February 2005 Entries
I’m now on the Indian leg of this journey. Updates will follow, perhaps slowly. (23.3kbps dialup only)
Prawns, shrimp or scampi?
They use the word “prawns” here almost exclusively, and cutely say “shrimps” when one of us Americans looks at them funny at the utterance of prawn something.
For those of you too lazy to follow the link: shrimp=prawn except for some people only use prawn for medium to large size shrimp.
http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/
i used to believe is a collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. it will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. the following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren't so strange after all...
For instance: i used to think that since the movie screens in theatres were so big that there was a huge video player behind the screen and several people had to lift the gigantic tape into the player and then someone had to be...
Co-worker Josh told us over dim sum lunch today about the 6–train Celsius system. Start out at 33rd street with 0; 33 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 0 degrees Celsius. For each local stop North add 5 degrees Celsius. Of course it isn’t always scientifically accurate, so don’t try and mix volatile chemicals using this, but it certainly helps figure out if you need a sweater or not.
33rd street = 042nd street = 551st street = 1059th street = 1568th street = 2077th street = 2586th street = 3096th street = 35103rd street = 40110th street = 45116th street =...
As an avid Winxp remote desktop user I thought I knew all the tricks. Need to restart? I thought the best way was cmd…”shutdown -r”. Then yesterday I needed to access the change password dialog from the ctrl-alt-delete menu. Well of course you can’t ctrl-alt-delete in a remote sessions.
CTRL-ALT-END brings up the ctrl-alt-delete menu in a remote desktop session.
[found via Google Groups posting]
It hasn’t gotten old for me. I still really want to go stay at the ice hotel.
The hotel is constructed every November in the village of Jukkasjârvi in northern Lapland, Sweden and opens in December (it melts in April). The hotel features a lobby, a pillar hall, a film auditorium and 30 individually designed suites like the one you see here.
[via Mocoloco]
gmail had a good thing going with their invite private-club scheme. But I think it is time to drop it.
I have 49 invites available. Yes, 49. Let me know if you want one.
Photo courtesy of Emily Wilson.
Tuesday was a good day. I saw a taping of Last Call with Carson Daly. The guests were Mark Burnett, the boss Tony Danza, some comedian whose name escapes me and I can’t seem to find online, and Matt Pond PA. I was on Matt Pond’s list so the seats were great (I was the +1). Two items of note: they film the show in the same studio they film Saturday Night Live in and C.Daly looks exactly like what you think he looks like. During the band’s performance they have everyone move over to the music stage...
RNam says: hi corey RNam says: Kung Hei Fat Choy Corey says: uh... Corey says: you too? RNam says: yes... "Kung Hei Fat Choy" is the blessing in Chinese New Year RNam says: "Kung Hei" = wishing you, "Fat Choy" = fortune Corey says: great. I'll start tellilng random people on the street and see how it goes RNam says: in chinese culture, married people should give red pocket to those who are not married Corey says: what is red pocket? RNam says: a little red envelop that contains money RNam says: so.. when you come to hk,...
We was robbed.
The chili turned out really fantastic. Great care was taken in the organic ingredient selection and cooking and it showed in the final product.
The mystery spice was “Coriander.” But just a tiny bit.
Two factors conspired in our defeat.
There were eight entries and only around 25 people max. Most everyone came with close friends who knew who’s chili was who's and voted accordingly most of the time. There was no attempt to disguise pots.
New Coke. See, back in the 1980s Pepsi was going around with their “choice of a new generation” and proclaiming that...
Life gets better one tiny improvement at a time…
I prefer MSN Mappoint for my mapping needs. They just added paste an address. This will save me a few minutes over the course of the year.
http://mappoint.msn.com/Home.aspx
And I needed it because I am buying this here.
This afternoon I will be entering a Chili-bake-off competition / Superbowl fiesta in Brooklyn.
I grew up eating this Chili and so I felt that I should stay true to my roots and make it for the first time myself.
Chasen's Chili
This is the stuff of which Hollywood legends are made. Rumor has it back when Elizabeth Taylor was filming Cleopatra in Rome she craved the chili made at Chasen's Restaurant in Los Angeles so much that she was willing to pay $100 just to have the order shipped to her. For years the recipe remained a closely guarded secret....
Still in training, but I thought I'd share a quick story.
We have a he-she in the room. I'm not sure if he is pre or post op, but whatever, he-she is very nice and I'm not here to make unnecessary fun of him-her. However, he-she is roughly 6'3" and broad shouldered, but speaks in a relatively feminine sounding voice. The funny part is when he-she sneezes it sounds like a low roar jet-engine.
I am back from New Orleans and straight into a 5–day BizTalk 2004 training class. There’s no internet access or cell phone reception in the room so I am cut-off from the world even though I’m sitting at a computer and without any good reason like vacationing.
There are only like seven people in the class, yet the pace is brutally slow. Day one Ian and I played a lot of minesweeper (did everyone know about the click-both-mouse-button feature? I didn’t.) but that got old. Day two I needed a good old fashioned floppy-disk, no-install game. I chose Rogue. Here’s the...