Quixotic Bravado by Josh Babetski

• Totally being tourists at this point: Hollywood sign, Bev Hills, studios. Santa Monica next.
• hit the pier; at in-n-out burger now. It makes me sad we don’t have in-out on the east coast.
• LAX is a zoo! Finally through security; having drinks near the gate and settled in for the long wait.
• …and just like that, *poof* off on the next part of the adventure.

• Just landed at LAX. Tacos and a trip to Santa Monica with the Loco Bandits.
• Looking up things to do in LA today. Departure time tonight in limbo.
• Welcome to Wally World. Looking for security guard to force on the rides.

• sitting in Philly airport marveling at all of the pockets on my new packpack.
• Next stop: Los Angeles!
• on time departure: fail! Connecting flight: at risk.
• Mad dash through Midway to make connection. We love you Chicago, but gotta move on.
• LA people: Have a free day in LA. Need suggestions on what to do! Difficulty: back at airport by 7ish.
• Free day Saturday that is.
• Either I broke mobile @twitter site or @chipd did. Nasty error on top of page and page stops at first @chipd tweet.

Below is a list of some of the media that caught my attention and entertained me in 2007, keeping me from more productive things. Some of this stuff was a 2006 release but it’s my list so I’ll allow it!

CDs

• Foo Fighters: Skin and Bones
• Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
• The Shins: Wincing the Night Away

Songs

• Archid: “I’ll Stick Around”
• Finger Eleven: “Paralyzer”
• Kaiser Chiefs: “Ruby”
• The Kooks: “Moves in Her Own Way”
• Mutemath: “Typical”
• Paramore: “Misery Business”
• Shiny Toy Guns: “Le Disko”
• Spoon: “Underdog”
• The Starting Line: “Island (Float Away)”
• Kanye West: “Stronger”

Movies

• The Borne Ultimatum
• No Country for Old Men
• Ratatouille

TV

• Chuck
• Dexter (while the show started in 2006, I only started watching this year)
• Pushing Daisies

Games

• Bioshock
• Halo 3
• Scene-It: Lights, Camera, Action

Internet Sites I’ve Become Addicted To

• I Can Has Cheezeburger?
• Mahalo
• Twitter

• I don’t set the out-of-office auto-reply on my email. Yeah, that’s right, I’m a rebel!

• Today’s theme: Travel prep.

• Helping Ant acclimate to the world of Twitter, Feed Readers and getting mobile versions on the iPod Touch.
• Accepted the fact that the HD-DVD drive on my 360 will be paperweight soon. Netflix is the hero here: I only bought 3 discs; no huge loss.
• BTW: I agree it’s not a Blu-Ray "win," it’s a stay of execution until downloading takes over.

Movie log line or organizational announcement? It’s so hard to tell sometimes:

A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. 

A Bug’s Life

• @JasonCalacanis - Suggestion: Give Mahalo users some kind of permanent attribution for being first to submit and that meets a criteria.
• Archiving and looking through 2007. Making goals list for 2008. More monkeys needed this year I think.
• de-decorating from holidays.
• IBM Innovation Man commercials are great! Web 2.0 overhype explained to non-geeks in 30 seconds.

• Bored. Can’t find anything to watch.
• Book recommendations, I needz ‘em.