Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Trilobite Minions at the Montreal Pop Festival Esprit d'Escalier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauders

I was at the park chalet and for some reason, I wanted to go to the Montreal Pop Festival. I was not quite sure if it existed or why I would want to go. I considered putting together a flyer which listed the bands: Cornershop, the Streets, Flaming Lips. Perhaps they would show and I would be able to rock out.

Showed the ornate Octupus/Squid stairwell and she thought it was a Trilobite. I bet they wanted to use that word all day. We discussed the merits of the word minion.

At this point although I met with represenatives from the Oakland Raiders, I do not think I will be playing with them come the fall but stranger things have happened.




People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway". In French: Esprit d'Escalier.. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party?

   As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put-down.

   That's the Spirit of the Stairway.

   The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sophie

Monday, February 26, 2007

New Spot of toiling

For the fourth time since I started at Google, I had a new spot of toil. It is out on a barge. 
In reality it is a very nice building. I started the day with a 1.99 mile run around the Shoreline. Having that iPod Nano/Nike contraption is a great motivator. 
Found my office and I set everything up (pictures of Noel with mysterious Tuxedo Cat and One of Mom's Paintings). 

Often I think, I really wish we had more marching bands in my life. I can totally see why Lindsay Buckingham wanted to follow up Rumors with Tusk. 

You know my name, look up my number. Today is George Harrison's Birthday. It might have been yesterday. 

So we had the Stanford marching band show up as they are down the road from my spot of toil. 

The new office has many silly dogs including a chow/lab mix with a white spot on his nose and a puggy. 

It was raining so boot camp was inside. It turns out that Laura worked on Requiem for a Dream. I should make another movie. Need to get Graphite Returns on YouTube. 

Drove Jane, Laura and Zach to Monster Park. We sat outside of the gate and they thought smelled something smoking but happily it was not the Marcusmobile because I do not want to buy another Marcusmobile. 
Laura and Jane tried to jump over the fence but that did not happen. I should not have told them about the trampoline and the ladder in the trunk of the car. 




Sunday, February 25, 2007

Doggies are doggies/5k in Chinatown/Soccer

This morning when I woke up I found myself in the filming of a
commercial for cat ownership. It was pouring down rainy maliney and
then it tripled. I was cursing that I did not buy the fancy
waterproof jogging outfit but in retrospect everything makes sense.
The reason I arose so early is that for some stupid reason I signed
up to run a 5k. I guess I cannot figure out a way to get T Shirts any
other method.

If you every get a chance check out the band, Apples in Stereo.

http://www.applesinstereo.com/ They have spaceships!!!

Drove into the city. I like the city on Sunday as parking is free and
that is one less hassle. Years ago I had heard a rumor that adult
entertainers go to Vesuvio 6AM on Sunday morning and its a big party.
I walked by and this is not the case. I guess it goes into the same
category of someone telling me the thing to do is hit the hanger club
parking lot after a show.
http://www.vesuvio.com/

I ran the race and it turns out that my iPod Nano thing is
undercounting my mileage which also means, I am 10% faster than I
thought I was. I may run a HALF marathon come October. I should also
emphasize the MAY. Felt good and I cut the training thing to 1.98
miles. (this only makes sense to the people who have to hear me blah
blah blah, my iPod, my fred containers, the future)

Then I had soccer and we lost 2 to 1. I did not play much and I did
not penalized but the referee and I discussed what happens when most
people have a collision with me.

Walked Raider and Brando with a New Zealander. She did not make the
dogs herd sheep which was a relief. We came across a guy who lost his
chesapeake retriever. I grabbed another leash but did not find the dog.

Instant Kharma is going to get you. We all shine on.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

The order that you read

One of the problems with a web log is the order that my readers read entries. 
I had a fairly dramatic crisis involving the loss of my wallet and the very real possibility that I would be destitute living under some bridge with some clever phrase about spending money on Miller Light but you know read that I went back to the house where I was dog sitting, and I found the wallet. 
I ended up having one beer. Joyce brought a very cute New Zealander to the brewery who for some silly reason wants to be a Spin Doctor. 

When I was getting gas, I talked to one of the other patrons about where they purchased their car. I am now looking at December 2008 of getting a new Marcus mobile. It turns out my true mileage is not that much worse than some hybrids. 

Going to the San Jose Flea Market. 




Thursday, February 15, 2007

Primate

They are loads of very smart people at where I toil including prominent prominent primate researcher Jane Goodall ; )
(OK, this is not the case but this is an inside joke that only makes sense to a few people)

I do like chimps and I wish we had some at work. We do have dogs and it us very cute. 

I must opposite of fred it to the Prominent primate researcher as she made it to fred container that you wear in the snow class. We mostly did weight stuff. 

I am going to admit something, I like when I can to give things away. Anyway I gave one of my two bikes away so she could do research on primates. She will need to take it to a bike shoppe.





This Weekend: Reno

As you all know, I am taking my annual train trip to Reno with the Urban Diversion crowd.
You also know that for the first time since New Years, I will have a nip of the sauce.

My question for the readers, what adult beverage would best match going by by via a train? Considering something RWP/MAC.

One idea was a premium whiskey of some sort with a selection of Belgium Beers. In reality I will probably forget and end up with a $10 jug of rot gut and a case of PBR.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Chinese man gets death for ant-breeding scam

I feel bad for this guy because we have all had ant-breeding or office barges scheme.
I like the story when the worlds tallest man saved dolphins. 

Boot camp was sparsely attended so I recommended long run (Maria, Mel, Jane and Laura can thank me). I broke it into two fifteen minute plus runs so I can get that modicum of encouragement. 
I set two new goals, 1) Within a month break the Nine Minute Forty Second Mile (this is a reasonable goal) 2) burn 28000 calories via running in 16 weeks. 
I am ahead of the pace for the 100 miles in 12 weeks goal but it seemed scary when I set it up. Remmy said that you cannot achieve any goal that is not set. 

Sometimes I get discouraged but then I saw some pictures from last year and saw that I have made progress (giving up juice and chips has made a big difference). Also scheduling physical activity is super important. 

On the way back 101 was backed up so I got off and drove North on the El Camino Real.  I am sure you are losing sleep on that status. You come hear wanting to find out about barges in the San Francisco Bay which will be used as offices. 





Anti Valentines Day

As you all know, I am not a fan of Valentines Day.
Anything invented for the purpose of selling crap candy and cards in my book is boots.

Someone sent me this
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Diamonds

So Gwen was correct, I am not a fan of Valentines Day
http://maggiethekat.blogspot.com/2007/02/just-to-do-it.html

Scheduled Romantic Nonsense is boots. I am also not a fan of diamonds (of course everyone knows this about me). I would buy a high quality synthetic diamond but I would never buy a natural diamond (as I do not enjoy torture and slavery). I did not see the movie Blood Diamonds but I think I would be bummed out if the iPod was fueling wars in Africa.
http://www.trendyfriendy.com/user/fantastic/?post_id=600

Lunch was funny as I had two people who had played practical jokes with me. One on Gwen and the other on the gas station opposite of fred.

Howard got engaged to Beth and of course he got a giant ring. Its funny that someone who is so caring to animals would accept a diamond.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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1.41 Miles

I am addicted to the little voice in my iPod that says, congratulations, that is your furtherest run to date. So I am slowly increasing my mileage by small increments so I can get that pellet of encouragement. Jane got wrapped up into my whole scene as we ran around in odd little circles until we hit 1.41 miles. I am now according to http://www.nike.com/nikeplus 1.2 miles ahead of my reasonable goal of running 100 miles in 12 weeks. 
She did well considering she had not run that far in a long time. 
Social pressure is good in getting motivation to work out. Combine that with scheduling and you are set. 

Tomorrow morning I am going to run 1.45 miles. Maybe I will listen to the Rocky soundtrack. 

We ran into Wendy Haven who will be getting a Frank Chu sign in the near future. The Frank Chu colours are the same as my toils colours. 

It was a good day as we had three dogs in our office. We need to make it a requirement for dogs to be at toil because they have the right perspective. 

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Monday, February 12, 2007

Boot camp was made of wood. It was rainy maliney so we were inside for the whole session 
My fred extensions are really sore from the soccer and the running over the weekend but having that goal over my head is forcing me to run. 
I must opposite of fred it to Nike as I am normally not a fan of Nike (the whole paying of creating a markup based on pro athel...) but this is innovative and fun. 



A very sore Marcus

I have not been this sore since my days in the CFL.
Despite my soreness, I ran a bit this morning. The iPod/Nike thing tells you when you have run your longest distance so I have been breaking my runs into small runs and then I add .1 mile. My goal is to run 100 miles in the next twelve weeks.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Parallel Universe

As it was raining and I must have needed attention as I had a bit of a mild cold I stayed in and watched some of the shows on the DVR such as The Simpsons and the American version of the Office. 

For the most part, when they take a British show and make an American version, it is quite awful. For example, Coupling. (The British Version is like Friends but funny, The American version was simply awful)
They are exceptions such as All in the Family and Sanford and Son. 

When I heard that they were making an American version of the Office I thought it would be awful but I would say that they did a first rate job. 

Now any show is a Parallel Universe. I wonder if I was on the show, would I be able to listen to the Ricky Gervais podcast? 





Saturday, February 10, 2007

I often think, that when I am a dog, I will be a Newfoundland. 
If you were a dog, what type would you be?

We are now in the rainy season. I drove up to the city for my Monthly happy hour. Someone said I was "guarded". One of those descriptions that are followed by confusion when I ask for an example. 

Purchased another Frank Chu sign, this time for Wendy. It will be very awesome if Wendy and Gwen had their pictures taken with their sign and made it their ID photo. I actually need to get a good picture of me for my ID. 

Got to meet Frank's roommates. He lives in a threes company type situation in Oakland. If you are a writer of sitcoms and you are looking for an idea, look no further. 


I forgot to ask Rachel and Chad about the size of their television sets because I am sure they are a data set that would confirm my hypothesis about the size of television sets. 





Friday, February 09, 2007

Lost

All those books on how to be smart always tell you change your route to toil. It seemed that there was going to be traffic on the 380 so I decided to try a different route. I ended up getting lost and a hyper intelligent lab told me that I needed to turn around bright eyes. It was rather annoying. I ended up in a town I never in heard of.
I thought I was going to end up on a Milk carton. Luckily I had a banana to survive my ordeal. I was 15 minutes late.

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Movies

Here are some movies that I want to see

The Darjeeling Limited. Between Daniel Johnston and Wes Anderson, I may visit Austin. 

Where the Wild things are

The Simpsons Movie

Grindhouse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/ 

Synecdoche, New York





Marcus Ronaldi waffles on being in the Market for a new car.

Spoke to Carter Williams who toiled with me at my previous spot of toil. He is a good bloke and will be going down to Australia to take the Neighbors tour and eat Blooming Onions which is what all Australians eat. He called me out about being a bit of a bread head for getting the fred containers that talk to my iPod Nano and the consideration of getting a new MarcusMobile. 

During the 2004 Presidential election people said that Bush sticks to his convictions while Kerry "Waffles". 

I am waffling about my decision to get a new Marcusmobile. I was so annoyed 1) the person I spoke to on the phone 2) bidding on a car on eBay 3) trying to find out the actual prices and the whole process of buying a car that I am going to tell them all to go to hell and I am going to continue to drive the Marcusmobile until it falls apart. I am not sure if it was Laura or Jane who said how purchasing a new car and driving it into San Francisco is an invitation to getting your car broken into and unlike most Americans I am annoyed with that experience. Now if Nissan wants to give me a car, I will accept. It may be a very wise use of promotion.
We had boot (fred container that you wear in the snow) class (Mel, Jane, Maria and Laura) I should get a shirt or maybe a bottle of water. We mostly did weights. 
I have never seen anyone eat a banana like Maria. First off she opens it with a knife and then slices it into small pieces. We both are in agreement that over ripe bananas are boots. 

Now back to the Fred Containers that talk to your iPod. It is VERY cool. It makes running into sort of a video game. When I got back to Daly City I ran a bit as I had to mail a letter. Lance Armstrong got on to say stuff. I wish I could get John Riggins or George Foreman or maybe Alyssia Milano. 

Anna Nicole Smith met her maker. It was odd as she was mentioned on the Howard Stern show. They were focusing on Benji. If someone said that a 39 year old close to Benji would meet their maker I would have guessed Artie. 




My Barber is famous

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/08/chinatown.ap/index.html

So I see that my barber is on CNN. I need to opposite of fred him a framed and autographed picture of me getting a haircut.

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Wanted to buy:Nissan Sentra/Versa or Altima - $8000 (daly city)

Wanted to buy:Nissan Sentra/Versa or Altima - $8000 (daly city)


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I am in the possible market for a late model (2003 or newer, possible new) Sentra, Versa or Altima.
I am open to dealing with either a private party, dealership or one of those places that sell used rental cars.
I have a ten year old Nissan Sentra that is running very well so I am in no hurry.

If you have a car that meets what I am looking for then e-mail me the details with the Make, Model, year and price with a photo. Also include your phone number and e-mail address.

One thing I found very frustrating was many car ads would have either "call for price" or "one at this price". I do not have time for this type of nonsense.
Be up front and you will have a quick sale.






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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Boot camp

I talked Mel, Maria and Jane into the boot camp class. Now you may sit around and wonder what is in Marcus's head while he does what ever he is doing. 
Tonight I kept playing scenes from the last Rocky movie in my head as we ran around the park. Having this class motivates me.
Afterwards we all went to dinner and the soup was real good. Taking the class clears my head and acts like a reverse happy hour. 



Spoke to someone today who told me that the "look and feel" of my website is boots but the content is funny. I changed to a different layout. 




Tuesday, February 06, 2007

the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance

I had lunch with Gwen Majors  who told me something shocking. Her friend thought until the night of the party that I was her Nemesis which is really odd.
It has been a long time since I have had a true nemesis but for this woman to claim me as her nemesis does not make sense as I do not see myself as a divine retribution and vengeance person. Perhaps indifference.  Back in my younger days at DIGEX and Summit Hall I had nemesis but it was due to me providing them with that label. 


I saw one of my fellow toilers walking around with an antenna and I offered her the one that I purchased and I was too stupid to figure out. So after letting you all know the score, I will take the antenna to the Marcusmobile so she can watch what ever show she wants. I really enjoy giving things away. 

I am trying to get my fred container/iPod thing calibrated. 



Monday, February 05, 2007

An offer for Carlos Ghosn

When your car hits ten years old as the Marcusmobile will be, you have to start thinking I may be forced into the market for a new car. Now my really bad idea is to buy one on eBay. 
I bid on a 2004 Sentra for $4000. I doubt that I will win but I will do the move with the two cars if I did. 
Here is the car that I would want if I had loads of money and I had a bump on the head and thought that new car = happiness. 
The problem of course is that they offer XM which I do not listen to (I am a Sirius Man). I might be wrong as I am kind of tired. 
Now if you are a Nissan dealer or you work for Nissan I will except a free car in exchange for calling it Marcusmobile 2.0 and your vehicle will appear in the Greatest Blog. Pretty Cheap Advertising!!!!
I will drive each toiling day from Clown Colony to where I toil and I won't even chip off the model name and such. 
We had fred container that you wear in the snow class and we ran around the building. For the second day in a row someone described my speed. Maybe I should join a track team or something. 
Gwen told me an interesting tale about her shindig. If life could be described by the song, "Heartache Tonight"
Some people like to stay out late
Some folks can't hold out that long
But nobody wants to go home now.
there's too much goin' on. 
I would be the folk that can't hold out that long......
I signed up for another race in April to benefit the seals. 


Sunday, February 04, 2007

Is Marcus dumber than a door knob

I was leaving the Superbowl party and if they needed someone to be a judge, I could have been one.
But I was unable to figure out how the door opened. I was looking for some sort of sensor. Considered climbing out a window. I called Carly Jackson and she told me to simply pull hard.  
They probably had a long conversation about how I am dumber than a door knob. 


I was mixing Charlie Parker with saegplour

Ran into Kristen at O'Reilys. My grudge against the Colts normally does not come up in conversations but it is quite silly.
1) I do not go to pro football games
2) I rarely watch the games
(I do "follow" it and play fantasy sports badly)
3) I live 3000 miles from Baltimore
4) The Ravens won a Superbowl in 2001 (which I did not care about)
5) In modern times anyone can root for any team anywhere...

Here are my favorite commercials
and the one where the stray dog gets to ride in the parade. 



Saturday, February 03, 2007

Base Fred Reference

Recently I have gotten quite a few requests for the definition of "opposite of fred".
Here is a link to the information on base fred

Here is a quick reference of Base Fred and some other terms as well. This will make you very smart and you will be able to converse with some learned people.

 

Fred: Your foot is a fred. Whenever you would normally say foot you say fred. For example footwear becomes fredwear.

 

Opposite of Fred: Hand. Whenever you would normally say hand you say opposite of fred. For example handsome becomes opposite of fredsome. Giving someone a hand is giving someone an opposite of fred.
Now a ranch hand is a ranch opposite of fred. Take the first letter of each word and it spells ROOF. So whenever you are talking about Ranch Hands you can say Ranch Opposite of Fred or ROOF.
When referring to a ROOF you can say Ranch Opposite of Fred. For example if you want to ask someone for help onto the roof you would say could you give me an opposite of fred onto the ranch opposite of fred.

 

BOOF: Students works with books or they are book hands or book opposite of freds or Boofs.

 

Boof leader: Teacher or leader of boofs.

 

Fred Container: Shoe

 

Quiz: What is in the picture above?

 

Other terms

 

Malinkey: Water or any other drinking

 

Cave Prize: A small token gift to reward or modify actions.

 

T I P: a combination of a place and a state of mind. 





Thursday, February 01, 2007

Do a google search on "fred containers that you wear in the snow"




Fred Container that you wear in the snow class

This was the last of the sessions for the Fred Container that you wear in the snow camp. It is like following toiling with PE three days per week. 
I am actually enjoying the class. It provides me with a mental break from the zip zap zooey of my toiling (and prevents me from sitting in traffic)

It restarts next Monday (and yes, I will be front and center or near the back of the room)

We played ultimate frisbee and we ran around quite a bit. 

Followed that off with a nice dinner and the Marcusmobile got 350 miles on a tank of petrol. 


Saving Money on Cable

OK, I do not watch much Television but I do enjoy the On Demand.
Called up Comcast with words about canceling and I got a better deal.
Will save $300/year.



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