Wednesday, March 14, 2012
It’s a double holiday today … one Mathematic, the other Japanese! HAPPY PI DAY! Today it March 14th, a day many people (at least here in the States) notate as 3/14 or 3.14 … which just happens to be the first three numerals in the famous mathematical constant of the ratio between a circle’s circumference [...]
When I first got back to the Seattle area, a friend told me about a new restaurant/bar that had opened up. It was supposed to be run by gamers and feature a big LAN and a Playstation … and it was called the AFK Tavern. Since then, I found out that the place was actually [...]
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Holiday season traditions provide great comfort emotionally and spiritually, and today is one of the greatest of them all … Happy Chinese Food Eating Day to everyone out there! (Some small number of you may actually celebrate a relatively obscured version of this holiday called “Xmas” … if so, a merry one of those to [...]
I was out getting some dinner at a sandwich shop near a local movie theater. It’s Friday night, and the staff seemed REALLY worn out, which I imagine happens EVERY week but ESPECIALLY so on weeks when big action movies launch … or big teen culture movies … or movies starring Hollywood icons … so [...]
After watching all of those animations that were labeled in English, I started poking around with the ones described in Russian only, having no idea what I’d find. Holy cats! Some of these are even BETTER than the ones I watched this morning. My favorite so far is Jackie Chan vs. The Eye of Sauron. [...]
This is just one of a WHOLE BUNCH of animated ads for some Russian (?) crunchy snack. As near as I can tell, they are ALL awesome!!!
Over the past month or so I’ve been cooking more. Well, that’s kind of an understatement. Whereas in the previous half year I’d eaten almost EVERY meal out, since the start of May I’ve eaten in for all but a handful of meals. I’ve reacquainted myself with my kitchen implements and utensils and dusted off [...]
It’s 3/14 … which makes it Pi Day (pi being equal to 3.14… get it?). I celebrated with a special Pi Day doodle over at Doodle-A-Day.com plus, of course, this weeks 10′x10′ Toon was pi-themed … and I’m planning on going out to eat some pie in a little bit (so I’ll be eating it [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
I have a tendency to fall into a rut of sorts when it comes to food. Well, not a rut, really, because that has a negative connotation. I just have this habit of getting into a groove where I want to eat the same thing repeatedly over a period of days or sometimes weeks. This [...]
When I got up this morning, I found a note had been slipped under my door. It was from the manager of the Palace Station Hotel & Casino asking me if I’m SURE that I really WANT to head home today. It went on to offer me the option to stay for ANOTHER night in [...]