The Following are posts from May, 2001 that were archived on the old system...

Sunday, May 20, 2001

A succesful Bay-to-Breakers! As I sit kneeding my sore legs, I realized that to many people, a 5-mile run is a daily event. I guess I don't run enough. Here are some pictures. Documentation was a bit sparse this year, I appologize...

Friday, May 18, 2001

Ya, so another beautiful Friday. I have been following the Monkey Man panic in New Delhi with quite some interest. There is somebody, or several somebodies, wandering around in the middle of the night in a monkey-suit terrorizing the citizens of New Dehli, who tend to sleep on their roofs to keep cool at night. The populace is so scared and superstitious that they are taking to leaping from their roofs in fear when a cry goes up in the neighborhood that the monkey man has been sighted. Two people have apparantly died by doing this, but the monkey man himself has only inflicted a few minor injuries.

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Last night the crank broke on my bike in the middle of Market St. This is the second time this has happened for no apparant reason. Don't buy 'ovation' cranks, they obviously stink. Nothing else of great importance has happened this week...

Tuesday, May 08, 2001

More Chaos on the streets! There is a gigantic inflatable rat floating above the corner at work, and a few hundred irate union members screaming at the top of their lungs and blasting blow-horns. It sound's like a riot out there, as I peacefully type away... a nice departure from the usual sound of traffic.

Saturday, May 05, 2001

The neghborhood is particularily out of control this morning. There is a guy sound asleap in the middle of the sidewalk in front of my house, and local nut-case Frank Chiu is wandering around screaming at tourists. I've never seen him in the Haight before. I was going to say hello, but he is going ballistic down there so I decided to keep my distance. Apparantly some tourists took his photo without permision, so he's trying to get money out of them. Don't mess with Frank!

Friday, May 04, 2001

I don't usually give money to people on the street, but the other day I saw the coolest thing that made me want to: This guy had dragged a full size upright piano down the sidewalk on little wheels and was just jammin' away to some awesome Scott Joplin, smilin' all the while. I was so impressed I was going to give him 5 bucks, but I only had a twenty - damn ATMs!!! Later I walked past the same spot, but he was gone.

Friday, May 04, 2001

Dave and I were discussing the influence fast-food has on our language the other night. That's the kind of things I discuss sometimes, perhaps it was that bizarre music we were listening to at that sushi bar... anyway, I ran across this add for an investment firm:

Thursday, May 03, 2001

So I'm trying to make an effort to post something every day, could be difficult... then again, constriction is often a road to unfound creativity. Thank god I got long pants for the climbing gym, now maybe my knees will recover. Making plans with Jeff for the illustrious Mt. Shasta ascent on Memorial day...anyone else wanna come? It's gonna be good!

Tuesday, May 01, 2001

Came across a very cool PDF re: the demolition of the Park East Freeway in Milwaukee. Cool reading if you have any interest in that city, or uban renewal in general.