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The Weather and Everyone's Health
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Except for the food wastage, I think this is a great idea.
Maybe they use rejected/inedible tomatoes? we can only hope.
BUNOL, Spain (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people armed with 100 tonnes of plum tomatoes took part in the "Tomatina" on Wednesday, joyously splattering each other in the Spanish town of Bunol.
That's what we should be doing right now. Not being cooped up in a stuffy office building with a bunch of finger-pointing, inefficient whiners who talk too much. It's really a beautiful day outside. Spreadsheets are nice, but not on a day like this.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
I am soooooooooo bored!
So I decided you must all see these things.
- "A video by the band OK Go for its song "A Million Ways" has become a sensation on the Internet, with over 500,000 downloads. The video, of the band performing a complicated dance routine in Kulash's backyard, was never intended to be released publicly, but it has found a strong following," says NPR. I think my brass quintet should learn this dance with our horns.
- LegO-Zone: Ok, here's the story. Last summer a Moldovan boy band called O-Zone had a chart-topping pop hit ("Dragostea din Tei" or "Love under the linden tree") all over Europe; it was also covered by the Italian/Romanian group Haiducci. The only problem was that most of the people who hear it don't know Romanian, so they can get very creative in how they interpret the lyrics. Here's a website with some of those interesting interpretations and some interpretive dances. I think my favorite is the LegO-Zone because it's actually quite technically sophisticated, and it's even funnier if you see the original O-Zone video. (Backstory: Here's a news story from BBC's The World)
If you're over at albinoblacksheep for the "bizarre Japanese animated Numa Numa" do check out the llama song while you're there...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
D'oh!
A restored print of Mughal-E-Azam is showing on a big screen this Sunday, BUT I can't go.
I didn't even know the SF Asian film festival was going on! And this seems to be the only South Asian movie in it.
Oh, and yesterday was Indian/Pakistani Independence Day (and Saturday and Sunday were the India Days in Fremont).
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Mark Morford, in the SF Chronicle:
"How, in other words, did we lose the craving for healthy natural things and start craving unhealthy toxic things to the point where we're actually willing to be re-brainwashed back to pseudohealthy?
Yes, we are an obscenely obese nation, the fattest on Earth and only getting fatter and clearly we are still desperately hungry, insatiable, our appetite only growing and our butts only widening and our sense of true health and whole foods and the appreciation for our radiant flesh all dissipating like honey incense in an oil fire. We have now accepted this as indefatigable truth, the sad American way. But you have to ask, how the hell did this happen? And what, really, are we truly so hungry for? Why can we not get ourselves full?
Look at it this way: A balanced and humane, sexually healthy, well-educated, spiritually empowered nation has no need to gorge itself on poisons, no need to bloat itself and add massive layers of enormous flabby cushioning (mental or physical) to its body in order to protect itself from the violence of the world and the shrill ignorance of its warmongering leaders and hey wait did I just begin to answer the question?"
Friday, August 12, 2005
This restaurant is a few blocks down from where I work, and my bus passes it on my way home every day:
"With respect for all life, we proudly serve all dishes free of meat, poultry, fish, egg, and MSG."
The sad news is that they say they don't deliver. I'm staying late at work today, and that would have just made things fun. Oh well. I do want to go there sometime, though. It looks bigger and cleaner than the other highly recommended vegetarian Chinese restaurant in SF that I've been to.
