2004.02.14

happy v.day!

È­¿äÀÏ ¾Æħ: i understand that this colour scheme may hurt ur eyes; but, just 4 v.day, i'm gonna use it.   happy v.day!

[later] ¿ÀÈÄ: i werked out during lunch @ the werk.com gym: lifted weights did side kick leg lifts n' front kick leg lifts (but no real kicks), n' stretched.   4 lunch, i ate @ my cubicle a beef verde burrito from the werk.com cafeteria.   'twas very filling n' prob'ly way 2 fatt'ning 4 me. *sigh*   how do u say beef en español?   carne de vaca.   yah, i figured cow'd be sumpthin' like vaca cos'f le mot français the french wurd "vache" n' the wurd "vaquero."   languages r great.   even if we can't be polyglots, we ought to figure out some basiks, u know?

i'm s'pposed to go snowboarding on sat w/ taekwondo ppl.   ideally, i'd like to make 2 day trips: sat n' mon, which's presidents day.   i hope i can do that.   i might need an oil change tho'.   these days, i have a mildly interesting situation, where i look @ each upcoming wknd n' wonder if i'll be a snowboarder snowboarder or a skateboarder skateboarder.   as i was saying on the bronx's junkyard forums last nite in a post re: asian.am olympik athletes, i'm like shaun white, 'cept i'm old n' suck. ha ha ha.   well, deep down, i think i'm competant on a snowboard but i've got much to relearn 'bout skateboarding.   however, since i'm in much better physical shape now than when i was a kid; i honestly estimate that i'll relearn in ~3 wks what i originally learned in 3 yrs.   does that sound realistik?   in all honesty, i was never that great @ skateboarding as a kid.   i was just 2 fat.

shaun white: he's a pro snowboarder n' a pro skateboarder.   when i last saw him compete in the x.games in skateboarding, they made it sound like he'd just picked up skateboarding after snowboarding all this time; but that's not true.   he'd been skateboarding since he was a li'l kid as well, apparently.   he cms like a decent guy.   i hope this fame n' success doesn't go to his head.   his sponsors r burton snowboards n' tony hawk's birdhouse skateboards among others.   i find it very interesting that he's on tony hawk's birdhouse team cos he cms to fit in w/ that scene.   i believe both'f them r from carlsbad, ca.   i 4get, but 'long time 'go tony hawk sed he was from a southern californian city famous 4 some outspoken neo.nazi, white supremacist but that the townsppl rn't all like that.   i dunno if that town was carlsbad or some other.   i think it makes sense that shaun's on the burton snowboarding team but that it would also make sense if he were on the shaun palmer's snowboarding team.   in some ways shaun palmer reminds me'f tony hawk.   honestly, i find the palmer snowboard company to have this nasty, arrogant attitude; 'least that's what i c in their marketing.   yah, it's funny, but can imagine associating the following companies 2gether: palmer snowboards, burton snowboards, birdhouse skatebaords, n' powell.peralta skateboards.   tony hawk was originally w/ powell.peralta.   i've sed b4 that burton's like the microsoft'f snowboarding.   i personally kind'f avoid buying burton snowboards.   when i used to ride my bro.in.law steve's board, i used his burton custom bindings.   they were fine.   i use burton mittens n' a burton boot bag.   kaela has burton mittens similar to mine.   u know i ride a santa cruz snowboard santa cruz snowboards.   however, if i had to pick a deck from a diff company, maybe i'd pick a forum or ride board.   lib tech? maybe i'd consider lib tech.   i sort'f avoid burton, as i sed; n' i avoid ski companies like rossignol, salomon,   n' k2.   even tho' the company world industries has established itself in both skateboarding n' snowboarding, i find them to be a really cheesy brand these days.   i used to have more respekt 4 them; but it cms to me now that they just make low.end produkts 4 kids.   it was hilarious tho' when otto's skoolbus on the simpsons made a jump n' u saw a world industries logo on its underbody!   that was funny!

[later] here's the post i put up in the bronx's junkyard forums olympiks thread: