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Stealth Mode Disengaged

April 5, 2011 Cars / Family / Friends / Post-A-Day 2011
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Wow, I’ve been under the radar for almost a week! Sorry, every­one. I’ll try to make up for it this week.

I went back to Davis/​Sac last Thurs­day to do some car work. Unfor­tu­nately, it took longer than expected, and I ended up not com­ing back to SF until Mon­day morn­ing. While there, I was on Gio Linh’s net­book and tried to avoid spend­ing time on it.

Back on the car front, we did not fin­ish every­thing I had hoped to get done. How­ever, I do have power win­dows and power locks now! Thanks to Eddie C and Sum for look­ing out for me and get­ting this upgrade for me (and for free)! Sum even did the whole swap for me and let me use his wifi to work.

How­ever, Dong Ha was dis­ap­pointed to hear about my upgrade. Appar­ently, she thought that my car only had one win­dow crank that was shared across all four win­dows. (I actu­ally had all four cranks, it’s just that they don’t stay on, so they were usu­ally sit­ting on the car floor. I kept one crank in the arm­rest area to have quick access for toll booths and drive-​throughs.) Dong Ha told me she had planned to get me four Bedaz­zled cranks for my birth­day. What a shame. Maybe she can bedaz­zle the new switches.

Schooled

January 9, 2011 Friends / Post-A-Day 2011 / Video Games
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No good news to report yet. :/​I am back to get my posts up to date, though.

Today, I played Star­Craft 2 for the first time. (Well, online any­way. I did a cou­ple of single-​player mis­sions on a guest account of Eddie C’s before.) I bit the bul­let and got myself a copy of Star­Craft 2, since all my friends were play­ing it.

It was actu­ally a hard deci­sion. You see, back when the orig­i­nal Star­Craft came out, I was a huge pro­po­nent of Total Anni­hi­la­tion, another RTS that came out at the same time. The scope, the flow, the con­stant updates, the myr­iad tac­tics the units offered… I loved it. My friends at the time were pretty split, so I had both, but I always pre­ferred TA over SC.

Then Supreme Com­man­der 1 and 2 came out, and none of my friends played those. The RTS genre shrank dras­ti­cally, and now I feel like I’m choos­ing between SC2 or no RTS gam­ing with my friends.

So here I am, suck­ing it up. In both senses of the phrase. (My based got wiped out by zealot rush in the first five min­utes, if you were curi­ous.) If you are inter­ested in play­ing with me, my Bat​tle​.net user­name is din­hter­net. You should also be able to find me through Face­book/​Real Friends or what­ever it’s called.

Jiggling With Excitement

August 26, 2010 Family / Food / Friends / Internet / Pictures
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So I was read­ing ran­dom arti­cles on the inter­net today when I came across this post. Funny stuff, reminds me of the old “Look at these fuck­ing pep­pers!” pic­tures.

Then I noticed that one of the links is to a pic­ture of a savory Jell-​O salad. That’s right. I can’t tell what exactly is in it, but looks like at least olives, cel­ery, and yel­low bell peppers/​cheese slices. Eddie C thinks that the cel­ery is shrimp. This mon­stros­ity could likely be one or more of the lay­ers of the Eric­son Fam­ily salad. Who knows?

Any­way, appar­ently fine Amer­i­can cui­sine went through a phase where every­thing was jel­li­fied. Gelatin sal­ads and aspic meats. They used to have cel­ery, mixed veg­etable, tomato, and Ital­ian fla­vored Jell-​O.

I was ini­tially put off, but I have to admit a cer­tain (mor­bid?) curios­ity about the whole idea. Eddie C says he’s down to try it. I guess I’m going to try to re-​create this for his birth­day trip down in Pismo. (Fair warn­ing to every­one else going… you may want to make back-​up din­ner plans.) I looked around a found a cou­ple of inter­est­ing recipes. Maybe I’ll try to pair with a good meat Jell-​O recipe, too.

The last time I made any­thing Jello while on vaca­tion was TAK Retreat, when we tried to make Jello shots with Ever­clear and it wouldn’t set, so we a thin Jello cap over a Dixie cup full of rub­bing alco­hol. This has got to be bet­ter than that, right?

Oh, and accord­ing to this web­site, (not Wikipedia, though) Jell-​O used to make an offi­cial whisky fla­vor! How did I miss out on the best era ever?!

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