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This weekend I tried a stuffed chicken wing for the first time. It consisted of a chicken wing, bone removed, stuffed with ground pork, lemongrass, turmeric, and other things I haven’t quite figured out yet. The wing was grilled with a slight char, the skin crispy with a slight sweetness to it. I’m not sure but tamarind may also have been used as part of the marinade.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the show. I really do but I think the writing could use some proof reading. For example:
1) Why have Peter jump off a building to see if he can fly? No normal person would do that. Instead, have him try to fly like a normal person would OR introduce into the story how he must overcome his fear of heights and/or death before he can fly.
2) If you had the ability to stop time and cheat in poker, why would you switch cards in such a way that it becomes obvious to the other player, heads up, that you cheated. Who is that stupid?
3) How does everyone know the guy is Haitian? Considering a lot of white people have a hard time telling one black guy from another (just look at all the innocent people in jail), I find it extremely hard to believe that Matt Parker can tell the guy is Haitian by appearance alone.
4) I thought the Haitian’s power was to suppress other people’s powers. Why didn’t he stop the radioactive guy from going off? If not for that reason, why bring him to the house in the first place?
Sometime last year, ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff was severely injured when his convoy was struck by an IED. Reports were vague about the extent of his injuries until recently. From these pictures, you can see that his head was caved in on one side. Doctors needed to remove part of his skull to allow for brain swelling. The bits and pieces of white surrounding his face in the CT-scan are pieces of shrapnel and rock lodged in his face and neck.
Before:
After:
3-D CT Scan:
After Skull Implant:
Amazing what doctors can do nowadays.
I should’ve won this tournament but I bluffed it away during heads up play.
Update: I finally got around to compressing the video of the final table to a manageable size. Click here to download.
My parents have a first generation CRT based HDTV that in the last year started displaying a reddish tint and emitting discrete audible frequencies when certain colors are shown. Apparently, the noises are of such high frequency that my parents can’t hear them at all and naturally, feel less inclined than me to have the TV replaced. So one day on IRC, this guy expresses to the channel his excitement over the news of his newly ordered TV having been shipped. I asked him what he got and he says a 61″ 1080p JVC DLP over at tigerdirect.com for $1899 with free shipping. Wow, what a good price I thought (Best Buy had the same TV for $2400) and my parents do need a new TV. Within three minutes, my order was placed. I had slight reservations afterwards about whether my parents would be pleased or not with the gift, since they hate seeing me spend the kind of money I do on crap they see as useless (ok, $1600 on a Tag Heuer IS somewhat of an extravagance) , but given that our current TV was doing stuff its engineers never intended, the status quo was no longer tenable. About a week ago during dinner, I told my parents about the gift I got them for Christmas and prefaced it with “Ok, Dad you’re probably gonna be pissed but….”. I had just gotten done telling them it was 61 inches when my dad goes “Is it DLP? …. I HATE DLP!”. To give you some background, my dad used to sell TVs back in the day and is a self-proclaimed expert in TV technology — 12 years ago. A lot can change in 12 years and I told my dad that DLP couldn’t be any worse than whatever we have at the moment and it’s not like he was willing to shell out the cash himself to replace the TV. The man is stubborn and continued to insist he did not want a DLP. Oh well, I’m sure he’ll change his mind once the TV comes.
Update: TigerDirect sent me the wrong TV. I got the 70″ instead!!! (which sells for $1000 more at the same site)
Having owned a small Dell 700m notebook for a year and a half, I felt it was time for a change. A former co-worker used to rave about his Macbook Pro all the time and I hadn’t put much thought into getting one myself since I was still fairly content with my Dell. My 700m was stylish, fast, and ultra portable and probably garnered the envy of most people still resigned to using those huge 15-17″notebooks. So why change?
I suppose I needed a change in my life more than just a trivial performance boost and new form factor. I wanted a new operating system, a different interface, preferably something that would also cater to my inner geek and OS X, a UNIX derivative, certainly fit the bill.
