Kids Love Seals and Sea Creatures in La JollaKids like seals. You can walk right up to them in La Jolla. Then kids get bored so there are other things to do too.
Health and Fitness
June 12, 2012
My latest trip for Trip Advisor on Everytrail.com
Kids Love Seals and Sea Creatures in La JollaKids like seals. You can walk right up to them in La Jolla. Then kids get bored so there are other things to do too.
May 28, 2012
#RollerDisco
So a group of friends met me at Skate World in Linda Vista. The event? Roller Disco (or #RollerDisco as we call it in the age of Twit). The reason? To have fun.And have fun we (for the most part) did. There were some bruised knees, my bottom hurt for a few days and one lucky unfortunate twisted a knee exiting the hard wood rink floor. Good news? The carpet landing was at least a little softer.
See the photos here... and you can watch the video below. Maybe the next time you are invited to an event called Roller Disco, you'll go...
April 05, 2012
March 05, 2012
Voir dire
From Wikipedia: "Voir Dire is the process by which attorneys select, or perhaps more appropriately reject, certain jurors to hear a case."[3] As noted above, in the United States (especially in practice under the Federal Rules of Evidence), voir dire can also refer to examination of the background of a witness to assess their qualification or fitness to give testimony on a given subject.[4]
I was not chosen for a jury and the lawyers had a very well-worded phrase: "We would like to thank and excuse (in this case, me). I felt great. Not only did I not have to sit on a jury but I was thanked and asked, very politely, to leave.
This, I think, is a good practice in the real world too. I have done this numerous times with people in my life with people who weren't cutting it as friends. I didn't thank and excuse them to their face because it just seemed like it would have been needlessly cruel bit I wonder what our society would be like if it were an accepted norm.
"How's life?"
"OK, I guess. Kevin thanked and excused me."
"Hey, I've been Voir dired before, it's probably for the best."
I don't know if this will catch on but there are things and people and even whole organizations I'd like to voir dire, to thank and excuse. You're really doing no favors to anybody by allowing them not to measure up to your standards. I think we need to know what those standards are, and enforce them.
Mine are simple: be kind and considerate; hear what I have to say; don't bring alcohol to my house; respect me, my property and my friends.
If you can't do that, I'd like to thank and excuse you.
December 29, 2011
Free Advice To Dean Spanos
Dean? Dean! Over here.
Dean, you need therapy. You probably don't think you do but you totally do and here's why.
You fear your father. You are about seven years old whenever he's around and about 12 all other times. Yes, this means you're emotionally disabled. And it wouldn't bother me in the least if you were this way and didn't run the team I have been following since we were both seven (really, not emotionally-dammagedly).
I should know. I'm nine emotionally. Mine has to do with my mom. She was like your dad in many ways. Self absorbed; prone to fits of anger that are scary for a 7-12 year-old (and one stuck in that age range emotionally); probably drinks too much; and, here's the big one Dean; incapable of giving you the love you need, desire and deserve.
This is the crux of my problem with you, Dean Spanos. Your father didn't love you when you needed him to so you try to replace him in your social and work life. The problem is that you keep creating the dysfunctional family dynamic with everyone you interact with.
Yes. A. J. Smith is your father. You fear him like you did your father; you resent him like you did your father; he doesn't love you like your father despite all you've done for him. And, here's another big one Dean: A. J. Smith bullies you like your father.
You ned to realize that you can stand on your own, Dean. That you are an adult capable of making decisions. That your father, and people like him, need to respect you. You love him but he needs to treat you like an adult. Maybe too late for your father who has progressing dimentia.
Which is why you need therapy. If you cannot make peace with your father -- and yourself for allowing your father to treat you the way he did -- you will continue to bring him and people like him into your personal and professional relationships.
The personal relationships are your business but owning a professional football franchise means you need to look to the thousands of fans and the millions of dollars we spend and, for our sake, hire a general manager who will not kick you around mentally, financially and emotionally.
Get the help you so desperately need and so richly deserve! Then, once you can breathe again without resentment, fear and the damage of decades of mal treatment, look up to the sky, see the sunshine, smile at the children -- the children who who deserve to be loved like you weren't.
Then hire a general manager who's not a fucking asshole.
Love,
Kevin Six
December 07, 2011
Repurposed Vinyl, Recycled Records
Repurposed Vinyl. It's about time. How long have those records been collecting dust? Want the song on Mp3? You can find it! Want something cool to hold stuff? Made out of retired records? Look no further! Record Holders! (http://coolrecordholders.blogspot.com/) sells, well, cool record holders. Records made into boxes, bowls, pencil holders and... well. It's just a really coo concept. See for yourself! Click a photo and go crazy!
November 19, 2011
Occupy This Dollar
Finally a way for people who have more money than patience to Occupy something!
Go to Occupy This Dollar, print the labels and send an occupied dollar to your representatives today!
Welcome to Occupy This Dollar!
It's simple, really. Politicians only care about money. So send them a dollar with a label on it. You can make a statement with as little as one dollar.
All you have to do is
Download the Occupy This Dollar labels, print them (Avery 5160) and stick them on US $1 bills
Then Send them to your representatives
Quite a statement if thousands of one dollar messages start arriving in the mail, eh?
I live in San Diego, California so my list is of everyone from the San Diego City Council up to the President. Download it here.
If you live in San Diego, please feel free to download and use this list. If not, please find yours here.
Thank you for joining Occupy This Dollar!
November 15, 2011
Tell your representatives to "Occupy This Dollar"!
Welcome to Occupy This Dollar!
It's simple, really. Politicians only care about money. So send them a dollar with a label on it. You can make a statement with as little as one dollar.
All you have to do is
Download the Occupy This Dollar labels, print them (Avery 5160) and stick them on US $1 bills
Then Send them to your representatives
Quite a statement if thousands of one dollar messages start arriving in the mail, eh?
I live in San Diego, California so my list is of everyone from the San Diego City Council up to the president. Download it here.
If you live in San Diego, please feel free to download and use this list. If not, please find yours here.
Thank you for joining Occupy This Dollar!
