Thursday, January 29, 2009
I was originally gonna use a 5 star scale for my restaurant reviews. I think I’ll leave the top end open though. There’s always something tastier to be had. So if you see a six star review someday, it’s not a typo, hopefully.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Facing East Taiwanese Restaurant 東來食府 / Taiwanese / Bellevue / *****
Facing East is number three in my top three places to eat in Seattle (the other two). It has answered for us the question of where to find decent Chinese food in Seattle. The only thing I’ve had here that wasn’t really great was [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The extreme right (the 13% who said they approve of Dick Cheney) keeps flogging this indignation that everyone is treating Obama like a god, and trying to silence dissent. Manufactured nonsense as usual. Obama just SEEMS like a god after 8 years of incompetence. And you being too chicken-shit to speak your mind doesn’t mean [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
My work playlist (whole albums):
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin – Good driving music. Jouncy-bouncy, fairly upbeat
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes & Sun Giant EP – These damn hippies make some good sounding shit! Kinda sounds like they’re singing in the bathroom sometimes. Songs often sound kinda similar to each other
In Flight Radio [...]
Even better US Airways crash landing footage. Wicked stuff:
Best footage I’ve seen of the Hudson river water landing. Starts around 2:00 from the left of the frame. Around 2:45 it zooms way in. From a coast guard camera:
I’ve been feeling fat and lazy since winter kicked in a few months ago and I haven’t been able to bike. Also, even when I was biking, my upper body was neglected. I have a hard time finding upper body exercise that isn’t artificial / stupid / painful / time consuming. For the hell of [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Preet’s / Indian / Redmond / *****
Number two in my top three places to eat in Seattle is Preet’s. The other two. Though technically in Redmond, it’s only 25 minutes from my house when there’s no traffic, so to me it’s close enough. Preet’s is a vegetarian Indian spot. Manpreet runs the place, and [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wingsuit Base Jumping. Saw this a couple of weeks ago. It’s up there with the coolest things I’ve ever seen: