oh the excitement
Mar. 3rd, 2010 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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In case you haven't heard: HBO has green lighted "A Game of Thrones"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh it will be an epic series. I just hope I'm not so attached to the original text that I'll be freaking out about every change they make, lol.
It's March and that means the start, once again, of Dine Around Seattle! Lots of places are doing a $15 3-course lunch, including Dahlia Lounge, so if any Seattlites are interested (lunch or dinner), let me know. I am always down for going to one of these.
My wireless keyboard at work started freaking out (it's intolerable when you're typing and it doesn't catch every letter) so I have a new wired one. The problem is that it's not an ergo keyboard and I'm not used to that, so the typing is still typo prone. :/ I'm having an ergo one ordered and I hope it gets here soon.
So you know how I may be going to Esalen in April? I hope I DO get to go, and I hope the weather is good, because I will have the chance to take photos like this. I can't seem to find a way to paste it here directly... stupid Flickr. Anyway, that photo was taken by a user name twoeightnine ... isn't it gorgeous?? Esalen has baths that are carved right into the mountainside. When you're done with your bath and you let the water out, you can see it cascade down the mountain. How awesome is THAT.
I love potatoes. I know very few people who don't. So it's a big deal when I say that I have discovered my new favorite way to make/eat them. I think it is better than any other way to prepare potatoes, which is saying a lot. I am talking about Tom Douglas's garlic smashed potatoes. They're not mashed, they're smashed. I had them first when I went to Lola with J. They were incredibly good, so I looked for a recipe for them in the Tom Douglas books I have. I found a very similar one for Greek Smashed Potatoes, which seemed exactly the same except it had oregano, so I made it without. And they were just as good as what I had at Lola, but didn't cost me $8. It is, I will say, very time consuming. It's simple and easy and the active time is practically nil, but it does take almost 2 hours. That's why it's best to make a whole bunch at a time! The recipe for these is here, along with my adventures in making/eating Julia Child's Langue de Boeuf Braisee, Calcutta, or sliced fresh beef tongue braised with curry. :D
Finally, spoilers for BSG Razor:
- I enjoyed the movie, but I don't really understand why we had to go back and see all that stuff unfold on the Pegasus. I felt like we came away from the movie with 1 new piece of knowledge: that Kara's leading them all into death/danger (if that can even be believed).
- The webisodes this time were a waste of time. Unlike last time, they actually repeated practically the whole thing in the movie itself! I really didn't need to watch it twice.
- Why did young!William Adama have piercing blue eyes?? Does Edward James Olmos have blue eyes and I've just never noticed?? If he does in fact have brown eyes, like I think, would it have been that hard to get his younger counterpart (who was otherwise perfect in every way) to wear brown contact lenses? Honestly!
- The one thing about this show that's jarring is that the characters are wishy washy. Roslin seemed like a very liberal woman, but lately she's become more and more conservative. I mean, being OK with kids laboring in the engine room (or whatever)? Bull-headedly insisting on Baltar's guilt, regardless of the due process of law? Then there's Adama, who fluctuates between caring about his crew to saying he cares too MUCH about his crew, who loves/respects Lee and then calls him out for having no integrity... and the worst thing (though this is not wishy washy, this has actually been consistent) is that he continually treats courts of law like they're nothing. It's really just what he wants to do, how he wants things to play out, and he will stop/change it just because it doesn't go the way he wants. It's absurd and those are the times I like him the least.
Anyway, a lot of the characters do this. They establish one kind of personality, and then when the plot needs them to, they change. On the one hand it's kind of cool because, you know, real people are like that. On the other hand, in terms of a fictional context, it seems like really lazy storytelling.
It's March and that means the start, once again, of Dine Around Seattle! Lots of places are doing a $15 3-course lunch, including Dahlia Lounge, so if any Seattlites are interested (lunch or dinner), let me know. I am always down for going to one of these.
My wireless keyboard at work started freaking out (it's intolerable when you're typing and it doesn't catch every letter) so I have a new wired one. The problem is that it's not an ergo keyboard and I'm not used to that, so the typing is still typo prone. :/ I'm having an ergo one ordered and I hope it gets here soon.
So you know how I may be going to Esalen in April? I hope I DO get to go, and I hope the weather is good, because I will have the chance to take photos like this. I can't seem to find a way to paste it here directly... stupid Flickr. Anyway, that photo was taken by a user name twoeightnine ... isn't it gorgeous?? Esalen has baths that are carved right into the mountainside. When you're done with your bath and you let the water out, you can see it cascade down the mountain. How awesome is THAT.
I love potatoes. I know very few people who don't. So it's a big deal when I say that I have discovered my new favorite way to make/eat them. I think it is better than any other way to prepare potatoes, which is saying a lot. I am talking about Tom Douglas's garlic smashed potatoes. They're not mashed, they're smashed. I had them first when I went to Lola with J. They were incredibly good, so I looked for a recipe for them in the Tom Douglas books I have. I found a very similar one for Greek Smashed Potatoes, which seemed exactly the same except it had oregano, so I made it without. And they were just as good as what I had at Lola, but didn't cost me $8. It is, I will say, very time consuming. It's simple and easy and the active time is practically nil, but it does take almost 2 hours. That's why it's best to make a whole bunch at a time! The recipe for these is here, along with my adventures in making/eating Julia Child's Langue de Boeuf Braisee, Calcutta, or sliced fresh beef tongue braised with curry. :D
Finally, spoilers for BSG Razor:
- I enjoyed the movie, but I don't really understand why we had to go back and see all that stuff unfold on the Pegasus. I felt like we came away from the movie with 1 new piece of knowledge: that Kara's leading them all into death/danger (if that can even be believed).
- The webisodes this time were a waste of time. Unlike last time, they actually repeated practically the whole thing in the movie itself! I really didn't need to watch it twice.
- Why did young!William Adama have piercing blue eyes?? Does Edward James Olmos have blue eyes and I've just never noticed?? If he does in fact have brown eyes, like I think, would it have been that hard to get his younger counterpart (who was otherwise perfect in every way) to wear brown contact lenses? Honestly!
- The one thing about this show that's jarring is that the characters are wishy washy. Roslin seemed like a very liberal woman, but lately she's become more and more conservative. I mean, being OK with kids laboring in the engine room (or whatever)? Bull-headedly insisting on Baltar's guilt, regardless of the due process of law? Then there's Adama, who fluctuates between caring about his crew to saying he cares too MUCH about his crew, who loves/respects Lee and then calls him out for having no integrity... and the worst thing (though this is not wishy washy, this has actually been consistent) is that he continually treats courts of law like they're nothing. It's really just what he wants to do, how he wants things to play out, and he will stop/change it just because it doesn't go the way he wants. It's absurd and those are the times I like him the least.
Anyway, a lot of the characters do this. They establish one kind of personality, and then when the plot needs them to, they change. On the one hand it's kind of cool because, you know, real people are like that. On the other hand, in terms of a fictional context, it seems like really lazy storytelling.
