Rough Draft

Snakes on a Plane

The teaser trailer for what is sure to be the best movie of 2006 is available. There's a bunch of snakes. They're on a plane. And Samuel L Jackson (armed with a taser) has had enough of them. How will this movie not be awesome? A group trip from work is already being planned for its release on Aug 18th.

By the way, if you haven't heard of this movie before, read the Wikipedia entry about it.

Urban Iditarod

Last Saturday I ran in the Urban Iditarod. The Iditarod is a dog sled race across Alaska and the Urban Iditarod is much the same...only it takes place over a rough, four mile stretch of urban streets in San Francisco with shopping carts full of beverages being pulled by people.

My co-worker, Mike, has run the past couple years and happened to mention it at lunch one day so a few of us decided to join his team, Christopher Walken's Dogs of War. I also invited my roommate Andrew along (seeing as he's a runner, and 3 year champion of the Beer Mile back at Case).

Aside from pictures of previous years, I wasn't sure what to expect. Andrew, Iroro, and I arrived around 11:45 and found the alley just behind the 5th and Mission garage where people were beginning to line up. The best cart of the early arrivals was without a doubt the pirates who also had a boom box blasting "Yo, ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!" along with a slew of 80's songs. Other interesting themes included the Ghostbusters (who walked down the street to much applause), Scooby Doo, and a cart done up as a hot dog stand.

The race itself was a lot of fun. Though it was probably a bad idea to let Andrew (who's run in the Boston Marathon) set the pace of the cart. Impressively, Iroro kept up with him the entire way. Mike and I kept pace for the first few legs, but after that we'd only make it about half a leg before dropping back and letting Andrew and Iroro runaway with the cart.

The race took just about an hour to complete, with four 5-10 minute pit stops along the way. The race ended at The Cannery, which is just outside Fort Mason. We hung out there for a while, and Mike got his picture taken with Frank Chu. It was quite a fun afternoon. You can fully expect Chritopher Walken's Dogs of War to return next year.

You can see all the pictures Andrew took of our team and the race here.