My bocce team, the old dirty barristers, came in second place in the FloydNy bocce tournament.
Here’s a little video from saturday’s game:
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Robbed: NYC bites back.
Lots of nice stuff happened today. My bocce team (Old Dirty Barristers) won our game and we are in the semifinals. I attended drupal camp over at the polytechnic and it was great. (Drupal looks great and really easy btw – I think I’m going to create a new site on it.)
It’s also my buddy Angie’s birthday on the 13th, so that’s nice. I went to her party, went upstairs, then we both came down to check out her new bike and mine.
Her’s had two more wheels than mine did. For once, I didn’t pull the front wheel off and lock it and back wheel through the frame to a fence. I got punished for it and someone used those quick release levers to help themselves to two new bike tires.
I guess I’ll be making a trip to the bike shop on Mother’s day.
–edit: I didn’t. Instead I went and kicked ass in the floyd bocce tournament.
Just showed up at Drupal Camp
Drupal camp nyc is opening up. Every body is introing themselves. About 60 people here.
The irc backchannel info is irc.freenode.net #drupal-camp.
Sam and I had to show up because the whole thing is in our backyard practically.
U.S. versus U.K. on Health
Found a really great article from gladwell.com: U.S. versus U.K.:
“The first conclusion is that Americans are really, really sick compared to the British. In every socio-economic group, for instance, the prevalence of diabetes is roughly double in the United States than it is in the United Kingdom. Rates of hypertension, heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, lung disease and cancer are also all higher in the United States. And not just a little big higher. Much higher. So, for example, 2.3 percent of the English have had a stroke, versus 3.8 percent of the Americans.”
It appears that this study appears to have better controls on self reporting and the greater diversity of the US than previous studies did. ‘Least that’s what I gleaned from the comments. This comment about different work practices between the UK and the US rang particularly true for me.
Books: Christopher Moore’s “A Dirty Job”
Just started this yesterday and it’s a hoot:
It’s the story of a Beta Male who, after the birth of his daughter, picks up the job of being Death. Not the Death, but rather a Death. So far it’s a hoot and a half. Reading Christopher Moore is like reading Carl Hiassen, but with stories not just in Florida. That’s a good thing. The stories are always inventive and very funny.
RSS: Tracking packages
I’ve ordered a dvd burner from Newegg.com. They send me an email letting me know the burner is shipping. Great! now I take the UPS tracking number (1Z5AE6660347303603 ) and slap it into a field on isnoop’s feed generator, then subscribe to the feed in bloglines.
Now I’ll know every step my burner takes on the way to my doorstep. Here’s the tracking feed.
Whassup, blotches!
Check out these huge blotches on my arm. I am very allergic to trees and grass.
That’s it, I’m moving back to the upper east side. Also, check out this cool new contraption from Duane Reade I discovered at my allergists’ place.
Brooklyn backyard panorama
Tried out the panorama on my cameraphone and it came out pretty decent. In case you wanted to see what my backyard is like at the moment.
Happy Cinco de Matt!
I hope everyone is having as nice a day as I am. This is the lovely sake set that sam got me. It also came with three lovely bottles. I’m off to valhalla with some peeps to count my blessings, both those nearby and those far far away.
New Phone, new phone number
I caved to my own demands and bought a new pocketpc phone. It’s an HTC Apache and it’s so nice.
Unfortunately, because I switched providers and my previous service was from another state, my number has changed too. If you didn’t get my multiple confusing and contradictory emails about my new phone number, drop me an email or a comment on this post with your email and I’ll sort you out.