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Kostadis in Lamb an homage to Dogs in Elk

Many years ago, my wife and I read this hilarious story about Dogs in Elk:

Anne V – 01:01pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1318 of 1332) Okay – I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat? This is not, unfortunately, a joke.

AmyC – 01:02pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1319 of 1332) Um, can you give us a few more specifics here?

Anne V – 01:12pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1320 of 1332) They’re inside of it. They crawled inside, and now I have a giant incredibly heavy piece of carcass in my yard, with 2 dogs inside of it, and they are NOT getting bored of it and coming out. One of them is snoring. I have company arriving in three hours, and my current plan is to 1. put up a tent over said carcass and 2. hang thousands of fly strips inside it. This has been going on since about 6:40 this morning.

AmyC – 01:19pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1321 of 1332) Oh. My. God. What sort of carcass is big enough to hold a couple of dogs inside? Given the situation, I’m afraid you’re not going to be create enough of a diversion to get the dogs out of the carrion, unless they like greeting company as much as they like rolling around in dead stuff. Which seems unlikely. Can you turn a hose on the festivities?

Anne V – 01:31pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1323 of 1332) Elk. Elk are very big this year, because of the rain and good grazing and so forth. They aren’t rolling. They are alternately napping and eating. They each have a ribcage. Other dogs are working on them from the outside. It’s all way too primal in my yard right now. We tried the hose trick. At someone elses house, which is where they climbed in and began to refuse to come out. Many hours ago. I think that the hose mostly helps keep them cool and dislodges little moist snacks for them. hose failed. My new hope is that if they all continue to eat at this rate, they will be finished before the houseguests arrive. The very urban houseguests. Oh, god – I know it’s funny. It’s appalling, and funny, and completely entirely representative of life with dogs.

 

And so here we have Kostadis in Lamb:


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How do you extract a Kostadis from a Lamb rib-cage? Much like a dog, you wait for him to finish eating…

 

 

No disintegrations!

 

Just finished my latest Lego Time Lapse.

Here we have the Imperial Super Star Destroyer Executor:

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And here we have a picture from the inside of the ship taken by a Bothan spy.

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Lord Vader has just finished reminding the bounty hunting scum that there will be no disintegration of Han. Sadly bobba fett, is no where to be seen…

And here is the time lapse video:

An apology to every Indian I ever asked for an Indian Restaurant

Ever since I came back from Bangalore, I have been on endless quest for a good Indian restaurant.

Over the years, I would ask my Indian friends: What’s a good Indian restaurant?

And they’d look at me funny, as if I had asked the most absurd question on the face of the Earth.

And I had been.

Because, asking for the best Indian restaurant is like asking for the Best European restaurant? Turns out that there are restaurants out there that are – yes – European restaurants. And as a European that makes about as much sense as an American restaurant does …

The best depends on what you want to eat, and more particularly what dish you want to eat and what atmosphere you want etc.

And for years, I had this fantasy that I would just walk into restaurant Foo and finally the food across all dishes would be awesome.

And today, I finally grew up. Turns out that my favorite Kabab place has terrible curries. And my favorite Curry place has terrible Kabab’s. And then neither have them have good Chicken 65, I have to go a third place – but be careful their Kabobs and Curry’s aren’t that great – so you have to be very careful with what you pick.

I’m thinking there are five levels of learning a cuisine:

  1. Good vs Bad – You’d be amazed at how few of us ever get out of that space. Most of my friends who eat Greek food in the bay area are trapped here…
  2. Recognizing gross differences (veg vs non-veg, curry vs kabab) heck – even recognizing that there are differences and different restaurants have different things they are good at is a big first step.
  3. Realizing that there are particular regional cuisines
  4. Picking a restaurant because it has a good dish.
  5. Never eating out because the food is terrible and only eating at home or at a friend’s house…

Right now, I’ve definitely graduated into level 2.

 

My heart runs cold, my favorite game is pixelated

I just finished installing X-Wing.

In my head, I remembered the amazing 3D graphics as the X-wing moved through space.

In my head, there were no pixels, or aliasing artifacts … Everything was amazingly smooth and pretty.

Pity I installed the game.

Because – the graphics are dated and old.

Although the rush of flying an X-wing never, ever, ever gets old.

So like the song says:

A part of me has just been wrecked
The pages from my mind are stripped
Oh no, I can’t deny it
Oh yeah, I guess I got to PLAY it

 

LEGO Falcon Time Lapse

Several years after I purchased the LEGO millenium falcon, I finally finished the thing.

Here’s the time lapse:

Here’s a picture of the final product:

IMG_2734And here’s an image of Han and Chewey waiting at the entrance of the Falcon with Leia and Obi-Wan in the cockpit…IMG_2732