August 29, 2007 – 1:42 am
There’s a ramen museum in Yokohama. You don’t go for the musuem, but for the ramen shops. The basement’s set up as an arcade in the fashion of 1950’s Tokyo. The best noodle shops in Japan have branches set up here. You buy a ticket from a machine by the entrance to a shop, hand [...]
November 10, 2005 – 12:43 am
Wafu Spaghetti: a Japanese interpretation of Italian pasta
Mark Bernstein discovers that Tiger has a file with the Language of Flowers. So Cyn should hurry up and get her own PowerBook so she knows what those Peach Blossoms are about.
However, the file lives in a path that Spotlight doesn’t index.
Tim Bray learns that Bubble Tea is a recent phenomena. I recommend the avocodo [...]
February 16, 2005 – 12:00 am
A friend gave me a bottle of the 2002 Morambro Creek Padthaway Shiraz on Boxing Day. I opened it for Valentine’s: lovely, fruity, and chocolately. Around $14/bottle. Get more of this.
Rio Adobe on DeAnza at Prospect. Better than the ‘upscale’ carry-out places like Chipolte and Baja Fresh. Yesterday they had green chile pork stew.
Coffee Society [...]
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February 2, 2005 – 12:00 am
I met Ben Kite when I worked at OnRadio back in 1999. He was our systems admin, and a gangly, hyperactive polymath. Rumor had it he was asked to leave rabbinical school for arguing too much with his teachers.
Now Ben lives in China, where he’s teaching English in a school outside of Shanghai, and he’s [...]
August 18, 2004 – 12:00 am
Last Friday was the Geek Dinner in Mountain View.
Andy Freeman, Cynthia Gonsalves, myself, Vivian and Bill Lazar, and Dan Lyke (who came all the way down from the North Freakin’ Bay) enjoyed a lovely meal at Cafe Yulong.
Dan’s suggesting another South Bay get together, so if you know of another group-friendly place, let him know.
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Badger said I must blog the Urbock from Namibia Breweries, Windhoek, Namibia: a rich, dark bock with a strong chocolately flavor. Amazing stuff.
Following my friend Peg’s recipe, I made Avocado Ice Cream:
Puree the flesh of three ripe avocados with 1.5 cups of whole milk. Add one tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, a half cup of [...]
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It’s been awhile since Jeremy Zawodny
organized a Geek Dinner. Bill Lazar suggested throwing one in Mountain View before the end of Summer.
You’re invited to join Bill and I at Cafe Yulong, on Dana Street between Hope and Castro, at 7pm on Friday, August 13th (yeah, yeah, we’re not tridecaphobic.)
To RSVP, send a trackback to [...]
The Mercury News reviews my favorite Sushi place in the Valley. It’s four blocks from my office (and five minutes from Cynthia’s new gig.) if you’re visiting and want to meet up for dinner, I’d recommend Kitsho.
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There’s a video making the rounds of a bunch of MIT kids who wrote a command line program to order pizza. This is not a new thing. Back when Adobe Systems was in Mountain View, the engineers wrote burrito a command line program which created a Postscript file describing a burrito and faxed it to [...]
April 16, 2004 – 12:00 am
Dammit, I forgot the MoveOn Bakesale for Democracy happens tomorrow. If you want to sponsor a bake sale, you’ll find the Tiptree Award HOWTO useful.
March 22, 2004 – 12:00 am
I found Guyot Design’s SplashGuard at REI this weekend. It’s a plastic insert for the top of your wide-mouthed Nalgene bottle that keeps you from spilling the contents down the front of your t-shirt when you try to take a sip from it on the elliptical trainer at the gym.
February 27, 2004 – 12:00 am
Up in Seattle at Potlatch.
We started with a man threatening to jump off the Space Needle.
A friend took a bunch of us visiting fans to Mashiko in West Seattle. Amazing. Ask for the omakase dinner and put your self in Hajime-sensei’s hands.
Ron Drummond, and John Berry announced a 25th anniversary edition of John Crowley’s Little, [...]
January 28, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ via Boing Boing ] v-2 had a great retort to those who beat up on Ikea and Starbucks: in a global economy someone was going to find a way to mass market the Scandinavian furniture and coffee drinks that you thought you had a hipster monopoly on.
I’ve heard the same complaints about Amazon and [...]
January 1, 2004 – 12:00 am
I received several compliments on the wine punch I made for New Years Eve. Here’s how you make it.
Berry Wine Punch
Based on a LJ post by drood. The originator suggested using white zinfandel, however, and I have to intervene.
Ingredients
Three (3) 12 fluid oz. cans frozen lemonade concentrate
Two (2) bags frozen raspberries or mixed berries
Eight (8) [...]
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