Suing Everybody - The headline is “Antor Media sues everybody.” And really, it fits perfectly. “Antor Media is suing a variety of cellphone makers, including Nokia, UTStarcom, Audiovox, Kyocera, Sanyo, Sharp, NEC, RIM, Virgin Mobile, LG, palmOne and Panasonic …”
Human Tetris - This is great - a guy dressed as a big Tetris piece. Genius.
A great tip for anyone starting photography: put the camera where people’s eyes usually aren’t.
We had just planted these, and they looked very very happy.
One of the first shots with the camera: lucky.
Man thinks different, steals 12000 iPods - I couldn’t help myself when writing that headline.
It’s the times when you don’t have time or space to doubt yourself that your mind steps up and performs to its fullest potential. When I did not have time to consider that both Richard and Steve are taller than me and were intent on removing the ball from my control, I could drive and shoot - and get the ball through the net. If thoughts of doubt came into my head for just a fraction of a second, as they certainly did, things such as Steve stuffing the ball with a resounding “THUMPOING” and me watching it sail behind me occurred instead.
We lost.
But we fought for it; the game tonight was the best this summer. It was to be played to 21 win by 2, but John and I took it from down by 18-20 up to … a loss of 27-29. Discouraging? Not at all. It didn’t really matter - it was so amazing to be outside, sweating around in the warm summer night (fighting off the mosquitos later), feeling alive in an uterally visceral and undeniable way. As long as I keep this journal, I will keep trying to convey what it feels like when 8 months of chilly weather are interrupted by 4 warm months of summer. Everyone is outside, you actually hear the birds singing (I bet people in the south take them for granted), and on and on. I haven’t come close to capturing the atmosphere yet: poetry may be the only way to get across the feeling of waking up on a summery morning, or checking up a ball during a game of pickup, standing on warm concrete and looking at the long rays of sun catch foliage as red light skims across the earth.
I may have been stuck inside for 8 hours today, but summer is the ultimate rejuvenator.
Lifetime Fitness has long been known for a questionable music playlist (Britney Spears and Savage Garden … at the gym?), but today they proved all of that bad music was just a warm up for one unbelievably inappropriate song.
While everyone was straining, grunting, and pounding through workouts, moving weights, running treadmills, and pulling those weird rubber bands in every-which direction, a song drifted over to my ears as I curled dumbells on an incline bench: Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven.”
“Have I gone insane?” I asked myself, struggling through rep 4 … this music was the anti-caffeine, the ultimate non sequitur, almost as if I was trying to break dance to a Dvorak symphony. “Hey Jake, can I get a spot?” asked a guy behind me. I felt like I was watching a movie with this music as the soundtrack and this was the last time the guy would ever ask his friend for a spot, that he was doomed to die in a catastrophic event very soon … that’s what listening to that song does to a person.
Note to self: mandatory for future workouts: alternative music sources.
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