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I am REALLY good at this. Sadly, my boy does not take after his father.
happy mother's day
Happy Mother's Day to the awesome mother of my awesome children.
P is the love of my life and my reason for living.
Thank you and I love you!
P is the love of my life and my reason for living.
Thank you and I love you!
happy birthday mo!
Sick boy drinking fruit juice
Originally uploaded by piroko_kuroda
Mighty Mo-kun is 4 years old. Let the rain of destruction and good times commence!
Saturday run
Bay to breakers practice run with Al! https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208582122114344737111.0004dbe8f3c286fd201bf
stylin'
Sick boy drinking fruit juice
Originally uploaded by piroko_kuroda
The only thing better than his eyebrows are his bangs. Mo rocks the bowl cut like a boss.
And did I mention that he's only 3 but can already ride a bike, no training wheels? Cause that's how he rolls.
Respect. #mokun #winning
Sunday cardio
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208582122114344737111.0004db73506a7247ff194
ikea fail
So I really want a standing desk. And I really don't want to pay thousands, or even hundreds, of dollars to have a standing desk.
So I scoured teh intertubes for minutes on end, and discovered a really simple plan to Build My Own Standing Desk.
This requires buying a cheap end table and a shelf from Ikea, attaching the shelf to the end table legs, and standing it on my extant desk. And: instant standing desk!
Being the clever bloke that I am, I navigated to the Ikea website, ordered said table and shelf, and $40 dollars later, I received my goods.
Here's the fail part: Ikea sells shelving brackets individually. Not in pairs. A SINGLE shelf bracket is slightly less than useful.
So I have the option of:
Anyone heading to Ikea anytime soon? Pick me up an Ekby Valter shelf bracket? I'm good for the $4, I swear.
So I scoured teh intertubes for minutes on end, and discovered a really simple plan to Build My Own Standing Desk.
This requires buying a cheap end table and a shelf from Ikea, attaching the shelf to the end table legs, and standing it on my extant desk. And: instant standing desk!
Being the clever bloke that I am, I navigated to the Ikea website, ordered said table and shelf, and $40 dollars later, I received my goods.
Here's the fail part: Ikea sells shelving brackets individually. Not in pairs. A SINGLE shelf bracket is slightly less than useful.
So I have the option of:
- Paying $4 for a second shelf bracket. Plus $11 in shipping
- Driving to Ikea across the bay, paying $6 for bridge toll and $8 an hour for a zipcar
Anyone heading to Ikea anytime soon? Pick me up an Ekby Valter shelf bracket? I'm good for the $4, I swear.
volunteering
Amazing how these things work. Last week went with a friend to the SF Japanese School to pick up his kids. At the park where all the kids were playing, his wife introduced me to some other moms.
Within a week, I (and my friend) ended up volunteered to man the curry booth at this weekend's Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town.
We woke Saturday morning the unholy hour of well before 6am, got on an empty train and a nearly empty bus, and in record time found ourselves standing on the street where the curry booth was soon to be.
Within a couple of hours we had the tent up, the curry bubbling, the rice cooked...and then the fire department came and educated us:
* Need commercial grade 350 psi-rated hoses with machined fittings for the propane
* Have to elevate the propane burners at least 15 inches off the ground (was melting the asphalt)
* Butane burners must use exactly the same make of butane canisters as the burner itself
Then the health inspector reminded us that:
* All food prep must be done under the tent covering
* Hot food must be kept above 135ºF
So we decided to give up entirely on cooking the curry at the booth, and used the rented kitchen up the street. We then emptied out one of the large rice cooker/warmers and used it to keep the curry warm.
So net result: no gas at all (happy fire department), and no unheated food (happy health inspector).
Just glad there was no Electrician's Union on hand to give us grief about our extension cords or something!
Worked the booth until about 3, then wandered the festival to get some food. Grabbed a spam-musubi two booths down, marvelled at the ginormous line to get takoyaki, was impressed the sheer number of people eating and drinking, tried to ignore the off-key warblings of the wanna-be J-Pop glam rock band, and finally walked back down to Church station to grab the train home.
Within a week, I (and my friend) ended up volunteered to man the curry booth at this weekend's Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town.
We woke Saturday morning the unholy hour of well before 6am, got on an empty train and a nearly empty bus, and in record time found ourselves standing on the street where the curry booth was soon to be.
Within a couple of hours we had the tent up, the curry bubbling, the rice cooked...and then the fire department came and educated us:
* Need commercial grade 350 psi-rated hoses with machined fittings for the propane
* Have to elevate the propane burners at least 15 inches off the ground (was melting the asphalt)
* Butane burners must use exactly the same make of butane canisters as the burner itself
Then the health inspector reminded us that:
* All food prep must be done under the tent covering
* Hot food must be kept above 135ºF
So we decided to give up entirely on cooking the curry at the booth, and used the rented kitchen up the street. We then emptied out one of the large rice cooker/warmers and used it to keep the curry warm.
So net result: no gas at all (happy fire department), and no unheated food (happy health inspector).
Just glad there was no Electrician's Union on hand to give us grief about our extension cords or something!
Worked the booth until about 3, then wandered the festival to get some food. Grabbed a spam-musubi two booths down, marvelled at the ginormous line to get takoyaki, was impressed the sheer number of people eating and drinking, tried to ignore the off-key warblings of the wanna-be J-Pop glam rock band, and finally walked back down to Church station to grab the train home.
"tetsuya"
In Japanese, testsuya is composed to two characters: tetsu means to go through or pierce, and ya means night, so tetsuya is to pull an all-nighter.
Have a late-night call w/Japan & Singapore, and I've spent all day identifying a bug that I thought was caused by our custom fonts, but it seems like it is in fact a bug in the pre-processor / compiler.
So I have submitted a bug report and hope the anxious kid in Finland or whomever is maintaining the bug list and code base gets it sorted quickly.
Luckily I am gorging myself on the best cookies evar and staying appropriately hydrated, so it's all good.
The startup mantra: we'll get plenty of sleep AFTER we're funded!
Have a late-night call w/Japan & Singapore, and I've spent all day identifying a bug that I thought was caused by our custom fonts, but it seems like it is in fact a bug in the pre-processor / compiler.
So I have submitted a bug report and hope the anxious kid in Finland or whomever is maintaining the bug list and code base gets it sorted quickly.
Luckily I am gorging myself on the best cookies evar and staying appropriately hydrated, so it's all good.
The startup mantra: we'll get plenty of sleep AFTER we're funded!
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