Posts for October 2004 (15 entries)

Berkeley versus Arizona

31st October 2004, late afternoon | Comments (32)

On Saturday night the Girlfriend and I went to watch Berkeley University play Arizona State University at American Football. As someone who played a variety of university sports to a pretty decent level (and who has a BSc and HND in Sport & Exercise Science) I was fairly dissapointed with the performances that both teams put up…

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Die photos, die!

22nd October 2004, late morning | Comments (34)

If you’ve ever written me an email you’ll know that I’m not very good at keeping up to date with my correspondence. My stock defense is that I receive more than my fair share of emails and it usually takes me a while to answer them all, but in truth I’m just rather lazy…

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Skim-surfer on Stinson Beach

20th October 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (16)

Photo of a skim-surfer on Stinson Beach, California.

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Hitler who?

19th October 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (49)

On IM:

Dunstan
I’ve just seen something called "The Nazism Exposed Project"
that’s, like, old news… surely?

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Anyone out there work for the INS?

15th October 2004, late morning | Comments (0)

If I had applied for an H1B work visa, here in America, but had missed the application deadline by a number of hours (they only allow so many applications each year, and this year’s spots were filled in about 5 hours), would there be anyone out there who could help me get my application into the system?

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Small dog on Stinson Beach

14th October 2004, mid-morning | Comments (16)

Photo of a poodle running on Stinson beach.

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Big dog on Stinson Beach

13th October 2004, lunch time | Comments (15)

Photo of a big dog I met on Stinson Beach (which is just over the Golden Gate Bridge and about 20 miles to the left).

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Sweeping the infield

12th October 2004, mid-morning | Comments (9)

Photo of two guys sweeping the infield at the Oakland A’s stadium.

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Lemur therapy

11th October 2004, mid-morning | Comments (35)

Despite the tide of liberalism that has swept across Britain in recent years, certain things remain taboo in my home country. Get caught shagging a badger, cooling your genitals in the ice cream freezers at Safeway, or spitting on old people, and you can expect not only a stern punishment from the bods in charge, but also the scorn of your fellow countrymen. There are many such socially unacceptable behaviours, but one stands out beyond any other as a sordid and disgusting act within which to engage; and that is the act of ‘therapy’…

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Sigh

8th October 2004, lunch time | Comments (13)

She's a Giants fan, her Dad’s an A’s fan… unfortunately for her they went to see the A’s.

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Photoblog navigation woes

7th October 2004, early evening | Comments (76)

I spent yesterday evening looking through quite a large number of photography web sites, specifically photoblogs, and had a mightily annoying time interacting with their ‘previous’ and ‘next’ navigation links…

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Diet Pepsi, the choice of Athlets

6th October 2004, lunch time | Comments (42)

A young girl at the final Oakland Athletics game of the season.

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Oi chihuahua

5th October 2004, early evening | Comments (20)

An 8-week old chihuahua puppy I met at H-Cafe this afternoon. His owner held him up for me to photograph.

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Baseball batter at Oakland Coliseum

5th October 2004, early afternoon | Comments (17)

A montage of a baseball batter striking the ball at the Oakland Coliseum.

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Sweet September summer

4th October 2004, late evening | Comments (12)

A poem I saw on a wall, but forgot to post during September.

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