oh, this is all kinds of cool…
2010
2010 sounds so futuristic…oooh. spacepacks and robotic servants. well, i still haven’t gotten my spacepack in the mail, but i did get a roomba. that thing is all kinds of awesome.
i meant to post a bit earlier, but it was a relatively dull and uninteresting holiday. avatar in 3d imax on christmas eve with max and patsy, then minca ramen with fonz the following tuesday, and then up in the air with sally and nicky on saturday. all days in-between were spent either 1. staring at my ceiling, 2. watching anime, 3. playing wow online, or 4. staring at my roomba trying to get out of my living room. awesomeness.
and as a secondary excuse, i meant to post earlier, but i was also waiting to get pictures of my new niece, who was born yesterday. bro-in-law is seriously slacking on the facebook front. post, damnit! god knows my sis is in no shape to post. i know…she told me herself that they don’t have wifi in the hospital (the horror!). anyhoo, so this is a post to tide myself over until i can post real pics of my new niece…who’s name isn’t even 100% set in stone yet. hmph…
dear spammers, fuck you
these spam comments i’ve been getting lately have been making me wonder just what is a real comment and what isn’t. they’re usually vague comments that have somewhat of a connection to the topic, but they’re otherwise nonsensical and may reference things that don’t even relate to the entry. at this point i’m also pretty glad i upgraded mt…otherwise i would’ve had alot of spam scrubbing to do.
i’m wondering at this point whether that cowboy bebop commenter is even real. if you’re reading this btw, feel free to comment again. otherwise i’m deep-sixing that comment and link at the end of the week.
south china mall
mmm…gotta love the smell of progress. it sometimes smells eerily like massive failure. that doesn’t mean it doesn’t make for a fascinating watch though. the largest mall in the world…the south china mall in dongguan, china, is twice the size of the mall of america, and is currently 99% empty. yet it still operates because it was deemed too big to abandon (no shitting). it must suck to work there. via gizmodo
hot tub time machine
oh fuck, forget about iron man 2 and clash of the titans. hot tub time machine word. via gizmodo
the whole fucking universe
the entirety of the known universe, as mapped out for the hayden planetarium. it puts in perspective our place in existence…which is to say, we are a speck in this universe. via gizmodo.
iron man and titans
mmm…it’s a good day for new trailers.
the brand-spanky new trailer for iron man 2 is out, and so is the second trailer for the upcoming remake of clash of the titans. very sweet x2. release the kraken!
both via aicn…
roomba fucker
in other news…we had our office party yesterday at the ainsworth. instead of the usual gift exchange, we went with the more cut-throat “white elephant” model. which, as it turned out, i was actually drawn dead last and could take anything i wanted (woot!). i snatched 3 scratch-off game cards that someone had brought as gifts, and promptly won $15 (woot!).
i spent it this morning on 3 more scratch-off cards and came away with……$0. fuck. holidays…yaaaaay….
he-man
december 09
i really do wish there were a way to stretch the period of time between thanksgiving and christmas. it flies by way too fast. maybe we should move thanksgiving to sometime in…august. yes, august…then we can pop out the christmas decorations at the end of summer and ride the holiday season all through fall and winter. word.
END OF NOVEMBER
hmm, i guess i haven’t posted a “journal” entry in a while. bullet-point time…or at the least a summation of various things i did, but without the specific times or days. the end of november saw fonz’s berfday drinkies at 2a in e.vil, luis’ berfday drinks the following day at the whiskey tavern in chinatown, brunch with pho at nyonya (hey they moved across the street!), and thanksgiving with my sis and her extended family in joisey.
DECEMBER PROPER
decembers events are a bit better catalogued, and it started with a mini-hot pot gathering at my place last weekend with i4, max, patsy, mai, and john. we loaded up enough food from chinatown for probably a small village and fired up dual hot pots. we got stuffed. it was good. i spent the rest of the week in a food coma, then met up with melissa friday nite at robata-ya for plates and plates of robata goodness. i think (it’s a bit fuzzy) we also tore thru a round of shochu, followed by 3 rounds of sake. this was then expounded upon with 2 more rounds of sake at decibel, and another 2 rounds of…stuff…at angels share. i’m surprised that i shook it off as easily as i did the next day.
di and i went to check out the samurai exhibit at the met the next day. the exhibit was ending january 10th (it’s a relatively short exhibit), and this was one exhibit that i would stab someone with a shank if i missed. the sizable collection of robes, samurai armor, and seriously gorgeous katanas made me giddy, though i sort of regretted that i took this long to see it (they change out the exhibit every week or so since their collection for the exhibit was larger than the amount displayed). god i hope they bring back a similar exhibit in the future.
afterwards, we decided on a ramen dinner in midtown. this was actually a stupid idea…i don’t know what i was thinking. we got out of the 6 train and had to fight our way west towards sapporo on 49th and broadway. and for those unfamiliar with midtown geography, rockefeller center is between the 6 train and the aforementioned ramen joint. *sigh* well, i will admit it was nice walking past the rockefeller christmas tree. i hadn’t actually seen it in person in years. so purty. after our ramen dinner, we decided to get the fuck out of midtown and back to more familiar locales (e.vil, duh). we actually had decided on cha-an for a post-dinner tea retreat, but that was overruled after seeing the long line winding down the stairs. fuck that…we’re going to go get liquored. i’m not usually one to double-dip bars on the same weekend, but yea…i found myself back at angels share. this was however ok, as we tried out their seasonal fair this time around. di had their “hot cocoa” drink (earl gray infused godiva chocolate liqueur) and i had their “hot apple cider” (calvados, hot apple cider, caramel syrup, and roasted apple slices)…holy shit good. we also chatted up our neighbors to our left who were curious about the drinks and about eats around the area (you asked the right dude!).