biking on bainbridge

here's an interesting fact. if you type as badly as i do and head over to http://www.bloger.com, when you try to leave the page you're prompted to set your homepage to http://www.munky.com. why, oh why, oh why would i want to do that? aarrrgh.

so it's getting close to time for another rant. a rant against spyware, browser hijacking, pop-ups and things of that ilk. but i'll save that for later.

i saw yojimbo by kurosawa over the weekend. it's your regular western but set in a village (which is all of four buildings) in china with two warring gangs. it even has the standard-issue coffin-maker who makes a killing out of the falling bodies. one of the best movies ever is ran. you could turn the subtitles off and still get the movie.

i turned up for ultimate league practice yesterday. i was exhausted before we got done with the warm-up. by the time we got to the drills i was panting so hard that people were tripping over my tongue that trailed all the way onto the turf. but i'm going to work at it. at least i know what a stack and a force are now.

a bunch of us saw fahrenheit 911 on sunday. first impressions - it was a very, very funny movie posing as a documentary, the facts are dealt with exhaustively and reasonably objectively (i'm surprised that moore managed to stay as objective in the movie as he has), the sequences are put together well enough and it doesn't scream 'omigod, omigod, omigod' which is more the moore style. the film downplayed the non-finding of wmd even though it touches upon the 'hunt for wmd'. definitely worth watching. the best line in the movie? - "who's your daddy".

i started reading baumgartner's bombay by anita desai. it's serious reading, i wish i could find something lighter, something alive and cheerful.

if you're into biking at all, bainbridge island is a must. head over to pier 52 on alaskan way (downtown seattle). the ferry to bainbridge takes about 35 minutes and it's a great ride. when you get off the ferry head over to the information center (just outside where the ferry docks) and pick up a bike map. my advice, pick the 'flat and easy' routes. it's still plenty hilly! it's best to drive a few miles out to the start of the trail, park your car and then get on the bike. there's lots to see along the way. make it a point to bike along rockaway beach, the view of seattle from there is just something out of a sci-fi novel - rolling hills with small houses on either side of a towering city with buildings that seems to rise out of nowhere ,flanked by two collosal stadiums. i'll post some pics here soon.


on a completely different track, here's an interesting read - '21 rules of thumb - how microsoft develops it's software'. that question is surely fodder for a million funny one-liners but it's still an interesting read.