book called "finding george orwell in burma" that i may have mentioned on here. i want to revisit it now after seeing that movie.

here's a photo. i could link to the article that i found it from, it's a time.com one, but i'm gonna let you find it yourself. there have been some recent goings on in burma that you can read about it if you really feel like.

but be careful, big brother is watching.

good night, extended

hey, buenas noches. i'm adjusting back to the east coast schedule. i'm somewhere under 3 hours behind right now, getting there.

had a good day, went to an armenian market and pemberton market where i got a couple plants, just houseplants, i potted those and watered them and theyre in windowsills.

only watched a little bball cause i watched a bunch of bball yesterday. i did watch the movie bronson tho. pretty crazy! kind of a nutty story. guy's still alive too.

side note -- boston independent film festival is this weekend. i'll have more on that as the day approaches.

yesterday i got up at like 7 30 to go watch rowing. it was cold and windy and rainy. just so nasty out. we watched one race from the bank and then two from the car, driving alongside on memorial drive, watching the whole 2000 meters. except during the princeton harvard race, princeton lost their rudder and collided with harvards stern, losing part of their bow in the progress.

i actually saw the whole thing from the car -- princeton stopped rowing, and then i saw the coxswain hold up a big white piece of fiberglass. tough break.

then we went to victors diner in watertown (watertown is a great place for diners in case you didnt know). i ate a huge veggie omelette and a bunch of home fries, then i went home and went back to sleep til 2am. still getting over the messed up sleep schedule.

need to sign off, but just wanted to show you some tule elk. here ya go. see those little guys? click on the photo and then zoom in. here are some other point reyes photos too. i'll post some more.

leave taking

well, the day has come, and here i am, in the san francisco international airport, waiting for my flight to logan, which leaves in an hour.

it's not often that i dearly wish to stay in some place away from home, to not let the stay end, to drag out a trip.

this time, i was warned that this would be the case. i didn't really believe it at first, but here i am, with kind of a pit in my stomach that i have to go home.

but you know why? it's not because i'm dreading anything back home. i just had such a good week! really, i swear that's all it is. i had such good company, such good treatment, saw three old friends, saw tons of stuff.

so, i just wanted to come clear. i'll miss northern california, but i'm ready to face the music. though it may be cold and rainy in boston, friends are there, and that's the draw.

i'm not down with the weather here. i mean, maybe i am, but especially in san francisco it like never really gets super warm. i like it when it gets super warm! cause in the evenings it cools down a little and it's perfect.

so first things first -- yesterday i went to the lighthouse at point reyes. lemme give you a couple links --

Point Reyes National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service)

Point Reyes National Seashore - Lighthouse History at Point Reyes (U.S. National Park Service)

this was one of the most incredible things i've ever seen. we had to drive like 21 miles from the visitor center all the way out to the tip, here's a map for reference.



i took some decent photos too that i'll post. so all i really wanted to see was "point reyes". i didn't really know what meant, but it had been recommended to me, and i pretty much based this whole trip around other peoples recommendations (which worked out very well).

so we finally arrive at the visitor center after driving through state parks and up and down 8 million hills. there's a sign that says "LIGHTHOUSE < 21 MI". and i think "crap, it just took forever to get over here, now wherever we end up going it's going to take a long time.

well, we continued on sir francis drake blvd. it went on forever and ever. we drove through miles of cow pasture (get this -- the restaurant we went to that night was serving grass feed beef from point reyes, ca.)

finally after 15 miles or so (and mind you this is slow going along winding roads, getting stuck behind slower people) we arrived at some signs that said beaches. i kind of suggested that we just go to a beach because i felt bad for dragging us all the way out there. but it was ok, i was the passenger, and we ventured on.

we went hill over hill, ridge over ridge, past farms and ranches. the views were already extraordinary. tide pools and hills and peaks and cliffs. finally finally finally, we arrived at a parking lot. if you look at the map, we were at the extreme western tip of the red line that extends to the southwestern tip of point reyes. it had taken forever to get out there, but it was worth it.



i want to say it was life changing, but i think that this trip was just mostly life changing, in that ive gained some new perspectives, which were sorely needed. i think i was stuck in a little rut, and i'm in a better place now.

the lighthouse was unforgettable. we saw some wildlife, some groups of tule elk. i'll post some stuff about the tule elk, they were pretty cool.

well, i had to tell you about it. i'm still kind of floating from the whole experience, it was that memorable.

ok i'll talk to you soon, thanks, D

a couple photos, more to come. i saw these exact same views, just in the middle of the day --

two more days

and then im outta hurrrr.

i forgot to bring my camera

or, rather, i've so far forgotten to bring my camera both times that i've visited old friends here in san francisco. doh!

well, that doesnt mean that i didn't see them. there's just no electronic evidence of the fact. no, i didn't take an iphone photo or a blackberry photo or a droid photo, which i could have to try to save the day. i just left my stupid camera at the hotel. actually, now that i think about it, i should probably just take it out of the backpack and take a photo of the wall or something just to remind myself that i have it. oh well.

soooo i'm staying in japantown here in beautiful san fran. (full disclaimer -- it rained yesterday. and will rain again today. this hasn't had a negative impact on planning, but it has made for some challenging walking. also, i left the auxiliary umbrella at the bar last night. shucks).

we happened to show up during the first day of the first weekend of the cherry blossom festival. effectively, that meant that we couldn't park our car in the lot and had to drive around for a while before i called the hotel and they told us how to bushwack our way to their front entrance.

unclear on the concept? learn yourself -- Welcome to Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Website

so the first day there were a ton of people and street vendors and tents and dancing women with fans, but then on the second day it rained and everything got moved inside. good times tho, this hotel is awesome and the neighborhood is nice.

i've been making the rounds of the neighborhoods too. let's see, so far i've seen the richmond district, the mission, noe valley, soma, and the tenderloin. i'll go into details later. i gotta bounce tho, but i'll be in touch. peace!

i found this photo from like bodega or karmaloop or something. good stuff. i wanna say that i know where it came from, but i pulled it forever ago. anyway, enjoy.

takin off

folks -- im gettin on a plane in 3 hours. not sure when i'm gonna post next.

believe it or not, i think the weather here is actually going to be a little nicer than the weather in san fran. oh well, can't win em all.

still im pumped for the trip and looking forward to relaxing.

i'll be in touch.

thanks, D

hip, fun, or free

folks, what is up. it's a beautiful day outside. a good day for caneoing say, or hiking, or kayaking, or sailing. however, i am doing none of these things. if you are, i salute you.

yesterday it was like 800 degrees. mad hot. all sorts of hot. we had a cookout for my roommates bday. it was awesome! drinkin beers outside, joking around in the kitchen inside. cooked up ribs, chicken, eggplant, pineapple, peppers, onions, even a couple tomatoes! delicious stuff. grilling rules.

boston college has a new basketball coach. you probably dont care about this as much as i do. dude came from cornell. i wish him the best. let's go eagles. (bc also plays in the frozen four tonight but im not really into hockey but good luck guys!)

so i wanna go sailing. bad. it was recommended today that i check out community boating instead of acquiring a used boat. serious dilemma. dilemma city over here. i wanna go to community boating but i also want a boat. what will happen?? time will tell.

im going on a trip in two days. im going to san francisco. ill be in the city for four nights, then in mill valley for two nights. im excited to say the least. i hope everything works out. i think it will. woohoo!

march showers bring april

hey everyone. jeez pretty bad that i haven't posted since wednesday. ok lemme see if i can get some momentum here we go.

first, a pretty cool link -- The 19 most complex and dangerous roads in the world | By the Waze. it's all these really terrifying drives. yikes.

if you've heard the jay-z long a lot then you may find this entertaining. even if you haven't, i hope you still find it entertaining



ok well let's see, right now it's sunday, what's happened since wednesday?

well, i fought off a cold last week, so i was a little under the weather over the past week, but doing better now.

yesterday i went and watched dartmouth race holy cross on lake quinsigamond in worcester. dartmouth swept, and one of the races was really close. i dont think the results are up on row2k.com yet for whatever reason, but there was a headwind, decent conditions, though probably rougher closer to the finish.

it was fun watching and i cheered really loud and wore my dartmouth tshirt. for the last varsity race i followed in my car along the racecourse. i happened to be driving behind the dartmouth crew truck flashing its hazards (i turned on mine too). pretty cool to watch a race like that.

oh yeah and i watched the boat race too. that's the oxford cambridge boat race. what a race this year! thriller from start to finish, and a come from behind victory by the light blues as cambridge won by a couple lengths of open water.

the winklevoss twins were in the oxford boat. the bbc had an interview with them before the race that was pretty funny. you know who those dudes are right? i actually beat them the summer after my freshman year (not sure if ive mentioned that or not), but they were olympians in 2008, so i cant really talk.

i had a cookout yesterday that was pretty epic. lotta folks showed up and we had a good time. im dealin with the traces of hangover but feelin ok. gotta drink a bunch of water and go to sleep.

ok yall happy easter talk to you soon

-Dave

flood part deux

well folks, there are many rivers and lakes and ponds here that are very, very high right now. there are towns and neighborhoods and houses and cars and businesses that are under a lot of water. not sure how long it's gonna be til we see something like this again.

my hometown was in the news for some bad and nasty flooding there too. terrible stuff. i hope that no dams fail and that we get through this relatively unscathed.

i'm trying to blog more, i really like blogging, just gotta keep at it. i was fighting a cold yesterday and am also fighting a cold today, but i think i'm gonna drink a ton of water and hopefully beat it. i refuse to get sick.

soooo let's see what else is happening. we had our first (and last) basketball playoff game last night. i don't really want to get into it, but it wasn't pretty. still, a great season, i had so much fun, and everyone's relatively happy. good times.

oh yeah i didnt mention that i made a pear crisp this weekend from the moosewood cookbook. it was pretty good. i think i prefer the crisp that you actually make for like apple crisp than a crisp that's just oats, sugar, and butter.

i'm starting to read a book, "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", you may have heard of it. a one-time friend gave it to me in high school. she underlined a section of it that i'm not sure i want to post here as it's somewhat unsettling. i'm thinking about it. it's a really good book, and just kinda funny that it took me so long to actually start reading it. but seriously -- better late than never.

ok folks, i'll be in touch.

bye, Dave

more the type to plan it

hey. i just had a good weekend of watching basketball and eating and hanging out. i tried a couple new jamaican jerk chicken recipes and they both came out pretty well. here are the recipes. for one i just marinated it for 3 and a half hours, the other i marinated overnight

Jerk Chicken Recipe: Spicy Jamaican Comfort Food -- this was yummy, nice and spicy.

Jamaican Jerk Chicken recipe and history - Jamaica Travel and Culture .com -- this one was really good. i got a cleaver for prepping and chopping. using the cleaver was awesome.

here are a couple cool articles.

Engineers offer peek into semisecret project for US military - The Boston Globe -- this is all about some super secret technology that's been in development for like decades. it's going to turn an american soldier into spiderman. crazy.

Woods, Augusta a good match - The Boston Globe -- an interesting article about the intersection of tiger woods, augusta county club, golf, the masters, and women. take from it what you will. my favorite excerpt:

"For most of my life, but especially since becoming a father some 13 years ago, I’ve believed there are far more good women than good men in the world. I’ll always believe that. I think they’re every bit as intelligent as men, equally worthy and competent in the workplace, tremendous athletes. But, most of all, women are far superior by total number when judged as decent people. "

bam! that's right. we all knew it.

ok i gotta motor. cya.

confluence

exceedingly so.

tilted on the drunk axis of a fishbowl, head perched on a cane.

it...but it isn't it. it's not an it.

Dawn: 6:09 AM. Uptime: 2d 4h 51m

they found a new dinosaur by its BONES. its BONES were in the ground. the dinosaur was not colored green like in the sketches, it was jet black with neon green patterns.

it goes on.

and the sea meets the sky.

the lives of men: mundane idiosyncrasies

nothing fascinates me more than quotidian details and mundane idiosyncrasies regarding the lives of men. i am going to write a book about it. it's going to contain a lot of dull facts about certain men. here are some examples:

Edward, 23: Edward has never had Thai food. he tells people that he does not like Thai food even though he has never tried it.

Bob, 31: Bob likes watching "American Idol". he watches American Idol every week with his dog sprawled out on the shag carpet in front of the tv.

Apollo, 27: Apollo once went to Milwaukee and got food poisoning. because of this, he always roots against the green bay packers.

see, doesn't that sound like a great book? it would just be chock full of boring snippets from male individuals. shoot, i could fill up a whole book about myself! it would have things like:

Dave wears glasses that are two years old. he wants new glasses, but hasn't taken the necessary steps to attain these glasses.

Dave has a new vacuum. his new vacuum is actually capable of cleaning the carpet in his room.

Dave needs to buy a gallon of skim milk. he really likes skim milk.

[end sarcasm]

hi everyone, it's me, i swear. i like making fun of myself, and i definitely make fun of people such as my brother, dad, and best bros. gotta keep it loose ya know! i hope i'm not being cruel, just trying to joke around. what are some mundane idiosyncrasies of your life?

wow what a weird post, let's make the next one weirder...

i got a link for ya. full disclosure -- i've only watched part of this video and haven't listened to it. but it has people riding cars on frozen lakes in new hampshire. how could you possibly resist watching it?!:
On Thin Ice - Video Library - The New York Times

here's my abstract screengrab of the splashscreen thingie for nytimes video. how do you feel about nytimes video? i think some of it's pretty cool, i should watch it more.

do this, do that

hey folks! wow what a nice day outside! 70 degrees. i guess it's gonna get cold soon, but til then, i'm lovin it.

right now i am torn between sitting on my back porch and playing basketball. maybe i will do both! i got a lot of exclamation points here, but i just need to exclaim how excited i am!

ariiiight. so i watched basketball for like 48 hours. the first day (thursday) was the most exciting day of basketball i've ever seen. wow, and i mean wow. favorite moments -- murray st winning at the buzzer, and the end of the ohio game, just watching the ohio guys act like they've been there before after they totally dusted georgetown. good stuff.

well, i slept in today and feel good. i've eaten my banana, drank some water, and shaved. i got up at 10 (so i dont even really think i got 8 hours of sleep), but i'm feeling great. i have better saturdays when i get up at 10 rather than noon anyway.

so much i wanna do! i wanna go clothes shopping, grocery shopping, get a car wash, i dono, do other stuff. not enough time, you know? it's cool tho. that's the beauty of life. it's up to you to do what you wanna do. i love free will. i will defend free will all day. nothing is predetermined i tell you! nothing! life is what you make of it.

aright folks i'm sitting in my bedroom behind my light blocking curtains. there's a whole world out there. i gtg. later.

here are a couple photos of the flooding in my area from this week. awful stuff. some people had some pretty bad headaches.

gut research favorite sleeper

gut research favorite sleeper
gut research favorite sleeper
gut research favorite sleeper

this has been me most of the day. watch the video and you'll understand



brackets are complete. i'm sure mine are mostly horrible. last year i had one bracket that had one quarter entirely correct except for one pick (cal over maryland, i'll never forget it).

this year none of the bc blogs are doing pools, which is too bad because last year they were really funny.

well, at least i can be happy about my brackets for another 12 hours or so. then the agony begins.

happy march madness everyone, it's one of my favorite times of year, Dave

blame it

gotcha feelin loose

here's the dave booda version with generik. so sick. enjoy.

bad bad bad

all by myself.

folks, what's happenin. it's a beautiful day outside. after three consecutive days of rain, the sun has come out.

there has been some serious flooding in the region, and i'm sure a lot of people have had to deal with some situations that were not ideal. luckily, i kind of live on a hill, so i didnt have to deal with it.

my mom said it's the worst flooding she can remember since 1997, when my towns high school flooded and was shut down for several months. the high schoolers had class at my middle school from like 7am to noon, and us middle schoolers had class from 12-5pm. those were the days. sleeping in til 11am, watching sunsets from class. good times.

i had a good weekend. friday night i just hung out and made chocolate pudding, which turned out really well. saturday day i did some things, then went over to a friends where i heated up some gnocchi and pasta sauce, then cooked a nice lemony green beans dish. yummy.

saturday night i got invited to a house party right down the street from me. i met up with a couple friends there. it was a 1920s themed party. it seemed like everyone had a costume but me! it was fun though, playing loud music, dancing, hanging out, joking around. some good, clean fun. stayed until 2am (at which point it turned to 3am), then went to sleep after 4am.

barely left the house on sunday. people were coming over to my place all day which was awesome, i barely had to go out in the rain! the brackets came out sunday evening and i started researching (still got a long ways to go though).

the flooding was kinda nuts yesterday. multiple roads were blocked off, and i blew it and went the wrong way more than once. there were a bunch of towns nearby that got it real bad. i didnt see too much craziness, but the traffic was pretty ugly.

we won our basketball game last night. i scored 4 points. i also airballed a free throw and missed a wide open layup. but i made the call to play man defense instead of zone, because i thought we needed more energy and better rebounding, and sure enough they only scored 5 points in the first half. this was the team that beat us in the first game when i wasnt there, so it felt good to get revenge. we have a rematch next week with a team that weve already lost to, so i want revenge next week too.

gotta focus up and get to the gym a bunch. i haven't lifted weights in several weeks. part of that is because i dont want to beef up too much. i've also been trying to do cardio so that i have some decent fitness.

ok i'm gonna start compiling some links for a links post. i'll give you some highlights. i'll try to post more this week.

cya! -d

eternal and graceful

water in head, fire in belly. cool head, warm belly. heat up, cold down.

to be continued...

one hand

the whispers of burning thoughts float through inky night. behind, burning cinders and embers in wide open saucer eyes show the blue flicker of an oil lamp.

chocolate pudding

i made chocolate pudding. it's in my stomach. it feels very heavy. it was good though, and i made whipped cream and put in too much cinnamon. yum. foodnetwork magazine style, yet again.

well, it's daylight savings i hear. i even know how to set my watch now, so i'm super prepared for it.

hey, boston university plays vermont at noon tomorrow for a chance to go to the big dance. let's go terriers! beat the catamounts!

i watched the movie FishTank (2009) last night. wow i was blown away. a stunner. very good movie, very well done. recommended. but i have weird tastes, and i can't say it will be your cup of tea -- even if you're British!

i'm getting kind of lazy about putting links up. uhhhh maybe i need to be more adventurous in my browsing. what probably happens is that i've become too picky and am too self-conscious about sharing stuff. i gotta get over that. after all, there is a lot in this world that's impressive!

oh yeah i watched this little short movie that had daedalus, nobody, jrocc, and ras g. i had heard of daedalus, jrocc, and ras g, but not nobody. the movie was really good. it's called "Secondhand Smoke". it's a documentary about tasking each of these musicians with $5 to acquire 5 records that they are supposed to make a song with. it's only like half an hour but they did a good job with the editing and crammed a lot in there.

i've been watching and playing basketball. we got schooled last night. next game's monday. gotta man up.

boston college season is over. thank god. moving on (but cautiously optimistic about next years chances).

looks like it's gonna rain here all weekend. week. i gotta get to bed. adios amigos.

blogger overloaded

hey folks. i've become overloaded. let me try to piece the circuits back together.

i did as little this weekend as possible. it was incredible. hung out with a couple friends, barely went to a couple places, cooked a bunch of food. except i cut my thumb sunday while cutting vegetables. doh! first time i've cut myself in a long time, i gotta be more careful! sheesh.

i did quite a number on the ol left thumb, but it's gonna make it. i hope it's 100% by my basketball game on thursday.

i've been watching healthy amounts of basketball. that's probably the majority of what i will be doing for the next couple weeks. good times...

the weather is warming up, slowly! believe it or not, i played basketball outside on saturday. it was awesome! i threw down and worked out and it was pretty good. windy, but plenty warm.

i don't have many impressive links to put up, but they're out there. i've mostly been reading my old faithfuls. steady stream of internet news. hmmmm if someone gives me some topics of stuff that they're interested in then i'll dig up some impressive links, how about that.

i'll cya, D

i would recommend that you procure Eschew #2 from Rob Sergel, either directly or from his website.

down music

hi everyone.

it's a beautiful day. the sun is shining. the birds aren't chirping, but they're coming back to their homes in the trees.

looks like i went another middle of the week with no posts. hmmm not a good sign. i can give you something of an update though!

everything's good, i've been staying busy. my two best friends are both out of town for the weekend, so hopefully i'll be able to catch up with some other people.

there was a mini reunion for other alums from my year in my area a couple days ago, but i didn't make it. i did sign up for my 5th year reunion though. crazy! can't believe it's here already. i wonder if we're gonna set the record for the most people to attend...we'll see!

weather has been nasty, but today i guess it cleared up. i swear i saw a thermometer say 50 degrees today, and that ain't bad!

we won our basketball game last night. we're 3 and 3, .500! pretty good. i played the full 40 minutes and i'm actually in decent shape. nice...

celtics game tonight, then another one on sunday. i imagine i'll be watching some college hoops too. i saw providence lose to pittsburgh on a buzzer beater last night. bummer! i hope at least one new england team makes the tournament, but it may not happen.

i got a poem for you. i really hope i haven't already posted this on here. i can't find the title of it, and i honestly don't know if these ellipses were in the original version, but i like the poem.



Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere:
Let us take long walks in the open air...
Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
Let us indulge in games...
Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

—Robert Linssen

eating, and then eating

i really need to be going to sleep but i had to post again. i couldn't leave weird weirdness on my front page, i needed something else, or at least something freshly weird.

i had a great weekend. there was a party, olympic hockey watching, hanging out, and cooking. a lot of cooking. i made lemon bars which were delicious. i made corn fritters for the first time.

both food network recipes. i swear i'm gonna get a subscription to that magazine, it's changed my life.

we also did ridiculous braised ribs with mushrooms. insane. after i ate mine i literally had to collapse sideways on the couch for a while. to top it all off, orange chocolate bread pudding.

Orange-Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe

Corn-Industry Fritters Recipe

Braised Shortribs with Mushrooms Recipe - we didn't use short ribs we just used enormous bone in ribs. also, just a sidenote -- on the foodnetwork website this recipe is listed as "easy". i shudder to think what "hard" is.

Classic Lemon Bars Recipe

the food was insanely good. ok i wanna do more of a recap but i gotta go. night.

here's a small hard to read flyer for a show i wanted to go to but didn't go to. dj die young and coralcola are really cool tho and i hope they keep on doing this night because the first one was really cool.

dj die young

Coralcola

joyful sound

this blog has been too normal recently. or maybe it hasn't. but in either case, there's a need to get weird.

i think that walruses secretly like sailboats.

absurdist theater is only funny if you're acting in it.

leaves fall upwards.

dualities and self-selves and the mirrorings of the multiple personalities.

4 lenses and a central processor and rose-colored glasses.

the bird outside your window is trying to wake you up. it wants nothing else. it wants you to think, "stupid bird! can't i get some rest?!"

the typography and the serifs and the font-face are contingent on the deciphering of mayan symbols. times new roman is times new sicilian is times new milan.

under your keyboard are little specks of light that follow the traces of your fingertips as they hover over the keyboard. the specks of light follow your every movement. as you delete and space and capitalize, they shift in wavelength to adjust to your grammar.

in the suburbs, the run off is collected and recycled to the sky. in the suburbs, there is no ocean.

thanks spambot!

wow, sometimes technology just touches your soul. take this for example -- i got a personalized spam comment, addressed to me (the blogger), and the blog (davesplat)! can you believe it?

some spambot actually took time out of its busy day to drop me this very nice line. i'm flattered. (ok i probably shouldn't be including this stupid stuff but i thought it was kinda funny. i'll give you a real post soon)

"Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "the photography of Geordie Wood":

I want to thank the blogger very much not only for this post but also for his all previous efforts. I found www.davesplat.com to be greatly interesting. I will be coming back to www.davesplat.com for more information.



Posted by Anonymous to Dave's Blog About Impressive Things at February 23, 2010"

ooooooooh

ooooooh no posts since monday. come on dave...

how's it goin yall? it's a beautiful day!

i stayed up super late last night watching the celtics lakers game and then packing. i'm going to vermont for the weekend. going to ski mt okemo for a couple days hopefully. it's been forever since i went skiing, and it's been forever since i went to this place in vermont with Chris.

i'm really excited. i need to get away. i'm leaving tonight and not coming back til sunday, so i'm not really gonna have much time to relax, but it looks like it's not going to be too cold and i think the snow will be good.

i'm not bringing my computer, so i had to sneak a post in today. it's going to be good to get a break from my computer. it will be shutdown in my room, awaiting my return.

i can't believe how wired i am. given that there is a multitude of web sites that i check every weekday (not just limited to boston.com, nytimes.com, finance.yahoo.com, thedartmouth.com, news.google.com, and my google reader), i take it for granted that every weekday i'm going to be consuming a lot of content. still, i wouldn't mind spending a week on a beach if all i had to give up was my daily news fix :) . it might have to happen!

so i've been watching olympics. shaun white is a legend. his 2nd run was nuts! i've watched a bunch of events, typical stuff -- skiing, hockey, more skiing, skating, more skating, luge, biathlon, all that good stuff. good times! watching it on an hdtv is pretty cool too.

nytimes has published a couple articles about the luge course. a couple days before the tragedy nytimes published a piece talking about the dangerous (and deadly) olympic events, and how concerns (several) had been raised about the canadian luge course. they followed that up with an article this week citing a german luger who was badly injured on the course last year. he filed a complaint in writing and said that an entrance to the womens ramp was not boarded up and he pretty much told the vancouver team that they needed to do something about the whole situation.

it's very sad. i'm not sure how the olympic committee or the international community really feels about it now, but i can't help but think that if it had been someone from a better known country we would be hearing about it more (sad but true[?]).

ok i have an impressive thing for you. you know when it snows in boston and then you see all those plows and then your driveway gets plowed in and then you're like wtf? turns out that in other parts of the country THEY ACTUALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

D.C. digging Boston's plowmen - The Boston Globe

Something like 40 guys got called down to D.C. and have been digging out the city. and that's something that's being sincerely appreciated by the good folks down in our nations capital who are dealing with the 3 feet of snow that got dumped on them. pretty cool.

i also read an article on boston.com about this huge new painting in the mfa, i think it's the "the passage of the delaware" or something.

oh yeah Tiger Woods press conference just happened. as they say, go get it tiger!

aright yall. i'm gonna take off. have good weekend.

-splat