drewd The Adventures of Carlos d’Avis

Shadrach Rising

Tonight is the second Shadrach-only tryout practice. We shared scrimmage fields with Shazam for the month of April and had our first exclusive practice last Wednesday, which a bit over three dozen (36+) players attended. Wow. We have apparently arrived as a team. Slash Seattle Ultimate is insane.

Sadly, only eleven ladies were there, three of those returners. I hope that we have more ladies tonight—we will perhaps benefit from recent Riot and Viva cuts. And a few ladies from UW Element have been unavailable in preparation for the UPA College Championships this weekend.

Ignoring returners/core players with a guaranteed spot on Shadrach, twenty-one (21) men were trying out last week with an additional eight (8) returners, I think. And there are more men than that who have expressed interest in playing but have not attended. We shall see how many are there tonight.

Our target roster is 25 players. I see the optimal arrangement as an offensive line of eleven (11) with five women and six men. The defensive line would be fourteen (14) players with six women and eight men.

Regardless, I am way stoked for the season. After a week off following my neck and back injury, I returned to Air Alert yesterday afternoon. Let me tell you: it was death, but I feel great today. I think tonight I will force myself to play less and watch more. And I may “coach” a few players into showing off certain skills for which we’re looking.

Running for your huck and your dump and your slap mack
Is your name Carlos d’Avis?
No, mine’s Shadrach.

Payback for Nader

Former GOP congressman Bob Barr declares as Libertarian presidential candidate.

Brilliant. I honestly don’t see how we, the Democratic Party, can lose the presidency. Unless Hillary somehow holds on in the nomination battle until Halloween. Or, unless the article is correct regarding Barr’s possibility to steal young, anti-war voters from Obama. Seriously? Check out that photo—Barr looks like a crazy uncle! And he’s Libertarian.

Can’t we just give the presidency to Obama already?

Quick Brain Dump

Finding a new place to live is hard. Seriously.

This is why I love Web 2.0:

Hi, Carlos d’Avis.

Hammer (MCHammer) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out Hammer’s profile here:
http://twitter.com/MCHammer

Best,
Twitter

Sometimes, mostly while eating triple cream Brie, I have a difficult time with the dilemma presented at Paganello two years ago, “Would you rather spend the rest of your life without cheese or without oral sex?”

Devastating.

And now it’s time to mow the lawn. After that, Zucker and I are getting ice cream.

Heavens Descending

I think this photograph is by far the best I have taken so far this year. And I took it with my iPhone. Take that, Nikon D70! Photography is not about technology but rather inspiration and opportunity and timing and mostly life.

Wait, shit, the iPhone is technology. *runs away*

Hot Domain, Drew

Here is a list of the domain names that I own:

• bellalogica.com
• briancalle.com
• carlylestout.com
• claremontultimate.org
• decielo.com
• drewd.com
• esplainit.com
• frisbase.net
• frisbolero.com
• hotbombdotcom.com
• lei-out.com
• loveroni.com
• noodlepop.com
• trinastout.com
• whitscott.com
• zoomfocusclick.com

Some of these I obviously hold for other people (and some of those perhaps a bit awkwardly). A few of them represent personal projects or sites for friends that never came to fruition. I spend approximately $150 per year on these “properties,” plus another few hundred in site hosting costs. And I receive approximately zero (0) return on investment.

Regardless, I cannot stop myself from registering a new domain name when I have a new idea. I think a strong component of this compulsion is my perception of the scarcity of good domain names. I contributed a whiz-bang 2.0ish domain name to my work the other week, and was a bit miffed that I hadn’t conceived of it myself.

My newest acquisition is hotbombdotcom.com. See, some of the Claremont Ultimate kids took to congratulating successful hucks or exciting throws by saying, “Hot bomb dot com slash Gordy slash Jughead slash SWEET.” Or something like that, I don’t really remember. hotbomb.com has never been available but I think this domain is the next best option. .net is for suckers, and doesn’t work with the rhyme.

So, now, what I want to build is a little hotbomb application that automatically parses the URL to show photographs and text. Think hotbombdotcom.com/krump/lull/PFL: the script finds a photograph tagged with ‘krump’ and another with ‘lull’ and then displays crazy, colored text of any other URL component strings for which no photographs are tagged. Awesome.

Do you have thoughts on what I should do with any of my other domains? And when am I planning to change 2008 from the year of conception to the year of execution? We shall see.

Bonafide Hustler

I loved Freaks and Geeks and, as such, am a sucker for James Franco, despite his Spider-errors, and Seth Rogen, despite the questionable philosophy of Knocked Up. So, team those two back up and throw Paper Planes (heh, get it?) by MIA, a song stuck in my consciousness for the last half year, into the trailer, and you have a movie I just have to see. I give you Pineapple Express.

And then I remember that I talk all the time about movies I just have to see, and that I watch every single trailer on the Apple site. And then I never ever actually go to see a movie. Huh.

Oh, except for Planet B-Boy. I talked all the time about how I had to see it. And then I saw it. And it was amazing. Watch the trailer and check out Ichigeki’s team routine:

And now go see the movie. Do it!

DarkCash HorseLove

Wondering about my recent silence? I’ve been spending my spare time working on a few different projects, such as the following:

DarkCash HorseLove from Carlos d'Avis on Vimeo.