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Okay people. The weekend of April 10th-12th is the second opportunity of (potentially) three this year to hang out. That's right we get to make a giant fucking ruckus together 3 times this year.
On to the good stuff. My birthday is April 13th - the Monday. Kind of on a whim, last year Ajay and Zhi came out as well as another one of my friends from Spain, named Kate. This was a freaking blast.
So the tradition was born - or I hope it was.
Kate has already booked her ticket for round two.
As I said when we hung out in NYC over the new years holiday - you ALL should come.
IF you have never been to Denver - its an awesome place
If you have been, then you know how awesome it is.
I have space for folks to stay - there is a chance we may go camping one night - but i have gear and stuff (last year we went climbing -definitely a good time - and in the cards for this year as well).
Please let me know if you need help with timing and stuff.
I suggest you try to come in fri night and leave sunday or monday morning. But anytime around then is good.
Potential activities include:
rock climbing
hiking
camping
(ice climbing!!!)
skiing
eating
drinking
hanging out
(I swear to god - I will actually plan this one!!)
let me know if there are other things you want to do.
Love,
Jew
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Telescope Peak 2009-01-09 to 2009-01-12
A lot of people have asked me how this hike was. In short, it was one of the hardest things I've done. Not just the hike itself, but the training in preparation. In fact, I was depressed when it was over, because I had lost the motivation to train. I had lost the thing I was looking forward to, thinking about, and preparing for over the last 6 months. The long story? I'm not sure yet. I know I had a great time with le Marc and Boris, and I"m really happy to have done it. Will I do it again? Maybe, but certainly not soon. I also know I need cheaper hobbies. Anyways, I may put up more thoughts later. I'll send out pictures separately given that I don't want to post the location of my photo server on a public blog.
No we didn't make it to the very summit. Yeah, when I know how I feel about that, I'll write about that as well.
I want to thank le Marc and Boris for coming on this journey with me, and especially le Marc for motivating me throughout my training and during the hike.
Mistakes:
- Did not get a 4WD vehicle, so there was an additional 6 miles to hike into the canyon
- Took too long to break camp on Sat morning, on Sunday morning, and Sunday afternoon
- Stopped too early on Saturday
- Underestimated how long it would take to do final ascent
- Took too little water on final ascent (no knowing how long it would take)
- Did not eat properly during final ascent
- Took the wrong route on one of the climbs
- Too slow on the last few climbs
- Under-estimated how much snow would slow us down
Notes:
- Looking up at the moon as we were climbing near vertically on the snow covered face of the mountain, it looked like we would be able to reach up and touch it. It was beautiful.
- On the hikes I took this year, I realized something: not a single advertisement. It wasn't just the lack of civilization, it was the lack of advertising. No billboards, no slogans, no logos. Of course there were the labels on our clothes, but if you weren't looking down there was nothing. I've hard that you see 3000-5000 ads a day, on average. Combine that with every logo on every product you use or see on an every day basis. Being in a place where it wasn't there for a while. It was refreshing.
No we didn't make it to the very summit. Yeah, when I know how I feel about that, I'll write about that as well.
I want to thank le Marc and Boris for coming on this journey with me, and especially le Marc for motivating me throughout my training and during the hike.
Mistakes:
- Did not get a 4WD vehicle, so there was an additional 6 miles to hike into the canyon
- Took too long to break camp on Sat morning, on Sunday morning, and Sunday afternoon
- Stopped too early on Saturday
- Underestimated how long it would take to do final ascent
- Took too little water on final ascent (no knowing how long it would take)
- Did not eat properly during final ascent
- Took the wrong route on one of the climbs
- Too slow on the last few climbs
- Under-estimated how much snow would slow us down
Notes:
- Looking up at the moon as we were climbing near vertically on the snow covered face of the mountain, it looked like we would be able to reach up and touch it. It was beautiful.
- On the hikes I took this year, I realized something: not a single advertisement. It wasn't just the lack of civilization, it was the lack of advertising. No billboards, no slogans, no logos. Of course there were the labels on our clothes, but if you weren't looking down there was nothing. I've hard that you see 3000-5000 ads a day, on average. Combine that with every logo on every product you use or see on an every day basis. Being in a place where it wasn't there for a while. It was refreshing.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Trip Report: 2008-12-31 to 2009-01-04
Time: 2008-12-31 to 2009-01-04
Reason: New Year's Eve, Ringing in the New Year, Hanging
Location: New York City, Ajay's Parents' House
Attendees: Ajay, Alex, Azim, Fu, Jack, Zhi
Activities: Drinking, Eating, Golf Simulator, Video Games
Notes:
- Thanks to Ajay for putting this together last minute and hosting us at his parents' house
- Props to Azim for coming up with the idea of an impromptu NYE celebration
- Props to Jack for booking Aureole and Ajay for finding John's Pizzeria
- Props to the Jew for bringing those bottles of wine
- The next time Jack says "jacket preferred", I'm going to take that to mean, "fuck off, Jack"
- I'm never drinking again
- The golf simulator was 'wicked' fun, as the Jew would say
- Fu, I've never seen someone puke so much, so violently my entire life
- NYC is pretty awesome. Where else could we stay out until dawn every night of the week?
- Apparently I had a cigarette. My first in over a year. Again, never drinking again
- Azim: S Bar. Hit that! Then let us know how it was!
- The photos from this trip I sent to you via email. I hesitate to post the URLs of the photo server to public places, and I recommend you are also careful with that.
Future Plans:
- So pretty much Chicago is decided for this summer, probably also around Independence Day (a Saturday in 2009). There was also interest in going to Denver in April for the Jew's birthday.
- I think a point was made that while many places would be cool to go, for now, because of everyone's budgetary and time constraints, we'd have to pick places that are feasible for 3-5 days, with some local affinity (i.e. someone knows it well enough to lead and plan), and also having a place to stay for free or cheap is a huge plus.
General Observations:
- Can we try to not average 1.5 fights per day whenever we all get together? I know I'm probably the cause of many of these, and I'll try and keep that in mind, but it just seems like every time we all get together, some subset of us end up getting into a shit-fest over really dumb shit.
- Destination Dining should not be a huge part of our plans because it's not everyone's cup-o-tea. Let's build more flexibility into future plans so that people can do what they want a little more freely.
At some point, I may want to flush out this writing from the current crappy bullet point format, but I'm too lazy right now. Any of you could also do this, so please feel free.
Anyone else want to add something? You can all either edit the post or make a comment. Alright, I'm out.
Reason: New Year's Eve, Ringing in the New Year, Hanging
Location: New York City, Ajay's Parents' House
Attendees: Ajay, Alex, Azim, Fu, Jack, Zhi
Activities: Drinking, Eating, Golf Simulator, Video Games
Notes:
- Thanks to Ajay for putting this together last minute and hosting us at his parents' house
- Props to Azim for coming up with the idea of an impromptu NYE celebration
- Props to Jack for booking Aureole and Ajay for finding John's Pizzeria
- Props to the Jew for bringing those bottles of wine
- The next time Jack says "jacket preferred", I'm going to take that to mean, "fuck off, Jack"
- I'm never drinking again
- The golf simulator was 'wicked' fun, as the Jew would say
- Fu, I've never seen someone puke so much, so violently my entire life
- NYC is pretty awesome. Where else could we stay out until dawn every night of the week?
- Apparently I had a cigarette. My first in over a year. Again, never drinking again
- Azim: S Bar. Hit that! Then let us know how it was!
- The photos from this trip I sent to you via email. I hesitate to post the URLs of the photo server to public places, and I recommend you are also careful with that.
Future Plans:
- So pretty much Chicago is decided for this summer, probably also around Independence Day (a Saturday in 2009). There was also interest in going to Denver in April for the Jew's birthday.
- I think a point was made that while many places would be cool to go, for now, because of everyone's budgetary and time constraints, we'd have to pick places that are feasible for 3-5 days, with some local affinity (i.e. someone knows it well enough to lead and plan), and also having a place to stay for free or cheap is a huge plus.
General Observations:
- Can we try to not average 1.5 fights per day whenever we all get together? I know I'm probably the cause of many of these, and I'll try and keep that in mind, but it just seems like every time we all get together, some subset of us end up getting into a shit-fest over really dumb shit.
- Destination Dining should not be a huge part of our plans because it's not everyone's cup-o-tea. Let's build more flexibility into future plans so that people can do what they want a little more freely.
At some point, I may want to flush out this writing from the current crappy bullet point format, but I'm too lazy right now. Any of you could also do this, so please feel free.
Anyone else want to add something? You can all either edit the post or make a comment. Alright, I'm out.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Domain Registration
You guys know of any good web hosting services? I need to get my online portfolio up and running sometime over break... whoo!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Reasons I Hate DeSean Jackson
- Dropped the ball before crossing the goal line in the Cowgirls game.
- Ran out of bounds during the Pittsburgh game while trying to run out the clock.
- Running the wrong route in a game leading to an interception
- 2 fumbles (Bears, Cardinals)
- Runs backwards on 50% of punt returns
- Interception on only pass attempt (hopefully ever) against the Browns
- Said interception causing me to lose my fantasy playoff game...by 0.26 points.
Argh! Dumb Rookie! He'll never be able to redeem himself in my eyes.
But he is our only hope.
EDIT(2008-12-22): 4 dropped passes in the 2nd Redskins game, costing us any shot at the playoffs. DeSuck Jackson. I hate you.
- Ran out of bounds during the Pittsburgh game while trying to run out the clock.
- Running the wrong route in a game leading to an interception
- 2 fumbles (Bears, Cardinals)
- Runs backwards on 50% of punt returns
- Interception on only pass attempt (hopefully ever) against the Browns
- Said interception causing me to lose my fantasy playoff game...by 0.26 points.
Argh! Dumb Rookie! He'll never be able to redeem himself in my eyes.
But he is our only hope.
EDIT(2008-12-22): 4 dropped passes in the 2nd Redskins game, costing us any shot at the playoffs. DeSuck Jackson. I hate you.
Friday, December 12, 2008
New Years Plans Revisited
OK, so I'm going to NYC and so apparently so is Alex and Azim. Seeing as how Jack and Ajay are already there, it's shaping up nicely. I know this is entirely short notice, but get in on this if you're interested.
I will be there from the afternoon of the 31st until the morning of the 4th.
OH WE GON DRANK! BUHLEE DAT! WE GON SHINE!
Peace
-Zhi
I will be there from the afternoon of the 31st until the morning of the 4th.
OH WE GON DRANK! BUHLEE DAT! WE GON SHINE!
Peace
-Zhi
Sunday, November 30, 2008
New Years Plans
I realized the other day, as I was planning my trip home for winter break, that I have never spent New Year's outside of Iowa. This needs to change. I know it's late to start planning, but does anyone want to try to get together for a few days? Alternatively, if anyone has plans that I can leach onto that would be cool. There's like a 75% chance that I end up in the Bay area after graduation, so I would definitely be up for spending some time out there if people are around. Colorado is always fun too, if we're looking for a place where we know people...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Are you fucking kidding me NY?
Today I took the subway to work, like I always do. I have never felt worse in my life than when I got off.
Most of the time, the train I take has no seats, people are always standing. A stop after I got on, a seat opened up and I settled back to take a nap until I got to work. As soon as the train reaches 53rd and Lex, in midtown east, it sort of empties out. A homeless guy got on and sat in the row of seats opposite me. At this time, there was a guy sitting about one seat apart from the homeless guy (approximately, because it's just one long bench), and another person next to this guy. A few stops later, as the train further emptied, and I was drifting in and out of sleep, I noticed that the non-homeless well-to-do NY banker guy had gotten up and moved down the car to another bench.
Further, as people got on, the entire bench where the homeless guy was sitting remained empty, and no one sat there even though there were no other seats. I was dumbstruck. How could people treat other people this way?
Another homeless person had been sitting quietly in a corner at the end of the same corner, with 3 large plastic garbage bags in front of her (the person was wearing a hood, so I couldn't discern gender). The bags were filled with what I guessed was empty plastic bottles and other recyclable material. The person got off at Penn Station, but before the doors closed, stepped back into the car and handed the other homeless guy a few dollars. I was amazed.
I planned to give the homeless guy some money before I got off, but I thought I had no cash. I later checked my wallet and did have $7, which I wished I had given to the guy on the train. As I write this, I am still feeling sick to my stomach at the way the guy was treated, even though he didn't show that he was affected by the people around him. I hope I never treat anybody like this, ever.
Most of the time, the train I take has no seats, people are always standing. A stop after I got on, a seat opened up and I settled back to take a nap until I got to work. As soon as the train reaches 53rd and Lex, in midtown east, it sort of empties out. A homeless guy got on and sat in the row of seats opposite me. At this time, there was a guy sitting about one seat apart from the homeless guy (approximately, because it's just one long bench), and another person next to this guy. A few stops later, as the train further emptied, and I was drifting in and out of sleep, I noticed that the non-homeless well-to-do NY banker guy had gotten up and moved down the car to another bench.
Further, as people got on, the entire bench where the homeless guy was sitting remained empty, and no one sat there even though there were no other seats. I was dumbstruck. How could people treat other people this way?
Another homeless person had been sitting quietly in a corner at the end of the same corner, with 3 large plastic garbage bags in front of her (the person was wearing a hood, so I couldn't discern gender). The bags were filled with what I guessed was empty plastic bottles and other recyclable material. The person got off at Penn Station, but before the doors closed, stepped back into the car and handed the other homeless guy a few dollars. I was amazed.
I planned to give the homeless guy some money before I got off, but I thought I had no cash. I later checked my wallet and did have $7, which I wished I had given to the guy on the train. As I write this, I am still feeling sick to my stomach at the way the guy was treated, even though he didn't show that he was affected by the people around him. I hope I never treat anybody like this, ever.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Clusterfuck!
This is an example of what our Friday afternoon clusterfucks devolve to:
Alexander: you fucking piece of shit mother fucking cum guzzling gaping vagina fisting shitbag
I love you guys
-Zhi
Alexander: you fucking piece of shit mother fucking cum guzzling gaping vagina fisting shitbag
I love you guys
-Zhi
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
People I chat with
So I checked my chat history logs for Pidgin (an open source chat client) and made some interesting discoveries.
(Data represents number of bytes logged in chats with respective IM accounts for last 30 days)
- Kanna and Fu, we need to chat more.
- Ajay, we definitely need to chat less.
- Alex, you've got a lot of catching up to do if you want to overtake Ajay (and this is only my @gmail account, doesn't include my @google!)
UPDATE:
I fail at Internet.
I apologize if my exposure of your email in plain text for the previous 12 hours leads to any more spam for you. At least this is a good test for how well GMail's spam filters work.
It wasn't up for too long, so maybe the crawlers missed it.
I'm really sorry. I'm a retard.
$ du -scb .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....gmail.com/* |\
sort -t" " -k1 -n |\
sed -r 's/([a-z\.]{4})[^/@]+@/\1...@/g'
4232 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/kann...@gmail.com
4375 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/mast...@gmail.com
4662 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/kadi...@gmail.com
4825 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/kres...@gmail.com
5458 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/rame...@gmail.com
5466 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/mill...@gmail.com
6367 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/jona...@gmail.com
6737 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/anxm...@gmail.com
7001 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/vash...@gmail.com
7049 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/carm...@gmail.com
7236 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/lanz...@gmail.com
7491 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/nluc...@gmail.com
8020 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/vmho...@gmail.com
8426 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/smus...@gmail.com
8563 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/jenn...@gmail.com
9068 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/jack...@gmail.com
9270 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/marc...@gmail.com
9381 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/ritt...@gmail.com
10690 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/cina...@gmail.com
10890 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/m.az...@gmail.com
11372 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/alex...@gmail.com
16103 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/tomm...@gmail.com
25603 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/jamo...@gmail.com
45047 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/emil...@gmail.com
138056 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/awkn...@gmail.com
263802 .purple/logs/jabber/zhi....@gmail.com/ajay...@gmail.com
(Data represents number of bytes logged in chats with respective IM accounts for last 30 days)
- Kanna and Fu, we need to chat more.
- Ajay, we definitely need to chat less.
- Alex, you've got a lot of catching up to do if you want to overtake Ajay (and this is only my @gmail account, doesn't include my @google!)
UPDATE:
I fail at Internet.
I apologize if my exposure of your email in plain text for the previous 12 hours leads to any more spam for you. At least this is a good test for how well GMail's spam filters work.
It wasn't up for too long, so maybe the crawlers missed it.
I'm really sorry. I'm a retard.
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