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Weird capitalist Christmas: I don’t know why the local Key Food supermarket has 6 different brands of egg nog. They only carry 3 different brands of milk, so that doesn’t make sense. Three of them are pictured in the flickr bar above. I bought the Lactaid version, and it wasn’t bad at all, and no [...]

Let the holiday madness begin. Saw Casino Royale on Thanksgiving Day – quite a movie. Plot was… well, it’s a Bond movie; plot doesn’t get in the way of making a visual movie. But, there is more of a plot than there has been in a while – bad banker takes money of terrorists to [...]

Monday P- took me to Lupa, Mario Batali’s Roman themed restaurant, for my birthday. We ordered the antipasti, which were Batali’s homemade sliced meats, as well as an array of seafood salads. They were wonderful – it’s one thing to have things like sardines from a can, and a whole other thing when they are [...]

Brooklyn law profs talking about Domino’s Brooklyn-style pizza – may or may not be something that ought to be regulated (kind of like how in France, Champagne is only the stuff made in the Champagne region; anything else is sparkling wine). At the least I would agree with the profs: the ads for the Domino [...]

Digging menus out of some of the old boxes… 2 cool spots – The Crab Pot, Pier 57, Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA – SeaFeasts — Yum! Hon’s Wu-Tun House, 108-268 Keefer St. Vancouver, BC – good wontons and dumplings. More feasting tomorrow…..

We were in Barnes and Noble seeking to buy a book, any book. We had a 10% coupon, but after 2 hours, we just couldn’t get ourselves to buy anything. Nowadays people don’t buy books or magazines to learn things – it’s more like joining a club for self-affirmation. Book titles are now so imperative: [...]

I get the occasional request to research unusual things. This time it was for seeking a Pinoy Filipino Scrabble set. To save the effort for people in search of it, here is what I found: The makers of Scrabble in the Phillipines is Henry J. Estrella, , Mabuhay Educational Center Inc., 3 Agno St., Quezon [...]

So… no more nasty election campaign ads. They get replaced by… Christmas shopping ads. Crap: it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, people! Sheesh! FC: great photos from the wedding/reception. Looks like everyone had a great time! I’m getting very excited about the new Bond movie. Probably not seeing it this weekend (the opening weekend gets the [...]

Back from a fun-filled weekend. Here’s the short list: Breakfast at the Amish Corner at the Reading Terminal Market. One of the recent shooting victims had worked at the Amish diner here. Touring throughout downtown. The old Wanamaker Department store, now a Macy’s, with the world’s largest pipe organ. CapoGyro Gelato (really nice since the [...]

I’m in Philadelphia, the land of liberty, with P- for a Asian lawyers conference. More exactly, I’m here for the conference to score some continuing education credits, and she’s here to eat and shop. Since it’s mostly on my own dime, we took the Apex Chinatown bus. $20 round trip is an unbeatable price, even [...]