Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category
I went to the Spurs-Suns game on Wednesday night. Unfortunately, the Spurs lost. 
But instead of dwelling on the loss, I try to take something positive out of it. Lucky for me it is close to Halloween!
The Spurs dance team, the Silver Dancers, decided to bust a move to the Ghostbusters theme song. So, in the Halloween spirit, they decided to go the naughty route. I took the above video, but it doesn’t do it justice. Towards the end of it I tried to get a better shot from the jumbo tron. Anyway, they looked pretty damn good. I saw a Genie, a Nurse, a Cowgirl, etc. They pretty much went through the entire Frederick’s of Hollywood catalog.
Although I was all for it, I was a little surprised of all that naughty attire in a family-friendly environment. But, oh well. That’s their problem. All I know is that I have to support my team, no matter how naked their dance team wants to get. 
Anyway, Happy Halloween to all of you. Don’t eat too much candy…
-Dave Q.
So I kind of had a stressful weekend with my fantasy football teams getting completely owned in all three of my leagues. I know you ladies out there will roll your eyes at that statement. I wish there was an anolgy I could come up with that would illustrate how frustrating it is. I know you don’t understand, so just trust me on this.
So I stumbled upon this video, which I would have to consider as the ultimate stress relief. I tell you what, if I had a fat kid I could shoot paintballs at, I would be so happy. It would be therapeutic!
Honestly though, I can’t watch this video without laughing hard. And watching it enough times makes me forget about me maybe not winning my fantasy something whatever… See. It’s already worked wonders!
-Dave Q.
I heard about this girl back in June, and then nothing. I wonder if she is still on the run? A fugitive from justice?
If you were living under a rock at the time and don’t know about her, here is the 2 cent summary. This girl in Romania will be on the subway, will turn on her boombox, and pole dance. And at then end, naturally, she goes around asking for tips. No doubt the girl is just trying to pay her way through med school.
Last I heard were the cops there were on the lookout for her. And if they see her show they will probably tip her and then give her a ticket or something. But still, you have to give the girl props! And also thank the guy with the camera phone. God bless technology.
-Dave Q.
Talk about freaky. This is pretty much what it would look like if that whole chicken you bought from the supermarket decided to come out of your freezer and scare the living $%@! out of you.
The story I heard was that the bird has some kind of condition where it plucks it’s own feathers out. Kind of like an obsessive compulsive disorder. Weird. Nevertheless, this thing needs to be caged up and only taken out during Halloween. That is, if you need a dead parrot to go with your dead pirate costume.
-Dave Q.
Well, I don’t know about you guys, but after dealing with Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, I feel like we are in the need for something positive out of the weather report. Well, this should do the trick.
Do you ever watch the Spanish network Univision? Or Telemundo, maybe? Me neither. But I might start if only to find out what the weather is going to be for the next day. Although you can only take what they say with a grain if salt. Turns out this girl, Jackie Guerrido, was hired on to do the weather at a time when she didn’t know jack about doing the weather.
Big deal. She was hired because she’s hot. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Experience is overrated anyway. Just look at Obama and Palin.
Plus, most meteorologists get the weather wrong. Except for my buddy, Paul. Not you, Paul. You know what you’re doing when it comes to the weather (not so much fantasy football). But the rest of those guys suck. If I’m going to watch the weather and get bad intel, I’m at least going to get it from the hot chick. Hmmm, old dopey weather guy or young caliente latina??? “Caliente” means “hot”, I think.
-Dave Q.
So I’ve played another support role in the evacuation of another hurricane. This time, Ike was the culprit. I’ve been doing a lot of driving the last couple of days going between shelters for the purpose of tracking the evacuees with the RFID wristbands. One of those places was in New Braunfels, a town about 20 miles north of San Antonio. It was there where a one good story came out from all the negative ones.
I spent time in that shelter. And I remember when I got there I was somewhat shocked (and confused) about all the Asian people there. As it turns out, this shelter was housing people that evacuated from Port Lavaca, which has a big Asian presence. And therefore we didn’t evacuate Taiwan by mistake, which is what I initially thought.
Anyway, I thought that would be a cool story to share. And I’m hoping the aftermath of Ike to the Texas coast is one that doesn’t prove to be as bad as the government expected. After seeing how it is for people to stay in the shelters, you can’t help but feel for them. A FEMA cot is no substitute for your own bed. The things we take for granted…
Here are some various pics from the Hurricane Ike event. And also a video of Horbi inhaling some bus exhaust.
Horbi taking bus fumes to the face easily makes this video my favorite part of this post.
-Dave Q.
I don’t think I have ever watched an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I’m not even sure which network it’s on. Bur apparently way before she turned the race for the Presidency upside down, Sarah Palin was a fan of his show. And she made an offer to make Ferguson an honarary Alaskan.
What Ferguson says at the end there is pretty damn accurate. You expect a Governor to look a certain way. You don’t expect a governor to have the “hot librarian” look. So how does all this come into play with this year’s election? Heck if I know. I just thought it was a funny video.
-Dave Q.
This was a crazy weekend for me. It started off with a project at work that should have started at 9pm and lasted 15 minutes. Well, the 15 minutes part was accurate, but due to another scheduled upgrade, I didn’t get done until midnight. That sucked. But that was just the beginning.
On Saturday I went to assist with the arrival of evacuees from Hurrican Gustav to San Antonio. I work every now and then with a company out of Ausitn that does RFID tracking. To explain that, the people being evacuated are tagged with a wristband that contains a very small radio antenna. This allows the government to track the departure and arrivals of the evacuees. Think of it like tracking a UPS package, except that in this case UPS is the State of Texas, and the package is the evacuee. Got it? The info on the tag is useful since it contains important info like the person’s name and various medical info. Here are a couple of pics of some the people arriving at the hangar of the Air Force base we staged the operation from.
I worked 29 hours straight monitoring our system and scanning tags of evacuees. My buddy Horbi helped us out. I worked from 7am Saturday morning until 11am Sunday morning when Horbi came to relieve me after he returned from getting some sleep. I was glad he was around. Leave it to Horbi to keep things light.
Well, after he relieved me and I went home, that is when things really started sucking. When I got home, I started vomiting. And didn’t stop. From noon to 9 pm, I vomited about 7 times. I wish I were exaggerating.
So Labor Day I spent recovering. And my friend Cynthia (the owner of the Austin company) spent the day hangin’ with President Bush at the Texas OEM office. Nice. I wonder if he asked her to say hi to me for him. Anyway, I feel much better now. But I have to say, I feel like I gave back to the community with the work we did this weekend. Makes you feel good. Anyway, with all the other hurricanes developing in the Atlantic, they told me to be ready for more.
-Dave Q.
