Back in Dublin. There was a hailstorm when I stepped out of the airport here in Dublin - Welcome to Ireland! Jetlag was bad as usual - didn’t sleep at the plain at all and almost cracked waiting in London for my connection. But 17 hours of sleep the next night felt really nice - after watching the cup final in Germany. Nice attack Meira! ;-)
Anyways - I managed to download the Amoeba Video from my Camera - again: cool store! Check out the Ameoba Tour: walking around for 7 minutes. You can’t read much but who cares… :-)
As you can see - a lot of stuff happened during the last couple of days and everything was good fun. We went to our Alcatraz trip right after the baseball game. A ferry took us to the island and the views of Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline were truly amazing. I saw the “Escape from Alcatraz” flick with Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris really often - at least 15 times. The whole Alcatraz thing always had some “effect” on me - especially the story of Morris and the Anglin brothers with their successful? escape. So two weeks ago I finally had the opportunity to visit the island. Although it really was a touristic thingy - its basically the only opportunity to get there - it was a fantastic trip. Walking around in the building, checking the various cells and the D-block, the ouside area - cool shit. Especially if you image some guys spending quite a bit of time there and always the lively San Francisco so close and at the same time so far away - strange. And you can also see the cell of Frank Morris and the actual whole he dug into the wall…
Another main trip objective was to check out the Amoeba record store in Haight-Ashbury. What a record store! I spent more than 3 hours there just digging around. They have so much stuff there - awesome. I took a 10 minute video of just walking around the store - unfortunately I cannot up it because I am just unable to get the file off my camera - no idea why. But I am confident to manage that when I am back in Dublin.
I went to San Francisco again yesterday with some team mates to visit the Beer&Oyster Festival. Haha - a taste of Ireland I would say. The sun was shining and it was quite a relaxed atmosphere - with some Guinness as a catalyst…
We didn’t spend too much time there though - we had some tickets for a Björk concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Good show! Loads of people and as we bought the cheap tickets we were pretty far away from the stage but still - it was worth it!
Tja, ich habe jetzt endlich mein erstes Baseballspiel gesehen. San Francisco Giants gegen die Philadelphia Phillies - oder wie auch immer die Jungs sich nennen. Das Spektakel ereignetet sich im Ballpark in San Francisco - ein richtig geiles Stadion direkt an der Bay. f@! Nachdem ich mir das obligatorische Budweiser und die hochgepriesenen Garlic Fries eingebaut hatte gings dann los mit der Hymne - nuff said:
Wie gesagt: muss wohl so sein! Was danach kam war das mit Spannung und einer leichten Priese Skepsis erewartete Baseballgame. Nunja - was soll ich dazu sagen. Es gab schon geile Szenen, nur dauert so ein Spiel halt eeeewig und die meiste Zeit passiert halt nich unbedingt so unendlich viel Prickelndes. Die Leute sind die ganze Zeit am essen (fressen) und labern. Ist wohl eher so ein Social-Ding - als echten Sport würde ich Baseball auch nicht wirklich bezeichnen - ist einfach zu lahm. Allerdings habe ich den 744ten oder so Homerun von Mr. Bonds gesehen - nice one! Der folgende Clip bringt das Ganze so ziemlich aufn Punkt:
Nunja - danach gings Richtung Alcatraz - und das war supergeil…. kommt später!
May 1, 2007 at 5:21 am · Filed under "off-site", web
Yeah - who doesn’t remember the most fabulous racing game of all times: OutRun - of course on our beloved Amiga. I played it for so many hours, days and nights… pretty close to brain damage I would say. The whole game is engraved in my brain and everything got reactivated when we drove to Santa Cruz last weekend. I was like:
Me: Shit! This looks like OutRun!
Them: Like what?
OK - thats fine, but it was totally my first impression of Santa Cruz. Want a proof? There we go:
OutRun - Amiga Screenshot:
OutRun - Santa Cruz Shot:
Nuff said? ;-)
Santa Cruz is really touristic - why do you build a rollercoaster right on the beach by the way? I will probably never understand this. Anyhow the feeling is quite nice. The girls went to the beach for grilling reasons and I started walking around on my own. Was watching surfers most of the time. I also went to this small but very nice surfing museum. Nice pictures there - surfing in the 40’s and so on. The vintage Hoodies and shirts there are just brilliant! We drove back home along the coast. So nice there. Beautiful beaches and views!
That was on Sunday. We went to Halfmoon Bay the day before - chilling on the beach. We also met some other guys from Stanford we knew from a night out in San Francisco through Lucie’s connections. Hi Wolfgang and Antonio!
It was also time for the “ultimate BeachSoccerGame”: Google vs. Stanford. We lost 2-5. Well deserved win guys! The direct counterattack after our 2-1 lead killed us!
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