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bad news for michael knight

trying to not let this become "the knight rider blog" but i have to mention that NBC is trying to bring back the series. oh, puleeze. no one could ever be as cheezie and 80's sexy as david hasselfruit was. don't hassle the one & only knight rider!! in other signficant news, the creator of Borat has had a baby, thank heaven for that.

meanwhile i'm sitting here hitting refresh, refresh, refresh, waiting on my world series tickets to show up. the site has been down all morning and apparently only 300 tickets sold out of 60,0000 which clearly indicates the rockies' web site was unprepared for a city-wide disaster of such epic proportions.

if i go, who should i route for though? dilemma? nawww, everybody knows that you have to vote for the team that has stunk the most in recent years, and though it's normally the red sox, rockies have really stunk the most in the past decade.

Go Rockies!!!

No, Derby is not dressing as the cheshire cat for halloween this year (although he could pull it off).

He is just a die-hard Rockies fan and helped me model a Go Rockies pin for a little fund-raiser at work today. Collective "awwwww, how cute is he".

A.J. Jacobs

no doubt you've probably heard about the new book by called The Year of Living Biblically which i admit i shrugged off as a ludicrous rip-off of Evan Almighty at first glance, but actually i really want to read it now, after having just read A.J.'s. article on Radical Honesty last july. check out that article and see if you can resist laughing (ok, maybe snorting) out loud.

another book i will probably read over xmas break, although i'm skeptical it does sound a little cult-ish is A Complaint Free World. let me know if you've read it or have any feedback for me (like "don't do it, Lara! it's a trap!")

If provoked, a bunny will charge.

this disapproving rabbits book & blog are so rad.

nuff said.

thanks to pop candy for the great mindless entertainment, as usual.

K.I.T.T. and Me

Ahhh, I was organizing my old photos today for the new Picasa site and I came across a few I had completely forgotten about, like the time Kate and I randomly came across a midget version of the world's most beloved Trans Am, Kitt, in Lausanne, Switzerland of all random places.

I tried to just pose with the car, but the old men hanging out behind me wouldn't have it - they put a coin in and wouldn't let me get out of the car until the "ride" was over. It even had the adequate music, which accordingly, is now my phone's ringtone.

random notes

first of all, isn't there something wrong with the fact that a MLB baseball player gets to name himself Coco Crispies if he wants to? can't the league draw the line somewhere? and i read someplace that Coco is just doing this baseball gig until he can secure a career as a rapper / reality tv star. what the fulk.

second of all, it's that time of year where the best halloween costume forwards start circulating around work, and this is my favorite photo i've come across so far. rockin' the pedro wig, little man.

Uh Yuyh, Kaua'i

Chris and I just came back from a week in Kaua'i and boy, is that place the best place on earth. Not just the scenery but the flip-flop lazy way of life. We have been three times now, and adore it more each time. This time we didn't even go to any tourist sights at all, just one hike and the rest of the time we put our feet up, cooked on the grill, walked on the beach right outside our door, and chilled.

I tried out a new little Panasonic Lumix camera on this trip which is much easier to carry on hikes and through airports and things, and I have to admit, I was skeptical, but I am pretty impressed so far. The thing that sucks is it eats up batteries fast, like most little digitals do. It also has some blurring issues compared with my Nikon for sure, but the color saturation and tons of custom settings and features (including "Pet mode" and "Sunset mode" and tons of others) I love.

I am posting more on my Picasa site but here's a few highlights to get the jist. Trust me - the greens and blues have not been photoshopped here!!

here's a t-shirt that Chris bought and totally cracked us both uphere's the rainforesty road that you take to get to our condo, way way up on the north shorehere's the Na Pali cliffs in silhouette, middle of the day
and here's a spectacular view from the Kalalau trail, a 4 mile hike we did on the last dayand a sunset view from the plane on our first day