another fun night to remember… or not…

Since this is our first Christmas in SF, Amy and Lijen went out and got us a tree named Peanut!! He is about 2 feet tall and smells like a forest. Last night, while singing Christmas songs, we decorated Peanut with lights, heart ornaments, some popcorn, and topped him with a sweet star.

Come by and say hello to Peanut and sing a few Christmas carols while you are here. Happy Holidays!

This year our holiday party was held at swanky SF City Hall. Elegant, sophisticated, glamorous… I have the pictures to prove it. Instead of bringing a lovely lady who would have fully appreciated the romantic atmosphere, I brought Lijen… and introduced him to everyone as my hot date.

Here we are in all our manly glory.

We also talked the camera guy to take some other fun shots together. Eddy, Jess, Mabel, Tony, Lijen and I had a good time…

1. Hiding Mabel

2. Covering Jess

3. Having an awesome time. Tony is hillarious!!!

Uploaded some photos of my roomies and I hiking this past weekend. As you can see, it was a great day to be outside.

Had an all American Halloween this year. The patriotic team: Nitro, Turbo, and Superwoman.

I apparently was suppose to be Malibu… not sure why…

I recently got an email from Lijen which stated that he had joined some social network called Yaari.com. Unfortunately, Lijen never actually wanted to send these emails and had no idea why they were being sent. What he found out totally pisses me off. After your register on this website and agree to their Terms of Use, they essentially will notify ALL your contacts. For example, if you use Gmail, every single random person you have interacted with via email will get notified… your friends, your parents, your grandparents, random Craigslist people… you get the idea. Lijen has since changed his password as well as deleted all of his Gmail contacts to prevent this from happening again.

Straight from their registration page:

By registering for Yaari and agreeing to the Terms of Use, you authorize Yaari to send an email notification to all the contacts listed in the address book of the email address you provide during registration. The email will notify your friends that you have registered for Yaari and will encourage them to register for the site. Yaari will never store your email password or login to your email account without your consent. If you do not want Yaari to send an email notification to your email contacts, do not register for Yaari.

These guys clearly don’t get the crappy user experience they are creating and as a result, I am flaming them. I usually don’t get this fired up, but this is just retarded… not to mention wrong.