make your own croutons!

here is what you do. you buy a baguette from the grocery store. make a sandwich or two but leave a little of the baguette leftover. put the remaining baguette in a bag for a day or two until it gets hard and stale.

dice the bread into croutons. put some olive oil in a bowl and add salt, pepper, oregano, garlic, and whatever else spices you like into the bowl and mix. lightly coat each crouton in your olive oil. put on a pan and bake at like 250 for about 20-30 minutes until golden and crispy.

june is triple paycheck month

booyah!

there's a huge influx of arrested development props on ebay

aztec tomb! it is a career maker.

clear your calendar for august 29th

melting pot pix

we went to fondue.

i also updated my san fran 2006 set with pix of me acting goofy that were taken by a coworker.

OMG LOST

WTF IS GOING ON

i had a ton of people at my apartment for the finale and it was pretty fun.

wow

never forget your neighbor

update: escquire also has a great article about mr rogers.

24 season rank'em

will says:

2 > 5 > 1 > 3 > 4

scott says:

2 > 5 > 1 > 4 > 3

a great season of 24

wow, all in all a great season.

i have to wonder how season 6 will start off... i'm sure more will get done in the two hour season premiere than the entire season of prison break... or did i say too much?

can't wait til january. bring on house!

well, i am looking for new glasses

pix

javaone, san fran in 2004

javaone, san fran in 2006

i didn't take too many pix last week. i mean, i've pretty much seen everything in 2004.

also, the current nerd feather in my nerd hat:

wtf

i leave for a week and you guys can't hold the fort down from the british?!

I HAVE RETURNED

so tired.

conference is starting to wind down

all in all, it's been pretty good so far.

i haven't explored much of san fran this week because this is my third time here and i've pretty much seen everything. last time, i took like half a gig of 5mpxl pictures but i haven't really dont much of that this week. san francisco is still very much a great city and i definitely urge everybody to visit.

p.s. mobile java is going to explode in the next year. there's like a billion java-enabled cell phones out there and all that's left is a killer app to ignite it off. and from what i've seen so far, some very cool shit is on the way.

sup

sitting here waiting for my 3:15 session to start. something about web 2.0 communities or something.

i bought a new toy. a j2me phone + dev kit to program on. it should be cool to see what i can come up with.

hello from san francisco

i'm here for the java one nerd conference. this is my second one. RESPECT MY GREEN ALUMNI BADGE.

4 days of mind numbing technical sessions about what's hot in programming and droll shit like that.

also, i'm never flying united again. their philly terminal sucks. my 6:14 flight was delayed until 7:40 because although we had a plane at the gate, we had no crew. and we didn't get off the ground until 8. so that means i didn't crash in san fran until 1:30 something est. i did catch the fastest taxi cab ride from the airport to the hotel though. we were pushing 80 something in one of those taxi vans. a few more mph and we would've activated the flux capacitor.

i only have internet at the conference so that sucks. hotel internet costs $12 a day. so frack that.

this is for my anime nerd friends

to the college grads

and lesser extent, high school grads:

get a job. get married. have kids. make some kodak moments. die. don't worry, by the time you die, your body will have aged and decayed from working for 50 years that you wouldn't notice the depression.

guitar hero... tabs?

still trying to figure out cowboys from hell on medium....

the possibilities make me all sorts of hot

i demand goldeneye.

omg duck hunt

wii smash bros

official site

most awful 5k ever

118.Will Vuona Philadelphia,PA 99 M 31:02 9:59 97/160

the best time was 21:14... most 5k winners are in the 15-16 minute area so that's a pretty good indicator of how tough this one was. the first mile was mostly uphill and i burned myself out too fast there on a quick 8:30 pace. the second mile had a few climbs and i lost a ton of time on a ~12 minute pace. the third mile was mostly downhill and i picked up a lot of time and energy for a final sprint.

my final time was more like 30:30, according to my clock. more training to do!

p.s. fuckers typo'ed my last name and lost my age.

i can't wait to look stupid

and have a ton of fun. check out those trailers.

new radiohead

this is what you get when you mess with us.

don't worry about it, king

there's more fish in the sea.

the thought of halo 3 makes me all hot

new spore video

e3 has started

tons of gaming goodness this week.

and it looks like sony stole the gyros from nintendo's wii. :(

tom doing da cruise

i saw mi3 and it was good. it was like an extended alias episode with a much larger budget.

thomas crown affair

WTF LOST!?!??!!!

OMG, I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING AND FACE WAS :O FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES.

i'm not going to spoil it for my heathen friends, but :O !!!!!!! season 2 is picking up for the home stretch!!

something for everybody

casino royale

frack

they've begun midnight construction at the comcast tower. :(