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Wed, 26 Apr 2006

from the boardroom

Today I gave an extremely well-received presentation to a boardroom full of SiLabs's finest, and participated actively in the ensuing discussion. It was a great opportunity to get cozy with the brass and get better acquainted with the really cool badasses who steer the Good Ship SiLabs.

Also, I could swear I heard the Jeffersons theme song playing at some point in there.

Moooovin' on up...


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Christine wrote


wuhooo! You're a rockstar.

Wed, 19 Apr 2006

fs la

or, the other kind of acl

It turns out that the Flaming Lips will be playing at this year's Austin City Limits Festival. Upon learning this, I immediately bought my three-day pass to the show. It doesn't even matter who else is playing (though usually it's a bunch of really good bands, so I'm sure that things are even better than they seem now). It's September 15 to 17. Get yer asses down here.

Edit: according to the ACL News and Rumors Blog, the New Pornographers have also confirmed that they'll be appearing, along with a bunch of others. Badass.


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May wrote


You know, if we organized it right, we could have a joint huge 25th birthday bash...

repak wrote

brilliant!
So, should I grab you an ACL ticket then?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

-rsw

Sun, 16 Apr 2006

at war with the mystics

is the title of the latest album from everyone's favorite Okie band, The Flaming Lips. It's great, especially in the way that the various songs on the album throw back to different periods in their earlier work. For example, track 1, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song," rekindles images of Clouds Taste Metallic (Kim's Watermelon Gun, maybe?), and some other tracks go back even further. There's also a very Beck opening to the second track, "Free Radicals."

In looking back to their earlier work, however, the Lips don't ignore the polished, tight sound that they've developed over their last few albums. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was an achievement for them in terms of how "professional" it sounded while retaining the essence of Lips, but it was also made of altogether different stuff than, e.g., Finally, the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid. That they've been able to leverage their technical development and simultaneously return to their, what, youthful? roots is both impressive and really freaking cool.

I'd totally recommend buying this album ASAP. I'm also going to go out and buy the 5.1 DVD version of it when it comes out (to go along with the 5.1 versions of Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin, both of which I highly recommend). It's on Lapnap and positron, so you can test drive it first, but dudes, please buy this one. It's just that damn good.

Also of note: today I think I broke my finger playing some football with Mike and Matt (maybe it's just jammed, but fuck is it swollen). I know you wanted to know that.

Oh yeah, and Beck is going to be in town on the 20th of June. I'm gonna get tix, so if anyone wants to make the trek down and watch, lemme know and I'll pick one up for you. The man puts on a helluva show.


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Fri, 14 Apr 2006

Rube-Goldberg variations

Most impressive.


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morality, squats, and a twenty-four incher

Until a couple weeks ago I considered the use of wrist straps for deadlifts a travesty—after all, you should have forearm strength commensurate with your back strength if you're going to do deads! Then I realized that my deadlift routine was way too easy for me because my forearms were unable to keep up, and I changed my tune. Now I use them twice a week (normal deads on Tuesday, Romanian deads on Thursday) and they completely rule.

While we're on the topic of the gym, I might as well also mention that I've started doing front squats instead of normal squats in order to more effectively work my quads while keeping my back from suffering too much. In addition I do work on the sled at higher weight, since my front squat technique isn't quite up to three-and-a-half plates yet (though hopefully in a few weeks...). I highly recommend them to you lifting fools—they're great fun, and inflexibility doesn't cause nearly as much cheating.

Finally, I should mention that I finally broke down and bought a flat screen monitor—and boy did I get a doozie. In particular, I got a refurbished Dell 2405FPW that was even cheaper because Ms. Todd graciously allowed Mike and me to exercise her employee discount. Holy jeebus this thing is large, and hot (1920x1200, 24 inches... wow).


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JW Holloway wrote

Forearms strength
If you want to improve your forearm strength, I would highly recommend doing a number of sets of overhand, open-grip (don't bring your thumb under the bar) pullups. A few mintes of supporting your full weight using just your index- through pinky-fingers will greatly improve your grip.

-JW

rsw wrote

pullups:
the answer to everything

(but really I'm worried about working my forearms too much for fear of wrist problems)

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Sun, 09 Apr 2006

punch you ROUND EYE

I finally went back and dug through the image of kung-foo's hard drive, only to strike gold: Midnight Snack starring Sean and Dwip.

Also, PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!


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gwax wrote


Amen brother! Go tell it on the mountain!

Sherv wrote


"Who wants a body massage?"

woz wrote

Remember what happened last time?
I only speak defeat you. I punch you so hard, your hair turn gray. I punch you so hard, your spleen ache for week! I always ready to defeat you.

Tue, 04 Apr 2006

b to the izzay

My bay area visit this weekend was some good shit. In no particular order, impressions from the weekend: Maymaymay!, the new Spike Lee movie is good, wow I'm allergic to Katie's cat, the community of MIT alums out there is pretty impressive in its extent, holy shit you can deep fry a turkey (the official food of France, which is now called RoboFrance 29), Sherv's apartment is cool, sup Hippo, let us all bow before Woz's powers of perception, and did I mention the turkey?

I can totally see why people are irresistably attracted to the Bay Area. Some day, when Mike, Matt, and I buy the 49ers, I guess...

Oh yeah, at the right is me in bad lighting most of the way up a lamppost right near Sherv's house.


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woz wrote

aww...
Wahby, you're so metal!

rsw wrote


Yeah, I know, right?




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