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The “49ers”:http://www.49ers.com “tossed aside”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/27/SPGH92JTUD1.DTL their starting kicker today, not soon after “hiring him”:http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/SF/6646414 to replace Jeff Chandler who started the season. What could a lowly kicker do to be fired? How about miss 8 of 15 field goals and cost the 49ers at minimum two games they could have won.
Cya bum.
2 comments October 27th, 2003
“Jeremy points out”:http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2003/10/14/professional_lego_builder_wanted.html that “LEGO is searching”:http://www.legomasterbuilder.com/ for their seven Master Builder to work at the LEGOLAND theme park in Carlsbad, CA.
When I was growing up all I ever did was build LEGOs. With two brothers in the house there was always some big project going on to out do each others latest creation. As the years went on LEGO starting developing various sets, my favorite being the Knights/Castle set.
My Mom always said that I would some day work for LEGO because even into my early teens I was still playing LEGO with my younger brother. Now is my chance to fulfill that dream… nah.
I’m actually more interested in developing new sets instead of building massive T-Rex’s or minature cities, although those are fun for sure. I guess for now I’ll resign myself to playing LEGOs with Aiden and Autumn.
October 17th, 2003
Earlier today the “Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland derailed”:http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/09/05/crash.disneyland.reut/index.html, injuring 11 people on board (CNN). I later heard on the TV that the one person who was critically injured died.
This was one of Autumn’s favorite rides at the park. It’s a rollercoaster that twists and turns in a mining type theme, moving at approx. 30 MPH. There are no upside down loops, mostly short drops and sharp turns. The ride did breakdown a couple of times while we were visiting, but nothing to keep it from coming back up a few hours later.
Update: “More information about the accident”:http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2459599/detail.html.
Update #2: “Official news from CNN”:http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2459599/detail.html and Disney confirms that a man died while on the ride inside a tunnel. What a terrible tragedy, my heart goes out to the victims family and those that were also injured.
September 5th, 2003
Well, it’s finally happened! Tylor is now a daddy for the first time. But, not only one but two little baby boys! Congrats to Tylor and Jenn! I’ll try and get more info tomorrow, but he paged me at 10:57PM with the news.
PS: Happy Father’s Day Tylor! 
2 comments June 13th, 2003
Bah, the damn French are at it again. Serena Williams is “booed to tears”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=577&ncid=577&e=4&u=/nm/20030605/sp_nm/wta_open_serena_dc by a bunch of rude f-in French tennis fans. Leave the damn Iraq War out of it and let the women play tennis for damn sakes.
Cheap bastards.
June 5th, 2003
Remember these “two idiots”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/28/SP157248.DTL? These are the two guys who “caught”… er… fought over Barry Bond’s 73rd home run ball. There isn’t much for me to say that isn’t said in the aforementioned article, however, I will say this… I hope these two losers get *NADA* at the ball’s auction because these two a-holes don’t deserve jack squat.
What would I do if I caught Bond’s 73rd home run ball? I’d trade it back to him or give it to the Hall Of Fame. Yeah, yeah, I say that now, not even being close to ever catching a ball worth that much, but really, I would. Look what these two idiots got out of it, certainly not what I’m looking for.
May 28th, 2003
Collecting things has always been something I’ve liked to do. I collected stamps as a boy, then moved on to baseball cards and comics. Now I find myself collecting video games and Macintosh computers. One thing I haven’t even thought of collecting was AOL CDs. Yes, that’s right, those pesky little silver platters flooding your mailbox I use for coasters or frisbees, many are collecting them for either the “trash heap”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/21/BA182210.DTL or for “selling on eBay”:http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45585,00.html.
I’d much rather just trash em. Hmm, maybe someone wants to buy the CDs I get in the mail? It’ll help me fund more Japanese game imports so my wife doesn’t get upset. MTO’s fine cell-shaded “GT Cube”:http://www.the-magicbox.com/game032503c.htm racing game (Japanese Gamecube only) ships April 25th, hurry up and send the money now, I’m sure I can find some AOL discs around here.
April 21st, 2003
You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Everybody does it. J-Walking is a classic example of “busy” people in such a hurry that they’d risk their life just to cross the street 15 seconds faster. Or, maybe someone j-walks because everyone else is so why not them. Personally I don’t care if you j-walk or not but I can’t recommend it due to completely insane drivers that would rather plow you over to park in the red zone to get their Starbucks fix then let you j-walk.
San Francisco has recently been converting their old crossing signs to new ones that include a counter that counts down from 12 seconds to when the actual light will turn red. I like it. I now know that when the timer is at 2 seconds that I’d better stay on the safe side. But of course, some people think it means “Hey, idiot, you’ve got 2 seconds to cross, get moving!”. So, they cross. Sometimes running, other times walking as if there were no timer and that car that is fast approaching is going to care about them and stop.
Then there’s the crossing on a complete red because there aren’t any cars in the area at that very moment. You know the type, first they edge out of the curb to stand in the crosswalk and annoy those drivers who’d like to turn right. Then, after glancing down the street looking for oncoming traffic, which still has a green light, they cross. What fascinates me about these types is if a car comes barreling through the intersection with the right of way, the j-walker expects the car to yield. Usually there are words exchanged, horns honked, or the universal language symbol used.
So, if you ever encounter a j-walker out and about, just sit back and enjoy. There is usually something humorous each time. Oh, and if you are a j-walker, don’t stop on my account, I’m sure not.
1 comment April 18th, 2003
“Remember last year”:http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/baseball/mlb/kansas_city_royals/4111372.htm when two fans at a Chicago White Sox game against the Kansas City Royals attacked the Royals third base coach? Well, a different idiot “decided to attack an umpire”:http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/kc/news/kc_news.jsp?ymd=20030416&content_id=275895&vkey=news_kc&fext=.jsp during a game last night against the same two teams. What happened this time was the right fielder for Kansas City took the guy down fast and hard:
“It’s one thing when fans go out on the field, it’s brutal, but when they come on the field to do harm, that’s when it gets scary,” first baseman Mike Sweeney said. “Last year we had fans here do it to Tom Gamboa and this year they did it to an umpire, Laz Diaz. Hopefully, fans are going to think twice before they come on the field again because it’s fair game, we’re protecting our guys, our team and our family. Someone comes to jeopardize their health, we’re going to react in an aggressive way.”
Oh, yeah. Beat the crap out of the guy. I did see a nice head bandage on the attacker, looks like they got in a “few good licks”:http://www.msnbc.com/news/901103.asp.
Several Royals players could be seen kicking and stomping the fan while he was pinned down. When the attacker was put into a police car, his head was wrapped with a white bandage, soaked with blood near the right temple.
Lock that guy away and throw away the key. *Moron*.
1 comment April 16th, 2003
Another excellent source of things “Japanese”, “Jeremy Hedley”:http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2003/04/04/sakura_by_streetlight.html shows off with some excellent night time pictures of cherry blossoms in Sakura, Japan.
*Sigh*.
April 9th, 2003
