From our apartment's Craiglist posting:

We are looking for a male roommate to move into our 4 bedroom apartment in early November.

You will have your own spacious room and large closet, while sharing a bathroom with a guy who's often traveling during the weekdays.

Here are the details:
On 28th Ave, near Balboa St
$730 for monthly rent, plus utilities (and $730 deposit)
Part of a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom apartment
Month-to-month lease
Basic cable & high-speed wireless internet
Washer & dryer next to kitchen
Convenient access to the 31 bus line
Street parking isn't too difficult in our area

We are 3 working men in our mid-20s. We're easy-going and respectful of common areas, and we'd look for the same in a roommate.

The first picture would be your room, but it would not be furnished. The second picture would be your shared bathroom.

Tim Salmon, my favorite athlete of all-time, is set to retire this Thursday.

He stayed with the Angels during his entire 15 year career, and was a Moneyball-player before anyone knew what that meant. Nothing about him was flashy, and he wasn't particularly fast or athletic, but he drew a lot of walks, had good power, played good defense, was a smart baserunner, and was healthy and cheap during his peak years.

His moment in the spotlight came when he hit his 2nd homer of Game 2 of the 2002 World Series, the game-winning homerun of an 11-10 Angels win. (In this game, Barry Bonds had a ridiculously long homerun off Troy Percival, and the cameras showed Salmon saying, "That's the longest ball I've ever seen hit.")

He's also a Christian who led the Angels' bible study group, created charities for disadvantaged children, and donated 100 tickets of every home game to youth groups and charities. He was a great role model, and I doubt I'll follow anyone else's career as closely as I followed Salmon's.

These are the e-mail forwards I get from my co-workers.











We are truly nerds.

My favorite 10 songs ever, which always seems to change...

1) Creep, Radiohead
2) Don't Stop Me Now, Queen
3) Say It Ain't So, Weezer
4) In My Place, Coldplay
5) Angels Or Devils, Dishwalla
6) California Love, 2Pac and Dr. Dre
7) Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
8) Take A Picture, Filter
9) Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2
10) Karma Police, Radiohead

Can you believe this is the 18th season of The Simpsons? I stopped watching the show 10 years ago, but this clip from Sunday's episode was pretty cool.



Based off the music video for The Hardest Button to Button by The White Stripes.

I went to Seattle last weekend.

My plan for this post was to wait for Basile to upload his pictures online, steal from his collection, and then post his pictures on my blog. But since he hasn't done that yet, I guess I'll just have to go with the few pictures that I actually took...

Basile desperately waiting for someone to finish using this sleek-looking public bathroom.



Albert Subandhi and Basile taking a picture of me while riding the escalator at the Seattle library.



The Fremont troll resides under the Aurora bridge. We went back behind the troll so that we could climb on and take some pictures, but someone had a "reversal of fortune" back there...



Basile and I slept together at a gay couple's place, but that's not worth mentioning. Neither is the fact that Basile kept me up all night.

(We slept in the same bed, but I couldn't sleep well the first night because of Basile's snoring.)

My co-worker showed me this link of traffic in India.



And you thought traffic in LA was bad...

Yesterday I went to the Reno Rib Festival with my co-workers. I ended up eating 14 ribs, which was the 2nd most out of the 5 of us that went.



I don't know how many ribs are in a pound, but I'm guessing that's a lot less than the 4.5 pounds of ribs that Joey Chestnut ate in the Reno rib-eating contest on August 30th.



Someone asked the cook what would happen if some people came and tried to steal all these ribs. His response: "The only thing I could do is to hope they'd all get diarrhea..."