It's an Exciting World

Meatball Invitational

Steph and I biked to Caltrain and then took that to the city, we were able to do it without incident and got to Nick’s about noon. While they watched the last season of Sherlock I got to grinding the pork. After that other people started showing up and we got to balling up the meat to make the meatballs. We had a pretty good time with it, and at the end we got to eat a ton of meatballs (actually about 10 lbs). Steph made some cheese and nut balls, that were a little dense, but worked great when we cooked them in a tikka masala.

October 30, 2014 0

Dumplings and Pom Poko

We met people at House of Dumpling in San Mateo for dinner on Saturday. Then we went over to Lindsay’s place and watched a movie called Pom Poko. The premise of the movie was that tanuki (raccoon dogs) had their habitat destroyed and were able to change shape into anything they wanted. They were able to use their scrotums to make many different objects. The movie was very depressing. We watched it with Jeremy, Lindsay, Debbie, Kevin, Andrew, Steph, and I. We had cake for Jeremy’s birthday as well and it was tasty.

October 30, 2014 0

Amped

This was an amazing book, just like Wired, but there were a few stretches taken to keep the story coherent. I really liked the role the computer guy played in this book, and how he owned the rest of the world with all of them freaking out. The twist at the end was a little odd, but not something you couldn’t see coming.

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October 24, 2014 0

Wired

This was a delightful book of schemes, good fake science, and ethical dilemmas. The most interesting part was the ethical considerations around the release of the intelligence enhancing drug, the time factor of it, and the life prolonging drug. I do wonder what would happen if these drugs were to actually come out, and also what would happen if they weren’t made publicly available should people know about them.

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October 24, 2014 0

Xia: Legends of a Drift System

I played Xia again, and it wasn’t as fun as last time. The game went wayyy to slow, and the explanation took a long time as well. I got ahead and had to slow down a bit. I also noticed that getting ahead made you start accelerating, so there was a runaway effect. We all called the game early, but I think I could have won it if we played it all the way out. I was able to get a big gun and kill everyone with it.

October 24, 2014 0

Plated and Dr. Who

Jeremy came over a little early, and we started prepping the kitchen and he started cooking his famous dip. Once Steph got home we started cooking the plated meals. She was cooking a nice Indian dish, palak paneer. I was cooking the other dish, mushroom dredged steak with cauliflower and turnip mash. The mash was better than I had expected, but not as good as I had hoped. The steak on the other hand was fantastic. Nicely crisped on the outside and juicy in the middle. When taking a bit of the mash and steak together it was to die for. We had some technical difficulties with getting the episode to play, but once we got it going it turned out to be a decent episode. There was a lot more drama than normal, but that is kinda what made it great.

October 22, 2014 0

Lazy Bear

Nick set up a dinner at Lazy Bear last night, and it was amazing. The food was soooo good, and we had an 11 course dinner that lasted from 8pm to 11pm. There were 10 of us there including Nick, Steph, Wade, Chrissy, Adam, Brian, Jeremy, and two of Nick’s coworkers. I had a great time. I especially liked the egg appetizer, the pork, and the duck. The chef gave us a bottle of champaign for being the largest group they’ve ever had. Steph was silly while talking to the chef when he came over.

October 21, 2014 1

Archer Stung by a Yellow Jacket

While walking the kitties this past weekend Archer got a little bit too playful, and managed to temporarily capture a yellow jacket. Needless to say the insect was not pleased, and stung Archer on his little paw. He was so sad looking limping around, so Steph and I decided to hang out with him for a bit to make sure he was ok. We tried to get him to eat 12mg of Benadryl, but couldn’t get him to take it. After a few hours he seemed fine so we decided it was ok to head out and get some food for cooking. He was fine the next morning, even though it was still possible to tell the difference in size between the paws.

October 20, 2014 1

Ad Astra

Iliya, Steph, and I played a game of Ad Astra. I started with a water world, so I set my aim towards the terraformers. Iliya and Steph were getting pretty good synergies from each other on production and scoring, but I was able to just barely outstrip them by building 4 terraformers, and scoring that card twice. I won by 14 points, which is a pretty big margin.

October 20, 2014 0