yet another geek blog about Seattle, food, photography, games and the art of laziness
I had a great time tonight. Someone needed to get rid of tickets to an Eric Clapton concert and I was only too happy to oblige. It also gave me a chance to check out the Key Arena at the Seattle Center. The opening band was one I hadn’t heard before: Robert Randolph and the [...]
Tried out a new local place for lunch today: Malay Satay Hut. Its biggest selling point, in my opinion, was the online menu, avec les images. All menus, online or offline should have pictures. There needs to be a law about it already.
I tried the spicy chicken with peanuts. Not spicy enough, but still a [...]
A shameless plug for my employer. Come work for the Personalization team (or the P13N team as it’s known internally to give it a wam fuzzy feeling) at Amazon.com
We do really cool stuff. Honest. Take a look at this presentation on “Front Line Internet Analytics at Amazon.com“. It’s from a talk my boss gave at [...]
Listening to The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen in 20 minute segments during my daily commute to work. Pretty entertaining so far. I’d become a little bored by the previous audio book I’d been listening to in my car.
From a technical standpoint I liked the usability of the audio tapes. The beginning and end of each [...]
One line reviews of some films I’ve seen recently:
Before Sunset – 8/10. Sweet and funny. Go watch it even if you haven’t seen part one. Worth adding to my all time favorite movie list.
Sex and Lucia – 7/10. I liked it about as much as Y tu mamá también. Both start out strong and attempt [...]
I’m only two days behind the times… DOOM 3 has gone gold and expected on shelves on August 03. Well, my trigger finger has had enough time to heal. Bring on the fragging!
Good thing I got my PC out of storage. Now it’ll just be me, the bare walls and blood curling screams from my [...]
So I signed up for a Broomball team yesterday. What is Broomball you ask?
The official description states: “Broomball is played indoors on an ice hockey rink or outdoors on frozen ponds or lakes with rules very similar to Ice Hockey. Players wear special padded sponge rubber shoes, use a ball which is sized somewhere between [...]
Attended the first lecture of a three part series on “Van Gogh to Mondrian” at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) last night. Extremely eye opening. My favorite painting in the many shown during the lecture was this one:
Wheat fields with crows (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh
I’m really looking forward to the other two lectures now.
I went to see a rendition of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff at Benaroya Hall, the home of the Seattle Symphony.
The orchestra started off with Igor Stravinksy’s Firebird Suite before playing Carmina Burana. The former was good, the latter was excellent. The concert hall had superb acoustics, even in the cheap seats. Of course it [...]
So I’m re-reading an old classic: The Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsed. I last read the first three books in the series about 10 years ago. Surprisingly the books have still kept most of their charm.
Recommended if you’re in the mood for a cynical chuckle.
Searching for the famed Dahlia Bakery on 4th Avenue, I came across an entry about it on the Seattle Bon Vivant blog.
Idempotent
“adj. Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times. This term is often used with respect to {C} header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files. If a header file is ever included twice during the same compilation (perhaps due to nested #include files), compilation [...]
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