We live on the 17th story of an apartment building near downtown San Francisco. A quick scan of the available wifi networks shows an overwhelming number of them. It’s good to see most of them are secured.

If we load up network analysis tools like iStumbler or KisMac, we can see nearly 45 different networks!

Below, you will find a list of every single band and concert I’ve ever seen up to this point. Some people keep ticket stubs. I just keep anal-retentive lists.

Below are a few photos I’ve taken from some random shows:

Little Yellow Perfect

Tsunami Bomb

Hot Water Music

Angie Mattson

Read on to see the complete list of shows…
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The National League Championship Series begins on Thursday. Just wanted to support my boys in blue.

We only need 4 wins and then we return to the World Series for the first time in 20 years. (Should the baseball gods grant it, it would be exactly 50 years after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles)

Last Friday, a few of us ventured into Golden Gate Park to check out a few things.

1.) The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival – We saw MC Hammer play a few numbers to a bunch of middle schoolers.
2.) The new California Academy of Sciences building. An incredible museum and research institution.

Obligatory photographs to follow.

Courtesy of my roommate Mark, who attended a wedding this past weekend. Inside the gift bags were coasters containing this amazing gem:

“Oh My Goodness!
He has a reptile dysfunction?
I didn’t even know he owned a lizard.”

Amazing.

I present to you the following train wreck known as the Sarah Palin interviews. If McCain is elected, there is a 1 in 3 chance (perhaps more) that this woman could be our next President.

This is embarrassing.

On the $700 billion dollar rescue package.

Asked what newspapers she reads…

She didn’t make the “choice” to be gay, unlike her best friend…

She has foreign policy experience because she can see Alaska.

If a 15 year old girl is raped by a family member, she believes it should be illegal for her to have an abortion! Ridiculous!

Here she can’t name any Supreme Court cases:

CNN’s Jack Cafferty on Sarah Palin

I went to give blood today and apparently the attendant working with me was new. He ended up puncturing my vein on my right arm ("hematosis" they called it).

They asked if I wanted to wrap it up or try the other arm. For some weird reason, I told them to try the other arm. Fortunately, it worked this time.

And thanks to Twitter, I was able to live blog the entire thing. Wow.

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[Via Discovery News – Earth Impacts Blog]

A few photos from my visit to the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park last week.

So Washington Mutual goes under last week (which is my bank) and their CEO Alan Fishman will get an $18 million dollar severance package.

I can only hope that one day I will have the opportunity to run a company into the ground and be paid handsomely for it.