warriors

Friday - first time I watched a [non-junior-high] basketball game from beginning to end... and in person, too!

K and I fell upon a pair of free tickets to see the Warriors vs. Suns game. Good seats, too! First level... Row 21. We weren't right up against the players to get accidentally squashed nor were we all the way up where the players are the size of pinheads. Our would-be ticket cost for season ticket holders... $83 each; for regular peeps... over $100 each. Thank goodness for generous cousins and workmates!

I cheered for the home team (didn't want any mishaps at my 1st game!) and paid attention for most of the first half. And then, at half-time I realized "ah, my camera" and was quite snap-happy the second half... though it's at times like these that I wish I was a better picture-taker and that my camera had more than a measly 3x optical zoom -_-

The Warriors started out doing well, but then down down down... until the 3rd quarter. (The animated guys sitting next to us were amusing to listen to, especially during the horrible 2nd quarter.) This was the [blurry] shot that got the Warriors back in the lead again...


The best moving pic I took...


So... what happens during commercial breaks at games?
Aside from all the booty shaking, lots of random people get picked for free things... like free pizza, airline tickets, chance to win crappy $20 / awesome $2000 seat at future game... antivirus software parachuting from the ceiling...

and fun dunks...


I managed to restrain myself from the overpriced artery-clogging yummy junk foods. And I *really* do mean overpriced... bottled water = $4. (They, of course, wouldn't let us bring in our own water bottles >_<) We did all get free Big Macs for the Warriors scoring 100 pts tho...


I'm saving one of the Big Mac coupons as a "souvenir", but still deciding on the other one... aside from the 1.5g of trans fat, one Big Mac = 560 calories, 30g total fat (47% of RDA), 10g saturated fat (52% of RDA). And those RDA values are for a 2000-calorie diet... *if* I were to exercise *intensely* *every* day or *more*, I should take in approximately 2000 calories. Yea... so... yea.

The weirdest part of the whole night was watching the game with no running commentary! All in all, a fun night. I probably wouldn't ever pay for tickets (cheap seats = -_-, good seats = too $$$ for me), but I certainly wouldn't turn away free ones if they ever came along again ^o^

Oh, and most-misplaced comment of the night...
"hmmm... they look suckier in person". O_O

The end (for us, leave early = less traffic)...

store wars

This cracked me up...
http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

Incidentally, we finally watched 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (odd, but thumbs up) and Serenity (thumbs up up up). If you haven't watched Firefly yet... what are you waiting for?!?

Watching Serenity without Firefly would be treason, for sure... so if anyone needs a copy of Firefly, I will be glad to supply ^o^

Recent reads...

Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Definitely didn't disappoint... and now, it's a waiting game until the third and last comes out, whenever that will be.

Prey by Michael Critchton
In high school, I read almost every one of Critchton's books up to Airframe. When my coworker brought Prey in to work for me, I knew what to expect... some research behind the plot and a good deal of suspense; it's one of those quick airplane reads. My coworker thought some parts of the book were too long-winded in describing the "technical" aspects... but I found them quite interesting... like...
"...it was difficult to believe that extremely stupid creatures with brains smaller than pinheads were capable of construction projects more complicated than any human project.... African termites were a classic example. These insects made earthen castlelike mounds a hundred feet in diameter and thrusting spires twenty feet into the air. To appreciate their accomplishment, you had to imagine that if termites were the size of people, these mounds would be skyscrapers one mile high and five miles in diameter. And like a skyscraper, the termite mound had an intricate internal architecture to provide fresh air, remove excess CO2 and heat, and so on. Inside the structure were gardens to grow food, residences for royalty, and living space for as many as two million termites. No two mounds were exactly the same; each was individually constructed to suit the requirements and advantages of a particular site.
All this was accomplished with no architect, no foreman, no central authority. Nor was a blueprint for construction encoded in the termite genes. Instead these huge creations were the result of relatively simple rules that the individual termites followed in relation to one another. (Rules like, "If you smell that another termite has been here, put a dirt pellet on this spot.")"

I respect the termite.

welcome to the world, my semi-niece

Felicity,
6 lbs 1.2 oz,
19 inches,
born April 8th 4:38am after 27 hours of labor...

My cousin's baby daughter who will be very beautiful when she grows up, and though by the American definition she's probably my "second cousin" or something, she's like a niece to me...