Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Blog Number 6

Wow I can't believe it. 6 blogs. I never knew I would have made it this far. 6 is my favourite number too, one of.

I have a short speech. (bust out a ten-foot scroll). I'd like to thank the academy. I'd like to thank my parents. I'd like to thank blogger and google, without which this wouldn't have been possible. (music starts). Wait wait I have more people to thank. I want to thank Dell for making the keyboard, Berners-Lee and Al Gore for creating the internet and making what it is today. (music gets louder). But most of all I want to thank the fans, all 2 of them (are there even 2?), your continuing support pays for this, inspires me and makes this possible...(gets shuffled off)


Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Spare Tires

Okay so you just graduate from University, you get a cool job with a kick ass salary, what do you do? You need a place to stay, replace the university clothes with real cothes, replace university furniture with real furniture, some other random things like kitchen supplies and lamps and then you decide about la voiture...

You just graduated, 4-5 years of school, you want something nice, especially since you are moving to the other side of country (random example : east->west of U.S.). Now if you are in Redmond you have too many choices, nice cars are everywhere and even more dealers that want to sell them to you. You can get a BMW, Mercedes, VW, Audi whatever you want is available, and maybe you already decided you want a 318ci BMW or maybe an X3. But then you find a nice 1986 car for a fraction of the price and pay cash for it, take it to the dealer the next week and find out it has more leaks then the code you wrote in first year. Wait a minute what just happened, I thought you wanted the BMW? The Audi? Not even a VW??

Nope you got a used car, and not a 5 or 6 year old used car a 1986, so old that the car is called Legend. Now there is nothing wrong with a used car, and I actually recommend getting one when you graduate. I mean what is the point of getting a brand new car that will lose 30% of its value as soon you sign the contract (I'm sorry if these numbers aren't correct and misleading, but I'm just painting a picture here, oh and the fact that its a Legend is random too).

Now there is a point in getting this if you've always wanted a new car, been saving up money etc... If it is a conscious financial decision I can understand, but if you don't really know what you want, you just need a vehicle why not get a used car, they will last a few years and then you can get you Bentley or Bugatti... But be careful with the used used cars, take them to a mechanic before making the final purchase. Sometimes you can find this service where a mechanic actually comes with you to see the car and does a 100+ point inspection on the spot in about an hour for 100 bucks, pretty good.

Even if you get a lemon, you can always work on it and get to know it intimately, which is very rewarding (got milk theme music in the background).

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Blog ^ 2

So I'm reading all of these blogs and comments, people opinions on random things and things about their lives. Wouldn't it be cool if Blogs weren't only text, like if there were video blogs, audio or stuff like that. I find an audio comment would be more appropriate sometimes as apposed to a smiley face or thumbs down emoticon. It would be cool if you could record your blog and then play it back with highlighted sub-titles, sometimes the way someone says something is way more important than what is said. Maybe after a string of 4 or 5 audio comments appear you can listen to them in succession like some put together conversation, or like some meeting that changes the camera focus on who is talking with video.

Does something like this exist already??

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

New cooks in Bellevue

Ok so I've been eating out every day for the last year, maybe two years. Every single day, cafeteria, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, Italian, American, Greek, Mexican(really popular in Redmond\Seattle), Russian(Piroshky!), fast food, slow food, good food, bad food everything. Yeah yeah, it costs a lot of money, most food in restaurants aren't good for you blah blah. I know the story but was never motivated enough to do anything about...that is until now...

A friend of mine read a few books, Fast Food Nation and some other one, about the food and produce industry in the United States and became a self-proclaimed critic about the different kinds of meats you get, either at restaurants/grocery stores whatever. Everytime we went somewhere he would comment on the meat, whether it was up to par etc... I just noded because I really couldn't tell if the meat was good in deep fried lemon chicken or whatever. But he had a point. He longed for better meat, organic, well maintained animals I guess. And he found some farms online that ship their 100% natural organic meat to anywhere in U.S.. I think the first time he got back bacon and some steaks and said it was amazing. So this time around we got a complete package, cube steak, normal steak, ground beef and some massive piece of leg I think, not sure. It was about $100 bucks.

So the food arrived about a month ago and was sitting in the freezer, patiently, until yesterday. After some pursuasion about how bad the food was we were eating and how it affected our sleep schedule and other random things, he was also convinced we should do something. We did kind of put the blame solely on the food, and not our extra-curricular activities or the fact that we try to watch 3 movies every night, which might have been unfair...

So we set out to the WholeFood Market something to buy the ingredients to the dish we wanted to make. Apparently paying 2-3 dollars extra gets you better quality food, and if it says organic on it even better. We bought all the stuff we could and headed back home to cook the feast, tomato meat sauce with wheat fusilli (found it on some web page). By the way, even the trip to this place made me feel healthier, I think I would have been happy just walking in and leaving, maybe getting a burger on the way home...

Anyways the whole recipe thing took an hour to make and it was a moderate success. We cut, boiled, stirred, chopped, mashed like the best of them and made enough meat sauce for a small army; or the two of us for 3 days. We did invite some people over to eat and enjoy our new found skills but they all declined silently...

I would recommend cooking something to anyone. Like something that makes you use the stove, not for pre-made pizza, but maybe a simple dish you had as a kid. The food does taste different, I guess thats the homely feel, but it feels good to eat something you prepared. If anyone has ideas on food or good recipes let me know.

Bon Appetit!

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Wow finally another blog...

Ok so I've finally remembered this site and decided to add more to it. For some reasons its very difficult for me to come up with messages for this thing. I'm still not sure how to use it. I can write long emails to friends and keep on coming up with things to say but here I'm totally blocked. Like I'm not sure how to use this thing yet. Is it a sort of Diary? Am I talking to myself? Is it for me, for people I know, people I don't know. No clue. Should I publish this blogs existence on my msn name like everyone else, maybe mass emails telling people I now have a Blog (what is that suppose to mean???).

I'm not sure, but it seems like you can't have threaded conversations here. So you have some set of message postings by one person, i.e. my blogs. And then some random list of comments people are suppose to make, is that how a conversation is suppose to happen? Do conversations happen?

Am I asking too many dumb-ass questions? (Yeah everybody nods their head...)

Alright well I guess now with this blog it is another view into the random thoughts I have. Maybe I'll get more mature with this and document projects as a timeline for reference and entertainment or something.

How am I suppose to sign this???