Bernie’s Blog

For you Brandi fans out there, be sure to check out her appearance on KUT Austin on April 17, 2007.

Ever since I got my first taste of trail after a 3 year hiatus, I’m back to being bike-obsessed. I have a 2003 Raleigh Tess, a hardtail, which is pretty decent for light trail riding, but I’ve always wanted a Cannondale bike, ever since I was a wee teenager in Singapore dreaming about riding that cool Super V. I am now also looking into whether I should get a road bike, since much of my biking is done on paved trail. But, after thinking about it for 2 days, I’ve decided that my heart is still in getting off-road, eating up the trails, and enjoying the bumps. So, no skinny tires for me, well, for now at least. heee.

Now, about that Cannondale Rush …

• I need to get a new pair of biking gloves. #
• Morning twitteroos. Gonna be a rainy day! #
• Boy the skies sure looks gloomy today. #
• getting coffee #
• @techworking I guess its our turn now. #
• Twitter is acting up again. #
• We’re going bowling! #
• @clunkclunk I love Top Gear! #
• @clunkclunk Yes, and I love Jeremy Clarkson. #

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• I’m re-learning how to shift on my mountain bike. ugh. #
• Got a bike attached to my car this morning, so I had to take El Camino. Boy that’s slow. #
• Start the day right. Have a cup of coffee. #
• btw, Good morning twitteroos. #
• I’m using NetVibes again. #
• Listening to the IndieFeed Podcast. Good way to discover great music. #
• 2nd time my phone hanged. What’s wrong? #
• I’m wondering if Jaiku crashed my phone. Going offline for now to see how it goes. #
• @jessicabeck No I have a Nokia E62, but it does use Blackberry Connect. Maybe that’s it. #
• @moonfever0 *waves* #
• @alizasherman I subscribe to that too! I love the booklet size. #

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Today’s probably the only dry day for the rest of the week – forecast says that the rain will be visiting us again on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So last evening I hooked up the trunk of my car with the cheap bike rack, and brought my bike to work today. I started out trying to drive on the freeway, but looking through the rear-view mirror it didn’t seem that my bike rack was going to hold up on the freeway. I exited, and took El Camino instead. It was a good decision, except that it took my about 15 minutes more to get to my workplace.

So during lunch today I took my bike out to Bair Island in Redwood City, and rode the 3-mile loop around the slough. It was a pretty good feeling to be biking again, after about a 3 year hiatus.

So I’ll probably be doing quite a bit of biking from next week. I’ll admit right now, I’ve NEVER taken Caltrain before, so this might be a good time to start. You know, I just can’t live without my car. I’m still trying to figure out how to get my bike rack to fit perfectly on my car trunk, since I have a hatchback. Today’s drive has caused my rear spoiler to be scratched up pretty bad since the weight of my bike pulled down the metal part of the rack. UGH. Well, what’s done cannot be undone. I’ll have to be more careful.

• Caterpillars everywhere! A feast for the birds. #
• Feeling sad after hearing all the coverage on the VT Shootings. #
• Dreaming of the trail I went to yesterday. #
• Reading up on Bay Area Trails. It’s biking season! #
• Lunch bowling. Wa hoo! #
• Preparing to upgrade my blog. *fingers crossed* #
• @SanNakji thanks! #
• Wordpress blog upgrade, done. So far so good. #
• eating a can of smoked oysters. #

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Last weekend was the 13th Annual Spring Garden Market event that took place in San Jose. I’d wanted to get a few veggie seedlings to start my container gardening for the Summer, so I was on the lookout for tomatoes. We ended up getting two small tomato varieties, plus three chilli varieties. The event was great, but too bad it got really windy, and I don’t think Rebecca enjoyed it that much. I have yet to buy large pots to transplant the seedlings. Might do so this weekend, or some time during the week. Check out more pictures here.

• Playing more GOWII. #
• Munching some sinful dark chocolate m&ms. #
• @SanNakji It’s new here too. Just introduced last year I think. I love dark chocolate . #
• Getting ready for dinner. We’re having hot pot. #
• Watching TV. #
• @SanNakji Goodnight! #
• @SanNakji Oops sorry. #
• Trying the Vanilla Caramel flavored creamer. #
• Still like Vanilla Nut. #
• @SanNakji It’s a creamer by Nescafe – Vanilla Caramel flavor. #
• Watching the Amazing Race. #
• Done with that, now watching The Apprentice. It’s Reality TV Sunday. #
• @SanNakji well its alright ok I won’t tell you want happened #
• @SanNakji hehehe. Which team are you rooting for? #
• Just got close to 200,000 playing Lumines II. My best score yet! #
• Morning Twitteroos! #
• I got dog hair all over my hoodie. #
• Ahh, its back. Twitter. #
• I have yet to find the perfect place to skate. #
• Making coffee and waiting for my Dino Nuggets to be ready. Yes, breakfast. #
• I’ve got a whole window for Twitter, not a tab, a WINDOW. #
• Listening to TWiT 94. #
• Uploading weekend photos to Flickr #
• I’m confessing that I backdate my blog posts, just so I don’t have to say “yesterday, I”, or “last night I …” Hard to track in the future. #
• I’m confessing that I backdate my blog posts, just so I don’t have to say “yesterday, I”, or “last night I …” Hard to track in the future. #
• I think I found my perfect trail. Woo hoo! #
• Back from my lunch skate. #
• Got a little splinter on my pinky. No tool to take it out. I need tweezers! #

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We bought Rebecca a new car seat because she’s now 23 pounds and height-wise she’s outgrown her Graco infant car seat. She’s looks all grown-up in this picture I took today. It’s by Evenflo, but I’m not sure what model it is though. I find it cute that this car seat has armrests. She loves it. Now she has a clear view of the cars and everything around her.

If mashups could take place in dreams, I’ve got a good one for you. So, I’ve been playing a lot of God of War II the past two weeks, trying to finish up the game and send it back (it’s a rental). If you’ve played GOW before, you’ll know that Kratos is one merciless warrior, and the different ways he kills his enemies is what makes the game spectacular. Last night, I’d watched The Apprentice LA, so here it is – Donald Trump, and Kratos, in my head. What resulted was a pretty interesting dream I had. In my dream, the Trumpster was a ruthless boss who would kill anyone who doesn’t get things right, and I mean really kill, and not just kill, but in horrible ways, much like how Kratos does it. No one dares to defy him. I wasn’t one of his employees though, but was driving and I accidentally hit some of his stuff (I forget what), and was “brought before him”. It was scary, but now that I recall it, it seemed ridiculous and amusing. Just thought I’d share.

• Just played GOWII. Lil R is asleep now. #
• is Gmail down? #
• @dccrowley Thanks. It’s still trying to load on my browser. #
• @dccrowley hmm, tried that, but still doesn’t work. Oh well. #
• Getting gas @ Costco. Freakin’ long line. #
• Lil Reb is sitting in her new car seat. She’s loving it. #

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• Here’s my first scrapblog attempt. http://urltea.com/5eb #
• Going home now. Ahhh da weekend! #
• @SanNakji hope you feel better soon. #
• @SanNakji Still feeling sucky. But just took two cold tablets and sleeping early should help. #
• Enjoying a cup of hot cocoa. #
• It’s raining cats n dogs! #

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• getting ready to leave … #
• Shoot I think I got Lil Reb’s cold. #
• Lil Reb is being fussy. Must be her cold. #
• Just watched the Grey’s Anatomy 1 hour special. #
• @alizasherman Congratulations! What color did you get? #
• @alizasherman Oops just saw that you bought silver. Disregard previous note #
• I got the drippies. #
• I hate sneezing #
• When I try to add a friend on Twitter, I see the kitty. #
• Charlotte is such a snuggle-bug. She’s my rat terrier. #
• I think I’m going to sleep now, right after playing some Lumines II on my PSP. #
• Morning ppl. It’s Friday! #
• Having coffee. #
• I think I put too much creamer in my coffee. #
• Trying out LessAccounting.com. #
• I just noticed the iTunes Store has Brandi Carlile’s video free to download! #
• @alizasherman all my podcasts are tech related – TWiT, net@nite, Buzz Out Loud, Macbreak Weekly. #
• @alizasherman A good children’s story-telling podcast out there is Storynory. Do check it out. #
• Just had lunch with my friend. Had a great time catching up. #
• Too early to feel sleepy, but I am. #
• Listening to BOL, with Nicole! #
• Taking a quick tour of scrapblog. #
• @SanNakji Morning! #
• Playing around with scrapblog. #
• hating sites that autoplay music. I get music playing and not knowing which one of the 100 tabs I have open is the culprit. #
• @SanNakji I got a cold from my little kid too. #

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I’ve been playing with around with a new web 2.0 site that allows you to create pages just like those of scrapbooks. Having never done scrapbooking before, I find the experience really fun. What’s nice is that its so simple to use. When you first go to the site (http://www.scrapblog.com), you have a chance to take a quick tour, where the different things that you can do at the site are presented. What’s cool is that you do everything on a separate browser window that looks like an actual program. Loading is pretty fast too, which, to me, is a make it or break it. You can import pictures from a variety of sources, like Photobucket and Flickr. You can easily add backgrounds, stickers, text, text balloons, etc, and the interface is neat and clean.

Here’s what I’ve created so far:

So if you like scrapbooking but not the hassle of cutting stuff and pasting in real life, give Scrapblog a try.

• Wondering if my Twitter friends are on Jaiku. Pls DM me ur username so I can add ya’ll. Thanks! #
• Here’s my Jaiku page http://geekparrot.jaiku.com #
• @SanNakji guess you don’t like green huh. #
• Gosh, almost 6pm! I’m outta here! #
• Watching Borat #
• Ok, Borat’s a pretty fun show, I’ll admit. #
• I set my alarm clock for 7:15am each morning, but end up waking up at 7:45am. #
• Sleepy. #
• @macnatic I like to laze on the bed before getting up. #
• @macnatic that will surely get me outta bed! #
• Morning. Yawwwwn, #
• I see Priuses everywhere. #
• Ran out of Coffeemate. ugh. #
• @moonfever0 YUM #
• Just pre-ordered Tori Amos’s new album. #
• Thought the trail goes round in a loop. I was wrong. Back-tracking now. #
• My car! #
• @bigepaz Thanks! #
• @ericaogrady thanks for DM. I will sign up. #
• Had to change my t-shirt coz I was sweaty on all the wrong places. It showed! hehe. #
• @alizasherman If you aren’t concerned with capacity, a nano would be best. #
• Just had a late lunch, and coffee. #
• Listening to Tori Amos. #
• @macnatic omg is this real? That is so cute! “alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don’t wake up!” LOL #

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