Month: January 2009

Wednesday = Spuddsday
Today’s boxing circuit session wasn’t nearly as bad as the first. I forced myself to eat a granola bar an hour beforehand, which may have helped alleviate any dizziness. I even managed the squats-while-balancing trick! The only thing I really sucked at was the final abdominal workout. Spudds told me to check out the nutrition guidelines on his site (summary: fewer carbs, more protein, yada yada yada), and to consider coming in for a second session each week. Twice a week? Scary.

Whoa! Snookums just discovered that there’s going to be an Office Space 10th annivesary reunion next month in Austin.

Word Clouds: The Inaugural Address. That’s kind of neat. I think FDR’s is my favorite.

My absolute favorite response from the big Metafilter thread about the inauguration was Hugh2d2’s response to Obama’s speech:

Congratulations, Mr. President. You have my axe!

I’m going to start using “And my axe!” whenever anybody asks for help with something.

Cheney turns into Mr. Potter. Sooo right, and too funny.

Only six more hours to go… Unfortunately I think the chances of yours truly getting up at 3:30am to watch – even for this historic event – are pretty slim. Obama’s speech will have to wait til I’m having my breakfast.

Mr Darcy has his first attempt at Guitar Hero. Seriously. And he’s just about as sucky as we were on our first go. “You have to hit it before you hit it, right?” Yep.

“The Game”, an article about a real-life scavenger hunt inspired by the film Midnight Madness that went terribly wrong. I found a copy of the movie years ago, and I actually participated in a real-life version at Notre Dame my senior year. Of course, we were just running around in bowling alleys and stuff, not scuba diving or falling down mine shafts.

Andrew posted a couple nice photographs (I think that last one is me) from our group Guitar Hero session on Saturday night.

Grab Your Fork lists Sydney’s Top 15 Ramen Restaurants, as ranked by a Japanese restaurants. Of that list, I’ve only been to #5, Ichi Ban Boshi. Must get on that.

Update: Correction! Helen had mistranslated the article. It’s actually Sydney’s top 15 ramen DISHES. The text about each dish has been added to the article.