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IFES Crab Fest 31 Jan 2011 | 01:36 pm
A few months ago, I had a crab craving. I looked for a good crab restaurant in the area and found a few candidates like Boiling Crab in San Jose and Banana Leaf in Milpitas. However, there was one int...
Mutant flu of death 8 Jan 2011 | 07:51 pm
I am on the road to recovery after being laid out with the flu / sinus infection / lingering cough for the past 2 weeks. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sick and for such a protracted period in my lif...
Batman: Under the Red Hood 5 Dec 2010 | 09:02 pm
I just watched Batman: Under the Red Hood on Netflix tonight. I’d been debating that or Ip Man, but in the end, I decided to go with an animated feature. I really enjoyed the film: it started out righ...
Chicago eating report 7 Nov 2010 | 07:05 am
I had a great time in Chicago last week: so much that I had to recover a bit this week before putting my trip report together. The reason is because I pigged out the entire time I was there at some of...
The Old Apartment 24 Oct 2010 | 02:19 am
I’m… home? I’m back in the old apartment in Evanston for the week. Lola’s been staying here when not traveling and visiting home in the Bay Area since her new job is technically based out of Chicago....
Camping 13 Oct 2010 | 03:37 pm
Lola and I went camping for the first time this past weekend. Well, I don’t know if you can really call it camping: we drove all they way to the campsite, we stayed in a pavilion type structure (with ...
Lego 26 Sep 2010 | 02:34 pm
So sad: I purchased a Halo Scorpion Mega Bloks set (note not Lego) today to bring to the office on Monday (we’re sprucing up the place a bit). I cleaned off the coffee table and got out the camera: re...
Walking Dead / Invincible 24 Sep 2010 | 06:33 pm
I’m finally caught up to date on The Walking Dead and Invincible, 2 comic series by Robert Kirkman. I love comic books, but I’m way too lazy to go to the comic store every week to pick up single issue...
My life in Halo, part 2 14 Sep 2010 | 06:04 pm
Part 1 of this post is here. We continued to play Halo 2, basically until Halo 3 came out. In fact, even after the Xbox 360 launched and we waited in line overnight for it, the game that spent the mo...
My life in Halo, part 1 13 Sep 2010 | 06:39 pm
Tuesday’s impending launch of Halo Reach is occupying most of the idle cycles of my brain. I’ve been watching gameplay videos, reading the recently unembargoed reviews, and in general, looking forward...