Nothing to report on today, so let’s take a look at my Sentra’s speedometer/tachometer, shall we? Yeah, I know. Wow.
Monthly Archives: December 2003
Christmas Party
Today we went to a Christmas party with the Japanese Kids Playgroup. Bay wasn’t too afraid of Santa this year. It was pretty fun, and the food that people brought was delicious!
Amo
One of our cats, Amo. (aka The Cat from Hell, Devil Cat, Psycho-kittie, Sweetie)
My Egg…
…that was going to go on top of my cha-han (fried rice) fell on the floor. 🙁
Kebab Palace
I went to lunch with some friends at Kebab Palace, on Rutland. The food was really good. I had the “soccer sandwich” which was lamb meat, melted Dutch cheese and cucumber sauce on really great bread. The moussaka and goulash looked awesome too. The place was opened up by a young Java programmer Dejan Kostovski, who waited on us today, and the delicious food is prepared by his parents. I highly recommend trying it out! You can read a review of the restaurant from the Austin Chronicle here.
Chilly Tonight
I read that it will get down to 28°F tonight. Time to turn up the heat.
Bay’s Site and Typhoon Design
Over the past couple days, Bay’s site has been acting strangely. It was down, then up, then down, now back up. I am on some discussion boards trying to figure out what is going on. Just to let all of Bay’s fans know what is going on… I have no plans for the site to go away! By the way, the new URL is going to be http://kids.takoyaki.org, which should be working already (depending on the stability of bay.takoyaki.org).
My photo site, Typhoon Design, is back up, but I haven’t hooked up any of the cgi stuff yet. Therefore, the postcards are not working at the moment… I will try to fix it this weekend!
Puffy AmiYumi
I was listening to Eklektikos this morning, and John Aielli played a Puffy song, “Planet Tokyo”. I had recently borrowed the cd from my friend Mikey, and really like it. It’s pretty much like a lot of their older discs, fun and catchy. You can pick up bits and pieces of tons of other songs. Their “Teen Titans” song sounds a lot like “Secret Agent Man”.
I find it funny that in their American songs, they pronounce Tokyo just like an American: the “kyo” part rhymes with “neo”, while the Japanese pronounciation’s “kyo” rhymes with “flow”. I love when they sing in English! But my favorite songs by them have to be Pool Nite from Spike and Nichiyoobi No Musume because it’s got that surf music style.
I was so happy that we got to see them play during SXSW a few years back! Here’s a few pictures from the show:
My Guilty Desire
Yes, I want an iBook. They are so cool. Something I definitely don’t need, but they are so sweet! If anyone wants to give me one, please don’t be shy.
Cannibal!
Check out this article about a true sicko. Through the Internet, he found someone willing to let himself be killed and eaten. Here is the craziest paragraph from the CNN story:
“He is alleged to have cut off part of the victim’s body before the pair ate it together. The defendant is then alleged to have cut up the victim, storing his body in a freezer and eating it over the following months.”
For an even more colorful story, read the BBC version. Yeah, don’t bother with the CNN one. Much too bland.