Throwing Darts

I want to blog but I have no specific subject to write about. Instead, as I've been catching up on stuff tonight I've been writing down random thoughts with the intention of just throwing it all on the page at once. My sports writing hero, Bill Simmons, would call this the "Ramblings". I think I'll call it "Throwing Darts".

I'm listening to a band called The Silent Comedy right now. I heard them for the first time on 94.9's local band show on Sunday night. At least check out their songs Gasoline and '49. They are another great local SD band, following in the footsteps of Reeve Oliver, Sayvinyl and Grand Ole Party. I can't recommend all of them enough - listen to them now!

Keeping with the music theme, Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who is definitely my 2008 election theme song right now. Here are the lyrics. I'd like to give a special shot out to Rock Band for introducing me to this song.

So I got married last weekend (go me and Erin!). If you are friends with me on Facebook you can check out the pics I posted. If you aren't friends with me, how did you find yourself reading this blog. You must be a glutton for punishment if you've made it this far

Our neighbors downstairs are really nice and have the two cutest bull dogs. They also burn some serious incense. I actually like it because it reminds me of Telegraph Ave in Berkeley. Smells are funny like that. I heard once that smell is the only scent that can recall memories, or something like that. It's one of my favorite things in life.

I'm always amused by the ads on Facebook - and usually annoyed too. A few months ago I changed my status to "Engaged". From then on all the ads were related to buying weddings rings and hiring wedding photographers. That got old really quickly. Now that I've changed my status to "Married" I'm seeing a bunch of ads for shaving my face. I'm not sure where that connection was made, but the truth is that I haven't shaved since the wedding. Weird.

Speaking of Facebook, I haven't used it that much. I might go on once or twice a week. However, as a software developer I am very jealous of their photo sharing system. It's pretty clean and easy to use and the facial recognition and tagging of people in the pictures are pretty phenomenal. I wish InstantEncore was worth 20 billion dollars and hired an army of programmers. Actually, I just want it to be worth 20 billion dollars, I can do without the bloat of too many programmers. I will say though, I'm sure facebook doesn't know jack about classical music.

"The hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy."
- Will Ferrel as G.W. Bush on SNL describing the election. Watch for yourself:


I lied earlier, Bill Simmons isn't my sports writing hero. Ray Yocke is. However, Ray needs to actually write something. Perhaps about the upcoming Warriors season? C'mon Ray, the world needs you now more than ever.