Archive for the 'General' Category
Hawaii 2005
June 29th, 2005With boards done, it was time for a serious vacation, and luckily Hawaii was just across the ocean. Despite a miserable and cramped American Airlines flight — so much for their “more leg room” advertisements — the trip was awesome…lots of time in the water and lots of time drinking mai tais. Here are some […]
Star Wars Episode III
May 18th, 2005It’s finally here! The final chapter of the new Star Wars trilogy has been released, and I landed tickets to a midnight showing…at the ArcLight theater, arguably the best cinema in LA.
After arriving at a very crowded parking structure, we made our way down to the area outside the theater and saw the freak show […]
Fuck you Persian woman at Fantastic Sam’s
April 23rd, 2005I went to get a haircut at Fantastic Sam’s today…I know it’s not the fanciest of places to get a haircut, but they get the job done (well, most of it). This branch happens to be owned and run by a Persian couple, and today I had the pleasure of having the wife cut my […]
Enough Ashley Smith Already, and a Prediction
March 13th, 2005Is anyone other than me sick of Ashley Smith?
Anyone watching any news show lately, especially CNN, can attest to the obsesssion of news stations with Ashley Smith, the woman taken hostage by the Atlanta courthouse killer. In her initial “interviews” she sits in front of a camera and spends an hour describing every detail of […]
Come on Down!
February 23rd, 2005I made another attempt today to break into the TV world by attending a taping of the Price is Right. Ricky’s friends from work organized a group of about 20 people, and because we contacted the CBS people beforehand, we didn’t need to wake up and stand in line at 5am like the other suckers […]
Rain and LA Traffic
February 16th, 2005So it started raining out of the blue today in the afternoon, a few hours before I had to leave school. And, as usual, this slight bit of rained completely clogged traffic up everywhere in this pathetic city, extending my commute home to over an hour when it should be only 30 minutes.
I can’t believe […]
Jump Starting the Weblog
February 13th, 2005OK I realized that a weblog is useless if I never update it, so expect frequent additions to this “blog” (puke) from now on…I’m shooting for at least one new entry per week. With that said, look above for this week’s new entry.
Scuba: First ocean dive
November 21st, 2004After 8 weeks of classes, close to $1000 in equipment (latest addition: diving hood), and countless pool “dives”, we did our first ocean dive today. Bright and early at 8am this morning, instead of sleeping calmly in bed, Ricky and I were squeezing into a stiff wetsuit and jumping into the 40 degree water […]
Scuba Certification: Class 1
September 25th, 2004We thought the last pile of money we gave to the scuba school would be cover most of our expenses…man were we wrong. That $100 was just a small fraction of what we coughed up today, with the start of the first of our six classes. The “basic equipment” we had to buy today — […]
Lobsterfest 2004
September 19th, 2004For the second year in a row, we travelled down to Port of Long Beach for the annual Lobsterfest. We stuffed our faces with lobster flown in fresh from Maine, big bowls of shrimp, and other festival foods. We weren’t alone, though, because this year there were lines that were unheard of last year. Not […]
I love Old Navy commercials!
September 7th, 2004“History? No way, I love history! First, something happens. Then something else happens. So sequential! Thank you, first guy, for writing history down! Let’s study!”
And that’s the transcript of one of my favorite commercials of all times. Every time it airs I go as crazy as the girl and start yelling along with her…if you’ve […]
Entry #1
August 1st, 2004Welcome to amirschricker.org.
I moved my webpage from the CSUA serves so that I could redesign the site completely without having having first to take down the old pages. You’ll find the same old content here as well as new stuff…like weblogs (made possible by Movable Type) and larger photo albums (using Gallery). Bear with me […]