Archive for the ‘Awesome!’ Category
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.
- Flight to Hawaii… $0 (long story)
- Jeep rental… $150
- Digital camera… $300
- Making the most of your time with your niece and nephew while waiting for your sister as she runs an errand at the store… PRICELESS.
-Dave Q.
Continuing our Olympic coverage, or in this case, uncoverage, here is the latest ad from everybody’s favorite group of hypocrites, PETA. But as much as I hate PETA, they do have some good ads.
Now I have no issues with seeing Amanda Beard in the nude. But, wow. This girl must hate clothing. She will take any opportunity to be in the buff. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I insist I have no issues with that. By all means, Amanda, take it off to your hearts content! But I will say this: Where is the mystery with this girl? She leaves nothing to the imagination, and that sucks to some degree. She must have been absent the day they taught ‘Tease 101′ in whatever school girls go to to learn all their tricks. Damn dirty tricks.
-Dave Q.
Today is my nephew’s birthday. I can’t believe this kid is now 10 years old. Double digits already? Damn. Time really flies after you hit 30. Anyway, here he is terrorizing some poor crab he caught in his net at Kailua beach in Hawaii. I know you can barely tell, but there is a crab in there.
Happy birthday, Matthew. Enjoy the Nintendo Wii! Even if it means you want to play it all hours of the night and drive your mom crazy. She will love that.
-Dave Q.
I just found out that CBS is going to bring back Hawaii Five-0 in late 2009. Can you imagine that? A modern day version of the show would be awesome! There goes my imagination again. Beaches. Hula girls. Oh the potential…
One thing that can’t be argued is that Hawaii Five-0 had one of the coolest television intros in history. What made it so cool? The music. That theme song is simply the epitome of cool.
Hmmmmm. Makes me think about what my top ten TV intros of all-time would be? Perhaps I will address this intriguing issue on a later post.
-Dave Q.
So the 2008 Olympics got rolling this past weekend. And although most of the Olympic games aren’t worth scheduling time around, I admit to being psyched up about women’s beach volleyball. And anyone that knows me will tell you that watching Olympic women’s beach volleyball is a sure-fire way to get my Olympic juices flowing! That, or I have acid reflux. Not 100% sure. And since here in the states they will surely be televising each USA women’s match, I truly hope their opponents are hot. Because I really don’t think the American women, Misty May and Kerri Walsh, are all that attractive. In fact, let me go as far as to say that Misty May is kind of fugly. Maybe there is another USA women’s team? Anyone know? With cute girls, maybe? A team worth getting behind? Is it so hard to have a girls volleyball team that is competitive and hot?
Now here’s a volleyball player easy on the eyes. This is Tian Jia from the host country of China. The girl has nice form. Very nice form. 
Here’s something that shocks me. Cheerleaders? At a women’s beach volleyball game at the 2004 Athens Olympics? Makes me think of that ‘Beer Heaven‘ commercial. I mean, can it get any better than that? The athletes are already hot and dressed like cheerleaders, and then they bring our real cheerleaders?! Hell yes!
I, of course, will be hoping for U.S.A. gold medals all around. That is, except for one event. One American team full of millionaire thugs, a wife beater, a greedy jerk, and one rapist (that we know of). I’m talking about the USA men’s basketball team. Maybe in this regard I am anti-American, but I simply can’t pull for a team the has the likes of Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Jason Kidd, Carlos Boozer, etc.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud to see Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, and a couple of other decent guys represent the USA, but the Dream Team gimmick has run it’s course. And I really don’t want to see a piece of crap like Kobe Bryant getting a gold medal. So… we’ll see what happens.
So Here’s hoping for a near USA sweep! And lots of beach volleyball. I hear Brazil might be a team worth watching…
-Dave Q.
