SwimFinsSF

Giggles

I don’t know why but i’m kinda giddy today… Maybe cuz I got a TON done at work yesterday and am kinda proud… Maybe because I got a great workout in this morning (went up in weight in just about everything)… Maybe because its sunny out… Maybe because I got a wink from a cute guy in the car next to us on the way to work.. who knows….

Anyway – found a couple of things as I was doing my usual morning browse today that made me chuckle and had to share! 🙂

– Badger Rampage injures five: I know – shouldn’t make be funny.. but it just is…
        Thanks to life unfolding
– Teen Lingo: This just is funny – not just the page itself – but where its coming from…
        Thanks to Moving Target

There will oundoubtedly be others as the day goes by! :):)

Happy Tuesday

Good tools gone bad

So sun is shining i’ve got my music playing in my office as I try to get some work done… And I get this iChat message from a buddy of mine that I used to work with asking who the Kinsey Sicks are…

Hmmm… Why did he ask that…

Told them they’re a really funny drag a-cappella group… why?

He said “Cuz it shows their name by your name in AIM”….

Ohhh…. I forgot that i was running this silly little program called iChatStatus that sets your AIM message to the song that you’re playing in iTunes… kinda cute and silly… So I look at my status

FUCK….

It says “Kinsey Sicks – Anal Warts”…

THAAAAATTTTSSSS Why he was asking…

Guess I gotta be careful what I listen to or turn off iChatStatus..

Funny part is it has the abilty to show the Song your playing in iTunes, the page you’re browsing in your favorite browser, the application you’re running, or a some other stuff.. I figured the browser page could be dangerous but musich should be fine..

Guess not…

Anyway – made me laugh

Hazy Shade of Thursday

Kind of an ickey day but it actually isn’t a bad thing… been shockingly productive lately and now I’m catching up on all the other things in my like… Like Friendster… and my blog reading… and the news… my email… old friends…

Last night Kevin and I drug Brian out to dinner while Matt was apparently dealing with the home buyer from hell (or avoiding dealing with him perhaps)… Three of us went to Ti Couz… LOVE that place though my eyes are ALWAYS bigger than my stomach there… ALWAYS wanna get one of those cool ass flaming crepes but I always fill up on the hearty crepes..

Other thing I love about Ti Couz is they always have at least one hot straight boy workin there.. There was a new one there that I think I like better than the last tall one with the tatoos…

Anyway..

And I’m turning into a Johnny Cash fan.. scary huh.. Just get a kick out of his latest re-mixes… especially the ones that he’s done of Nine Inch Nails (which I used to be a HUGE fan of – back in my angry music phase – along with Front 242, Skinny Puppy, and others) and of U2… Something is SO MUCH MORE DISTURBING about those songs when he sings ’em.. Think its cuz you can actually hear the words.. I knew the words of NIN songs were fucked up before but the music kinda drowns it out.. Johnny Cash’s voice is so much more sad and clear – you can hear every fucked up disturbing word..

Anyway… Back to fixing bugs.. got a few more to pick off…

Why SwimFins? :)

Why SwimFinsSF you might ask…

Damn fine question… dates back from before the dawn of time… well not quite… but since college for sure…

swimfins goes back to my college years… Back in the CS labs at CU when I discovered this crazy thing called IRC… Thought it was the collest thing ever and got hooked – was chatting with folks from around the world… Used it primarily to practice my german cuz it let me meet people in Germany who actually knew german (as opposed to my 40 year old high school german teacher who wanted us to call her ‘Fraulein’ – sorry kids – but if you’re 40 you’re Frau whether you like it or not – least so my german friends tell me)…

And – on IRC you need a ‘nick’ to use as a handle – kinda like CB Radio folks have. I picked swimfins cuz I had been a swimmer as long as I had been walking – my parents started throwing me in the pool and off the diving board as soon as they thought I wouldn’t sink.. So swimfins seemed fitting (and since I’m devoid of any creativity it was the best I could do)

Then right after college I discovered the whole gay thing (ya know – that I was into guys instead of girls).. Then the whole online chat thing took on a whole different slant. The first guy I dated showed me AOL and the gay chat rooms and I met boys from all over the place. Was REALLY liberating to realize I was far from alone ( Also discovered after meeting a few in person the difference beetween ‘AOL inches’ and Inches that are on a ruler! 😉 )… Since I had the swimfins handle from my IRC days it stuck…

SwimFinsSF came about cuz after an AOL tantrum where they pissed me off I canceled my account – then discovered that I couldn’t get it back – not even for AIM… so I picked SwimFinsSF since I lived (and live) in San Francisco… worked for me… Been using it ever since and it seems to be unique enough that I’ve been able to stick with it around other places too..

Kinda handy cuz its given me a certain level of anonymity but yet people could be pretty sure that, even though they didn’t know everything about me, that if they saw SwimFinsSF lurking it is probably me…

Trapped

Saturday morning… Bright and sunny out… one of those GREAT bay area days.. One of the days that makes me absolutely LOVE living here… Spring so the hills are still green and the trees are bushy and pretty.. blue skies – only clouds are the con-trails from planes flying by… AMAZING..

And what am I doing? Looking out at it from my office… Uggggggg…

We announced FCP 4 before NAB and for some strange reason now they want us to finish the damn thing… BASTARDS! :):)

I’m actually not all that bummed about being here for some reason though.. I know what I need to be doing… its quiet.. I have a window in my office that the sun is shining through.. Could be outside of course which would be nice.. but I’ll surivive… Could be worse I suppose..

Happy Saturday! 🙂

Pride and Falling Rain

So Saturday night… ughh… SUCH a roller coaster of a night… First part of the night… GREAT.. REALLY fun… last part of the night… sad… pathetic… such a learning experience..

Night stated off rushed but well… I had a bunch of friends come over for my friend Drew’s Birthday… I had to work all day so I came flying home, rushed to the grocery store to get snacks, wine, cheese, and any other things a self respecting gay man would have in the house when friends come over.. Fly home to find Drew and Adrian waiting on the doorstep for me (they SWEAR they were only waiting 5 minutes but I think they were lying)… ANYWAY… Long story short – everyone came over (Drew, Adrian, Jay, Brian, Clarke, Andy, and I)… Made dinner… drank… ate… watched part of Auntie Mame… Overall had a really nice time… I LOVE that kind of thing…

After that some of the boys went home… Clarke and Andy and I went out to the badlands… Couple of Gin and Tonics… Hanging out… Was nice… Closed the bar (which I hate to do)… but was fun… Then we parted company and went to our respective homes…

So I get home… not super sleepy yet… decide I want to go get a snack.. gatoraide.. something… just leave the house… so I scoop up my cash and keys , throw on my jacket, and march out the door… pull the door closed behind me.. pull out my keys to bolt the door…

DOHHHHHH….

Grabed the wrong half of my keychain… Grabed my work keys… House key and car key are still on my desk….

Inside..

behind the locked door..

3am… wrong keys… kevin is away in NC (did I mention that part?)… I’m locked out…

Fuck…

I walk around for a while… trying to figure out what to do… Matt and brian have a spare set of our keys but i’m loathed to wake them up in the middle of the night just cuz i’m a fucking idiot… Stall trying to come up with what to do… I walked around for a while… Walked by Becks to see if I could just crash there for a night – but without a credit card or $104 cash (of which I only had my Drivers License and $80) no go… As skanky as that stupid hotel is – I couldn’t get in… talk about feeling like a looser…

Then it started raining… At this point I was feeling really sad and stupid… I had no place to go… couldn’t get into my house.. was the middle of the night…

This is the part where my friends start smacking me and saying why didn’t you FUCKING CALL ME”… Short answer.. i should have… but I’m totally wierd when it comes to imposing on people – hate it… REALLY makes me uncomfortable… so the idea of calling anyone at 3 or 4 in the morning.. couldn’t bring myself to do it… The closest I came was sending matt an SMS message in the off chance that he got up to go pee and saw it… really stupid – I know…

I ended up finding a friend of a friend and crashing on his couch for a couple of hours until it was a decent hour and then took the N-Judah over to M&B’s to pick up the spare key..

In the grand scheme of things it was all just totally silly but I sure learned a few things… learned to make sure you have the right keys before you leave the house… learned that I should keep a credit card with my ID always – just incase… learned that I need to get over this need not to impose on people some times… also occurred to me that I need to be thankful for what I have – one night in the rain isn’t really THAT awful – some people don’t have keys to check and friends to call…

(I always find these little life lessons at random times)…